The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Bristol region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 44 53 55
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +2
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 1 11 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 0.203% 1.256% 0.289%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.319% 1.839% 0.447%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 8 0
Average daily rate £400 £385 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.89% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +66.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
313 598 447
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol 63.49% 68.26% 64.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 391 258
Average daily rate £350 £365 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.10% -1.35%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £242 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £525 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 23 19
Average hourly rate £27.93 £24.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+13.97% +22.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.95 £10.30 £9.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.25 £35.00 £39.60
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
South West

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bristol Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automated Testing across the Bristol region.

Bristol Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Bristol region.

Bristol Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Automated Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Automated Testing.

1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Cairngorm
1 1 (50.00%) PureMVC
1 1 (50.00%) LiveCycle
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeDS
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Parsley
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Automated Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Hibernate
1 1 (50.00%) Spring
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Flex
1 1 (50.00%) Cairngorm
1 1 (50.00%) PureMVC
1 1 (50.00%) BlazeDS
1 1 (50.00%) Parsley
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) LiveCycle
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Maven
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Software Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Flex Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Usability Testing
1 1 (50.00%) System Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Adobe