The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation 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 Test Automation 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
Test Automation
Rank - 63 53
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 0 1 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Bristol - 0.114% 0.577%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.167% 0.895%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 2
Average daily rate - £358 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.92%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £355
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.38 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-28.52% +21.42%
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%
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Bristol Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Bristol Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation.

1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) BASE24
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
1 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Bristol region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) BASE24
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Database Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Database Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Kimball Methodology
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) T-SQL