The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 24 May 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 Buckinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 58 68 74
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +6
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 10 7 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 1.235% 0.717% 0.375%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.754% 1.080% 0.626%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 0
Average daily rate £288 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-23.33% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
- +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +35.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
570 648 639
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 70.37% 66.39% 59.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 342 303 267
Average daily rate £338 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £207 £190
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £424 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 27 47
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £10.58 £13.10
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Automated Testing
South East

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire 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 Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes +2 1 £288 -23.33%
High Wycombe - 1 £338 -
Marlow - 1 - -
Automated Testing
South East

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 14 (82.35%) Agile Software Development
2 11 (64.71%) Selenium
3 10 (58.82%) SQL
4 9 (52.94%) C#
4 9 (52.94%) Automation Testing
5 8 (47.06%) Software Testing
6 6 (35.29%) QA
6 6 (35.29%) QuickTest Pro
6 6 (35.29%) Scrum
7 5 (29.41%) TDD
7 5 (29.41%) NUnit
7 5 (29.41%) HP
7 5 (29.41%) Windows
7 5 (29.41%) Linux
7 5 (29.41%) SOAP
7 5 (29.41%) .NET
7 5 (29.41%) MySQL
7 5 (29.41%) WATIR
7 5 (29.41%) WatiN
7 5 (29.41%) MSTest
7 5 (29.41%) BDD
8 4 (23.53%) WCF
8 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
8 4 (23.53%) soapUI
8 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
8 4 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (23.53%) Perl
8 4 (23.53%) Subversion
9 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
9 3 (17.65%) XML

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire 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 5 (29.41%) SOAP
1 5 (29.41%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) WCF
2 4 (23.53%) soapUI
2 4 (23.53%) ASP.NET
3 3 (17.65%) XML
3 3 (17.65%) WPF
Business Applications
1 1 (5.882%) SAP FI/CO
1 1 (5.882%) SAP CO
1 1 (5.882%) SAP FI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 11 (64.71%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (29.41%) NUnit
3 5 (29.41%) WATIR
3 5 (29.41%) WatiN
3 5 (29.41%) MSTest
4 4 (23.53%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (23.53%) Subversion
5 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
5 1 (5.882%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.882%) Hudson
5 1 (5.882%) Jenkins
5 1 (5.882%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.882%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.882%) TeamCity
General
1 2 (11.76%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Tester
2 5 (29.41%) QA Engineer
3 4 (23.53%) Automated Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Software Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Test Manager
5 1 (5.882%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Automation Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Development Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Software Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Web Tester
5 1 (5.882%) Software Development Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) SAP Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) iPad
1 1 (5.882%) Open Source
1 1 (5.882%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 5 (29.41%) Windows
1 5 (29.41%) Linux
2 1 (5.882%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (82.35%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (52.94%) Automation Testing
3 8 (47.06%) Software Testing
4 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 5 (29.41%) TDD
5 5 (29.41%) BDD
6 4 (23.53%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Software Engineering
7 3 (17.65%) OO
7 3 (17.65%) Manual Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Integration Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Test Strategy
8 2 (11.76%) Regression Testing
9 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
9 1 (5.882%) Test Automation
9 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
9 1 (5.882%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (58.82%) SQL
2 9 (52.94%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
Qualifications
1 1 (5.882%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (29.41%) HP
2 1 (5.882%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.882%) SAP