The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire 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 44 54 50
Rank change year-on-year
+10 -4
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 10 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 1.748% 1.379% 1.435%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.058% 2.532% 2.083%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 3
Average daily rate £398 £313 £265
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+27.20% +17.92%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £108 £253
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £423 £333
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £355
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 5 5
Average hourly rate £42.50 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.38 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-28.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridgeshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
327 395 432
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Cambridgeshire 57.17% 54.48% 68.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 190 211
Average daily rate £375 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.25% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £510 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 51 55
Average hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £31.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +19.04%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £24.50 £13.02 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £58.60 £44.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire 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 Cambridgeshire region.

Cambridgeshire Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Cambridge +11 7 £450 +77.69% 6
Peterborough - - - -
Test Automation
East of England

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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 14 (70.00%) C++
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 11 (55.00%) QA
3 10 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 10 (50.00%) Linux
3 10 (50.00%) C
4 9 (45.00%) Windows
5 8 (40.00%) Java
5 8 (40.00%) Games
5 8 (40.00%) Degree
6 6 (30.00%) Windows Mobile
6 6 (30.00%) Objective-C
6 6 (30.00%) Regression Testing
6 6 (30.00%) Windows XP
6 6 (30.00%) Mac OS X
6 6 (30.00%) Android
6 6 (30.00%) Windows 7
6 6 (30.00%) Augmented Reality
6 6 (30.00%) Game Development
7 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
7 5 (25.00%) Apple iOS
7 5 (25.00%) Benchmarking
7 5 (25.00%) C#
7 5 (25.00%) ISEB
8 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
8 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
8 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
8 4 (20.00%) iOS SDK
9 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
9 3 (15.00%) xDSL

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire 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.

Application Development
1 4 (20.00%) iOS SDK
2 3 (15.00%) HTML5
2 3 (15.00%) Flash
2 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
3 1 (5.000%) Middleware
3 1 (5.000%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) GlassFish
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) xDSL
1 3 (15.00%) Broadband
1 3 (15.00%) Ethernet
1 3 (15.00%) HTTP
1 3 (15.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (15.00%) DNS
2 2 (10.00%) Wireless
3 1 (5.000%) LTE
3 1 (5.000%) 3G
3 1 (5.000%) 3GPP
3 1 (5.000%) DHCP
3 1 (5.000%) RNC
3 1 (5.000%) 2G
3 1 (5.000%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.000%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (5.000%) Valgrind
1 1 (5.000%) Jenkins
1 1 (5.000%) JUnit
1 1 (5.000%) Eclipse
1 1 (5.000%) Subversion
1 1 (5.000%) Maven
1 1 (5.000%) Bugzilla
General
1 8 (40.00%) Games
2 3 (15.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.000%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 4 (20.00%) Software Manager
3 4 (20.00%) Test Manager
4 3 (15.00%) Architect
4 3 (15.00%) Tester
4 3 (15.00%) Software Engineer
4 3 (15.00%) Software Test Manager
4 3 (15.00%) QA Tester
4 3 (15.00%) Software Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 2 (10.00%) Mobile Tester
6 1 (5.000%) Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Test Automation Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Testing Manager
6 1 (5.000%) Software Testing Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Developer
6 1 (5.000%) Analyst
6 1 (5.000%) QA Manager
6 1 (5.000%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Augmented Reality
2 5 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (15.00%) Streaming Media
4 1 (5.000%) iPhone
4 1 (5.000%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 10 (50.00%) Linux
2 9 (45.00%) Windows
3 6 (30.00%) Windows Mobile
3 6 (30.00%) Windows XP
3 6 (30.00%) Mac OS X
3 6 (30.00%) Android
3 6 (30.00%) Windows 7
4 5 (25.00%) Apple iOS
5 1 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (30.00%) Regression Testing
2 6 (30.00%) Game Development
3 5 (25.00%) Benchmarking
4 4 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (15.00%) Security Testing
5 3 (15.00%) Performance Management
5 3 (15.00%) ITIL
5 3 (15.00%) PRINCE2
5 3 (15.00%) E-Commerce
5 3 (15.00%) Resource Management
6 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Integration Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Test Management
7 1 (5.000%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (5.000%) Automation Testing
7 1 (5.000%) UML
7 1 (5.000%) OO
Programming Languages
1 14 (70.00%) C++
1 14 (70.00%) Python
2 10 (50.00%) C
3 8 (40.00%) Java
4 6 (30.00%) Objective-C
5 5 (25.00%) C#
6 2 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) ISEB
3 4 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (5.000%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (15.00%) Adobe
3 1 (5.000%) MKS