Chester Automated Testing Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills within the Chester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Automated Testing
Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheshire Chester City of London Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex England Essex Glasgow Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Hertfordshire Hove Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Leeds London Manchester Milton Keynes Newbury North West Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Petersfield Reading Scotland South East South Wales South West Southampton Stevenage Surrey Swansea Swindon UK Wales Watford West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	0
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.000 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£305	£290
% change on same period last year	+5.19 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£34.16	£35.07
% change on same period last year	-2.60 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching contract IT job ads	141	107
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.199 %	0.108 %
Daily rates quoted	24	18
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£221
Average daily rate	£330	£234
% change on same period last year	+41.43 %
Average maximum daily rate	£335	£246
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£371
% change on same period last year	+1.83 %
Hourly rates quoted	28	6
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.10	£17.00
Average hourly rate	£22.70	£19.50
% change on same period last year	+16.41 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.30	£22.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£29.42	£29.97
% change on same period last year	-1.81 %
Automated Testing Cheshire

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

Automated Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Chester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

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