Automated Testing Contracts in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 City of London 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 163 164 140
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -24
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 38 56 98
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.601% 0.717% 1.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.820% 1.002% 1.408%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 50 67
Average daily rate £369 £410 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.06% +9.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £324
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £600 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £319
% change year-on-year
- +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4636 5591 6959
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.37% 71.60% 71.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4029 5165
Average daily rate £450 £463 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £313 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
- -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 97 95
Average hourly rate £41.50 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+66.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.63
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+28.00% -16.66%
Automated Testing
London

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

City of London Automated Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 34 (50.75%) Selenium
2 28 (41.79%) QA
3 24 (35.82%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (31.34%) TDD
5 19 (28.36%) Scrum
6 17 (25.37%) Banking
6 17 (25.37%) HP Quality Center
7 16 (23.88%) BDD
7 16 (23.88%) Test Automation
8 14 (20.90%) C#
8 14 (20.90%) SQL
8 14 (20.90%) E-Commerce
9 13 (19.40%) Test Scripting
10 12 (17.91%) JIRA
10 12 (17.91%) Java
10 12 (17.91%) Finance
11 10 (14.93%) .NET
11 10 (14.93%) QuickTest Pro
11 10 (14.93%) Test Management
11 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
12 9 (13.43%) WebDriver
12 9 (13.43%) Git (software)
12 9 (13.43%) HP
12 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
13 8 (11.94%) Oracle
13 8 (11.94%) CSS
13 8 (11.94%) Web Services
13 8 (11.94%) OO
13 8 (11.94%) Ruby
13 8 (11.94%) jQuery

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 10 (14.93%) .NET
2 8 (11.94%) CSS
2 8 (11.94%) Web Services
2 8 (11.94%) JSON
2 8 (11.94%) jQuery
2 8 (11.94%) HTML5
3 6 (8.955%) Ajax
3 6 (8.955%) CSS3
4 4 (5.970%) XML
5 2 (2.985%) WPF
5 2 (2.985%) XSLT
5 2 (2.985%) Hibernate
5 2 (2.985%) Ruby on Rails
5 2 (2.985%) RESTful
6 1 (1.493%) HTML
6 1 (1.493%) soapUI
6 1 (1.493%) iOS SDK
6 1 (1.493%) Ext JS
6 1 (1.493%) Apache CXF
6 1 (1.493%) JAX-RS
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.955%) Amazon EC2
1 6 (8.955%) Amazon S3
1 6 (8.955%) Amazon AWS
1 6 (8.955%) Route 53
2 4 (5.970%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (2.985%) CMS
4 1 (1.493%) ActiveMQ
4 1 (1.493%) WordPress
4 1 (1.493%) Apache Solr
4 1 (1.493%) Confluence
4 1 (1.493%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (2.985%) MS Office
1 2 (2.985%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 6 (8.955%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.985%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.45%) Internet
2 2 (2.985%) HTTP
3 1 (1.493%) LDAP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.45%) MySQL
2 6 (8.955%) SQL Server
2 6 (8.955%) MongoDB
2 6 (8.955%) Redis
2 6 (8.955%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.493%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.493%) DB2
3 1 (1.493%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (50.75%) Selenium
2 12 (17.91%) JIRA
3 10 (14.93%) QuickTest Pro
3 10 (14.93%) Cucumber
4 9 (13.43%) Git (software)
4 9 (13.43%) WebDriver
5 8 (11.94%) Jenkins
6 5 (7.463%) TestNG
6 5 (7.463%) WATIR
7 4 (5.970%) Subversion
7 4 (5.970%) JUnit
8 3 (4.478%) Visual Studio
8 3 (4.478%) Maven
8 3 (4.478%) WatiN
8 3 (4.478%) Ant
9 2 (2.985%) JBehave
9 2 (2.985%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (2.985%) FitNesse
9 2 (2.985%) Fiddler
10 1 (1.493%) TestComplete
General
1 17 (25.37%) Banking
2 12 (17.91%) Finance
3 7 (10.45%) Front Office
3 7 (10.45%) Investment Banking
4 5 (7.463%) Retail
5 3 (4.478%) Retail Banking
5 3 (4.478%) Publishing
6 2 (2.985%) Manufacturing
6 2 (2.985%) Back Office
6 2 (2.985%) Electronics
6 2 (2.985%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.985%) Marketing
7 1 (1.493%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.493%) Billing
7 1 (1.493%) Music
7 1 (1.493%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 22 (32.84%) Analyst
2 18 (26.87%) Developer
3 16 (23.88%) Test Analyst
4 9 (13.43%) Tester
5 7 (10.45%) Front-End Developer
6 6 (8.955%) Front-End Web Developer
6 6 (8.955%) Mobile Developer
6 6 (8.955%) Automation Analyst
6 6 (8.955%) Web Developer
7 5 (7.463%) QA Engineer
7 5 (7.463%) QA Analyst
7 5 (7.463%) Automation Test Analyst
8 4 (5.970%) Test Manager
9 3 (4.478%) Architect
9 3 (4.478%) Applications Architect
9 3 (4.478%) Developer Analyst
9 3 (4.478%) Senior Tester
9 3 (4.478%) C# Developer
9 3 (4.478%) Test Leader
9 3 (4.478%) Functional Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.955%) Computer Science
2 4 (5.970%) Equities
2 4 (5.970%) Digital Media
2 4 (5.970%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.478%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (4.478%) Derivative
4 2 (2.985%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.985%) Statistics
4 2 (2.985%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (2.985%) Mathematics
4 2 (2.985%) DTV
4 2 (2.985%) STB
4 2 (2.985%) MPEG
4 2 (2.985%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.985%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.985%) iPhone
5 1 (1.493%) Open Source
5 1 (1.493%) Video on Demand
5 1 (1.493%) iPad
5 1 (1.493%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.45%) UNIX
2 4 (5.970%) Windows
2 4 (5.970%) Android
3 3 (4.478%) Apple iOS
3 3 (4.478%) Linux
4 1 (1.493%) OpenVMS
4 1 (1.493%) AIX
4 1 (1.493%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Agile Software Development
2 21 (31.34%) TDD
3 19 (28.36%) Scrum
4 16 (23.88%) Test Automation
4 16 (23.88%) BDD
5 14 (20.90%) E-Commerce
6 13 (19.40%) Test Scripting
7 10 (14.93%) Test Management
8 8 (11.94%) OO
9 7 (10.45%) Continuous Integration
10 6 (8.955%) Security Testing
10 6 (8.955%) Software Testing
11 5 (7.463%) Automation Testing
12 4 (5.970%) Test Strategy
12 4 (5.970%) Manual Testing
12 4 (5.970%) User Acceptance Testing
12 4 (5.970%) Regression Testing
13 3 (4.478%) Validation
13 3 (4.478%) Business Intelligence
13 3 (4.478%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 14 (20.90%) C#
1 14 (20.90%) SQL
2 12 (17.91%) Java
3 9 (13.43%) JavaScript
4 8 (11.94%) Ruby
5 7 (10.45%) Perl
6 6 (8.955%) C++
6 6 (8.955%) Python
7 4 (5.970%) VB
8 3 (4.478%) VBScript
9 2 (2.985%) VB.NET
9 2 (2.985%) VBA
9 2 (2.985%) Jython
9 2 (2.985%) PHP
10 1 (1.493%) T-SQL
10 1 (1.493%) Fortran
10 1 (1.493%) Objective-C
10 1 (1.493%) C
Qualifications
1 6 (8.955%) ISEB
2 5 (7.463%) Degree
3 4 (5.970%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.478%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (41.79%) QA
2 1 (1.493%) FATCA
Systems Management
1 17 (25.37%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.493%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (13.43%) HP
2 8 (11.94%) Oracle
3 6 (8.955%) Microsoft
3 6 (8.955%) Percona
4 4 (5.970%) Adobe
5 2 (2.985%) Fidessa
5 2 (2.985%) SAP
5 2 (2.985%) hybris
6 1 (1.493%) Sybase
6 1 (1.493%) FatWire
6 1 (1.493%) Yahoo!
6 1 (1.493%) Google
CONTRACT Test Automation Developer / Test Analyst
City of London
Our client an Investment Bank requires a TEST AUTOMATION DEVELOPER / TEST ANALYST on a contractual basis. You will be joining the successful Front Office Equities team... Responsibilities The...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
End To End Trading System Test Analyst
City, London
End to End Trading Systems Tester (C#) - 6 Months rolling - £Negotiable Central London Our client one of the largest financial equities firms in Europe has expressed a requirement...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £400.00 - £450.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Ruby QA Framework Developer
City, London
Report results from any automated testing back to QA lead on a regular basis... * Experience of the Ruby on Rails environment... * Habitual use TDD and BDD techniques including...
Engage PSG
Posted: 14 May 2013
2 Front End Web/Mobile developers
City Of London
2 Front End Web/Mobile developers - London Opus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking 2 Front end web/Mobile developers for an initial 6 month contract, for a global...
OPUS
Rate: GBP200 to GBP275 per day
Posted: 10 May 2013
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