Test Automation 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 Test Automation 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 Test Automation over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 163 187 193
Rank change year-on-year
+24 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 38 26 53
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.604% 0.334% 0.539%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.823% 0.468% 0.749%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 15 39
Average daily rate £413 £325 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+26.92% -18.75%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £333 £269 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £493 £525 £484
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £319 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.71% -8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 0
Average hourly rate £41.50 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 4620 5558 7076
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 73.39% 71.44% 71.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 3487 4000 5250
Average daily rate £450 £462 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.59% -7.60%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £310 £300 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 99 97
Average hourly rate £42.00 £25.00 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+68.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.40 £15.00 £14.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £135.00 £47.50 £50.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Automation
London

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Automation across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Test Automation Daily Rate Histogram

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 City of London region.

City of London Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 46 (60.53%) QA
2 36 (47.37%) Selenium
3 34 (44.74%) SQL
4 33 (43.42%) Agile Software Development
5 25 (32.89%) Banking
5 25 (32.89%) BDD
6 22 (28.95%) Finance
6 22 (28.95%) TDD
7 21 (27.63%) Cucumber
8 20 (26.32%) Java
9 19 (25.00%) Investment Banking
10 18 (23.68%) Ruby
10 18 (23.68%) WebDriver
11 16 (21.05%) Automated Testing
12 15 (19.74%) C#
12 15 (19.74%) .NET
13 14 (18.42%) JIRA
13 14 (18.42%) Test Scripting
13 14 (18.42%) HP Quality Center
14 13 (17.11%) XML
15 12 (15.79%) JUnit
15 12 (15.79%) Oracle
15 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
15 12 (15.79%) QuickTest Pro
15 12 (15.79%) Software Testing
16 11 (14.47%) Scrum
17 10 (13.16%) Front Office
17 10 (13.16%) Derivative
17 10 (13.16%) ISTQB
17 10 (13.16%) HTML

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London 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 15 (19.74%) .NET
2 13 (17.11%) XML
3 10 (13.16%) HTML
4 9 (11.84%) Web Services
5 7 (9.211%) RESTful
6 6 (7.895%) jQuery
6 6 (7.895%) SOAP
7 5 (6.579%) CSS
7 5 (6.579%) JSON
7 5 (6.579%) HTML5
8 3 (3.947%) WPF
8 3 (3.947%) CSS3
8 3 (3.947%) Gherkin
8 3 (3.947%) Spring
8 3 (3.947%) ASP
9 2 (2.632%) Ruby on Rails
9 2 (2.632%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.632%) Spring MVC
9 2 (2.632%) WCF
9 2 (2.632%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 5 (6.579%) TIBCO EMS
2 4 (5.263%) Adobe CQ
3 2 (2.632%) Confluence
4 1 (1.316%) Windows Azure
4 1 (1.316%) Amazon AWS
4 1 (1.316%) IIS
4 1 (1.316%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.316%) MSMQ
4 1 (1.316%) ActiveMQ
Business Applications
1 2 (2.632%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.579%) HTTP
2 1 (1.316%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.579%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.263%) SQL Server
3 3 (3.947%) MongoDB
3 3 (3.947%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.316%) Redis
4 1 (1.316%) Couchbase
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.316%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.316%) SimpleDB
Development Applications
1 36 (47.37%) Selenium
2 21 (27.63%) Cucumber
3 18 (23.68%) WebDriver
4 14 (18.42%) JIRA
5 12 (15.79%) JUnit
5 12 (15.79%) QuickTest Pro
6 9 (11.84%) WATIR
7 8 (10.53%) Maven
7 8 (10.53%) Git (software)
8 6 (7.895%) Jenkins
9 5 (6.579%) Hudson
10 4 (5.263%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (5.263%) TestNG
10 4 (5.263%) Subversion
10 4 (5.263%) FitNesse
10 4 (5.263%) Ant
11 3 (3.947%) Visual Studio
11 3 (3.947%) JBehave
11 3 (3.947%) MSBuild
11 3 (3.947%) SpecFlow
General
1 25 (32.89%) Banking
2 22 (28.95%) Finance
3 19 (25.00%) Investment Banking
4 10 (13.16%) Front Office
5 6 (7.895%) Marketing
6 5 (6.579%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.632%) Back Office
7 2 (2.632%) Electronics
7 2 (2.632%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.316%) Publishing
8 1 (1.316%) Games
8 1 (1.316%) Retail
Job Titles
1 38 (50.00%) Analyst
2 34 (44.74%) Test Analyst
3 13 (17.11%) QA Analyst
4 12 (15.79%) QA Engineer
5 11 (14.47%) Developer
6 10 (13.16%) Tester
7 9 (11.84%) QA Test Analyst
8 8 (10.53%) Automation Analyst
9 7 (9.211%) Automation Test Analyst
10 5 (6.579%) Test Manager
10 5 (6.579%) Data Analyst
10 5 (6.579%) Test Data Analyst
11 4 (5.263%) Automation Tester
11 4 (5.263%) QA Automation Engineer
11 4 (5.263%) Automation Engineer
11 4 (5.263%) Agile Test Analyst
12 3 (3.947%) Test Automation Analyst
12 3 (3.947%) Test Engineer
12 3 (3.947%) Senior Tester
12 3 (3.947%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 10 (13.16%) Derivative
2 7 (9.211%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 6 (7.895%) Open Source
4 5 (6.579%) Credit Risk
4 5 (6.579%) Market Risk
4 5 (6.579%) Credit Derivative
5 3 (3.947%) Digital Media
6 2 (2.632%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.632%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.632%) Wiki
6 2 (2.632%) DTV
6 2 (2.632%) Fixed Income
6 2 (2.632%) Equities
6 2 (2.632%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (2.632%) Contract for Difference
7 1 (1.316%) Mathematics
7 1 (1.316%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.316%) Social Network
7 1 (1.316%) N-Tier
7 1 (1.316%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 9 (11.84%) Linux
2 8 (10.53%) Windows
3 2 (2.632%) UNIX
3 2 (2.632%) Apple iOS
3 2 (2.632%) Mac OS X
3 2 (2.632%) Android
4 1 (1.316%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (43.42%) Agile Software Development
2 25 (32.89%) BDD
3 22 (28.95%) TDD
4 16 (21.05%) Automated Testing
5 14 (18.42%) Test Scripting
6 12 (15.79%) Software Testing
7 11 (14.47%) Scrum
8 10 (13.16%) Test Management
9 9 (11.84%) Test Strategy
9 9 (11.84%) Risk Management
9 9 (11.84%) E-Commerce
10 8 (10.53%) OO
10 8 (10.53%) Performance Testing
10 8 (10.53%) Continuous Integration
11 7 (9.211%) Pair Programming
12 6 (7.895%) Regression Testing
12 6 (7.895%) Kanban
12 6 (7.895%) Analytics
13 5 (6.579%) Risk Analytics
13 5 (6.579%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 34 (44.74%) SQL
2 20 (26.32%) Java
3 18 (23.68%) Ruby
4 15 (19.74%) C#
5 12 (15.79%) JavaScript
6 7 (9.211%) C++
7 5 (6.579%) Perl
7 5 (6.579%) Python
8 4 (5.263%) VB
8 4 (5.263%) Groovy
9 3 (3.947%) C
10 2 (2.632%) Bash shell
10 2 (2.632%) VBA
10 2 (2.632%) Jython
11 1 (1.316%) PHP
11 1 (1.316%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (13.16%) ISTQB
2 7 (9.211%) Degree
2 7 (9.211%) ISEB
3 5 (6.579%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.632%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (60.53%) QA
2 5 (6.579%) Basel III
Systems Management
1 14 (18.42%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (15.79%) Oracle
2 8 (10.53%) HP
3 6 (7.895%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.579%) TIBCO
5 4 (5.263%) Adobe
6 2 (2.632%) Fidessa
6 2 (2.632%) SAP
6 2 (2.632%) hybris
7 1 (1.316%) Sybase
7 1 (1.316%) Telerik
7 1 (1.316%) Google
7 1 (1.316%) Atlassian
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City of London
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Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Ruby QA Framework Developer
City, London
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Integration Test Manager - Ticketing Project - £350/400 -London
City, London
Develop test strategy and ensure full test coverage... Manage delivery of test scripts and peer reviews... Performance Testing... Migration Testing. User Acceptance Testing... Test Automation. Good understanding of...
Hydrogen Group
Rate: £350.00 - £400.00 per day
Posted: 14 May 2013
Software Development Engineer in Test - c# SQL
City of London
Experience with web technologies such as IIS and WCF and/or REST-based web services -Experience writing automated test cases using C# and Visual Studio test frameworks-Ability...
Rate: £30000 - £85000 per annum
Posted: 2 May 2013
Test Consultant/Test Manager
City of London
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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Test Consultant/Test Manager
City, London
Test Lead / Test Manager sought by leading investment bank based in the city of London.
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Rate: £400 - £450 per day
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