Test Engineer 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 the Test Engineer role 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 Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 191 191 222
Rank change year-on-year
0 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 12 27 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 0.188% 0.343% 0.235%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.204% 0.375% 0.256%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 17 13
Average daily rate £400 £325 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+23.07% -10.34%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £280 £265 £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £385 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £290 £280
% change year-on-year
+4.31% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £33.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+12.78% -5.00%
All Job Titles
City of London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5894 7192 8993
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the City of London 92.40% 91.44% 91.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4333 5169 6545
Average daily rate £450 £450 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £285 £275 £325
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £625 £650
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 138 186 197
Average hourly rate £20.00 £20.00 £19.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- +2.56%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £133.00 £41.28 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
London

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Test Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London Test Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Test Engineer in their job title.

1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 11 (42.31%) QA
3 10 (38.46%) Selenium
4 9 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
5 7 (26.92%) TDD
5 7 (26.92%) Derivative
5 7 (26.92%) WebDriver
5 7 (26.92%) Cucumber
5 7 (26.92%) .NET
5 7 (26.92%) Java
5 7 (26.92%) Finance
6 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
7 5 (19.23%) Banking
7 5 (19.23%) BDD
7 5 (19.23%) Scrum
7 5 (19.23%) C++
8 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
8 4 (15.38%) Linux
8 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
8 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
8 4 (15.38%) Ruby
8 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
8 4 (15.38%) Degree
9 3 (11.54%) JIRA
9 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
9 3 (11.54%) DB2
9 3 (11.54%) C#
9 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
9 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
10 2 (7.692%) TeamCity

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the City of London region that cited Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (26.92%) .NET
2 4 (15.38%) .NET Framework
3 2 (7.692%) HTML
3 2 (7.692%) COM
3 2 (7.692%) XML
4 1 (3.846%) JSON
4 1 (3.846%) WPF
4 1 (3.846%) HTML5
4 1 (3.846%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (3.846%) Node.js
4 1 (3.846%) REST
4 1 (3.846%) SOAP
4 1 (3.846%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 2 (7.692%) Confluence
2 1 (3.846%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (3.846%) MS Exchange
Business Applications
1 1 (3.846%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (7.692%) HTTP
2 1 (3.846%) DVB
2 1 (3.846%) MGCP
2 1 (3.846%) SS7
2 1 (3.846%) Megaco
2 1 (3.846%) Q.931
2 1 (3.846%) H.323
2 1 (3.846%) Internet
2 1 (3.846%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (15.38%) SQL Server
2 3 (11.54%) DB2
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) Selenium
2 7 (26.92%) WebDriver
2 7 (26.92%) Cucumber
3 3 (11.54%) JIRA
3 3 (11.54%) SpecFlow
4 2 (7.692%) TeamCity
4 2 (7.692%) Jenkins
4 2 (7.692%) JUnit
4 2 (7.692%) WATIR
4 2 (7.692%) FitNesse
5 1 (3.846%) NUnit
5 1 (3.846%) CruiseControl
5 1 (3.846%) Maven
5 1 (3.846%) TestNG
5 1 (3.846%) JBehave
5 1 (3.846%) Hudson
5 1 (3.846%) Bugzilla
5 1 (3.846%) JMeter
5 1 (3.846%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (3.846%) LoadRunner
General
1 7 (26.92%) Finance
2 5 (19.23%) Banking
3 4 (15.38%) Investment Banking
4 2 (7.692%) Telecoms
5 1 (3.846%) Marketing
5 1 (3.846%) Avionics
5 1 (3.846%) Aerospace
5 1 (3.846%) Automotive
5 1 (3.846%) Manufacturing
5 1 (3.846%) Front Office
5 1 (3.846%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 7 (26.92%) Derivative
2 2 (7.692%) Digital Media
2 2 (7.692%) DTV
2 2 (7.692%) STB
3 1 (3.846%) Streaming Media
3 1 (3.846%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.846%) Social Network
3 1 (3.846%) iPhone
3 1 (3.846%) iPad
3 1 (3.846%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (3.846%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 4 (15.38%) Linux
2 2 (7.692%) UNIX
3 1 (3.846%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (3.846%) Windows 7
3 1 (3.846%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (34.62%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (26.92%) TDD
3 5 (19.23%) BDD
3 5 (19.23%) Scrum
4 4 (15.38%) Performance Testing
5 3 (11.54%) Test Automation
6 2 (7.692%) Automation Testing
6 2 (7.692%) Validation
6 2 (7.692%) Business Intelligence
6 2 (7.692%) Project Planning
6 2 (7.692%) Unit Testing
6 2 (7.692%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.692%) Software Engineering
6 2 (7.692%) Software Testing
6 2 (7.692%) Data Management
6 2 (7.692%) Pair Programming
7 1 (3.846%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.846%) Manual Testing
7 1 (3.846%) Digital Marketing
7 1 (3.846%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (46.15%) SQL
2 7 (26.92%) Java
3 5 (19.23%) C++
4 4 (15.38%) Ruby
5 3 (11.54%) C#
5 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
6 2 (7.692%) C
7 1 (3.846%) Groovy
7 1 (3.846%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.692%) ISEB
2 2 (7.692%) ISTQB
3 1 (3.846%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (42.31%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.846%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 1 (3.846%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (7.692%) Oracle
2 2 (7.692%) Compuware
2 2 (7.692%) IBM
3 1 (3.846%) Sun
3 1 (3.846%) Perforce
3 1 (3.846%) Informatica
3 1 (3.846%) Red Hat
3 1 (3.846%) SAP
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