The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the County Antrim region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the County Antrim 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
Automated Testing
Rank 32 - 40
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 1 0 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 0.515% - 1.208%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.901% - 2.260%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
- +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +35.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
County Antrim
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
111 104 177
As % of all contract IT jobs located in County Antrim 57.22% 62.65% 53.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 32 55
Average daily rate £350 £400 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +23.07%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £260 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £400 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £10.50 - £12.42
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Automated Testing
Northern Ireland

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

County Antrim Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the County Antrim region over the 3 months to 24 May 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
Belfast - 1 - -
Automated Testing
Northern Ireland

Automated Testing
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 3 (75.00%) SQL
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Sybase
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) HTML
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) J2EE
3 1 (25.00%) Web Design
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) XML
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) Open Source
3 1 (25.00%) HTML5
3 1 (25.00%) soapUI

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the County Antrim 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 2 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) J2EE
2 1 (25.00%) WebSphere
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) HTML5
2 1 (25.00%) soapUI
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) C# Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Software Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Automated Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) Open Source
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Web Design
2 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
2 2 (50.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) Ruby
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Groovy
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Oracle
1 2 (50.00%) Sybase