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Agile Testing Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 14 Agile Testing job vacancies in England

The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Agile Testing over the 3 months to 17 June 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 England 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 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Testing
Rank 490 507 519
Rank change year-on-year
+17 +12
Contract jobs citing Agile Testing 31 52 42
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.071% 0.098% 0.075%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.099% 0.143% 0.110%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 29 25
Average daily rate £350 £370 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.40% -2.63%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £295 £218
10% offered a daily rate of more than £460 £535 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £305 £375
% change year-on-year
+14.75% -18.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 2
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £56.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -66.37%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 £19.00 £56.50
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -66.37%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 31358 36484 38139
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.60% 68.77% 67.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 19251 21340 22146
Average daily rate £420 £405 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.70% -10.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £273 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 944 1189 1353
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £13.00 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £48.84 £47.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Agile Testing
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Agile Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Agile Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Agile Testing across the England region.

England Agile Testing Daily Rate Trend

Agile Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Agile Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

England Agile Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Agile Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Agile Testing across the England region.

England Agile Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Agile Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 17 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
London +3 15 £338 -8.78% 3
East of England +20 9 £400 - 2
Yorkshire +7 3 - - 6
South East +7 3 £325 -18.75% 2
North West +10 1 £350 +16.66%
South West - - - - 1
West Midlands - - - -
North East - - - -
Agile Testing
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Agile Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Agile 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 Agile Testing.

1 28 (43.08%) Selenium
2 27 (41.54%) QA
2 27 (41.54%) Scrum
3 26 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
4 23 (35.38%) TDD
5 21 (32.31%) Automated Testing
5 21 (32.31%) E-Commerce
6 19 (29.23%) Continuous Integration
7 17 (26.15%) SQL
7 17 (26.15%) WebDriver
8 16 (24.62%) Team Foundation Server
9 15 (23.08%) Windows
10 14 (21.54%) C#
10 14 (21.54%) .NET
10 14 (21.54%) Cucumber
10 14 (21.54%) SpecFlow
11 13 (20.00%) BDD
11 13 (20.00%) HP
12 12 (18.46%) Visual Studio
12 12 (18.46%) HP Quality Center
12 12 (18.46%) TeamCity
13 11 (16.92%) Java
14 10 (15.38%) Web Services
14 10 (15.38%) User Stories
15 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
15 9 (13.85%) ISEB
15 9 (13.85%) QuickTest Pro
16 8 (12.31%) SOA
16 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
16 8 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing

Agile Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region citing Agile 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 Agile Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (21.54%) .NET
2 10 (15.38%) Web Services
3 7 (10.77%) Gherkin
4 5 (7.692%) HTML
4 5 (7.692%) ASP.NET
5 4 (6.154%) ASP
5 4 (6.154%) XML
6 3 (4.615%) ASP.NET MVC
7 2 (3.077%) soapUI
7 2 (3.077%) RESTful
7 2 (3.077%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.538%) Spring MVC
8 1 (1.538%) WCF
8 1 (1.538%) Spring
8 1 (1.538%) CSS
8 1 (1.538%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 1 (1.538%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.077%) Windows Azure
2 1 (1.538%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 4 (6.154%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.615%) WebTrends
1 3 (4.615%) Google Analytics
2 1 (1.538%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.077%) ADSL
1 2 (3.077%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (7.692%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.154%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.538%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 28 (43.08%) Selenium
2 17 (26.15%) WebDriver
3 16 (24.62%) Team Foundation Server
4 14 (21.54%) Cucumber
4 14 (21.54%) SpecFlow
5 12 (18.46%) TeamCity
5 12 (18.46%) Visual Studio
6 9 (13.85%) QuickTest Pro
7 6 (9.231%) Jenkins
8 5 (7.692%) Hudson
8 5 (7.692%) JMeter
8 5 (7.692%) Git (software)
8 5 (7.692%) Visual Studio Team System
9 4 (6.154%) Maven
9 4 (6.154%) JIRA
9 4 (6.154%) LoadRunner
9 4 (6.154%) MSI
10 3 (4.615%) WATIR
11 2 (3.077%) FitNesse
11 2 (3.077%) TestNG
General
1 6 (9.231%) Finance
2 4 (6.154%) Retail
2 4 (6.154%) Billing
3 2 (3.077%) Back Office
4 1 (1.538%) Electronics
4 1 (1.538%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.538%) Investment Banking
4 1 (1.538%) Marketing
4 1 (1.538%) Manufacturing
4 1 (1.538%) Publishing
4 1 (1.538%) Banking
Job Titles
1 26 (40.00%) Tester
2 13 (20.00%) Analyst
2 13 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 10 (15.38%) Agile Tester
4 8 (12.31%) Senior Tester
5 7 (10.77%) ScrumMaster
6 5 (7.692%) Test Leader
7 4 (6.154%) Senior Test Analyst
7 4 (6.154%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (6.154%) Software Tester
8 3 (4.615%) Test Manager
8 3 (4.615%) QA Tester
8 3 (4.615%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.615%) Performance Engineer
9 2 (3.077%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.077%) Performance Tester
9 2 (3.077%) Test Team Leader
9 2 (3.077%) Functional Tester
9 2 (3.077%) Senior Agile Tester
9 2 (3.077%) Testing Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.615%) Open Source
2 2 (3.077%) PMI
2 2 (3.077%) Management Information System
2 2 (3.077%) Replication
3 1 (1.538%) Computer Science
3 1 (1.538%) Credit Risk
3 1 (1.538%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.538%) DTV
3 1 (1.538%) SaaS
3 1 (1.538%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.08%) Windows
2 4 (6.154%) Windows 2000
2 4 (6.154%) Windows XP
3 1 (1.538%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (41.54%) Scrum
2 26 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (35.38%) TDD
4 21 (32.31%) E-Commerce
4 21 (32.31%) Automated Testing
5 19 (29.23%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (20.00%) BDD
7 10 (15.38%) User Stories
8 8 (12.31%) Test Automation
8 8 (12.31%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (12.31%) Performance Testing
8 8 (12.31%) SOA
8 8 (12.31%) Software Testing
9 6 (9.231%) Web Testing
9 6 (9.231%) Manual Testing
10 5 (7.692%) Regression Testing
11 4 (6.154%) MVC
11 4 (6.154%) Feature Driven Development
11 4 (6.154%) Kanban
11 4 (6.154%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 17 (26.15%) SQL
2 14 (21.54%) C#
3 11 (16.92%) Java
4 6 (9.231%) Ruby
5 4 (6.154%) VB
6 2 (3.077%) Python
6 2 (3.077%) PHP
7 1 (1.538%) C
Qualifications
1 9 (13.85%) ISEB
2 7 (10.77%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.154%) Degree
4 2 (3.077%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.077%) PMI Certification
4 2 (3.077%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.538%) BC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (41.54%) QA
System Software
1 4 (6.154%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 12 (18.46%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (6.154%) HP SiteScope
Vendors
1 13 (20.00%) HP
2 9 (13.85%) Microsoft
3 5 (7.692%) Oracle
4 4 (6.154%) VMware
4 4 (6.154%) RightScale
5 3 (4.615%) Google
6 2 (3.077%) Cognos
7 1 (1.538%) SAP
Lead Test Analyst
Oxfordshire, South East
The client is at the latter end of the project, this is a web base application devised within ASP.net and back end SQL server, the ideal candidate...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Rate: £300.00 - £350.00 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
Tester, C#, TDD, BDD. NUnit, Specflow, N.London, 3 months, ASAP
North London
NUnit, Specflow, N.London, Market Rates... Key Skills and Background: *Work in a fully AGILE environment, and provide expertise within TDD, BDD, NUnit, Specflow... *TFS and Team City...
MINT Recruitment
Rate: £300 - £400 per day
Posted: 12 June 2013
Agile Tester
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Skills/ Experience Required The criteria used to short-list for this post will be: * Eexperience of testing in an agile development environment (Scrum, XP or similar) * Technical expertise...
Capita Resourcing - Jobs at Capita
Posted: 12 June 2013
Scrum master
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Experience of developing n-tier, complex, data rich, systems. -Net 4; C#; MVC3; Oracle DB; Visual Studio 2010 -Proven experience with Team Foundation Server and ability to exploit...
Harvey Nash plc
Posted: 11 June 2013
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