Automated Testing Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Automated 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 Automated Testing 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 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 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 247 274 228
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -46
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 310 326 443
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.746% 0.611% 0.785%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.045% 0.895% 1.152%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 201 266
Average daily rate £350 £375 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £250 £245
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £319
% change year-on-year
- +1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 8
Average hourly rate £41.50 £38.75 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.09% +10.71%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.75 £24.00 £18.13
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.25 £40.00 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £37.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+13.33% +7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 29662 36423 38448
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 71.36% 68.27% 68.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18133 21396 22256
Average daily rate £425 £410 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.53% -8.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £588 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 916 1186 1394
Average hourly rate £32.00 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+28.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.99 £13.50 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £51.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Automated Testing
UK

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England 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 England region.

England 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 England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England 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 England region.

England Automated Testing Hourly Rate 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 England region over the 3 months to 17 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
London +14 176 £375 -11.24%
South East +38 75 £325 +8.33%
East of England +16 16 £300 -21.05%
Yorkshire -1 15 £213 -32.00%
West Midlands +9 11 £325 -
South West +5 7 £150 -61.03%
East Midlands 0 4 £310 -
North West +14 3 £287 +6.11%
South Coast +6 2 £453 +57.39%
Automated Testing
UK

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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.

1 199 (34.55%) Selenium
2 194 (33.68%) Agile Software Development
3 182 (31.60%) QA
4 150 (26.04%) TDD
5 149 (25.87%) Java
6 142 (24.65%) SQL
7 121 (21.01%) Scrum
8 119 (20.66%) C#
9 111 (19.27%) .NET
10 104 (18.06%) BDD
11 101 (17.53%) Continuous Integration
12 97 (16.84%) Test Scripting
13 94 (16.32%) Software Testing
14 83 (14.41%) JavaScript
15 80 (13.89%) E-Commerce
16 78 (13.54%) ISEB
16 78 (13.54%) Finance
16 78 (13.54%) Cucumber
17 77 (13.37%) WebDriver
18 74 (12.85%) Test Automation
19 73 (12.67%) Microsoft
20 72 (12.50%) OO
21 67 (11.63%) XML
21 67 (11.63%) SQL Server
22 61 (10.59%) HP Quality Center
23 59 (10.24%) Web Services
24 58 (10.07%) Windows
25 56 (9.722%) Ruby
25 56 (9.722%) Banking
26 55 (9.549%) Linux

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England 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
1 111 (19.27%) .NET
2 67 (11.63%) XML
3 59 (10.24%) Web Services
4 51 (8.854%) CSS
5 48 (8.333%) HTML
6 40 (6.944%) ASP.NET
7 37 (6.424%) SOAP
8 32 (5.556%) RESTful
9 31 (5.382%) JSON
10 29 (5.035%) WCF
11 28 (4.861%) jQuery
12 27 (4.688%) HTML5
13 25 (4.340%) Ajax
14 22 (3.819%) ASP.NET MVC
15 21 (3.646%) soapUI
15 21 (3.646%) .NET Framework
16 20 (3.472%) CSS3
17 19 (3.299%) J2EE
18 18 (3.125%) WebSphere
19 15 (2.604%) REST
Application Platforms
1 16 (2.778%) Apache
1 16 (2.778%) Amazon AWS
1 16 (2.778%) Confluence
2 13 (2.257%) Amazon EC2
2 13 (2.257%) IIS
3 12 (2.083%) Amazon S3
3 12 (2.083%) Apache Solr
4 11 (1.910%) Route 53
5 10 (1.736%) Tomcat
6 9 (1.563%) Drupal
7 7 (1.215%) Windows Azure
8 6 (1.042%) Commerce Server
9 5 (0.868%) CMS
9 5 (0.868%) BizTalk Server
9 5 (0.868%) Apache Pig
9 5 (0.868%) Adobe CQ
10 4 (0.694%) nginx
10 4 (0.694%) SharePoint
10 4 (0.694%) MSMQ
11 3 (0.521%) MQSeries
Applications
1 24 (4.167%) MS Excel
2 12 (2.083%) MS Visio
3 9 (1.563%) MS Office
4 2 (0.347%) MS Project
5 1 (0.174%) Photoshop
5 1 (0.174%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 11 (1.910%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (0.868%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 4 (0.694%) Dynamics CRM
4 3 (0.521%) Global One
5 2 (0.347%) SAP CRM
5 2 (0.347%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.174%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.174%) CODA-Financials
6 1 (0.174%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.174%) SAP IS-U
6 1 (0.174%) TradeThru
6 1 (0.174%) SAP CO
Communications & Networking
1 38 (6.597%) HTTP
2 30 (5.208%) Internet
3 5 (0.868%) TCP/IP
4 4 (0.694%) Extranet
5 3 (0.521%) VPN
6 2 (0.347%) DNS
6 2 (0.347%) LDAP
6 2 (0.347%) SSH
7 1 (0.174%) GSM
7 1 (0.174%) SMTP
7 1 (0.174%) Firewall
7 1 (0.174%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 67 (11.63%) SQL Server
2 33 (5.729%) MySQL
3 15 (2.604%) MongoDB
3 15 (2.604%) Big Data
3 15 (2.604%) SQL Server 2012
4 14 (2.431%) DB2
5 12 (2.083%) Data Mining
5 12 (2.083%) Amazon RDS
6 11 (1.910%) Redis
7 9 (1.563%) NoSQL
7 9 (1.563%) Hadoop
7 9 (1.563%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (1.389%) SQLite
8 8 (1.389%) SQL Server 2008
8 8 (1.389%) Sqoop
9 5 (0.868%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (0.868%) Microsoft Analysis Services
10 4 (0.694%) Apache Hive
11 3 (0.521%) DbVisualizer
11 3 (0.521%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 199 (34.55%) Selenium
2 78 (13.54%) Cucumber
3 77 (13.37%) WebDriver
4 54 (9.375%) QuickTest Pro
5 51 (8.854%) Visual Studio
6 44 (7.639%) JIRA
7 37 (6.424%) Subversion
8 36 (6.250%) Jenkins
9 34 (5.903%) Team Foundation Server
10 29 (5.035%) JUnit
11 25 (4.340%) Git (software)
12 24 (4.167%) Maven
12 24 (4.167%) FitNesse
13 23 (3.993%) WATIR
14 19 (3.299%) SpecFlow
15 17 (2.951%) Ant
16 15 (2.604%) TestNG
16 15 (2.604%) JBehave
17 12 (2.083%) TeamCity
17 12 (2.083%) WatiN
General
1 78 (13.54%) Finance
2 56 (9.722%) Banking
3 35 (6.076%) Investment Banking
4 33 (5.729%) Games
5 17 (2.951%) Music
5 17 (2.951%) Retail
6 15 (2.604%) Front Office
7 14 (2.431%) Telecoms
8 9 (1.563%) Automotive
8 9 (1.563%) Manufacturing
9 8 (1.389%) Publishing
9 8 (1.389%) Marketing
10 7 (1.215%) Legal
10 7 (1.215%) Electronics
11 5 (0.868%) Back Office
12 4 (0.694%) Law
13 3 (0.521%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (0.521%) Military
13 3 (0.521%) Billing
13 3 (0.521%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 155 (26.91%) Developer
2 119 (20.66%) Analyst
3 118 (20.49%) Tester
4 101 (17.53%) Test Analyst
5 29 (5.035%) Test Engineer
6 28 (4.861%) Software Engineer
7 25 (4.340%) Test Manager
7 25 (4.340%) QA Engineer
8 24 (4.167%) QA Tester
9 21 (3.646%) Consultant
10 20 (3.472%) Senior Tester
11 19 (3.299%) QA Analyst
12 18 (3.125%) Senior Developer
12 18 (3.125%) Android Developer
13 17 (2.951%) Test Leader
13 17 (2.951%) Automated Tester
14 16 (2.778%) Mobile Developer
14 16 (2.778%) .NET Developer
14 16 (2.778%) Front-End Developer
15 14 (2.431%) Java Developer
Miscellaneous
1 55 (9.549%) Mobile App
2 23 (3.993%) Computer Science
3 22 (3.819%) Equities
4 19 (3.299%) Derivative
5 17 (2.951%) iPhone
6 16 (2.778%) Digital Media
7 15 (2.604%) Open Source
8 14 (2.431%) Enterprise Software
9 9 (1.563%) Social Media
9 9 (1.563%) iPad
9 9 (1.563%) Client/Server
9 9 (1.563%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 9 (1.563%) Blackberry
9 9 (1.563%) Handset
10 8 (1.389%) Online Games
11 6 (1.042%) Kinect
11 6 (1.042%) N-Tier
12 5 (0.868%) Mainframe
12 5 (0.868%) Mathematics
12 5 (0.868%) STB
Operating Systems
1 58 (10.07%) Windows
2 55 (9.549%) Linux
3 53 (9.201%) UNIX
4 43 (7.465%) Android
5 21 (3.646%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.042%) Windows Phone
7 4 (0.694%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (0.694%) Windows 8
7 4 (0.694%) Ubuntu
7 4 (0.694%) VMS
8 3 (0.521%) OpenVMS
8 3 (0.521%) Solaris
8 3 (0.521%) Windows Mobile
8 3 (0.521%) Windows Server 2008
9 2 (0.347%) CentOS
9 2 (0.347%) Embedded Linux
9 2 (0.347%) Windows Server 2012
9 2 (0.347%) AIX
10 1 (0.174%) Mac OS X
10 1 (0.174%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 194 (33.68%) Agile Software Development
2 150 (26.04%) TDD
3 121 (21.01%) Scrum
4 104 (18.06%) BDD
5 101 (17.53%) Continuous Integration
6 97 (16.84%) Test Scripting
7 94 (16.32%) Software Testing
8 80 (13.89%) E-Commerce
9 74 (12.85%) Test Automation
10 72 (12.50%) OO
11 45 (7.813%) Automation Testing
12 42 (7.292%) Test Strategy
13 40 (6.944%) Manual Testing
13 40 (6.944%) MVC
14 39 (6.771%) Regression Testing
14 39 (6.771%) User Acceptance Testing
15 33 (5.729%) Performance Testing
16 32 (5.556%) Software Engineering
17 28 (4.861%) Integration Testing
18 26 (4.514%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 149 (25.87%) Java
2 142 (24.65%) SQL
3 119 (20.66%) C#
4 83 (14.41%) JavaScript
5 56 (9.722%) Ruby
6 47 (8.160%) C++
7 38 (6.597%) Python
8 34 (5.903%) Perl
9 28 (4.861%) PHP
9 28 (4.861%) C
10 20 (3.472%) Shell Script
11 11 (1.910%) VB
12 6 (1.042%) Objective-C
13 5 (0.868%) Embedded C
13 5 (0.868%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.694%) VBScript
14 4 (0.694%) Embedded C++
14 4 (0.694%) Scala
15 3 (0.521%) VBA
15 3 (0.521%) RPG IV
Qualifications
1 78 (13.54%) ISEB
2 50 (8.681%) Degree
3 39 (6.771%) ISTQB
4 19 (3.299%) Security Cleared
5 11 (1.910%) SC Cleared
6 3 (0.521%) BC Cleared
6 3 (0.521%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (0.347%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.174%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 182 (31.60%) QA
2 3 (0.521%) ISO 9000
3 1 (0.174%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.174%) FATCA
System Software
1 6 (1.042%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (0.694%) Hyper-V
2 4 (0.694%) Varnish
2 4 (0.694%) Apache ZooKeeper
3 3 (0.521%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.174%) Xen
Systems Management
1 61 (10.59%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (1.215%) Puppet
3 3 (0.521%) SCVMM
3 3 (0.521%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
3 3 (0.521%) Nagios
3 3 (0.521%) SCCM
4 2 (0.347%) SCOM
5 1 (0.174%) Control-M
5 1 (0.174%) Splunk
Vendors
1 73 (12.67%) Microsoft
2 52 (9.028%) HP
3 50 (8.681%) Oracle
4 17 (2.951%) IBM
5 16 (2.778%) Adobe
6 12 (2.083%) SAP
7 11 (1.910%) Percona
8 9 (1.563%) Capita
9 8 (1.389%) Google
9 8 (1.389%) Sybase
10 7 (1.215%) VMware
11 4 (0.694%) Atlassian
11 4 (0.694%) Red Hat
12 3 (0.521%) Fidessa
12 3 (0.521%) hybris
12 3 (0.521%) LANDesk
12 3 (0.521%) Zend
13 2 (0.347%) Perforce
13 2 (0.347%) JBoss
13 2 (0.347%) webMethods
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