Automation Analyst 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 the Automation Analyst role in IT contracts advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automation Analyst in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
Automation Analyst
Rank 467 499 540
Rank change year-on-year
+32 +41
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Analyst 43 59 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.103% 0.111% 0.057%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.112% 0.119% 0.061%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 35 20
Average daily rate £375 £300 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £265
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +13.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 38474 49443 52336
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.56% 92.67% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 22637 27972 29016
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2002 2393 2764
Average hourly rate £19.00 £19.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -5.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.15 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Automation Analyst
UK

Automation Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Automation Analyst across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Automation Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Automation Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England Automation Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Automation Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Automation Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Automation Analyst
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Analyst 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 -6 20 £375 +25.00%
North West +25 13 £425 +15.25%
South East +29 9 £338 +12.50%
Yorkshire -1 1 £220 -29.60%
Automation Analyst
UK

Automation Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Automation Analyst 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 Automation Analyst in their job title.

1 39 (48.15%) Selenium
2 30 (37.04%) Test Automation
3 26 (32.10%) Test Scripting
3 26 (32.10%) QuickTest Pro
4 24 (29.63%) Cucumber
5 22 (27.16%) C#
6 20 (24.69%) Java
7 18 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
7 18 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
8 17 (20.99%) Automation Testing
8 17 (20.99%) QA
8 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
8 17 (20.99%) HP
9 16 (19.75%) Finance
9 16 (19.75%) Ruby
10 15 (18.52%) SQL
11 14 (17.28%) Visual Studio
11 14 (17.28%) Web Testing
11 14 (17.28%) FitNesse
12 12 (14.81%) SAP Implementation
12 12 (14.81%) Performance Management
12 12 (14.81%) Automated Testing
12 12 (14.81%) SAP
12 12 (14.81%) SAP HR
13 11 (13.58%) .NET
14 10 (12.35%) Banking
14 10 (12.35%) Scrum
14 10 (12.35%) WebDriver
15 9 (11.11%) Concordion
16 8 (9.877%) Open Source

Automation Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Automation Analyst 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 Automation Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (13.58%) .NET
2 3 (3.704%) COM
2 3 (3.704%) soapUI
3 2 (2.469%) HTML
3 2 (2.469%) WCF
3 2 (2.469%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.469%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.469%) SOAP
3 2 (2.469%) XML
4 1 (1.235%) Flash
4 1 (1.235%) Motif
4 1 (1.235%) .NET Framework
4 1 (1.235%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.235%) CSS
4 1 (1.235%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.704%) Windows Azure
2 2 (2.469%) CMS
3 1 (1.235%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (1.235%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 12 (14.81%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.469%) Internet
2 1 (1.235%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.938%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.469%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.235%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 39 (48.15%) Selenium
2 26 (32.10%) QuickTest Pro
3 24 (29.63%) Cucumber
4 14 (17.28%) Visual Studio
4 14 (17.28%) FitNesse
5 10 (12.35%) WebDriver
6 9 (11.11%) Concordion
7 6 (7.407%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (3.704%) Hudson
8 3 (3.704%) WATIR
8 3 (3.704%) Visual Studio Team System
9 2 (2.469%) Rational Functional Tester
9 2 (2.469%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.469%) JUnit
9 2 (2.469%) Eclipse
9 2 (2.469%) Subversion
9 2 (2.469%) JBehave
9 2 (2.469%) Jenkins
10 1 (1.235%) RSpec
10 1 (1.235%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 16 (19.75%) Finance
2 10 (12.35%) Banking
3 6 (7.407%) Retail
4 5 (6.173%) Investment Banking
4 5 (6.173%) Front Office
5 2 (2.469%) Back Office
5 2 (2.469%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.235%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.877%) Open Source
2 6 (7.407%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.704%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.704%) Derivative
4 2 (2.469%) Equity Derivative
4 2 (2.469%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (2.469%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.469%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.469%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.469%) Equities
4 2 (2.469%) iPhone
5 1 (1.235%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.235%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.235%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.407%) Apple iOS
2 4 (4.938%) UNIX
2 4 (4.938%) Linux
2 4 (4.938%) Android
3 2 (2.469%) VMS
3 2 (2.469%) zOS
3 2 (2.469%) MVS
3 2 (2.469%) Windows
4 1 (1.235%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (37.04%) Test Automation
2 26 (32.10%) Test Scripting
3 18 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 17 (20.99%) Automation Testing
5 14 (17.28%) Web Testing
6 12 (14.81%) SAP Implementation
6 12 (14.81%) Performance Management
6 12 (14.81%) Automated Testing
7 10 (12.35%) Scrum
8 8 (9.877%) BDD
8 8 (9.877%) TDD
9 7 (8.642%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (7.407%) Manual Testing
11 5 (6.173%) Regression Testing
12 4 (4.938%) OO
13 3 (3.704%) Continuous Integration
13 3 (3.704%) Build Automation
14 2 (2.469%) Analytics
14 2 (2.469%) Test Management
14 2 (2.469%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 22 (27.16%) C#
2 20 (24.69%) Java
3 16 (19.75%) Ruby
4 15 (18.52%) SQL
5 6 (7.407%) Python
6 5 (6.173%) VB
7 4 (4.938%) Perl
7 4 (4.938%) C++
8 3 (3.704%) JavaScript
9 2 (2.469%) C
9 2 (2.469%) VBScript
9 2 (2.469%) REXX
9 2 (2.469%) Shell Script
9 2 (2.469%) Jython
9 2 (2.469%) VBA
10 1 (1.235%) ActionScript
10 1 (1.235%) XPath
10 1 (1.235%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 4 (4.938%) ISEB
2 3 (3.704%) ISTQB
2 3 (3.704%) Security Cleared
3 1 (1.235%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (20.99%) QA
Systems Management
1 18 (22.22%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.469%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 17 (20.99%) Microsoft
1 17 (20.99%) HP
2 12 (14.81%) SAP
3 4 (4.938%) IBM
4 3 (3.704%) Oracle
5 2 (2.469%) CA
6 1 (1.235%) Salesforce.com
6 1 (1.235%) webMethods
6 1 (1.235%) Microgen
6 1 (1.235%) PeopleSoft
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