The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Engineer 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Engineer
Rank 492 497 557
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 40 48 23
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.092% 0.091% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.100% 0.098% 0.043%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 27 15
Average daily rate £350 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £263 £275 £295
10% offered a daily rate of more than £454 £470 £470
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £345 £263
% change year-on-year
-18.84% +31.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
Average hourly rate £28.25 £35.00 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-19.28% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year
-19.28% -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40014 49001 53004
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.47% 92.53% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 23687 27821 29587
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £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 1959 2399 2806
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.68 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+1.74% -6.62%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.50 £11.25 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.20 £40.00 £41.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Automation Engineer
UK

Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Automation Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automation Engineer across the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

England Automation Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Automation Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Automation Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Automation Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the England region over the 3 months to 19 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 +17 21 £375 +7.14% 4
South East +34 10 £390 -29.09% 3
East of England +12 3 £301 -14.00% 1
South West +32 2 £143 -59.28% 2
North West - 2 £300 -
West Midlands +3 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 £225 -
East Midlands - - - -
Automation Engineer
UK

Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Automation 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 Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 39 (54.17%) Selenium
2 33 (45.83%) QA
3 30 (41.67%) Test Automation
4 23 (31.94%) BDD
4 23 (31.94%) Agile Software Development
5 22 (30.56%) Scrum
5 22 (30.56%) Cucumber
6 21 (29.17%) WebDriver
6 21 (29.17%) Java
7 19 (26.39%) Continuous Integration
8 18 (25.00%) TDD
8 18 (25.00%) Python
9 17 (23.61%) SQL
10 13 (18.06%) Ruby
10 13 (18.06%) Test Scripting
11 12 (16.67%) Automated Testing
11 12 (16.67%) C#
11 12 (16.67%) Ant
11 12 (16.67%) Automation Testing
12 11 (15.28%) Visual Studio
12 11 (15.28%) OO
12 11 (15.28%) Finance
12 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
13 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
13 10 (13.89%) Web Services
13 10 (13.89%) Linux
14 9 (12.50%) .NET
14 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
14 9 (12.50%) MSBuild
15 8 (11.11%) Games

Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Automation 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 Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (13.89%) Web Services
2 9 (12.50%) .NET
3 7 (9.722%) soapUI
4 6 (8.333%) HTML
4 6 (8.333%) SOAP
5 5 (6.944%) XML
6 3 (4.167%) .NET Framework
7 2 (2.778%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
7 2 (2.778%) REST
7 2 (2.778%) RESTful
7 2 (2.778%) Middleware
8 1 (1.389%) ASP.NET
8 1 (1.389%) CSS
8 1 (1.389%) Ajax
8 1 (1.389%) Java EE
8 1 (1.389%) JSON
8 1 (1.389%) WCF
8 1 (1.389%) jQuery
8 1 (1.389%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 1 (1.389%) CMS
1 1 (1.389%) Tomcat
1 1 (1.389%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1 (1.389%) MS Excel
1 1 (1.389%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 2 (2.778%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.167%) Internet
1 3 (4.167%) HTTP
2 1 (1.389%) 3G
2 1 (1.389%) 3GPP
2 1 (1.389%) DHCP
2 1 (1.389%) 2G
2 1 (1.389%) Wireshark
2 1 (1.389%) RNC
2 1 (1.389%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.944%) MySQL
2 3 (4.167%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.389%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 39 (54.17%) Selenium
2 22 (30.56%) Cucumber
3 21 (29.17%) WebDriver
4 12 (16.67%) Ant
5 11 (15.28%) Visual Studio
6 9 (12.50%) Jenkins
6 9 (12.50%) MSBuild
7 7 (9.722%) WATIR
8 6 (8.333%) SpecFlow
9 5 (6.944%) TeamCity
9 5 (6.944%) JBehave
10 4 (5.556%) FitNesse
10 4 (5.556%) JIRA
10 4 (5.556%) QuickTest Pro
11 3 (4.167%) JUnit
11 3 (4.167%) NUnit
11 3 (4.167%) Hudson
12 2 (2.778%) WatiN
12 2 (2.778%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (2.778%) CruiseControl
General
1 11 (15.28%) Finance
2 8 (11.11%) Games
3 4 (5.556%) Marketing
4 2 (2.778%) Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Investment Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Front Office
5 1 (1.389%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.389%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.389%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.167%) Equities
1 3 (4.167%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.389%) Blackberry
2 1 (1.389%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.389%) Client/Server
2 1 (1.389%) iPhone
2 1 (1.389%) Open Source
2 1 (1.389%) Hedge funds
2 1 (1.389%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.89%) Linux
2 3 (4.167%) Windows
3 2 (2.778%) Android
3 2 (2.778%) UNIX
4 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2003
4 1 (1.389%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.389%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.389%) Windows 7
4 1 (1.389%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.389%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (41.67%) Test Automation
2 23 (31.94%) BDD
2 23 (31.94%) Agile Software Development
3 22 (30.56%) Scrum
4 19 (26.39%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (25.00%) TDD
6 13 (18.06%) Test Scripting
7 12 (16.67%) Automated Testing
7 12 (16.67%) Automation Testing
8 11 (15.28%) OO
9 8 (11.11%) Software Testing
10 6 (8.333%) Test Strategy
11 5 (6.944%) Build Automation
11 5 (6.944%) User Stories
12 4 (5.556%) Root Cause Analysis
12 4 (5.556%) Manual Testing
13 3 (4.167%) SOA
13 3 (4.167%) Regression Testing
13 3 (4.167%) Security Management
13 3 (4.167%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 21 (29.17%) Java
2 18 (25.00%) Python
3 17 (23.61%) SQL
4 13 (18.06%) Ruby
5 12 (16.67%) C#
6 11 (15.28%) PowerShell
7 7 (9.722%) JavaScript
8 6 (8.333%) Perl
9 4 (5.556%) Groovy
9 4 (5.556%) Shell Script
10 2 (2.778%) PHP
10 2 (2.778%) PL/SQL
11 1 (1.389%) C++
11 1 (1.389%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (2.778%) ISTQB
1 2 (2.778%) ISEB
2 1 (1.389%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (45.83%) QA
System Software
1 2 (2.778%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (2.778%) Data Guard
2 1 (1.389%) OpenView Configuration Management
2 1 (1.389%) OpenView
2 1 (1.389%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (13.89%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.167%) Oracle
3 2 (2.778%) Perforce
3 2 (2.778%) HP
4 1 (1.389%) Sun
4 1 (1.389%) MKS
4 1 (1.389%) SAP
Hampshire
Automated testing on complex Web Applications at the Data, Web Service and GUI layer... - Selenium RC, SoapUI and LoadUI. - Experience scripting in the following languages: C#, Groovy. - XML,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
As the Automation Test Engineer you will be planning and executing automated testing on complex web applications and web services on a mission critical project, in addition to...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Rate: competitive
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
Automation test engineer / automation qa : automation : RiaTest / flex : 6 month contract : Rate TBC : Global company : London : Flex Automation / manual /HTML5 / E-Commerce / Flex / Ria Test... Knowledge of some...
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Rate: £300 - £500 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Cambridge, East Anglia
Embedded Software Engineer. Cambridge. Contract. 6 Months+ My client is looking for an Embedded Software Engineer join on an initial 6 month contract.
Computer Futures
Posted: 14 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
Electrical/Automation Engineer Huxley are recruiting for an electrical engineer for a Reading based client with skills in the following: Control Design (Allen Bradley PLC Pref), Ladder Logic.
Huxley Associates
Rate: £30 - £50 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013
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