Automation Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Tester
Rank 461 517 516
Rank change year-on-year
+56 -1
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 51 40 39
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.121% 0.075% 0.070%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.130% 0.081% 0.076%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 23 15
Average daily rate £361 £325 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.15% -13.33%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £446 £425 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £291 £263
% change year-on-year
+20.17% +10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
England
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 39141 49545 51375
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 92.52% 92.60% 92.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 22991 28027 28527
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £246 £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 2036 2429 2720
Average hourly rate £19.00 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.70% -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £11.17 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.00 £40.00 £40.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Automation Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

England Automation Tester Daily Rate Trend

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automation Tester across the England region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

England Automation Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Automation Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

England Automation Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Automation Tester
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the England region over the 3 months to 21 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 +20 37 £361 +3.21%
South East +28 8 £363 +41.46%
East of England - 4 - -
North West +17 2 £330 -2.22%
Automation Tester
UK

Automation Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Automation Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 65 (67.71%) Selenium
2 42 (43.75%) WebDriver
3 41 (42.71%) Java
4 32 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 32 (33.33%) Cucumber
5 29 (30.21%) BDD
5 29 (30.21%) Automation Testing
6 24 (25.00%) Scrum
6 24 (25.00%) Ruby
7 23 (23.96%) Test Automation
8 22 (22.92%) TDD
9 21 (21.88%) QA
10 20 (20.83%) C#
11 19 (19.79%) SQL
12 16 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (15.63%) Web Services
13 15 (15.63%) Test Scripting
14 13 (13.54%) .NET
14 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
14 13 (13.54%) Automated Testing
15 11 (11.46%) SOAP
15 11 (11.46%) XML
15 11 (11.46%) soapUI
16 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
16 10 (10.42%) QuickTest Pro
16 10 (10.42%) Finance
17 9 (9.375%) ISEB
17 9 (9.375%) HTML
17 9 (9.375%) WATIR
18 8 (8.333%) Mobile App

Automation Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the England region that cited Automation Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 15 (15.63%) Web Services
2 13 (13.54%) .NET
3 11 (11.46%) SOAP
3 11 (11.46%) XML
3 11 (11.46%) soapUI
4 9 (9.375%) HTML
5 7 (7.292%) XSLT
5 7 (7.292%) REST
6 6 (6.250%) RESTful
7 5 (5.208%) WCF
7 5 (5.208%) JSON
8 3 (3.125%) CSS
8 3 (3.125%) J2EE
8 3 (3.125%) .NET Framework
9 2 (2.083%) Middleware
10 1 (1.042%) ASP
10 1 (1.042%) ASP.NET
10 1 (1.042%) COM
10 1 (1.042%) WPF
10 1 (1.042%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.083%) Confluence
1 2 (2.083%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (2.083%) MS Project
1 2 (2.083%) MS Office
1 2 (2.083%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.042%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.292%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.208%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.167%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.042%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.042%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (67.71%) Selenium
2 42 (43.75%) WebDriver
3 32 (33.33%) Cucumber
4 10 (10.42%) Jenkins
4 10 (10.42%) QuickTest Pro
5 9 (9.375%) WATIR
6 7 (7.292%) SpecFlow
6 7 (7.292%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (6.250%) TeamCity
8 5 (5.208%) JUnit
8 5 (5.208%) CruiseControl
8 5 (5.208%) JBehave
9 4 (4.167%) JIRA
9 4 (4.167%) FitNesse
9 4 (4.167%) Visual Studio
10 3 (3.125%) MonkeyTalk
10 3 (3.125%) TestNG
11 2 (2.083%) Rational Functional Tester
11 2 (2.083%) WatiN
11 2 (2.083%) Git (software)
General
1 10 (10.42%) Finance
2 5 (5.208%) Games
2 5 (5.208%) Banking
2 5 (5.208%) Telecoms
3 3 (3.125%) Retail
4 2 (2.083%) Front Office
4 2 (2.083%) Publishing
5 1 (1.042%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.042%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.042%) Marketing
5 1 (1.042%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.042%) Billing
5 1 (1.042%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.333%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.292%) Open Source
3 4 (4.167%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.125%) IPTV
4 3 (3.125%) Digital Media
4 3 (3.125%) iPad
5 2 (2.083%) iPhone
5 2 (2.083%) STB
5 2 (2.083%) Online Games
5 2 (2.083%) MPEG
6 1 (1.042%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.042%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.042%) Equities
6 1 (1.042%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.292%) UNIX
1 7 (7.292%) Windows
1 7 (7.292%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.250%) Linux
3 5 (5.208%) Android
4 1 (1.042%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.042%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.042%) SUSE
4 1 (1.042%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.042%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.042%) BlackBerry OS
4 1 (1.042%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 29 (30.21%) BDD
2 29 (30.21%) Automation Testing
3 24 (25.00%) Scrum
4 23 (23.96%) Test Automation
5 22 (22.92%) TDD
6 16 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (15.63%) Test Scripting
8 13 (13.54%) Automated Testing
9 7 (7.292%) E-Commerce
9 7 (7.292%) Manual Testing
9 7 (7.292%) Web Testing
10 5 (5.208%) Pair Programming
10 5 (5.208%) Integration Testing
11 4 (4.167%) Unit Testing
11 4 (4.167%) User Acceptance Testing
11 4 (4.167%) OO
12 3 (3.125%) Regression Testing
12 3 (3.125%) Software Testing
12 3 (3.125%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 41 (42.71%) Java
2 24 (25.00%) Ruby
3 20 (20.83%) C#
4 19 (19.79%) SQL
5 8 (8.333%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.292%) Python
7 5 (5.208%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.167%) VB
8 4 (4.167%) PHP
9 3 (3.125%) VBScript
9 3 (3.125%) Perl
10 2 (2.083%) Bash shell
10 2 (2.083%) XPath
10 2 (2.083%) XQuery
10 2 (2.083%) Tcl
11 1 (1.042%) VB.NET
11 1 (1.042%) Groovy
11 1 (1.042%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (9.375%) ISEB
2 4 (4.167%) Degree
3 3 (3.125%) ISTQB
4 2 (2.083%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.083%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (21.88%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.042%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (13.54%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.125%) Oracle
2 3 (3.125%) HP
3 2 (2.083%) Atlassian
3 2 (2.083%) IBM
4 1 (1.042%) Apple
4 1 (1.042%) VMware
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