QA Automation Engineer Contracts in England
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the QA 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 QA Automation Engineer 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
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Rank 505 549 562
Rank change year-on-year
+44 +13
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 5 9 10
As % of all contract IT jobs located in England 0.012% 0.017% 0.018%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.013% 0.018% 0.019%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
Average daily rate £400 £351 £600
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.12% -41.58%
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
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		 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%
QA Automation Engineer
UK

QA Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England QA Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

England QA Automation Engineer Daily Rate Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

England QA Automation Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

QA 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 QA Automation Engineer 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 +18 5 £400 +14.12%
QA Automation Engineer
UK

QA Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 19 (100.00%) QA
2 17 (89.47%) Selenium
3 14 (73.68%) Cucumber
4 11 (57.89%) BDD
4 11 (57.89%) Ruby
4 11 (57.89%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
6 8 (42.11%) WebDriver
6 8 (42.11%) Scrum
6 8 (42.11%) TDD
7 7 (36.84%) WATIR
7 7 (36.84%) Automation Testing
8 6 (31.58%) SQL
9 5 (26.32%) Java
9 5 (26.32%) Finance
10 4 (21.05%) Perl
10 4 (21.05%) Python
10 4 (21.05%) JIRA
10 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
10 4 (21.05%) Marketing
10 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
10 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
11 3 (15.79%) JBehave
11 3 (15.79%) User Stories
11 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
11 3 (15.79%) C#
11 3 (15.79%) Internet
12 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
12 2 (10.53%) Linux

QA Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 2 (10.53%) .NET
1 2 (10.53%) SOAP
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
2 1 (5.263%) Ruby on Rails
2 1 (5.263%) RESTful
2 1 (5.263%) REST
2 1 (5.263%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.263%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Internet
2 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.263%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 17 (89.47%) Selenium
2 14 (73.68%) Cucumber
3 8 (42.11%) WebDriver
4 7 (36.84%) WATIR
5 4 (21.05%) JIRA
5 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
6 3 (15.79%) JBehave
7 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
8 1 (5.263%) MSTest
8 1 (5.263%) Hudson
8 1 (5.263%) TeamCity
8 1 (5.263%) WatiN
8 1 (5.263%) JUnit
8 1 (5.263%) NUnit
8 1 (5.263%) CruiseControl
8 1 (5.263%) Subversion
General
1 5 (26.32%) Finance
2 4 (21.05%) Marketing
3 1 (5.263%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.263%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Linux
2 1 (5.263%) UNIX
2 1 (5.263%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (57.89%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (57.89%) BDD
2 9 (47.37%) Continuous Integration
2 9 (47.37%) Test Automation
3 8 (42.11%) TDD
3 8 (42.11%) Scrum
4 7 (36.84%) Automation Testing
5 4 (21.05%) Test Strategy
5 4 (21.05%) Software Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (15.79%) User Stories
7 2 (10.53%) E-Commerce
8 1 (5.263%) OO
8 1 (5.263%) Automated Testing
8 1 (5.263%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (5.263%) Test Scripting
8 1 (5.263%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (57.89%) Ruby
2 6 (31.58%) SQL
3 5 (26.32%) Java
4 4 (21.05%) Perl
4 4 (21.05%) Python
5 3 (15.79%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (100.00%) QA
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