The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Gloucestershire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Gloucestershire 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 36 64 42
Rank change year-on-year
+28 -22
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 2 5 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 0.727% 0.747% 1.643%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.111% 0.994% 2.622%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 5
Average daily rate £150 £400 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-62.50% -20.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +35.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
Gloucestershire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
180 503 267
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Gloucestershire 65.45% 75.19% 62.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 307 106
Average daily rate £380 £425 £363
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.58% +17.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £480 £513 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 19 35
Average hourly rate £29.00 £25.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.00% -28.57%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £18.90 £25.00 £18.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
South West

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Gloucestershire 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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

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 Gloucestershire region.

Gloucestershire Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) iPhone
3 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) HTML5
3 2 (50.00%) iPad
3 2 (50.00%) ISEB
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) HTML
3 2 (50.00%) SQL
3 2 (50.00%) .NET
4 1 (25.00%) Oracle
4 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
4 1 (25.00%) XML
4 1 (25.00%) XSD
4 1 (25.00%) XSLT
4 1 (25.00%) Windows
4 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
4 1 (25.00%) TDD
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
4 1 (25.00%) V-Model
4 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 2 (50.00%) HTML5
1 2 (50.00%) HTML
1 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSD
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 2 (50.00%) Web Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) iPhone
1 2 (50.00%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (25.00%) Oracle
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Posted: 16 May 2013