The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Guildford 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 26 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 6 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 2.956% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.615% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +66.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Guildford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
130 78 72
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Guildford 64.04% 62.90% 52.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 38 36
Average daily rate £400 £425 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.88% +30.76%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £211 £325 £163
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £425 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 2
Average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +7.69%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
Surrey

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford 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 Guildford region.

Guildford Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 6 (85.71%) C
1 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) C++
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
1 6 (85.71%) MS Excel
1 6 (85.71%) MS Visio
1 6 (85.71%) Data Mining
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft
1 6 (85.71%) Code Coverage
1 6 (85.71%) Games
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
1 6 (85.71%) Software Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Process Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Game Development
1 6 (85.71%) Kinect
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
1 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Windows 8
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) Streaming Video
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Windows
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) Regression Testing
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Guildford 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 (28.57%) Web Services
1 2 (28.57%) WCF
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (85.71%) MS Excel
1 6 (85.71%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) Data Mining
2 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
2 1 (14.29%) LabVIEW
General
1 6 (85.71%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (85.71%) Development Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Development Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (85.71%) Computer Science
1 6 (85.71%) Kinect
2 4 (57.14%) Streaming Video
2 4 (57.14%) Visualisation
3 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 4 (57.14%) Windows
1 4 (57.14%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Code Coverage
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
1 6 (85.71%) Software Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Process Architecture
1 6 (85.71%) Game Development
1 6 (85.71%) Test Strategy
2 4 (57.14%) Analytics
2 4 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
2 4 (57.14%) Regression Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Data Analysis
2 4 (57.14%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) Load Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) C
1 6 (85.71%) C#
1 6 (85.71%) C++
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) Python
2 4 (57.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) Degree
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) Microsoft