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Automated Testing Contracts in Hertfordshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 46 70 54
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -16
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 11 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.687% 0.812% 1.347%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.434% 1.225% 2.230%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 1
Average daily rate £350 £368 £188
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.76% +96.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £35.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +66.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 452 653 538
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 69.33% 66.29% 60.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 290 246
Average daily rate £400 £350 £380
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+14.28% -7.89%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £250 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £461 £525
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 55 69
Average hourly rate £32.00 £35.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.40 £11.43 £16.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.50 £49.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
East of England

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Watford +9 2 - -
Welwyn Garden City - - - -
Bishop's Stortford - - - - 1
Hertford - - - -
Automated Testing
East of England

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 14 (73.68%) Scrum
2 12 (63.16%) Continuous Integration
2 12 (63.16%) Java
3 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 11 (57.89%) Finance
3 11 (57.89%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (52.63%) Test Scripting
5 8 (42.11%) ISEB
5 8 (42.11%) Web Services
5 8 (42.11%) Linux
5 8 (42.11%) Integration Testing
5 8 (42.11%) Selenium
6 7 (36.84%) Retail
6 7 (36.84%) JIRA
6 7 (36.84%) SOAP
6 7 (36.84%) Confluence
6 7 (36.84%) Build Automation
7 6 (31.58%) .NET
8 5 (26.32%) XML
8 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
8 5 (26.32%) Capita
8 5 (26.32%) WebDriver
8 5 (26.32%) User Stories
9 4 (21.05%) Agile Testing
9 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
9 4 (21.05%) BDD
9 4 (21.05%) JBehave
9 4 (21.05%) TeamCity
9 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (21.05%) QA

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 8 (42.11%) Web Services
2 7 (36.84%) SOAP
3 6 (31.58%) .NET
4 5 (26.32%) XML
5 3 (15.79%) Flash
5 3 (15.79%) J2EE
5 3 (15.79%) HTML
5 3 (15.79%) WebSphere
5 3 (15.79%) Gherkin
6 2 (10.53%) Unity DI Container
6 2 (10.53%) .NET Framework
6 2 (10.53%) WCF
6 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET MVC
6 2 (10.53%) soapUI
6 2 (10.53%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (10.53%) ASP.NET
7 1 (5.263%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 7 (36.84%) Confluence
2 3 (15.79%) MQSeries
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.79%) SQL Server
1 3 (15.79%) DB2
1 3 (15.79%) DbVisualizer
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle ODI
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) Selenium
2 7 (36.84%) JIRA
3 5 (26.32%) WebDriver
4 4 (21.05%) SpecFlow
4 4 (21.05%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (21.05%) TeamCity
4 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (21.05%) JBehave
5 3 (15.79%) LoadRunner
6 2 (10.53%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 11 (57.89%) Finance
2 7 (36.84%) Retail
3 1 (5.263%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Software Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Test Leader
2 4 (21.05%) Agile Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Senior Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Senior .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) .NET Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
4 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Senior Automation Tester
4 2 (10.53%) Agile .NET Developer
5 1 (5.263%) Testing Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 8 (42.11%) Linux
2 3 (15.79%) UNIX
3 2 (10.53%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Scrum
2 12 (63.16%) Continuous Integration
3 11 (57.89%) Agile Software Development
4 10 (52.63%) Test Scripting
5 8 (42.11%) Integration Testing
6 7 (36.84%) Build Automation
7 5 (26.32%) User Stories
7 5 (26.32%) E-Commerce
8 4 (21.05%) BDD
8 4 (21.05%) Agile Testing
9 3 (15.79%) System Testing
9 3 (15.79%) Regression Testing
10 2 (10.53%) MVC
10 2 (10.53%) SOA
10 2 (10.53%) ETL
10 2 (10.53%) TDD
10 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
11 1 (5.263%) Test Management
11 1 (5.263%) Test Strategy
11 1 (5.263%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (63.16%) Java
2 11 (57.89%) SQL
3 3 (15.79%) JavaScript
3 3 (15.79%) C#
4 1 (5.263%) VBScript
4 1 (5.263%) VB
Qualifications
1 8 (42.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (26.32%) Capita
2 3 (15.79%) IBM
2 3 (15.79%) HP
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
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