The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Tester role in IT contracts advertised for the Hertfordshire 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 23 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 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Tester
Rank 61 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 0.314% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.329% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £291 £325
% change year-on-year
+20.17% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
607 906 843
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.29% 93.31% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 309 392 358
Average daily rate £400 £375 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £244 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £514
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 86 105
Average hourly rate £17.49 £31.00 £17.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-43.59% +82.35%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.19 £11.20
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £37.00 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Automation Tester
East of England

Automation Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Automation Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Tester
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) JBehave
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) soapUI
1 2 (100.00%) MonkeyTalk
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation

Automation Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 2 (100.00%) SOAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 2 (100.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) JBehave
1 2 (100.00%) WebDriver
1 2 (100.00%) MonkeyTalk
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) ETL
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Build Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) Atlassian