The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 51 66 43
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 7 13 31
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.095% 1.305% 3.370%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.149% 1.402% 3.559%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 0
Average daily rate £301 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-19.80% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 9
Average hourly rate £18.00 £37.00 £35.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.35% +5.71%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+9.23% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
609 927 871
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 95.31% 93.07% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 409 384
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £250 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £488
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 87 111
Average hourly rate £18.00 £29.00 £16.20
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-37.93% +79.01%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.30 £11.00 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £36.50 £36.00 £37.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Test Engineer
East of England

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Hertfordshire Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Engineer across the Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Test Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
Baldock - 1 - -
Bishop's Stortford - - - - 1
Borehamwood - - - -
Hemel Hempstead - - - -
Hertford - - - -
Stevenage - - - -
Test Engineer
East of England

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Test 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
3 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
3 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
3 2 (20.00%) Physics
3 2 (20.00%) Android
3 2 (20.00%) LTE
3 2 (20.00%) Degree
3 2 (20.00%) TDD
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) 2G
3 2 (20.00%) Java
3 2 (20.00%) 3GPP
4 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
4 1 (10.00%) HTTP
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
4 1 (10.00%) SLA
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (10.00%) IPv6
4 1 (10.00%) Juniper
4 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
4 1 (10.00%) Internet
4 1 (10.00%) 3G
4 1 (10.00%) MPLS
4 1 (10.00%) OSPF
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (10.00%) Integration Acceptance Testing

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire region that cited Test 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) LTE
1 2 (20.00%) 2G
1 2 (20.00%) 3GPP
2 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (10.00%) HTTP
2 1 (10.00%) VPN
2 1 (10.00%) IPv6
2 1 (10.00%) Internet
2 1 (10.00%) 3G
2 1 (10.00%) MPLS
2 1 (10.00%) OSPF
2 1 (10.00%) Firewall
2 1 (10.00%) Frame Relay
2 1 (10.00%) ATM
2 1 (10.00%) LAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (10.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (40.00%) Telecoms
2 3 (30.00%) Electronics
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (20.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (20.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (20.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (20.00%) TDD
1 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (10.00%) Quality Management
2 1 (10.00%) Integration Acceptance Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Scrum
2 1 (10.00%) BDD
2 1 (10.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C
2 2 (20.00%) Java
3 1 (10.00%) Embedded C
3 1 (10.00%) VB
3 1 (10.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco
1 1 (10.00%) Juniper
1 1 (10.00%) CheckPoint
1 1 (10.00%) Huawei
1 1 (10.00%) Crossbeam