Automated Testing Contracts in Leeds
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Leeds 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 60 57 45
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -12
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 14 10 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 1.894% 1.151% 1.415%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.593% 1.621% 2.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 6 8
Average daily rate £213 £306 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-30.61% -35.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
- +0.77%
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
Leeds
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 540 617 429
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 73.07% 71.00% 67.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 305 367 208
Average daily rate £310 £345 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-10.14% -1.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £243 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £453 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 14 23
Average hourly rate £34.00 £13.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+151.85% -22.85%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.40 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £38.00 £62.50 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Automated Testing
West Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds 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 Leeds region.

Leeds Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leeds Automated Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 Leeds region.

Leeds Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 17 (73.91%) Web Services
2 15 (65.22%) Scrum
2 15 (65.22%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
4 12 (52.17%) C#
4 12 (52.17%) .NET
5 10 (43.48%) Selenium
6 9 (39.13%) Web Development
6 9 (39.13%) .NET Framework
6 9 (39.13%) Oracle
6 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET
6 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET MVC
6 9 (39.13%) Dependency Injection
6 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET MVC 3
7 8 (34.78%) TDD
8 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
8 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
8 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
8 6 (26.09%) BDD
8 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
9 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
9 5 (21.74%) Security Testing
9 5 (21.74%) Git (software)
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon AWS
9 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
9 5 (21.74%) CSS3
9 5 (21.74%) HTML5
9 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds 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 17 (73.91%) Web Services
2 12 (52.17%) .NET
3 9 (39.13%) .NET Framework
3 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET
3 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET MVC
3 9 (39.13%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 5 (21.74%) CSS3
4 5 (21.74%) HTML5
4 5 (21.74%) CSS
4 5 (21.74%) Ajax
4 5 (21.74%) JSON
4 5 (21.74%) jQuery
5 3 (13.04%) Gherkin
5 3 (13.04%) NHibernate
5 3 (13.04%) MDX
5 3 (13.04%) HTML
5 3 (13.04%) ASP
5 3 (13.04%) XML
6 2 (8.696%) Cocoa
6 2 (8.696%) Cocoa Touch
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon S3
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon AWS
1 5 (21.74%) Route 53
Applications
1 3 (13.04%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (21.74%) Internet
2 1 (4.348%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (21.74%) MongoDB
1 5 (21.74%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (21.74%) Redis
1 5 (21.74%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
1 5 (21.74%) MySQL
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 10 (43.48%) Selenium
2 6 (26.09%) Jenkins
3 5 (21.74%) Git (software)
4 3 (13.04%) Cucumber
4 3 (13.04%) TeamCity
4 3 (13.04%) WebDriver
4 3 (13.04%) SpecFlow
4 3 (13.04%) Subversion
4 3 (13.04%) Visual Studio
4 3 (13.04%) MSI
5 2 (8.696%) Xcode
6 1 (4.348%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (4.348%) Hudson
6 1 (4.348%) JIRA
6 1 (4.348%) JMeter
6 1 (4.348%) CruiseControl
6 1 (4.348%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (4.348%) Ant
6 1 (4.348%) JUnit
General
1 2 (8.696%) Telecoms
1 2 (8.696%) Finance
2 1 (4.348%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 16 (69.57%) Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Front-End Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Front-End Web Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Mobile Developer
2 5 (21.74%) Web Developer
2 5 (21.74%) C# Developer
3 4 (17.39%) ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) Tester
3 4 (17.39%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) .NET Developer
3 4 (17.39%) C# .NET Developer
4 3 (13.04%) Agile Tester
5 2 (8.696%) iOS Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Test Leader
6 1 (4.348%) Agile Test Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Automated Tester
6 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Developer
6 1 (4.348%) Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.696%) NHS
1 2 (8.696%) Mobile App
1 2 (8.696%) iPad
1 2 (8.696%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.04%) Windows
2 2 (8.696%) Apple iOS
2 2 (8.696%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Scrum
1 15 (65.22%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (39.13%) Web Development
2 9 (39.13%) Dependency Injection
3 8 (34.78%) TDD
4 6 (26.09%) Software Engineering
4 6 (26.09%) BDD
4 6 (26.09%) Continuous Integration
5 5 (21.74%) Security Testing
5 5 (21.74%) OO
5 5 (21.74%) MVC
6 4 (17.39%) Kanban
7 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Agile Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
8 2 (8.696%) OOA/OOD
8 2 (8.696%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (8.696%) Performance Testing
8 2 (8.696%) Data Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) JavaScript
2 12 (52.17%) C#
3 3 (13.04%) SQL
3 3 (13.04%) VB
4 2 (8.696%) Objective-C
5 1 (4.348%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (17.39%) Degree
2 3 (13.04%) SC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) BC Cleared
2 3 (13.04%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.696%) QA
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (39.13%) Oracle
2 6 (26.09%) Microsoft
3 5 (21.74%) Percona
4 3 (13.04%) VMware
5 1 (4.348%) HP
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