The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation 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 Test Automation 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
Test Automation
Rank 46 63 46
Rank change year-on-year
+17 -17
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 28 4 8
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Leeds 3.789% 0.460% 1.258%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.185% 0.648% 1.865%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 0 5
Average daily rate £275 - £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 - £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £320 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £316 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.86% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
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%
Test Automation
West Yorkshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Leeds Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Leeds Test Automation Daily Rate Histogram

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Leeds Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation.

1 26 (72.22%) Oracle
1 26 (72.22%) Linux
1 26 (72.22%) Telecoms
2 25 (69.44%) Ruby
2 25 (69.44%) Apache
2 25 (69.44%) Python
2 25 (69.44%) Client/Server
2 25 (69.44%) MySQL
2 25 (69.44%) Web Services
2 25 (69.44%) C++
2 25 (69.44%) PHP
2 25 (69.44%) Kanban
2 25 (69.44%) nginx
2 25 (69.44%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (69.44%) Amazon S3
2 25 (69.44%) Amazon AWS
2 25 (69.44%) Bash shell
2 25 (69.44%) Node.js
2 25 (69.44%) MongoDB
2 25 (69.44%) Redis
2 25 (69.44%) Route 53
2 25 (69.44%) Amazon RDS
3 24 (66.67%) Java
3 24 (66.67%) DNS
4 23 (63.89%) Perl
5 19 (52.78%) Security Testing
6 18 (50.00%) Puppet
6 18 (50.00%) SSL
6 18 (50.00%) Internet
6 18 (50.00%) Configuration Management

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Leeds region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 25 (69.44%) Web Services
1 25 (69.44%) Node.js
2 7 (19.44%) CSS
2 7 (19.44%) SOAP
2 7 (19.44%) J2EE
2 7 (19.44%) Spring
2 7 (19.44%) REST
2 7 (19.44%) CSS3
2 7 (19.44%) jQuery
2 7 (19.44%) Hibernate
2 7 (19.44%) HTML5
3 2 (5.556%) LAMP
3 2 (5.556%) POSIX
3 2 (5.556%) ASP
4 1 (2.778%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 25 (69.44%) Apache
1 25 (69.44%) nginx
1 25 (69.44%) Amazon EC2
1 25 (69.44%) Amazon S3
1 25 (69.44%) Amazon AWS
1 25 (69.44%) Route 53
2 7 (19.44%) Tomcat
2 7 (19.44%) Adobe CQ
2 7 (19.44%) Apache Solr
3 6 (16.67%) SharePoint
4 4 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
Business Applications
1 13 (36.11%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (66.67%) DNS
2 18 (50.00%) SSL
2 18 (50.00%) Internet
3 17 (47.22%) DHCP
3 17 (47.22%) TCP/IP
4 12 (33.33%) Intrusion Detection
5 11 (30.56%) HTTP
6 1 (2.778%) VPN
6 1 (2.778%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (69.44%) MySQL
1 25 (69.44%) MongoDB
1 25 (69.44%) Redis
1 25 (69.44%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (5.556%) RDBMS
2 2 (5.556%) SimpleDB
2 2 (5.556%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.556%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 7 (19.44%) Maven
1 7 (19.44%) Jenkins
1 7 (19.44%) Git (software)
2 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 6 (16.67%) Selenium
2 6 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle APEX
3 1 (2.778%) Rational Performance Tester
3 1 (2.778%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (2.778%) Visual Studio
3 1 (2.778%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (72.22%) Telecoms
2 2 (5.556%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (25.00%) Operations Engineer
2 8 (22.22%) Developer
3 7 (19.44%) Java Developer
4 6 (16.67%) Analyst
4 6 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 3 (8.333%) Tester
6 2 (5.556%) Software Engineer
6 2 (5.556%) Administrator
6 2 (5.556%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (5.556%) Linux Administrator
6 2 (5.556%) QA Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Functional Tester
7 1 (2.778%) UAT Test Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Agile Test Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Performance Tester
7 1 (2.778%) Python Developer
7 1 (2.778%) Linux Engineer
7 1 (2.778%) UAT Analyst
7 1 (2.778%) Software Developer
7 1 (2.778%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 25 (69.44%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.778%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 26 (72.22%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (69.44%) Kanban
2 19 (52.78%) Security Testing
3 18 (50.00%) Configuration Management
4 17 (47.22%) Load Balancing
5 16 (44.44%) Capacity Management
5 16 (44.44%) Incident Management
6 10 (27.78%) Scrum
6 10 (27.78%) TDD
7 8 (22.22%) Performance Testing
7 8 (22.22%) BDD
7 8 (22.22%) SOA
8 7 (19.44%) Software Engineering
9 2 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
9 2 (5.556%) Network Design
9 2 (5.556%) User Stories
10 1 (2.778%) Agile Testing
10 1 (2.778%) Root Cause Analysis
10 1 (2.778%) User Acceptance Testing
10 1 (2.778%) Load Testing
10 1 (2.778%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (69.44%) Ruby
1 25 (69.44%) Python
1 25 (69.44%) C++
1 25 (69.44%) PHP
1 25 (69.44%) Bash shell
2 24 (66.67%) Java
3 23 (63.89%) Perl
4 7 (19.44%) JavaScript
5 6 (16.67%) C#
6 2 (5.556%) SQL
7 1 (2.778%) BeanShell
7 1 (2.778%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (5.556%) ISEB
1 2 (5.556%) Degree
2 1 (2.778%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) QA
Systems Management
1 18 (50.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (72.22%) Oracle
2 17 (47.22%) Percona
3 7 (19.44%) Adobe
3 7 (19.44%) hybris
4 1 (2.778%) IBM