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Test Engineer Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Hourly Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 36 Test Engineer job vacancies in London

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the London 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the London 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
Test Engineer
Rank 323 299 398
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +99
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 69 115 57
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.299% 0.432% 0.181%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.325% 0.467% 0.196%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 68 35
Average daily rate £338 £300 £370
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -18.91%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £221 £207 £231
10% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £450 £395
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £275
% change year-on-year
- +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 4
Average hourly rate £25.75 £13.50 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+90.74% -27.02%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £16.35 £11.50 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.15 £17.90 £25.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £35.50 £33.75 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+5.18% -3.57%
All Job Titles
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 21207 24646 29107
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 91.96% 92.55% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 14319 15934 18765
Average daily rate £450 £435 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -8.42%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £300
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 457 611 670
Average hourly rate £20.00 £19.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.56% -2.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.97 £12.50 £12.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.10 £47.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London 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 London region.

London Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Test Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

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 London region.

London Test Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Test Engineer Hourly Rate Histogram

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 London 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
City of London -12 9 £363 +17.88% 7
Docklands, London - - - -
Hammersmith - - - -
Bromley - - - -
Croydon - - - -
Kingston Upon Thames - - - -
Uxbridge - - - -
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 46 (35.94%) Selenium
2 43 (33.59%) QA
3 37 (28.91%) WebDriver
4 36 (28.13%) Agile Software Development
4 36 (28.13%) Java
5 32 (25.00%) Cucumber
6 31 (24.22%) SQL
7 30 (23.44%) Scrum
8 29 (22.66%) TDD
9 28 (21.88%) BDD
10 24 (18.75%) Test Automation
11 22 (17.19%) Test Scripting
11 22 (17.19%) Linux
12 19 (14.84%) Ruby
13 18 (14.06%) Software Testing
13 18 (14.06%) Python
14 17 (13.28%) Automation Testing
15 16 (12.50%) Microsoft
15 16 (12.50%) .NET
15 16 (12.50%) SQL Server
16 15 (11.72%) Finance
16 15 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
17 14 (10.94%) UNIX
18 13 (10.16%) C#
19 12 (9.375%) OO
19 12 (9.375%) Performance Testing
20 11 (8.594%) Web Services
20 11 (8.594%) ISEB
21 10 (7.813%) E-Commerce
21 10 (7.813%) HP Quality Center

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London 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 16 (12.50%) .NET
2 11 (8.594%) Web Services
3 7 (5.469%) XML
3 7 (5.469%) SOAP
4 5 (3.906%) HTML
4 5 (3.906%) .NET Framework
4 5 (3.906%) RESTful
5 3 (2.344%) COM
6 2 (1.563%) Middleware
6 2 (1.563%) WPF
6 2 (1.563%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 2 (1.563%) REST
7 1 (0.781%) Gherkin
7 1 (0.781%) Node.js
7 1 (0.781%) HTML5
7 1 (0.781%) soapUI
7 1 (0.781%) Django
7 1 (0.781%) Qt
7 1 (0.781%) Spring
7 1 (0.781%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.563%) Confluence
2 1 (0.781%) Exchange Server 2010
2 1 (0.781%) Apache
2 1 (0.781%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.781%) MS Exchange
2 1 (0.781%) TeamSite
2 1 (0.781%) ESB
2 1 (0.781%) Magento
Applications
1 2 (1.563%) MS Office
2 1 (0.781%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.781%) Doxygen
2 1 (0.781%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (0.781%) Endur
1 1 (0.781%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 8 (6.250%) Internet
2 5 (3.906%) Fibre Channel
2 5 (3.906%) Ethernet
2 5 (3.906%) HTTP
2 5 (3.906%) ATM
2 5 (3.906%) SDH
2 5 (3.906%) DWDM
3 3 (2.344%) MPLS
3 3 (2.344%) OSPF
3 3 (2.344%) BGP
3 3 (2.344%) TCP/IP
3 3 (2.344%) VPN
4 2 (1.563%) DNS
4 2 (1.563%) HTTPS
4 2 (1.563%) 4G
4 2 (1.563%) GSM
4 2 (1.563%) DVB
4 2 (1.563%) UMTS
5 1 (0.781%) VoIP
5 1 (0.781%) DHCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (12.50%) SQL Server
2 6 (4.688%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 5 (3.906%) DB2
4 4 (3.125%) MySQL
5 2 (1.563%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.781%) TOAD
6 1 (0.781%) SQL Navigator
6 1 (0.781%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.781%) Oracle 10g
6 1 (0.781%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.781%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.781%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.781%) Oracle 11g
6 1 (0.781%) Apache Cassandra
6 1 (0.781%) Big Data
6 1 (0.781%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 46 (35.94%) Selenium
2 37 (28.91%) WebDriver
3 32 (25.00%) Cucumber
4 9 (7.031%) Jenkins
5 8 (6.250%) FitNesse
5 8 (6.250%) JUnit
6 7 (5.469%) LoadRunner
6 7 (5.469%) JIRA
6 7 (5.469%) Hudson
6 7 (5.469%) SpecFlow
7 6 (4.688%) TeamCity
7 6 (4.688%) WATIR
7 6 (4.688%) QuickTest Pro
8 5 (3.906%) TestNG
9 4 (3.125%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (3.125%) Visual Studio
10 3 (2.344%) Maven
10 3 (2.344%) CruiseControl
10 3 (2.344%) RSpec
11 2 (1.563%) Git (software)
General
1 15 (11.72%) Finance
2 9 (7.031%) Telecoms
2 9 (7.031%) Banking
3 7 (5.469%) Investment Banking
4 4 (3.125%) Front Office
5 3 (2.344%) Back Office
5 3 (2.344%) Marketing
6 2 (1.563%) Electronics
6 2 (1.563%) Games
7 1 (0.781%) Aerospace
7 1 (0.781%) Automotive
7 1 (0.781%) Manufacturing
7 1 (0.781%) Avionics
7 1 (0.781%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.250%) Derivative
2 7 (5.469%) STB
3 4 (3.125%) DTV
4 3 (2.344%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 3 (2.344%) Computer Science
4 3 (2.344%) Equities
5 2 (1.563%) Social Network
5 2 (1.563%) iPhone
5 2 (1.563%) Open Source
5 2 (1.563%) Handset
5 2 (1.563%) Digital Media
5 2 (1.563%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.563%) Credit Derivative
6 1 (0.781%) Interactive TV
6 1 (0.781%) Streaming Media
6 1 (0.781%) Firmware
6 1 (0.781%) Blackberry
6 1 (0.781%) Mainframe
6 1 (0.781%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (0.781%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 22 (17.19%) Linux
2 14 (10.94%) UNIX
3 5 (3.906%) Windows
4 2 (1.563%) Android
4 2 (1.563%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.781%) Windows Phone
5 1 (0.781%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.781%) Windows 7
5 1 (0.781%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (28.13%) Agile Software Development
2 30 (23.44%) Scrum
3 29 (22.66%) TDD
4 28 (21.88%) BDD
5 24 (18.75%) Test Automation
6 22 (17.19%) Test Scripting
7 18 (14.06%) Software Testing
8 17 (13.28%) Automation Testing
9 15 (11.72%) Continuous Integration
10 12 (9.375%) Performance Testing
10 12 (9.375%) OO
11 10 (7.813%) E-Commerce
12 9 (7.031%) Automated Testing
13 8 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
13 8 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
13 8 (6.250%) System Testing
14 7 (5.469%) Manual Testing
14 7 (5.469%) Unit Testing
14 7 (5.469%) ETL
15 6 (4.688%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 36 (28.13%) Java
2 31 (24.22%) SQL
3 19 (14.84%) Ruby
4 18 (14.06%) Python
5 13 (10.16%) C#
6 8 (6.250%) JavaScript
7 7 (5.469%) Perl
7 7 (5.469%) C++
8 6 (4.688%) C
9 4 (3.125%) PHP
10 3 (2.344%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.781%) PL/SQL
11 1 (0.781%) Tcl
11 1 (0.781%) XPath
11 1 (0.781%) Groovy
11 1 (0.781%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 11 (8.594%) ISEB
2 8 (6.250%) Degree
3 7 (5.469%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.563%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (0.781%) Sun Certification
5 1 (0.781%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.781%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (33.59%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.781%) NDS
1 1 (0.781%) Cygwin
Systems Management
1 10 (7.813%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.781%) Splunk
Vendors
1 16 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 8 (6.250%) Oracle
3 6 (4.688%) HP
3 6 (4.688%) MicroStrategy
4 5 (3.906%) Huawei
5 4 (3.125%) IBM
6 3 (2.344%) Cisco
6 3 (2.344%) Compuware
7 2 (1.563%) Perforce
7 2 (1.563%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.563%) Sun
8 1 (0.781%) Informatica
8 1 (0.781%) SAP
8 1 (0.781%) TIBCO
8 1 (0.781%) BT
8 1 (0.781%) Serena
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