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Test Automation Contracts in Manchester
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester 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
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 61 81 -
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 9 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.926% 0.247% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.353% 0.387% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 0
Average daily rate £323 £438 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-26.28% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £350
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.38 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-28.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 665 776 643
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.42% 63.76% 62.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 346 382 304
Average daily rate £338 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £363 £375
% change year-on-year
+2.06% -3.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 35
Average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £18.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +11.11%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.15
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.50 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+22.00% -13.79%
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

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 Manchester region.

Manchester Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 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
Salford - 4 £323 -
Bolton - - - -
Test Automation
North West

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (71.43%) XML
1 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (71.43%) TDD
1 10 (71.43%) JSON
2 9 (64.29%) Web Services
2 9 (64.29%) BDD
3 8 (57.14%) RESTful
3 8 (57.14%) REST
3 8 (57.14%) JAX-RS
3 8 (57.14%) Spring
3 8 (57.14%) Pair Programming
3 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (57.14%) XPath
3 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (57.14%) XSLT
3 8 (57.14%) Java
3 8 (57.14%) J2EE
3 8 (57.14%) OO
3 8 (57.14%) RDF
3 8 (57.14%) XQuery
3 8 (57.14%) Benchmarking
4 5 (35.71%) Statistics
5 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
6 3 (21.43%) Semantic Web
6 3 (21.43%) Publishing
6 3 (21.43%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Windows Mobile
7 2 (14.29%) Interactive TV
7 2 (14.29%) Automated Testing

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 10 (71.43%) XML
1 10 (71.43%) JSON
2 9 (64.29%) Web Services
3 8 (57.14%) RESTful
3 8 (57.14%) REST
3 8 (57.14%) JAX-RS
3 8 (57.14%) Spring
3 8 (57.14%) XSLT
3 8 (57.14%) J2EE
4 2 (14.29%) Series 60
4 2 (14.29%) iPhone SDK
4 2 (14.29%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) HTTP
1 1 (7.143%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
1 2 (14.29%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 3 (21.43%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) Firebug
3 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
3 2 (14.29%) Xcode
3 2 (14.29%) WinRunner
3 2 (14.29%) TestDirector
3 2 (14.29%) Hudson
3 2 (14.29%) Robotium
4 1 (7.143%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Publishing
2 1 (7.143%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Developer
1 5 (35.71%) Java Developer
2 4 (28.57%) Software Engineer
2 4 (28.57%) Test Engineer
3 3 (21.43%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Senior Java Software Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Testing Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Software Testing Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Test Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Test Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Architect
5 1 (7.143%) Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.143%) Test Analyst
5 1 (7.143%) Senior Developer
5 1 (7.143%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (35.71%) Statistics
2 3 (21.43%) Semantic Web
3 2 (14.29%) Interactive TV
3 2 (14.29%) iPhone
3 2 (14.29%) Blackberry
3 2 (14.29%) Streaming Video
4 1 (7.143%) E-Learning
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (14.29%) Android
1 2 (14.29%) Mac OS X
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
1 2 (14.29%) bada
1 2 (14.29%) Maemo
1 2 (14.29%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (71.43%) Agile Software Development
1 10 (71.43%) TDD
2 9 (64.29%) BDD
3 8 (57.14%) Pair Programming
3 8 (57.14%) Enterprise Architecture
3 8 (57.14%) Continuous Integration
3 8 (57.14%) OO
3 8 (57.14%) RDF
3 8 (57.14%) Benchmarking
4 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Automated Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Content Management
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Load Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Stress Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 2 (14.29%) Functional Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Integration Testing
6 1 (7.143%) Test Management
6 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (57.14%) XPath
1 8 (57.14%) Java
1 8 (57.14%) XQuery
2 2 (14.29%) Ruby
2 2 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 2 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Symbian
2 1 (7.143%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) SAP
2 1 (7.143%) HP
Senior Test Engineer / Analyst
Manchester, North West
Symbian (S40, S60, 3), iOS, Android, Blackberry, Windows Mobile, OSE, SHP, Bada, Maemo.*Good knowledge of device and app architecture e.g. Android SDK, iPhone SDK, Symbian SDK,...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £300 - £350 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
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