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

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role 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 Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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 Engineer
Rank 62 - 66
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 8 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.823% - 0.195%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.881% - 0.208%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 £300 £265
% change year-on-year
- +13.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £33.00 £32.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+1.53% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 908 1109 963
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 93.42% 91.13% 93.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 440 535 450
Average daily rate £333 £300 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+10.83% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £213 £125
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £440 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 75 88
Average hourly rate £16.00 £19.50 £16.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-17.94% +21.87%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.50 £11.20 £9.71
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
North West

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Manchester 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 Manchester region.

Manchester 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 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
Cheadle - 2 £300 -
Test Engineer
North West

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (53.85%) XML
2 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
2 6 (46.15%) Automated Testing
3 5 (38.46%) Windows Mobile
3 5 (38.46%) Android
3 5 (38.46%) Blackberry
3 5 (38.46%) Apple iOS
4 4 (30.77%) HTML
4 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
4 4 (30.77%) SQL
4 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Selenium
4 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
4 4 (30.77%) JSON
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Xcode
5 3 (23.08%) JIRA
5 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
5 3 (23.08%) TDD
5 3 (23.08%) ISEB
5 3 (23.08%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
5 3 (23.08%) BDD
6 2 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
6 2 (15.38%) Hudson
6 2 (15.38%) iOS SDK
6 2 (15.38%) Robotium
6 2 (15.38%) User Stories
6 2 (15.38%) Mobile App

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 7 (53.85%) XML
2 4 (30.77%) HTML
2 4 (30.77%) JSON
3 2 (15.38%) iOS SDK
3 2 (15.38%) XSLT
3 2 (15.38%) CSS
3 2 (15.38%) Series 60
3 2 (15.38%) iPhone SDK
4 1 (7.692%) SOAP
4 1 (7.692%) .NET
4 1 (7.692%) soapUI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) HTTP
1 2 (15.38%) Internet
2 1 (7.692%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Selenium
1 4 (30.77%) Xcode
2 3 (23.08%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (23.08%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (15.38%) Hudson
3 2 (15.38%) Robotium
3 2 (15.38%) Eclipse
3 2 (15.38%) Firebug
4 1 (7.692%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.692%) WinRunner
4 1 (7.692%) TestDirector
4 1 (7.692%) XMLSpy
4 1 (7.692%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (7.692%) Finance
1 1 (7.692%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) Blackberry
2 2 (15.38%) Mobile App
2 2 (15.38%) iPhone
3 1 (7.692%) Semantic Web
3 1 (7.692%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 5 (38.46%) Windows Mobile
2 5 (38.46%) Android
2 5 (38.46%) Apple iOS
3 2 (15.38%) Mac OS X
3 2 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (15.38%) bada
3 2 (15.38%) Maemo
4 1 (7.692%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (46.15%) Automated Testing
2 4 (30.77%) Test Automation
2 4 (30.77%) Test Scripting
2 4 (30.77%) Scrum
3 3 (23.08%) TDD
3 3 (23.08%) BDD
4 2 (15.38%) User Stories
4 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Requirements Management
4 2 (15.38%) System Testing
4 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Load Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Stress Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Web Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) JavaScript
1 4 (30.77%) SQL
2 2 (15.38%) PHP
2 2 (15.38%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Objective-C
3 1 (7.692%) Groovy
3 1 (7.692%) C#
3 1 (7.692%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
1 3 (23.08%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Oracle
1 2 (15.38%) Symbian
2 1 (7.692%) SAP
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
Test Engineer (Embedded) - North West - £25p/h
Manchester, North West
The clients is a leader in the Smart Metering Industry and with one of their key projects coming into the testing phase they require 2 Test Engineers to...
Real Staffing
Rate: £20 - £25 per annum
Posted: 6 June 2013
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