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Software Test Engineer Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software 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 North West 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
Software Test Engineer
Rank 121 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 1 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.041% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.044% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £270 £260
% change year-on-year
+3.70% +3.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 2256 2790 2804
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.61% 91.63% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1063 1420 1441
Average daily rate £338 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.84% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £225 £175
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £463
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 173 172 208
Average hourly rate £17.50 £19.00 £18.40
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.89% +3.26%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.80 £9.98
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £36.50 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Software Test Engineer
England

Software Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Software Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the North West region.

North West Software Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Software Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the North West region.

North West Software Test Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Software 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 Software Test Engineer within the North West 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
Manchester - - - -
Software Test Engineer
England

Software Test Engineer
Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Software 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 Software Test Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI

Software Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West region that cited Software 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 Software Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) SOAP
1 1 (100.00%) soapUI
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) Team Foundation Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Software Test Engineer / Automated Test Analyst
North West England
Initially you will be expected to be developing the automated test framework within Visual Studio 2012 / coded UI. As the project progresses you will then be executing and...
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Posted: 29 May 2013
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