Test Automation Contracts in the North West
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram 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 North West region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 23 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 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 96 125 123
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 22 4 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.939% 0.128% 0.129%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.322% 0.208% 0.199%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 2 3
Average daily rate £323 £351 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.18% +27.72%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £316 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.84% -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
North West
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1664 1925 2014
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 70.99% 61.66% 64.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 821 991 1044
Average daily rate £350 £350 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +7.69%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £226 £238 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 84 96
Average hourly rate £21.00 £18.25 £20.30
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+15.06% -10.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.25 £13.35 £12.90
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £52.47 £37.50 £38.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

North West 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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 23 May 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
Cheshire +14 11 £435 -
Manchester +17 7 £323 -8.18%
Lancashire - 1 £350 -
Merseyside - 1 £350 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 14 (51.85%) SAP
1 14 (51.85%) QuickTest Pro
2 13 (48.15%) SAP HR
2 13 (48.15%) HP
2 13 (48.15%) SAP Implementation
2 13 (48.15%) Test Scripting
2 13 (48.15%) Performance Management
2 13 (48.15%) HP Quality Center
3 10 (37.04%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (37.04%) TDD
3 10 (37.04%) Java
3 10 (37.04%) Web Services
4 9 (33.33%) XML
4 9 (33.33%) JSON
4 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 8 (29.63%) REST
5 8 (29.63%) BDD
5 8 (29.63%) JAX-RS
5 8 (29.63%) RESTful
5 8 (29.63%) XPath
5 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Architecture
5 8 (29.63%) Pair Programming
5 8 (29.63%) Spring
5 8 (29.63%) XSLT
5 8 (29.63%) J2EE
5 8 (29.63%) RDF
5 8 (29.63%) XQuery
5 8 (29.63%) OO
5 8 (29.63%) Benchmarking
6 5 (18.52%) Statistics

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 (37.04%) Web Services
2 9 (33.33%) XML
2 9 (33.33%) JSON
3 8 (29.63%) REST
3 8 (29.63%) JAX-RS
3 8 (29.63%) RESTful
3 8 (29.63%) Spring
3 8 (29.63%) XSLT
3 8 (29.63%) J2EE
4 2 (7.407%) soapUI
4 2 (7.407%) SOAP
5 1 (3.704%) .NET
5 1 (3.704%) Series 60
5 1 (3.704%) iOS SDK
5 1 (3.704%) GWT
5 1 (3.704%) iPhone SDK
5 1 (3.704%) HTML5
Business Applications
1 13 (48.15%) SAP HR
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.407%) NoSQL
1 2 (7.407%) MarkLogic
2 1 (3.704%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (51.85%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 3 (11.11%) Selenium
3 2 (7.407%) WebDriver
3 2 (7.407%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 2 (7.407%) Jenkins
3 2 (7.407%) Eclipse
4 1 (3.704%) Xcode
4 1 (3.704%) JIRA
4 1 (3.704%) Firebug
4 1 (3.704%) PhoneGap
4 1 (3.704%) Robotium
General
1 3 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (3.704%) Finance
2 1 (3.704%) Banking
2 1 (3.704%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (48.15%) Test Analyst
1 13 (48.15%) Analyst
2 12 (44.44%) Automation Analyst
3 7 (25.93%) SAP Test Analyst
3 7 (25.93%) SAP Analyst
4 6 (22.22%) Test Automation Analyst
4 6 (22.22%) Automation Test Analyst
4 6 (22.22%) Developer
5 5 (18.52%) Java Developer
6 4 (14.81%) Software Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Test Engineer
7 3 (11.11%) Senior Software Engineer
8 2 (7.407%) Automation Engineer
8 2 (7.407%) Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (7.407%) Senior Java Software Engineer
8 2 (7.407%) Java Software Engineer
9 1 (3.704%) Test Manager
9 1 (3.704%) Senior Developer
9 1 (3.704%) QA Manager
9 1 (3.704%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (18.52%) Statistics
2 3 (11.11%) Interactive TV
2 3 (11.11%) Semantic Web
3 2 (7.407%) iPhone
3 2 (7.407%) Streaming Video
4 1 (3.704%) Handset
4 1 (3.704%) Blackberry
4 1 (3.704%) E-Learning
4 1 (3.704%) Mobile Banking
4 1 (3.704%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.407%) Android
1 2 (7.407%) Apple iOS
1 2 (7.407%) Windows
1 2 (7.407%) Linux
2 1 (3.704%) Mac OS X
2 1 (3.704%) Windows Mobile
2 1 (3.704%) bada
2 1 (3.704%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (48.15%) SAP Implementation
1 13 (48.15%) Test Scripting
1 13 (48.15%) Performance Management
2 10 (37.04%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (37.04%) TDD
3 9 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 8 (29.63%) BDD
4 8 (29.63%) Enterprise Architecture
4 8 (29.63%) Pair Programming
4 8 (29.63%) RDF
4 8 (29.63%) OO
4 8 (29.63%) Benchmarking
5 3 (11.11%) Scrum
6 2 (7.407%) Software Testing
6 2 (7.407%) Content Management
7 1 (3.704%) Project Management
7 1 (3.704%) User Acceptance Testing
7 1 (3.704%) Integration Testing
7 1 (3.704%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (37.04%) Java
2 8 (29.63%) XPath
2 8 (29.63%) XQuery
3 2 (7.407%) SPARQL
3 2 (7.407%) PowerShell
3 2 (7.407%) Ruby
4 1 (3.704%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (11.11%) ISEB
1 3 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.407%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (48.15%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (51.85%) SAP
2 13 (48.15%) HP
3 1 (3.704%) Oracle
3 1 (3.704%) Symbian
Software Tester - Manchester - 3 month contract
Manchester, North West
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Rate: £150 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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