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 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 113 134 129
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 6 2 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 0.259% 0.063% 0.100%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.278% 0.069% 0.107%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
Average daily rate £300 - £275
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £295 £280
% change year-on-year
+10.16% +5.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Average hourly rate - £37.00 £38.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -2.63%
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		 2161 2909 2791
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the North West 93.27% 91.62% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 1017 1450 1397
Average daily rate £333 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.46% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £475 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 171 188
Average hourly rate £18.00 £19.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.69% +11.42%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £12.00 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £33.00 £40.00
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 North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West 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 North West region.

North West Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

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 North West region.

North West 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 North West region over the 3 months to 20 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
Manchester +11 3 £300 -
Lancashire - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 £350 -
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 8 (44.44%) Windows
1 8 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Mobile
2 7 (38.89%) Scrum
2 7 (38.89%) Android
2 7 (38.89%) Blackberry
2 7 (38.89%) Apple iOS
3 6 (33.33%) ISEB
3 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
3 6 (33.33%) ISTQB
4 5 (27.78%) XML
5 4 (22.22%) Linux
5 4 (22.22%) SQL
5 4 (22.22%) HTML
5 4 (22.22%) Java
5 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
5 4 (22.22%) Mac OS X
5 4 (22.22%) Symbian
5 4 (22.22%) Software Testing
5 4 (22.22%) iPhone
5 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) iOS SDK
5 4 (22.22%) iPhone SDK
5 4 (22.22%) bada
5 4 (22.22%) Maemo
6 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
6 3 (16.67%) System Testing
6 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
6 3 (16.67%) JSON
6 3 (16.67%) JIRA

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the North West 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 5 (27.78%) XML
2 4 (22.22%) iPhone SDK
2 4 (22.22%) HTML
2 4 (22.22%) iOS SDK
3 3 (16.67%) JSON
4 2 (11.11%) CSS
4 2 (11.11%) XSLT
4 2 (11.11%) Series 60
5 1 (5.556%) soapUI
5 1 (5.556%) SOAP
5 1 (5.556%) Web Services
5 1 (5.556%) .NET
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Eclipse
1 3 (16.67%) Xcode
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (11.11%) Rational DOORS
2 2 (11.11%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.556%) Robotium
3 1 (5.556%) Jenkins
3 1 (5.556%) Firebug
3 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 2 (11.11%) Military
2 1 (5.556%) Avionics
2 1 (5.556%) Electronics
2 1 (5.556%) Automotive
2 1 (5.556%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Blackberry
2 4 (22.22%) iPhone
3 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
4 1 (5.556%) Semantic Web
4 1 (5.556%) DTV
4 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.556%) Handset
4 1 (5.556%) STB
4 1 (5.556%) Interactive TV
Operating Systems
1 8 (44.44%) Windows
2 7 (38.89%) Windows Mobile
2 7 (38.89%) Android
2 7 (38.89%) Apple iOS
3 4 (22.22%) bada
3 4 (22.22%) Maemo
3 4 (22.22%) Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Mac OS X
4 1 (5.556%) Windows 7
4 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (44.44%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (38.89%) Scrum
3 6 (33.33%) Integration Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Software Testing
4 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 3 (16.67%) System Testing
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Automated Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Requirements Management
6 2 (11.11%) Test Automation
6 2 (11.11%) User Stories
6 2 (11.11%) Automation Testing
7 1 (5.556%) BDD
7 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Web Testing
7 1 (5.556%) E-Commerce
7 1 (5.556%) Six Sigma
Programming Languages
1 4 (22.22%) Java
1 4 (22.22%) JavaScript
1 4 (22.22%) SQL
2 2 (11.11%) PHP
2 2 (11.11%) Objective-C
3 1 (5.556%) PowerShell
3 1 (5.556%) sed
3 1 (5.556%) C#
3 1 (5.556%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) ISEB
1 6 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
2 1 (5.556%) HND
Vendors
1 4 (22.22%) Symbian
2 2 (11.11%) Oracle
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