The first table below looks at the demand for the Automated Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Nottinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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 Nottinghamshire 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Test Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring an Automated Test Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 - -
All Job Titles
Nottinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
311 263 280
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Nottinghamshire 94.82% 93.26% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 136 102
Average daily rate £338 £310 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.87% -4.61%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £225 £160
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £475 £433
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 14 23
Average hourly rate £14.00 £17.50 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-20.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £8.50 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £30.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Automated Test Engineer
East Midlands

Automated Test Engineer
Top 7 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region that cited Automated 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 Automated Test Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems

Automated Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Nottinghamshire region that cited Automated 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 Automated Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

General
1 1 (100.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) C++
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) Tcl