The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Software Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Senior Software Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Oxford 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Software Test Engineer
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Software Test Engineer 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.739% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.794% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - £40.00 -
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
223 330 151
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 96.96% 96.49% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 187 80
Average daily rate £340 £350 £313
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% +12.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £225 £183
10% offered a daily rate of more than £458 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 42 20
Average hourly rate £14.81 £12.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+18.50% -37.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.00 £10.00 £12.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.00 £30.00 £29.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Senior Software Test Engineer
Oxfordshire

Senior Software Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Senior Software Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Software Test Engineer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Test Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com

Senior Software Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Senior 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 Senior Software Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Data Warehouse
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Workflow
2 2 (50.00%) CRM
2 2 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) SAP
1 2 (50.00%) Salesforce.com