The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Test Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £338 £275 £350
% change year-on-year
+22.72% -21.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £19.50 £36.25 -
% change year-on-year
-46.20% -
All Job Titles
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
208 305 172
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 97.20% 98.39% 97.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 169 92
Average daily rate £350 £375 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-6.66% +25.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £180
10% offered a daily rate of more than £490 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 42 24
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.00 £18.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -24.32%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Senior Test Engineer
Oxfordshire

Senior Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Senior Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Senior 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 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 Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford region that cited Senior 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 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