Test Automation Contracts in Oxford
 
Demand Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 32 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 4 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 1.810% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.597% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £319 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.71% -8.85%
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
Oxford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 154 197 69
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Oxford 69.68% 56.94% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 106 125 38
Average daily rate £350 £425 £230
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-17.64% +84.78%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £284 £178
10% offered a daily rate of more than £498 £500 £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 2
Average hourly rate £10.33 £20.06 £11.39
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-48.52% +76.15%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Automation
Oxfordshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

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 Oxford region.

Oxford Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 4 (66.67%) Workflow
1 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 4 (66.67%) QA
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Ajax
2 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow Management
2 2 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) SQL
2 2 (33.33%) .NET
2 2 (33.33%) SAP
2 2 (33.33%) CSS
2 2 (33.33%) XML
2 2 (33.33%) XSL
2 2 (33.33%) Python
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) IBM
2 2 (33.33%) Salesforce.com

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Oxford 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 2 (33.33%) HTML
1 2 (33.33%) .NET
1 2 (33.33%) CSS
1 2 (33.33%) XML
1 2 (33.33%) XSL
1 2 (33.33%) Ajax
1 2 (33.33%) WebSphere
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) Data Warehouse
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Test Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Test Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) QA Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior QA Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Software Engineer
1 4 (66.67%) Senior Software Test Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Agile .NET Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Agile C# Developer
2 2 (33.33%) C# .NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Workflow
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
1 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (33.33%) Unit Testing
2 2 (33.33%) CRM
2 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (33.33%) Scrum
2 2 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 2 (33.33%) Workflow Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) C#
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) SQL
1 2 (33.33%) Python
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (66.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) SAP
1 2 (33.33%) IBM
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce.com
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