The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Reading 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 Testing
Rank 60 78 81
Rank change year-on-year
+18 +3
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 10 6 4
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 1.198% 0.538% 0.384%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.812% 0.855% 0.578%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 4
Average daily rate £338 £350 £275
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.57% +27.27%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £231 £350 £258
10% offered a daily rate of more than £438 £350 £293
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £325 £323
% change year-on-year
- +0.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +35.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
552 702 692
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 62.96% 66.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 242 270 310
Average daily rate £390 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+5.40% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £550 £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 24 18
Average hourly rate £16.00 £14.50 £27.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+10.34% -47.27%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £30.00 £23.80 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Automated Testing
Berkshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automated Testing across the Reading region.

Reading Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Automated Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Reading region.

Reading Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing.

1 9 (60.00%) Selenium
1 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (40.00%) C#
4 5 (33.33%) Java
4 5 (33.33%) SQL
4 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
4 5 (33.33%) Windows
4 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 5 (33.33%) QA
4 5 (33.33%) Automation Testing
5 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
5 4 (26.67%) BDD
5 4 (26.67%) REST
5 4 (26.67%) Degree
5 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 4 (26.67%) WCF
5 4 (26.67%) Games
5 4 (26.67%) Web Services
5 4 (26.67%) C++
5 4 (26.67%) IIS
6 3 (20.00%) .NET
6 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
6 3 (20.00%) Ant
6 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
6 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
6 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (20.00%) Spring
6 3 (20.00%) Maven

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) REST
1 4 (26.67%) WCF
1 4 (26.67%) Web Services
2 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 3 (20.00%) Hibernate
2 3 (20.00%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (26.67%) IIS
2 1 (6.667%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 2 (13.33%) MS Excel
1 2 (13.33%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (13.33%) Data Mining
3 1 (6.667%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (60.00%) Selenium
2 5 (33.33%) Visual Studio
3 3 (20.00%) Ant
3 3 (20.00%) FitNesse
3 3 (20.00%) Maven
3 3 (20.00%) WATIR
3 3 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (13.33%) JIRA
4 2 (13.33%) TestComplete
4 2 (13.33%) WinRunner
4 2 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (6.667%) WebDriver
5 1 (6.667%) TeamCity
5 1 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (6.667%) NUnit
5 1 (6.667%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (26.67%) Games
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.667%) Billing
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Tester
1 5 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Developer
2 3 (20.00%) Development Engineer
2 3 (20.00%) Senior Tester
2 3 (20.00%) Software Development Engineer
3 2 (13.33%) Coordinator
3 2 (13.33%) Test Coordinator
4 1 (6.667%) Software Tester
4 1 (6.667%) Software Developer
4 1 (6.667%) Test Manager
4 1 (6.667%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 3 (20.00%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (13.33%) Kinect
3 2 (13.33%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (6.667%) Linux
2 1 (6.667%) SUSE
2 1 (6.667%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (46.67%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (33.33%) Automation Testing
4 4 (26.67%) BDD
4 4 (26.67%) TDD
5 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (13.33%) Test Strategy
6 2 (13.33%) Game Development
6 2 (13.33%) Software Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Software Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Process Architecture
6 2 (13.33%) Load Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Test Scripting
6 2 (13.33%) Code Coverage
6 2 (13.33%) E-Commerce
7 1 (6.667%) Scrum
7 1 (6.667%) Use Case
7 1 (6.667%) ATDD
7 1 (6.667%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) Java
2 5 (33.33%) SQL
3 4 (26.67%) C++
4 2 (13.33%) C
5 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) Degree
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (6.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 5 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) VMware