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Test Automation Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation 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 Test Automation 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 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
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 54 78 76
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -2
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 19 3 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 2.159% 0.261% 0.198%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.226% 0.398% 0.294%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 0
Average daily rate £450 £375 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £355
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -15.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.38 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-28.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 589 754 680
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 66.93% 65.51% 67.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 243 288 313
Average daily rate £413 £370 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+11.48% +5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £264 £235 £210
10% offered a daily rate of more than £525 £550 £493
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 18 15
Average hourly rate £30.00 £14.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+106.89% -27.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.50 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.50 £24.80 £24.75
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Automation
Berkshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Reading region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Reading Test Automation Daily Rate Histogram

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 Reading region.

Reading Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 15 (53.57%) C#
1 15 (53.57%) .NET
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
2 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 11 (39.29%) Visual Studio
3 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
4 10 (35.71%) Automated Testing
5 9 (32.14%) Selenium
5 9 (32.14%) Windows
6 8 (28.57%) Web Services
6 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
6 8 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
7 6 (21.43%) Games
7 6 (21.43%) QuickTest Pro
7 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
7 6 (21.43%) Degree
7 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
7 6 (21.43%) Windows Azure
8 5 (17.86%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (17.86%) QA
8 5 (17.86%) Test Strategy
8 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET
8 5 (17.86%) Java
8 5 (17.86%) Automation Testing
9 4 (14.29%) C++
9 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
9 4 (14.29%) PVCS
9 4 (14.29%) OLAP
9 4 (14.29%) IIS
9 4 (14.29%) MS Project

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading 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 15 (53.57%) .NET
2 8 (28.57%) Web Services
2 8 (28.57%) .NET Framework
3 5 (17.86%) ASP.NET
4 4 (14.29%) XML
4 4 (14.29%) Windows SharePoint Services
4 4 (14.29%) WCF
4 4 (14.29%) REST
5 2 (7.143%) MFC
5 2 (7.143%) HTML
5 2 (7.143%) OLE
5 2 (7.143%) jQuery
5 2 (7.143%) Ajax
6 1 (3.571%) Grails
Application Platforms
1 6 (21.43%) Windows Azure
2 4 (14.29%) IIS
2 4 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 4 (14.29%) MS Project Server
2 4 (14.29%) SharePoint Server
2 4 (14.29%) CM System
Applications
1 6 (21.43%) MS Excel
2 4 (14.29%) MS Project
2 4 (14.29%) MS Office
3 2 (7.143%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 4 (14.29%) LDAP
2 2 (7.143%) Internet
3 1 (3.571%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (42.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (14.29%) OLAP
2 4 (14.29%) DTS
2 4 (14.29%) IDOL
2 4 (14.29%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (7.143%) Data Mining
3 2 (7.143%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (7.143%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 1 (3.571%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) Visual Studio
2 9 (32.14%) Selenium
3 6 (21.43%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (14.29%) PVCS
5 3 (10.71%) TestComplete
6 2 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (7.143%) SpecFlow
6 2 (7.143%) WebDriver
7 1 (3.571%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.571%) JBehave
7 1 (3.571%) TeamCity
7 1 (3.571%) Maven
7 1 (3.571%) NUnit
7 1 (3.571%) JUnit
7 1 (3.571%) Eclipse
7 1 (3.571%) IntelliJ
General
1 6 (21.43%) Games
2 4 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (25.00%) Tester
2 6 (21.43%) Senior Tester
2 6 (21.43%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Development Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Software Development Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Software Engineer
4 4 (14.29%) Team Leader
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Test Manager
6 2 (7.143%) Test Analyst
6 2 (7.143%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.143%) Development Team Leader
6 2 (7.143%) QA Engineer
6 2 (7.143%) Programme Manager
6 2 (7.143%) Programme Test Manager
6 2 (7.143%) SharePoint Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Senior Software Tester
7 1 (3.571%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.571%) Agile Java Developer
7 1 (3.571%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Computer Science
2 5 (17.86%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (10.71%) Client/Server
4 2 (7.143%) Kinect
5 1 (3.571%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (32.14%) Windows
2 4 (14.29%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (10.71%) Linux
4 2 (7.143%) SUSE
4 2 (7.143%) Ubuntu
5 1 (3.571%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (35.71%) Automated Testing
2 8 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (17.86%) Test Strategy
3 5 (17.86%) Automation Testing
4 4 (14.29%) Web Development
4 4 (14.29%) Release Management
4 4 (14.29%) Load Testing
4 4 (14.29%) Manual Testing
5 3 (10.71%) Test Scripting
5 3 (10.71%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (7.143%) UML
6 2 (7.143%) Code Coverage
6 2 (7.143%) Unified Process
6 2 (7.143%) Performance Testing
6 2 (7.143%) Programme Management
6 2 (7.143%) TDD
6 2 (7.143%) Web Testing
6 2 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (7.143%) Game Development
6 2 (7.143%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 15 (53.57%) C#
2 12 (42.86%) SQL
3 5 (17.86%) Java
4 4 (14.29%) C++
4 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
5 2 (7.143%) Python
5 2 (7.143%) C
5 2 (7.143%) VB
6 1 (3.571%) Scala
6 1 (3.571%) Ruby
6 1 (3.571%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (21.43%) Degree
2 4 (14.29%) MCSD
2 4 (14.29%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 3 (10.71%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.571%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.571%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
System Software
1 2 (7.143%) vCloud
Vendors
1 11 (39.29%) Microsoft
2 4 (14.29%) Meridio
3 1 (3.571%) IBM
Automation Tester
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Rate: £300 - £375 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
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