Test Engineer Contracts in Reading
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role 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 Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 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
22 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 69 63 68
Rank change year-on-year
-6 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 2 18 9
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 0.232% 1.582% 0.873%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.254% 1.718% 0.990%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 2
Average daily rate - £280 £225
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- +24.44%
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £290 £280
% change year-on-year
+4.31% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Job Titles
Reading
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 788 1048 909
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Reading 91.52% 92.09% 88.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 357 345 407
Average daily rate £375 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £220 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £475 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 60 40
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+16.12% +24.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.60 £11.25 £10.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £27.50 £22.20 £32.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
Berkshire

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Reading Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Reading Test Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 4 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
3 3 (37.50%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (37.50%) Nokia Siemens Networks
3 3 (37.50%) 3G
3 3 (37.50%) ISEB
4 2 (25.00%) SQL
4 2 (25.00%) SOAP
4 2 (25.00%) Web Services
4 2 (25.00%) XML
4 2 (25.00%) UNIX
4 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Handset
4 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (25.00%) Groovy
4 2 (25.00%) soapUI
4 2 (25.00%) REST
4 2 (25.00%) DbVisualizer
5 1 (12.50%) JProfiler
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) System Testing
5 1 (12.50%) RNC
5 1 (12.50%) NetHawk
5 1 (12.50%) 2G
5 1 (12.50%) Finance
5 1 (12.50%) Migration
5 1 (12.50%) Statistics

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Reading region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (25.00%) SOAP
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
1 2 (25.00%) XML
1 2 (25.00%) soapUI
1 2 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (12.50%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 1 (12.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Communications & Networking
1 4 (50.00%) Radio Access Network
2 3 (37.50%) 3G
3 1 (12.50%) RNC
3 1 (12.50%) 2G
3 1 (12.50%) MPLS
3 1 (12.50%) RANAP
3 1 (12.50%) Wireshark
3 1 (12.50%) ATM
3 1 (12.50%) GSM
3 1 (12.50%) SDH
3 1 (12.50%) 3GPP
3 1 (12.50%) UMTS
3 1 (12.50%) WCDMA
3 1 (12.50%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) DbVisualizer
2 1 (12.50%) MS Access
2 1 (12.50%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JProfiler
1 1 (12.50%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (12.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 5 (62.50%) Telecoms
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Handset
2 1 (12.50%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Web Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
2 1 (12.50%) System Testing
2 1 (12.50%) Migration
2 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
2 1 (12.50%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) SQL
1 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 2 (25.00%) Groovy
2 1 (12.50%) Java
2 1 (12.50%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
2 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (12.50%) Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 1 (12.50%) NetHawk
2 1 (12.50%) Oracle
2 1 (12.50%) Informatica
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