The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Royston 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 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 Job Titles advertised for the Royston 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
Test Engineer
Rank 4 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Royston 22.22% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 22.22% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £303 £290 £280
% change year-on-year
+4.31% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £33.25 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+12.78% -5.00%
All Job Titles
Royston
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
9 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Royston 100.00% - 50.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £463 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £33.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
Hertfordshire

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Royston Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Top 8 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Royston 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 2 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
1 2 (100.00%) 2G
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
1 2 (100.00%) LTE

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Royston 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (100.00%) 3GPP
1 2 (100.00%) 2G
1 2 (100.00%) LTE
General
1 2 (100.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Mathematics
1 2 (100.00%) Physics
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Software Engineering
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree