The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Salford region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Salford 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank - 10 -
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 0 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - 2.632% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 3.571% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 0
Average daily rate - £275 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £323
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +1.55%
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
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
18 28 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 72.00% 73.68% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 23 2
Average daily rate £323 £325 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-0.76% -23.52%
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £17.00 £17.50 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.85% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Automated Testing
Manchester

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) XSLT
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 1 (100.00%) Xcode
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 1 (100.00%) Android
1 1 (100.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (100.00%) Objective-C