The first table below looks at the demand for Robotium 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 Robotium over the 3 months to 18 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 Development Applications 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Robotium
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Robotium 2 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 8.333% - -
As % of the Development Applications category 40.00% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Average daily rate £300 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £300 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Development Applications
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
5 6 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 20.83% 23.08% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 6 0
Average daily rate £300 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £330 £330 £325
% change year-on-year
- +1.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £14.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+4.16% +2.85%
Robotium
Manchester

Robotium
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Robotium across the Salford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Salford Robotium Jobs Demand Trend

Robotium
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford Robotium Daily Rate Trend

Robotium
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Robotium 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 Robotium.

1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) iPhone SDK
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) JSON
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Symbian
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) Series 60
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development

Robotium
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Robotium 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 Robotium. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Series 60
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) iPhone SDK
1 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Hudson
2 1 (50.00%) Firebug
2 1 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 2 (100.00%) iPhone
2 1 (50.00%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (100.00%) Android
1 2 (100.00%) bada
1 2 (100.00%) Maemo
1 2 (100.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Symbian
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