The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Salford 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 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
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 £34.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+8.69% -1.42%
All Job Titles
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
25 37 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 100.00% 94.87% 100.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 27 2
Average daily rate £325 £338 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-3.70% -10.00%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 1
Average hourly rate £15.50 £17.50 £10.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-11.42% +66.66%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Test Engineer
Manchester

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford 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 Salford region.

Salford Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) iOS SDK
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
2 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (66.67%) JSON
2 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 2 (66.67%) Symbian
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (66.67%) XML
3 1 (33.33%) XSLT
3 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
3 1 (33.33%) HTML
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 1 (33.33%) PHP
3 1 (33.33%) SQL

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford 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 (66.67%) iOS SDK
1 2 (66.67%) iPhone SDK
1 2 (66.67%) JSON
1 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) XSLT
2 1 (33.33%) HTML
2 1 (33.33%) Series 60
Communications & Networking
1 1 (33.33%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Xcode
2 1 (33.33%) Eclipse
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Firebug
2 1 (33.33%) Robotium
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (66.67%) iPhone
3 1 (33.33%) Interactive TV
3 1 (33.33%) Semantic Web
3 1 (33.33%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 3 (100.00%) Windows
1 3 (100.00%) Windows Mobile
1 3 (100.00%) Android
1 3 (100.00%) Apple iOS
2 2 (66.67%) bada
2 2 (66.67%) Maemo
2 2 (66.67%) Mac OS X
2 2 (66.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Scrum
1 3 (100.00%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 1 (33.33%) BDD
3 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) Shell Script
1 1 (33.33%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISTQB
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Symbian