The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting 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 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 10 9 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Contract jobs citing Test Scripting 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 4.000% 5.405% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.556% 7.407% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £300 £275 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+9.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £329 £300 £320
% change year-on-year
+9.58% -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £25.50 £27.50 £18.75
% change year-on-year
-7.27% +46.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Salford
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
18 27 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Salford 72.00% 72.97% 71.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 22 2
Average daily rate £323 £313 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.20% -26.47%
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 £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Scripting
Manchester

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Salford Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Daily Rate Trend

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

Salford Test Scripting Daily Rate Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) Interactive TV
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) JSON
3 2 (50.00%) Social Network
3 2 (50.00%) Android
3 2 (50.00%) New Media
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Competitor Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
3 2 (50.00%) Web 2.0
3 2 (50.00%) Xcode
3 2 (50.00%) Internet
3 2 (50.00%) XML
3 2 (50.00%) Windows
3 2 (50.00%) UML
3 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
3 2 (50.00%) Publishing
3 2 (50.00%) Streaming Video
4 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
4 1 (25.00%) Symbian
4 1 (25.00%) HTTP
4 1 (25.00%) ISEB
4 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
4 1 (25.00%) Linux

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Salford region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (50.00%) JSON
1 2 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (25.00%) XSLT
2 1 (25.00%) HTML
2 1 (25.00%) Series 60
2 1 (25.00%) iPhone SDK
2 1 (25.00%) iOS SDK
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) Internet
2 1 (25.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Xcode
2 1 (25.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (25.00%) Robotium
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Firebug
General
1 2 (50.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 2 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Interactive TV
2 2 (50.00%) Social Network
2 2 (50.00%) New Media
2 2 (50.00%) Web 2.0
2 2 (50.00%) Blackberry
2 2 (50.00%) Streaming Video
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (25.00%) iPhone
3 1 (25.00%) Semantic Web
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 2 (50.00%) Android
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Mobile
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (25.00%) Mac OS X
2 1 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (25.00%) bada
2 1 (25.00%) Maemo
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Scrum
1 4 (100.00%) TDD
2 3 (75.00%) BDD
3 2 (50.00%) Use Case
3 2 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Content Management
3 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) Competitor Analysis
3 2 (50.00%) UML
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) PHP
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) Shell Script
1 1 (25.00%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Symbian