The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Scotland 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
Automated Testing
Rank 109 99 91
Rank change year-on-year
-10 -8
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 14 11 21
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.555% 0.413% 0.735%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.800% 0.651% 1.116%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 13
Average daily rate £328 £270 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+21.29% -32.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £281 £177 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £408 £379 £401
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Average hourly rate £31.00 - £15.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +66.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1749 1691 1881
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 69.32% 63.50% 65.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 820 995
Average daily rate £375 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £245 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 58 43
Average hourly rate £19.50 £25.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-22.00% -13.79%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £42.50 £40.15 £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
UK

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

Scotland Automated Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the Scotland region.

Scotland Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Stirling +1 4 £425 +3.03%
Glasgow -12 4 £325 - 1
Edinburgh -4 2 £350 +45.83% 1
Dundee - 2 £200 - 3
Aberdeen - - - -
Moray - - - -
Automated Testing
UK

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 10 (47.62%) QuickTest Pro
1 10 (47.62%) Selenium
1 10 (47.62%) Test Scripting
2 6 (28.57%) Finance
2 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (28.57%) SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
3 5 (23.81%) UNIX
3 5 (23.81%) IBM
3 5 (23.81%) HP
3 5 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (23.81%) WebSphere
4 4 (19.05%) Data Management
4 4 (19.05%) TDD
4 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 4 (19.05%) WebSphere MQ
4 4 (19.05%) Control-M
4 4 (19.05%) Mainframe
4 4 (19.05%) .NET
4 4 (19.05%) C#
4 4 (19.05%) QA
4 4 (19.05%) Cadis
5 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (14.29%) Automation Testing
5 3 (14.29%) Oracle
5 3 (14.29%) SOAP
5 3 (14.29%) Retail

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland 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 5 (23.81%) WebSphere
2 4 (19.05%) .NET
2 4 (19.05%) WebSphere MQ
3 3 (14.29%) SOAP
4 2 (9.524%) soapUI
4 2 (9.524%) REST
5 1 (4.762%) CSS3
5 1 (4.762%) Gherkin
5 1 (4.762%) iOS SDK
5 1 (4.762%) CSS
5 1 (4.762%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.762%) JSON
5 1 (4.762%) WPF
5 1 (4.762%) iPhone SDK
5 1 (4.762%) HTML5
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.524%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (28.57%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (47.62%) QuickTest Pro
1 10 (47.62%) Selenium
2 2 (9.524%) FitNesse
2 2 (9.524%) TestComplete
2 2 (9.524%) Cucumber
2 2 (9.524%) Eclipse
3 1 (4.762%) Robotium
3 1 (4.762%) Jenkins
3 1 (4.762%) FogBugz
3 1 (4.762%) JBehave
3 1 (4.762%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.762%) Bugzilla
3 1 (4.762%) Xcode
3 1 (4.762%) NUnit
3 1 (4.762%) JIRA
General
1 6 (28.57%) Finance
1 6 (28.57%) Banking
2 3 (14.29%) Retail
2 3 (14.29%) Retail Banking
3 2 (9.524%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.762%) Legal
Job Titles
1 10 (47.62%) Analyst
1 10 (47.62%) Test Analyst
2 5 (23.81%) Tester
3 3 (14.29%) Automation Tester
4 2 (9.524%) Automation Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (9.524%) Ab Initio Developer
4 2 (9.524%) Developer
5 1 (4.762%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Performance Tester
5 1 (4.762%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.762%) QA Consultant
5 1 (4.762%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.762%) Automated Test Analyst
5 1 (4.762%) Middle Office Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Mainframe
2 2 (9.524%) IBM Mainframe
2 2 (9.524%) Data Integration
3 1 (4.762%) iPhone
3 1 (4.762%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.762%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (4.762%) Derivative
3 1 (4.762%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (4.762%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (23.81%) UNIX
2 2 (9.524%) Windows
3 1 (4.762%) Linux
3 1 (4.762%) Mac OS X
3 1 (4.762%) Android
3 1 (4.762%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.762%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (47.62%) Test Scripting
2 5 (23.81%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (19.05%) TDD
3 4 (19.05%) Data Management
3 4 (19.05%) ETL
4 3 (14.29%) Migration
4 3 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (14.29%) Automation Testing
5 2 (9.524%) Manual Testing
5 2 (9.524%) BDD
5 2 (9.524%) Scrum
5 2 (9.524%) Incident Management
6 1 (4.762%) Use Case
6 1 (4.762%) Performance Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Test Management
6 1 (4.762%) Regression Testing
6 1 (4.762%) Risk Management
6 1 (4.762%) Business Transformation
Programming Languages
1 6 (28.57%) SQL
2 5 (23.81%) Java
3 4 (19.05%) C#
4 2 (9.524%) VBScript
4 2 (9.524%) Perl
4 2 (9.524%) PL/SQL
5 1 (4.762%) C++
5 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.762%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (9.524%) ISEB
1 2 (9.524%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (19.05%) Control-M
2 1 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) IBM
1 5 (23.81%) HP
2 4 (19.05%) Cadis
3 3 (14.29%) Oracle
4 2 (9.524%) Ab Initio
5 1 (4.762%) Sybase
Dundee, Scotland
We are looking for someone with Automation testing experience in an 'Agile' environment - experience of testing software using the 'Agile' methodology is a must. Candidates wishing to apply...
Cathcart Associates
Rate: £180 - £220 per day
Posted: 3 June 2013
Dundee, Scotland
Ideal skill set:*Advanced .NET and C# development*Advanced Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF)*Advanced automated testing using NUnit and Bridge Test*Advanced Design concepts and implementation*Advanced debugging*...
Volt
Rate: £30.00 - £32.00 per hour
Posted: 13 June 2013
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