Test Automation Contracts in Scotland
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation 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 Test Automation over the 3 months to 17 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 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 107 93 107
Rank change year-on-year
-14 +14
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 13 12 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 0.533% 0.453% 0.250%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.782% 0.701% 0.373%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 8 5
Average daily rate £360 £263 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+37.14% -30.00%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £322 £207 £360
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £329 £418
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £319 £350
% change year-on-year
+9.71% -8.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1663 1712 1877
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Scotland 68.18% 64.63% 66.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 863 879 976
Average daily rate £360 £350 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.85% -6.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £260 £225 £237
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 64 50
Average hourly rate £20.00 £23.00 £29.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-13.04% -20.68%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £9.25 £9.50 £9.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £44.40 £35.00 £40.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Scotland Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Scotland Test Automation Daily Rate Histogram

Test Automation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Glasgow -19 5 £353 +33.27%
Renfrewshire - 4 £360 -
Edinburgh +8 3 £400 +33.33%
Stirling -10 1 £450 -
Test Automation
UK

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Test Automation 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 Automation.

1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 14 (48.28%) Java
2 14 (48.28%) UNIX
3 12 (41.38%) Finance
4 10 (34.48%) Sybase
4 10 (34.48%) Enterprise Software
5 9 (31.03%) HP Quality Center
5 9 (31.03%) Banking
5 9 (31.03%) Selenium
5 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
5 9 (31.03%) Windows
6 8 (27.59%) Tomcat
6 8 (27.59%) Eclipse
6 8 (27.59%) Clustering
6 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (27.59%) Mule
6 8 (27.59%) Subversion
6 8 (27.59%) Spring
7 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
7 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
7 7 (24.14%) QuickTest Pro
8 6 (20.69%) Web Services
8 6 (20.69%) XML
8 6 (20.69%) Linux
8 6 (20.69%) Hibernate
8 6 (20.69%) Scrum
8 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
8 6 (20.69%) Manual Testing
8 6 (20.69%) JIRA
8 6 (20.69%) QA

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Scotland region citing Test Automation 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 Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (27.59%) Spring
2 6 (20.69%) Web Services
2 6 (20.69%) XML
2 6 (20.69%) Hibernate
3 4 (13.79%) soapUI
4 3 (10.34%) .NET
5 2 (6.897%) SOAP
6 1 (3.448%) GWT
6 1 (3.448%) HTML5
Application Platforms
1 8 (27.59%) Tomcat
1 8 (27.59%) Mule
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (31.03%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Selenium
2 8 (27.59%) Subversion
2 8 (27.59%) Eclipse
3 7 (24.14%) QuickTest Pro
3 7 (24.14%) Cucumber
4 6 (20.69%) TestDirector
4 6 (20.69%) Jenkins
4 6 (20.69%) Maven
4 6 (20.69%) JIRA
5 5 (17.24%) WinRunner
6 2 (6.897%) LoadRunner
7 1 (3.448%) JBehave
7 1 (3.448%) WebDriver
7 1 (3.448%) PhoneGap
7 1 (3.448%) Robotium
General
1 12 (41.38%) Finance
2 9 (31.03%) Banking
3 6 (20.69%) Investment Banking
4 2 (6.897%) Retail Banking
4 2 (6.897%) Retail
5 1 (3.448%) Financial Institution
5 1 (3.448%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (27.59%) Developer
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Test Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Test Engineer
3 4 (13.79%) Tester
4 2 (6.897%) Performance Tester
4 2 (6.897%) Agile Java Developer
4 2 (6.897%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Mobile Tester
5 1 (3.448%) Test Automation Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Software Engineer
5 1 (3.448%) Test Manager
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Tester
5 1 (3.448%) QA Test Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Applications Tester
5 1 (3.448%) QA Analyst
5 1 (3.448%) Technical Leader
5 1 (3.448%) Automation Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 10 (34.48%) Enterprise Software
2 8 (27.59%) Clustering
3 5 (17.24%) Derivative
4 4 (13.79%) PDA
5 3 (10.34%) N-Tier
5 3 (10.34%) Equity Derivative
6 2 (6.897%) iPhone
7 1 (3.448%) iPad
7 1 (3.448%) Mobile App
7 1 (3.448%) Computer Science
7 1 (3.448%) Blackberry
7 1 (3.448%) Handset
7 1 (3.448%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 14 (48.28%) UNIX
2 9 (31.03%) Windows
3 6 (20.69%) Linux
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2003
4 5 (17.24%) AIX
4 5 (17.24%) Solaris
4 5 (17.24%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (13.79%) Windows XP
6 2 (6.897%) Android
6 2 (6.897%) Windows 7
7 1 (3.448%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (27.59%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (24.14%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (20.69%) Manual Testing
3 6 (20.69%) Test Scripting
3 6 (20.69%) Scrum
4 5 (17.24%) Extreme Programming
4 5 (17.24%) Software Testing
4 5 (17.24%) Regression Testing
4 5 (17.24%) Risk Management
5 4 (13.79%) SOA
6 3 (10.34%) Data Modelling
6 3 (10.34%) Unit Testing
6 3 (10.34%) Test Management
6 3 (10.34%) Product Management
6 3 (10.34%) Multithreading
7 1 (3.448%) V-Model
7 1 (3.448%) Performance Testing
7 1 (3.448%) TDD
7 1 (3.448%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.448%) OO
Programming Languages
1 18 (62.07%) SQL
2 14 (48.28%) Java
3 5 (17.24%) Perl
3 5 (17.24%) VB
3 5 (17.24%) VBA
3 5 (17.24%) Shell Script
4 3 (10.34%) C#
5 2 (6.897%) C++
5 2 (6.897%) Ruby
5 2 (6.897%) C
6 1 (3.448%) Groovy
6 1 (3.448%) PHP
6 1 (3.448%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (17.24%) Security Cleared
2 3 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 2 (6.897%) ISEB
3 2 (6.897%) ISTQB
4 1 (3.448%) Degree
4 1 (3.448%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (20.69%) QA
System Software
1 5 (17.24%) VMware ESX
Systems Management
1 9 (31.03%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (17.24%) McAfee ePO
2 5 (17.24%) Netcool
3 3 (10.34%) Control-M
Vendors
1 10 (34.48%) Sybase
2 5 (17.24%) Sun
2 5 (17.24%) Citrix
2 5 (17.24%) Veritas
2 5 (17.24%) McAfee
2 5 (17.24%) VMware
3 1 (3.448%) Cadis
3 1 (3.448%) HP
3 1 (3.448%) Oracle
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