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Automation Engineer Contracts in the South East
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automation Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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
Automation Engineer
Rank 216 239 -
Rank change year-on-year
+23 -
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Engineer 9 3 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.111% 0.030% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.120% 0.032% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
Average daily rate £390 £550 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.09% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £280 £345 -
% change year-on-year
-18.84% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £35.00 -
% change year-on-year
-19.28% -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 7501 9248 9778
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.81% 92.06% 92.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 3805 4146 4237
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £201 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 590 702 848
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.21 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Automation Engineer
England

Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East Automation Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automation Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East Automation Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Automation Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automation Engineer across the South East region.

South East Automation Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Automation Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the South East 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
Surrey - 4 - -
Kent - 2 £500 - 1
Berkshire - - - - 1
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Automation Engineer
England

Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Automation 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 Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 9 (52.94%) Visual Studio
1 9 (52.94%) Python
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
1 9 (52.94%) MSBuild
2 8 (47.06%) Ant
2 8 (47.06%) Games
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
4 6 (35.29%) QA
4 6 (35.29%) SQL
5 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
5 5 (29.41%) Selenium
5 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
5 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
6 4 (23.53%) C#
7 3 (17.65%) HTML
7 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
7 3 (17.65%) MySQL
7 3 (17.65%) Web Services
7 3 (17.65%) XML
7 3 (17.65%) soapUI
7 3 (17.65%) Groovy
8 2 (11.76%) Automation Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Data Guard
8 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
8 2 (11.76%) Oracle
8 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
8 2 (11.76%) .NET
8 2 (11.76%) Java
8 2 (11.76%) Oracle RAC

Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited Automation 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 Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) Web Services
1 3 (17.65%) XML
1 3 (17.65%) soapUI
2 2 (11.76%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) MySQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (52.94%) Visual Studio
1 9 (52.94%) MSBuild
2 8 (47.06%) Ant
3 5 (29.41%) Selenium
4 1 (5.882%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (5.882%) WatiN
4 1 (5.882%) MSTest
4 1 (5.882%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (5.882%) NUnit
4 1 (5.882%) Subversion
4 1 (5.882%) WATIR
General
1 8 (47.06%) Games
2 1 (5.882%) Finance
2 1 (5.882%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.882%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
1 1 (5.882%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Continuous Integration
2 5 (29.41%) Test Automation
2 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
2 5 (29.41%) Build Automation
3 2 (11.76%) Automation Testing
3 2 (11.76%) SOA
3 2 (11.76%) Validation
4 1 (5.882%) Scrum
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (5.882%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) BDD
4 1 (5.882%) Game Development
4 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (52.94%) Python
1 9 (52.94%) PowerShell
2 6 (35.29%) SQL
3 4 (23.53%) C#
4 3 (17.65%) JavaScript
4 3 (17.65%) Groovy
5 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
5 2 (11.76%) Java
6 1 (5.882%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (35.29%) QA
System Software
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 2 (11.76%) Perforce
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle
Test Automation Engineer - Hampshire - Complex/Selenium
Hampshire
Automated testing on complex Web Applications at the Data, Web Service and GUI layer... - Selenium RC, SoapUI and LoadUI. - Experience scripting in the following languages: C#, Groovy. - XML,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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Reading, Thames Valley
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Huxley Associates
Rate: £30 - £50 per hour
Posted: 18 June 2013
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