The first table below looks at the demand for the QA 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 QA Automation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7336 9394 9506
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.60% 92.47% 92.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 3629 4201 4116
Average daily rate £350 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -1.40%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £205 £220 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £501 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 587 724 798
Average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.77% -14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £11.38 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
QA Automation Engineer
England

QA Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East QA Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

South East QA Automation Engineer Daily Rate Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited QA 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 QA Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) WATIR
2 1 (50.00%) WatiN
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux

QA Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East region that cited QA 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 QA Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) WATIR
2 1 (50.00%) WatiN
2 1 (50.00%) MSTest
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
2 1 (50.00%) Subversion
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) TDD
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA