The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Testing Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Software Testing Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South Wales 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
Software Testing Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Software Testing Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales - - -
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 Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
288 358 377
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 94.12% 92.51% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 188 205
Average daily rate £350 £325 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.69% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £143 £222
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £491 £420
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 17 25
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.25 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+5.26% -28.75%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.21 £10.65 £9.36
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £20.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-5.40% -7.50%
Software Testing Engineer
Wales

Software Testing Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited Software Testing 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 Software Testing Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

Software Testing Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales region that cited Software Testing 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 Software Testing Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce