Test Automation Contracts in South Wales
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills 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 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 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
Test Automation
Rank 38 38 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 2 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 0.327% 0.517% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.490% 0.775% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
Average daily rate £325 £175 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+85.71% -
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
South Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 204 258 242
As % of all contract IT jobs located in South Wales 66.67% 66.67% 60.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 127 142 122
Average daily rate £375 £370 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+1.35% +13.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £260 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £505 £440
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 8 15
Average hourly rate £15.00 £16.16 £42.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-7.17% -61.97%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Automation
Wales

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South Wales 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 South Wales region.

South Wales Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 8 (88.89%) Rational Functional Tester
2 6 (66.67%) IBM
2 6 (66.67%) Java
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) .NET
5 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
5 2 (22.22%) Automation Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Hudson
6 1 (11.11%) Capybara
6 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
6 1 (11.11%) HTML
6 1 (11.11%) JSON
6 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
6 1 (11.11%) WATIR
6 1 (11.11%) Selenium
6 1 (11.11%) Firebug
6 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
6 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
6 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (11.11%) BDD
6 1 (11.11%) Perforce
6 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) CruiseControl
6 1 (11.11%) Subversion
6 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
6 1 (11.11%) Ruby

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South Wales 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 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 1 (11.11%) CSS
2 1 (11.11%) XML
2 1 (11.11%) JSON
2 1 (11.11%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) Rational Functional Tester
2 1 (11.11%) TeamCity
2 1 (11.11%) Git (software)
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
2 1 (11.11%) Hudson
2 1 (11.11%) Capybara
2 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 1 (11.11%) CruiseControl
2 1 (11.11%) Subversion
2 1 (11.11%) WATIR
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) Firebug
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Tester
1 7 (77.78%) Functional Tester
2 6 (66.67%) Analyst
2 6 (66.67%) Test Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Software Testing Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Test Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Functional Test Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Testing Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
2 2 (22.22%) Automation Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (11.11%) TDD
3 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
3 1 (11.11%) Software Testing
3 1 (11.11%) OO
3 1 (11.11%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 6 (66.67%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 6 (66.67%) IBM
2 1 (11.11%) Perforce
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