The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Southampton 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
Automated Testing
Rank 31 - 25
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 4 0 2
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 1.338% - 1.105%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.198% - 1.709%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Average daily rate £355 - -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £325
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +0.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Southampton
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
182 140 117
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Southampton 60.87% 60.34% 64.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 118 81 57
Average daily rate £370 £400 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.50% -0.06%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £263 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £555 £500 £561
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 18 18
Average hourly rate £27.50 £20.00 £33.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+37.50% -39.39%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £23.00 £17.50 £11.33
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £45.00 £41.50 £42.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.50 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.00% -16.66%
Automated Testing
Hampshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automated Testing across the Southampton region.

Southampton Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing.

1 5 (83.33%) Java EE
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) FitNesse
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
1 5 (83.33%) UNIX
1 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
1 5 (83.33%) Jasmine
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Southampton region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (83.33%) Java EE
2 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (83.33%) Apache
1 5 (83.33%) Tomcat
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Selenium
1 5 (83.33%) FitNesse
1 5 (83.33%) Jasmine
2 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
2 1 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (16.67%) Hudson
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Developer
2 5 (83.33%) JavaScript Developer
3 1 (16.67%) SQL Developer
3 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL Developer
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Continuous Integration
1 5 (83.33%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) Java
1 5 (83.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) PL/SQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Certification
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle