The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Specialist role in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automation Specialist in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Surrey 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
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Specialist
Rank - - 100
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Specialist 0 0 1
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - - 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category - - 0.058%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 1
Average daily rate - - £550
UK excluding London average daily rate £313 £425 £388
% change year-on-year
-26.47% +9.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1071 1512 1734
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 93.95% 93.16% 93.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 801 849
Average daily rate £375 £350 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% -12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £215 £225 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £550 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 126 81
Average hourly rate £17.00 £24.00 £23.75
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% +1.05%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.50 £10.50 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £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 Specialist
South East

Automation Specialist
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Automation Specialist Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Specialist
Daily Rate Trend

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

Surrey Automation Specialist Daily Rate Trend

Automation Specialist
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region that cited Automation Specialist 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 Specialist in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC

Automation Specialist
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (100.00%) ASP.NET MVC
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) QuickTest Pro
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) SQL