Automation Analyst Contracts
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Analyst role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automation Analyst 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 currently tracked.

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
Automation Analyst
Rank 492 521 548
Rank change year-on-year
+29 +27
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Analyst 48 60 32
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.102% 0.103% 0.053%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.110% 0.111% 0.057%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 37 21
Average daily rate £375 £300 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+25.00% -33.33%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £300 £265
% change year-on-year
+16.66% +13.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Average hourly rate £45.00 - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £45.00 - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 43539 54119 55808
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.22% 92.58% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24944 29835 30377
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2174 2589 2882
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Automation Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Automation Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automation Analyst within the UK.

Automation Analyst Daily Rate Trend

Automation Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automation Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Automation Analyst Daily Rate Histogram

Automation Analyst
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automation Analyst within the UK.

Automation Analyst Hourly Rate Trend

Automation Analyst
Top 20 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Analyst within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England +28 43 £375 +25.00%
London -12 20 £375 +25.00%
North West +26 13 £425 +15.25%
Cheshire +12 10 - -
South East +30 9 £338 +12.50%
City of London +11 9 £438 +59.09%
Berkshire - 6 £350 -
Scotland - 4 £425 -
Hampshire - 4 £325 -
Milton Keynes - 2 £213 -
Glasgow - 2 £400 -
Warrington - 2 - -
Stirling - 2 £450 -
Reading - 2 £350 -
Buckinghamshire - 2 £213 -
Yorkshire +5 1 £220 -29.60%
West Yorkshire +3 1 £220 -29.60%
Lancashire - 1 - -
Newbury - 1 £363 -
Leeds - 1 £220 -

Automation Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Automation Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title.

1 40 (45.45%) Selenium
2 35 (39.77%) Test Automation
3 30 (34.09%) Test Scripting
4 28 (31.82%) QuickTest Pro
5 26 (29.55%) Cucumber
6 23 (26.14%) C#
6 23 (26.14%) Java
7 20 (22.73%) QA
7 20 (22.73%) Automation Testing
8 19 (21.59%) HP Quality Center
9 18 (20.45%) Ruby
9 18 (20.45%) HP
10 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
10 17 (19.32%) SQL
11 16 (18.18%) FitNesse
11 16 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
12 15 (17.05%) Finance
12 15 (17.05%) Web Testing
13 14 (15.91%) Automated Testing
13 14 (15.91%) Visual Studio
14 13 (14.77%) Banking
15 12 (13.64%) SAP Implementation
15 12 (13.64%) SAP
15 12 (13.64%) SAP HR
15 12 (13.64%) Performance Management
16 11 (12.50%) .NET
16 11 (12.50%) Scrum
17 10 (11.36%) TDD
17 10 (11.36%) WebDriver
18 9 (10.23%) Open Source

Automation Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Automation Analyst 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 Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (12.50%) .NET
2 5 (5.682%) soapUI
3 4 (4.545%) SOAP
4 3 (3.409%) COM
5 2 (2.273%) Gherkin
5 2 (2.273%) HTML
5 2 (2.273%) XML
5 2 (2.273%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.273%) WCF
6 1 (1.136%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.136%) .NET Framework
6 1 (1.136%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (1.136%) JSON
6 1 (1.136%) CSS
6 1 (1.136%) Flash
6 1 (1.136%) Motif
6 1 (1.136%) XML Schema
6 1 (1.136%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
6 1 (1.136%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.409%) Windows Azure
2 2 (2.273%) CMS
3 1 (1.136%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (1.136%) Adobe CQ
Applications
1 1 (1.136%) Doxygen
Business Applications
1 12 (13.64%) SAP HR
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.273%) Internet
2 1 (1.136%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.682%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.409%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.136%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.136%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 40 (45.45%) Selenium
2 28 (31.82%) QuickTest Pro
3 26 (29.55%) Cucumber
4 16 (18.18%) FitNesse
5 14 (15.91%) Visual Studio
6 10 (11.36%) WebDriver
7 9 (10.23%) Concordion
8 6 (6.818%) Team Foundation Server
9 4 (4.545%) Rational Functional Tester
10 3 (3.409%) WATIR
10 3 (3.409%) Eclipse
10 3 (3.409%) Hudson
10 3 (3.409%) Jenkins
10 3 (3.409%) JBehave
10 3 (3.409%) Visual Studio Team System
11 2 (2.273%) TeamCity
11 2 (2.273%) JUnit
11 2 (2.273%) Maven
11 2 (2.273%) Subversion
12 1 (1.136%) JIRA
General
1 15 (17.05%) Finance
2 13 (14.77%) Banking
3 8 (9.091%) Investment Banking
4 6 (6.818%) Retail
5 5 (5.682%) Front Office
6 2 (2.273%) Back Office
6 2 (2.273%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.136%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.23%) Open Source
2 6 (6.818%) Mobile App
3 3 (3.409%) Derivative
3 3 (3.409%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.273%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.273%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.273%) Fixed Income
4 2 (2.273%) Equities
4 2 (2.273%) Contract for Difference
4 2 (2.273%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (1.136%) Wiki
5 1 (1.136%) Blackberry
5 1 (1.136%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.136%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.818%) Apple iOS
1 6 (6.818%) UNIX
2 5 (5.682%) Android
3 4 (4.545%) Linux
4 2 (2.273%) VMS
4 2 (2.273%) zOS
4 2 (2.273%) MVS
4 2 (2.273%) Windows
5 1 (1.136%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (39.77%) Test Automation
2 30 (34.09%) Test Scripting
3 20 (22.73%) Automation Testing
4 16 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
5 15 (17.05%) Web Testing
6 14 (15.91%) Automated Testing
7 12 (13.64%) SAP Implementation
7 12 (13.64%) Performance Management
8 11 (12.50%) Scrum
9 10 (11.36%) TDD
10 9 (10.23%) BDD
11 8 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
12 7 (7.955%) Manual Testing
13 6 (6.818%) Regression Testing
14 4 (4.545%) Continuous Integration
14 4 (4.545%) OO
15 3 (3.409%) SOA
15 3 (3.409%) Build Automation
16 2 (2.273%) Test Management
16 2 (2.273%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 23 (26.14%) C#
1 23 (26.14%) Java
2 18 (20.45%) Ruby
3 17 (19.32%) SQL
4 6 (6.818%) Python
5 5 (5.682%) Perl
6 4 (4.545%) C++
6 4 (4.545%) VB
7 3 (3.409%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.273%) Groovy
8 2 (2.273%) REXX
8 2 (2.273%) Shell Script
8 2 (2.273%) C
8 2 (2.273%) VBA
8 2 (2.273%) Jython
8 2 (2.273%) XPath
9 1 (1.136%) ActionScript
9 1 (1.136%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 5 (5.682%) ISEB
1 5 (5.682%) Security Cleared
2 4 (4.545%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.409%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (22.73%) QA
Systems Management
1 19 (21.59%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.273%) Tivoli
3 1 (1.136%) Control-M
Vendors
1 18 (20.45%) HP
2 17 (19.32%) Microsoft
3 12 (13.64%) SAP
4 7 (7.955%) IBM
5 3 (3.409%) Oracle
6 2 (2.273%) CA
7 1 (1.136%) PeopleSoft
7 1 (1.136%) webMethods
7 1 (1.136%) Cadis
7 1 (1.136%) Microgen
CONTRACT Test Automation Developer / Test Analyst
City of London
Our client an Investment Bank requires a TEST AUTOMATION DEVELOPER / TEST ANALYST on a contractual basis. You will be joining the successful Front Office Equities team... Responsibilities The...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £550 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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