Automation Tester 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 Tester 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 Tester 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 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
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Tester
Rank 481 535 547
Rank change year-on-year
+54 +12
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 52 38 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.112% 0.065% 0.068%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.121% 0.070% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 22 15
Average daily rate £360 £331 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.67% -11.66%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £297 £205 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £445 £425 £465
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £291 £263
% change year-on-year
+20.17% +10.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 42921 54032 55868
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.24% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 24602 29796 30366
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £238 £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 2138 2561 2889
Average hourly rate £18.53 £18.75 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-1.20% -6.25%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.74 £40.00 £41.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Automation Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Automation Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Trend

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

Automation Tester Daily Rate Trend

Automation Tester
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Automation Tester Daily Rate Histogram

Automation Tester
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Automation Tester Hourly Rate Trend

Automation Tester
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 Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 +76 51 £361 +9.05%
London +27 37 £361 -3.66%
City of London +19 10 £350 +27.27%
South East +25 8 £363 +41.46%
Berkshire - 5 £363 -
East of England - 4 - -
North West +18 2 £330 -2.22%
Buckinghamshire +5 2 - -
Hertfordshire - 2 - -
Hounslow - 2 - -
Norwich - 2 - -
Norfolk - 2 - -
Surrey +20 1 £240 -
Reading - 1 £325 -
Merseyside - 1 £310 -
Lancashire - 1 £350 -
Marlow - 1 - -
Chorley - 1 £350 -
Edinburgh - 1 £350 -
Scotland - 1 £350 -

Automation Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Automation Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 66 (66.00%) Selenium
2 43 (43.00%) Java
2 43 (43.00%) WebDriver
3 33 (33.00%) Cucumber
3 33 (33.00%) Agile Software Development
4 31 (31.00%) Automation Testing
5 30 (30.00%) BDD
6 25 (25.00%) Test Automation
7 24 (24.00%) TDD
7 24 (24.00%) Scrum
7 24 (24.00%) Ruby
8 22 (22.00%) QA
9 20 (20.00%) C#
10 19 (19.00%) SQL
11 16 (16.00%) Test Scripting
11 16 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
12 15 (15.00%) Automated Testing
12 15 (15.00%) Web Services
13 13 (13.00%) SOAP
13 13 (13.00%) .NET
13 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
14 12 (12.00%) soapUI
15 11 (11.00%) Jenkins
15 11 (11.00%) QuickTest Pro
15 11 (11.00%) XML
16 10 (10.00%) Finance
17 9 (9.000%) ISEB
17 9 (9.000%) HTML
17 9 (9.000%) WATIR
18 8 (8.000%) REST

Automation Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 15 (15.00%) Web Services
2 13 (13.00%) .NET
2 13 (13.00%) SOAP
3 12 (12.00%) soapUI
4 11 (11.00%) XML
5 9 (9.000%) HTML
6 8 (8.000%) REST
7 7 (7.000%) XSLT
8 6 (6.000%) JSON
8 6 (6.000%) RESTful
9 5 (5.000%) WCF
10 3 (3.000%) CSS
10 3 (3.000%) .NET Framework
10 3 (3.000%) J2EE
11 2 (2.000%) Middleware
11 2 (2.000%) Gherkin
12 1 (1.000%) WPF
12 1 (1.000%) ASP
12 1 (1.000%) ASP.NET
12 1 (1.000%) COM
Application Platforms
1 2 (2.000%) Tomcat
1 2 (2.000%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (2.000%) MS Project
1 2 (2.000%) MS Office
1 2 (2.000%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.000%) Doxygen
Communications & Networking
1 7 (7.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.000%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.000%) SQL Server 2012
3 1 (1.000%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.000%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.000%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (66.00%) Selenium
2 43 (43.00%) WebDriver
3 33 (33.00%) Cucumber
4 11 (11.00%) Jenkins
4 11 (11.00%) QuickTest Pro
5 9 (9.000%) WATIR
6 7 (7.000%) SpecFlow
6 7 (7.000%) Team Foundation Server
7 6 (6.000%) TeamCity
7 6 (6.000%) JBehave
8 5 (5.000%) FitNesse
8 5 (5.000%) JUnit
8 5 (5.000%) CruiseControl
9 4 (4.000%) Visual Studio
9 4 (4.000%) JIRA
9 4 (4.000%) Rational Functional Tester
10 3 (3.000%) TestNG
10 3 (3.000%) Eclipse
10 3 (3.000%) MonkeyTalk
11 2 (2.000%) Robotium
General
1 10 (10.00%) Finance
2 5 (5.000%) Telecoms
2 5 (5.000%) Games
2 5 (5.000%) Banking
3 3 (3.000%) Retail
4 2 (2.000%) Front Office
4 2 (2.000%) Publishing
5 1 (1.000%) Manufacturing
5 1 (1.000%) Multimedia
5 1 (1.000%) Billing
5 1 (1.000%) Investment Banking
5 1 (1.000%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.000%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.000%) Mobile App
2 7 (7.000%) Open Source
3 4 (4.000%) Computer Science
4 3 (3.000%) IPTV
4 3 (3.000%) iPad
4 3 (3.000%) Digital Media
5 2 (2.000%) STB
5 2 (2.000%) Online Games
5 2 (2.000%) iPhone
5 2 (2.000%) MPEG
6 1 (1.000%) Blackberry
6 1 (1.000%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.000%) Equities
6 1 (1.000%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.000%) UNIX
1 7 (7.000%) Windows
1 7 (7.000%) Apple iOS
2 6 (6.000%) Linux
3 5 (5.000%) Android
4 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 1 (1.000%) SUSE
4 1 (1.000%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.000%) Windows Vista
4 1 (1.000%) BlackBerry OS
4 1 (1.000%) Windows 8
4 1 (1.000%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (33.00%) Agile Software Development
2 31 (31.00%) Automation Testing
3 30 (30.00%) BDD
4 25 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 24 (24.00%) Scrum
5 24 (24.00%) TDD
6 16 (16.00%) Test Scripting
6 16 (16.00%) Continuous Integration
7 15 (15.00%) Automated Testing
8 7 (7.000%) E-Commerce
8 7 (7.000%) Manual Testing
8 7 (7.000%) Web Testing
9 5 (5.000%) Integration Testing
9 5 (5.000%) Pair Programming
10 4 (4.000%) OO
10 4 (4.000%) Unit Testing
10 4 (4.000%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (3.000%) ETL
11 3 (3.000%) Regression Testing
11 3 (3.000%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 43 (43.00%) Java
2 24 (24.00%) Ruby
3 20 (20.00%) C#
4 19 (19.00%) SQL
5 8 (8.000%) JavaScript
6 7 (7.000%) Python
7 5 (5.000%) Shell Script
8 4 (4.000%) Perl
8 4 (4.000%) PHP
8 4 (4.000%) VBScript
8 4 (4.000%) VB
9 2 (2.000%) XQuery
9 2 (2.000%) Tcl
9 2 (2.000%) XPath
9 2 (2.000%) Bash shell
10 1 (1.000%) Groovy
10 1 (1.000%) PowerShell
10 1 (1.000%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 9 (9.000%) ISEB
2 4 (4.000%) Degree
3 3 (3.000%) ISTQB
3 3 (3.000%) Security Cleared
4 2 (2.000%) HND
5 1 (1.000%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (22.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.000%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (4.000%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (13.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.000%) IBM
3 3 (3.000%) Oracle
3 3 (3.000%) HP
4 2 (2.000%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.000%) Apple
5 1 (1.000%) VMware
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Rate: £275 - £375 per day
Posted: 13 May 2013
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