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Test Automation Engineer 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 Test Automation Engineer role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Automation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation Engineer
Rank 529 564 584
Rank change year-on-year
+35 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 12 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.025% 0.026% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.027% 0.028% 0.010%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 5
Average daily rate £315 £290 £375
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.62% -22.66%
UK excluding London average daily rate £275 £280 -
% change year-on-year
-1.78% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
Average hourly rate £28.25 £32.25 -
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.40% -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £28.25 £32.25 -
% change year-on-year
-12.40% -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 45063 52855 57510
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.16% 92.46% 92.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 25972 29220 31540
Average daily rate £400 £400 £420
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
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 2142 2525 2941
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 £41.77 £40.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Test Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

Test Automation Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Test Automation Engineer Daily Rate Histogram

Test Automation Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Test Automation Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation Engineer
Top 15 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
England +28 12 £315 +8.62% 4
London +23 3 £375 +25.00% 2
South East - 3 £278 - 2
East of England +12 2 - -
South West - 1 - -
Bristol - - - -
Milton Keynes - - - -
Nottingham - - - -
Buckinghamshire - - - -
Essex - - - -
Gloucestershire - - - -
Kent - - - - 1
Nottinghamshire - - - -
City of London - - - -
East Midlands - - - -

Test Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 12 (66.67%) Selenium
3 8 (44.44%) Java
4 7 (38.89%) Python
5 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 6 (33.33%) Finance
5 6 (33.33%) WebDriver
5 6 (33.33%) QA
6 5 (27.78%) Automation Testing
7 4 (22.22%) BDD
7 4 (22.22%) soapUI
7 4 (22.22%) TDD
7 4 (22.22%) Web Services
7 4 (22.22%) C#
8 3 (16.67%) HTML
8 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
8 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
8 3 (16.67%) Perl
8 3 (16.67%) OO
8 3 (16.67%) Ruby
8 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
8 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
9 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
9 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Groovy
9 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
9 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
9 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
9 2 (11.11%) FitNesse
9 2 (11.11%) Scrum

Test Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 4 (22.22%) soapUI
1 4 (22.22%) Web Services
2 3 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (11.11%) XML
3 2 (11.11%) Middleware
4 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
4 1 (5.556%) SOAP
4 1 (5.556%) .NET
4 1 (5.556%) jQuery
4 1 (5.556%) .NET Framework
4 1 (5.556%) Java EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) GlassFish
Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Endur
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) Internet
2 1 (5.556%) 3G
2 1 (5.556%) 3GPP
2 1 (5.556%) DHCP
2 1 (5.556%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) 2G
2 1 (5.556%) RNC
2 1 (5.556%) Wireshark
2 1 (5.556%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.556%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 12 (66.67%) Selenium
2 6 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 2 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 2 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 2 (11.11%) FitNesse
4 2 (11.11%) JUnit
4 2 (11.11%) Eclipse
4 2 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (5.556%) Ant
5 1 (5.556%) Bugzilla
5 1 (5.556%) Subversion
5 1 (5.556%) Maven
5 1 (5.556%) jMock
5 1 (5.556%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 1 (5.556%) Valgrind
5 1 (5.556%) MSBuild
5 1 (5.556%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.556%) WatiN
5 1 (5.556%) JSUnit
General
1 6 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (5.556%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.556%) Manufacturing
2 1 (5.556%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.556%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (5.556%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 6 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (27.78%) Automation Testing
4 4 (22.22%) BDD
4 4 (22.22%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) OO
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 2 (11.11%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) Regression Testing
7 1 (5.556%) UML
7 1 (5.556%) OOP
7 1 (5.556%) OOD
7 1 (5.556%) SOA
7 1 (5.556%) Validation
7 1 (5.556%) Automated Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Fault Management
7 1 (5.556%) Unit Testing
7 1 (5.556%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (44.44%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) Python
3 4 (22.22%) C#
4 3 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 3 (16.67%) Perl
4 3 (16.67%) Ruby
4 3 (16.67%) PowerShell
5 2 (11.11%) Groovy
6 1 (5.556%) C++
6 1 (5.556%) PHP
6 1 (5.556%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 2 (11.11%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.556%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.556%) SAP
1 1 (5.556%) Oracle
1 1 (5.556%) MKS
1 1 (5.556%) Perforce
Test Automation Engineer - Hampshire - Complex/Selenium
Hampshire
Automated testing on complex Web Applications at the Data, Web Service and GUI layer... - Selenium RC, SoapUI and LoadUI. - Experience scripting in the following languages: C#, Groovy. - XML,...
Parallel Consulting
Rate: £280 per day
Posted: 13 June 2013
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