The first table below looks at the demand for the Testing Engineer role in IT contracts advertised for the Wales region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Testing Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 Wales 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Testing Engineer
Rank - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Engineer 0 0 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales - - -
As % of the Job Titles category - - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Average daily rate - - -
UK excluding London average daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
Wales
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
399 536 602
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Wales 93.44% 93.38% 92.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 259 274
Average daily rate £330 £345 £338
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-4.34% +2.22%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £210 £155 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £499 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 30 27 33
Average hourly rate £15.00 £14.50 £21.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+3.44% -30.95%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.34 £10.75 £10.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £37.50 £20.00 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Testing Engineer
UK

Testing Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wales Testing Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Testing Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited Testing 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 Testing Engineer in their job title.

1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins

Testing Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Wales region that cited Testing 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 Testing Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Communications & Networking
1 1 (100.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) CruiseControl
1 1 (100.00%) Subversion
1 1 (100.00%) WATIR
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) Firebug
1 1 (100.00%) TeamCity
1 1 (100.00%) Git (software)
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Hudson
1 1 (100.00%) Capybara
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Windows
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) OO
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Ruby
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Perforce