Test Automation Contracts in the West Midlands
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 23 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Midlands 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
23 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 96 91 97
Rank change year-on-year
-5 +6
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 1 14 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.061% 0.622% 0.157%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.092% 0.980% 0.248%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 3 1
Average daily rate - £268 £500
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -46.50%
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £316 £350
% change year-on-year
+10.84% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1087 1429 1208
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the West Midlands 66.65% 63.54% 63.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 524 674 553
Average daily rate £340 £330 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+3.03% -5.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £230 £233 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £523 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 72 76
Average hourly rate £37.80 £20.26 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+86.62% -18.98%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Automation across the West Midlands region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

West Midlands Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Midlands Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Automation across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Test Automation also 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 that cited Test Automation.

1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
2 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (33.33%) C++
3 2 (33.33%) QA
3 2 (33.33%) Games
3 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
3 2 (33.33%) TDD
3 2 (33.33%) C
4 1 (16.67%) Banking
4 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) JIRA
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Selenium
4 1 (16.67%) GWT
4 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Android
4 1 (16.67%) iPhone
4 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 1 (16.67%) HTML5
4 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Midlands region citing Test Automation also 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 that cited Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) GWT
1 1 (16.67%) HTML5
1 1 (16.67%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (50.00%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (50.00%) Data Mining
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 1 (16.67%) PhoneGap
1 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
1 1 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (33.33%) Games
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Technical Leader
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) C# Software Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Software Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Development Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
1 1 (16.67%) iPhone
1 1 (16.67%) iPad
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile Banking
1 1 (16.67%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 2 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (16.67%) Scrum
2 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
2 1 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
2 1 (16.67%) BDD
2 1 (16.67%) Game Development
2 1 (16.67%) Functional Testing
2 1 (16.67%) User Stories
2 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
2 1 (16.67%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
1 4 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (33.33%) C++
2 2 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) HP
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