The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Yorkshire 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 84 80 68
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -12
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 11 15 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.794% 0.881% 0.511%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.120% 1.187% 0.753%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 5
Average daily rate £213 £300 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-29.16% -36.84%
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £308
% change year-on-year
+8.33% -2.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £40.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year
-18.75% +66.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
982 1264 797
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 70.90% 74.22% 67.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 541 721 395
Average daily rate £320 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-8.57% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £219 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 34
Average hourly rate £29.25 £15.00 £22.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+95.00% -31.81%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.35 £11.64 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £39.60 £62.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Automated Testing across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Automated Testing across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 18 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
Leeds -3 11 £213 -29.16% 9
Pudsey - - - -
Wakefield - - - - 1
Wetherby - - - -
Bradford - - - -
Halifax - - - -
Huddersfield - - - -
Automated Testing
Yorkshire

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing.

1 18 (75.00%) Web Services
2 15 (62.50%) Scrum
2 15 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
3 14 (58.33%) JavaScript
4 13 (54.17%) C#
4 13 (54.17%) .NET
5 12 (50.00%) Selenium
6 10 (41.67%) Oracle
7 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
7 9 (37.50%) Web Development
7 9 (37.50%) .NET Framework
7 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
7 9 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
7 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 7 (29.17%) TDD
8 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
9 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
9 6 (25.00%) BDD
9 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
10 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
10 5 (20.83%) Security Testing
10 5 (20.83%) Git (software)
10 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
10 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
10 5 (20.83%) Amazon AWS
10 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
10 5 (20.83%) HTML5
10 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
10 5 (20.83%) Percona
10 5 (20.83%) Route 53

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 18 (75.00%) Web Services
2 13 (54.17%) .NET
3 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET
3 9 (37.50%) .NET Framework
3 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC
3 9 (37.50%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 5 (20.83%) CSS3
4 5 (20.83%) HTML5
4 5 (20.83%) JSON
4 5 (20.83%) jQuery
4 5 (20.83%) CSS
4 5 (20.83%) Ajax
5 4 (16.67%) XML
5 4 (16.67%) ASP
5 4 (16.67%) HTML
5 4 (16.67%) Gherkin
6 3 (12.50%) NHibernate
6 3 (12.50%) MDX
7 1 (4.167%) RESTful
7 1 (4.167%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon S3
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon AWS
1 5 (20.83%) Route 53
Applications
1 4 (16.67%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (20.83%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (20.83%) Internet
2 1 (4.167%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (20.83%) MySQL
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server
1 5 (20.83%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (20.83%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (20.83%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (20.83%) MongoDB
1 5 (20.83%) Redis
1 5 (20.83%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 12 (50.00%) Selenium
2 6 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 5 (20.83%) Git (software)
4 4 (16.67%) WebDriver
4 4 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 4 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 4 (16.67%) MSI
4 4 (16.67%) TeamCity
4 4 (16.67%) SpecFlow
5 2 (8.333%) JMeter
5 2 (8.333%) Subversion
6 1 (4.167%) JIRA
6 1 (4.167%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 1 (4.167%) Hudson
6 1 (4.167%) Xcode
6 1 (4.167%) CruiseControl
6 1 (4.167%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (4.167%) Ant
6 1 (4.167%) JUnit
General
1 2 (8.333%) Telecoms
1 2 (8.333%) Finance
2 1 (4.167%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 15 (62.50%) Developer
2 6 (25.00%) Tester
3 5 (20.83%) C# Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Web Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Front-End Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Front-End Web Developer
3 5 (20.83%) Mobile Developer
4 4 (16.67%) Agile Tester
4 4 (16.67%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) ASP.NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) .NET Developer
4 4 (16.67%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Business Intelligence Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Senior Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) Test Analyst
5 1 (4.167%) iOS Developer
5 1 (4.167%) Automated Tester
5 1 (4.167%) Test Leader
5 1 (4.167%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.333%) NHS
2 1 (4.167%) iPhone
2 1 (4.167%) iPad
2 1 (4.167%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (16.67%) Windows
2 1 (4.167%) Android
2 1 (4.167%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Scrum
1 15 (62.50%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (37.50%) Web Development
2 9 (37.50%) Dependency Injection
3 7 (29.17%) TDD
4 6 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (25.00%) BDD
5 5 (20.83%) Security Testing
5 5 (20.83%) Software Engineering
6 4 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 4 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (16.67%) OO
6 4 (16.67%) MVC
6 4 (16.67%) Agile Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 4 (16.67%) Kanban
7 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 2 (8.333%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (8.333%) Data Management
8 2 (8.333%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 14 (58.33%) JavaScript
2 13 (54.17%) C#
3 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 4 (16.67%) VB
4 1 (4.167%) VBA
4 1 (4.167%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 4 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) BC Cleared
2 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.50%) QA
System Software
1 4 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.167%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (41.67%) Oracle
2 7 (29.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (20.83%) Percona
4 4 (16.67%) VMware
5 1 (4.167%) HP
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