The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Tester role 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 Automation Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised 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
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Tester
Rank - 93 74
Contract jobs requiring an Automation Tester 0 1 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire - 0.063% 0.262%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.067% 0.279%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 3
Average daily rate - £325 £325
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £291 £325
% change year-on-year
+20.17% -10.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1183 1494 1077
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.49% 94.56% 94.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 600 835 501
Average daily rate £313 £338 £325
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.40% +3.84%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £200 £205
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 67 76
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% -
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.53 £10.30 £7.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £34.00 £32.50 £24.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%
Automation Tester
Yorkshire

Automation Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire 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 across the West Yorkshire region.

West Yorkshire Automation Tester Daily Rate Trend

Automation Tester
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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 4 (80.00%) Automation Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
3 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (40.00%) C#
3 2 (40.00%) VBScript
3 2 (40.00%) VB
4 1 (20.00%) ISEB
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) BDD
4 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
4 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Web Testing

Automation Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region 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.

Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) WebDriver
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Automation Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) TDD
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (20.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Web Accessibility
3 1 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
1 2 (40.00%) VBScript
1 2 (40.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) ISEB