Test Engineer Contracts in West Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 89 84 -
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Engineer 3 11 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 0.234% 0.686% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.246% 0.724% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 0
Average daily rate £270 £306 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-11.83% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £309 £290 £280
% change year-on-year
+6.46% +3.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year
+7.14% -
All Job Titles
West Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 1218 1519 1029
As % of all contract IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 94.86% 94.70% 93.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 615 840 477
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 £213
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 67 76
Average hourly rate £12.75 £12.50 £12.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+2.00% +4.16%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £10.64 £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%
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Daily Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Engineer Daily Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Hourly Rate Trend

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

West Yorkshire Test Engineer Hourly Rate Trend

Test Engineer
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 21 May 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
Leeds -13 1 £325 +6.12%
Test Engineer
Yorkshire

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Test 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 Engineer in their job title.

1 4 (44.44%) IPTV
2 3 (33.33%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) STB
2 3 (33.33%) MS Project
2 3 (33.33%) MS Office
2 3 (33.33%) HND
2 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 3 (33.33%) MPEG
2 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 2 (22.22%) Tcl
3 2 (22.22%) Middleware
3 2 (22.22%) DVB
3 2 (22.22%) C
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) VBScript
3 2 (22.22%) VB
3 2 (22.22%) Selenium
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
4 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (11.11%) Video on Demand
4 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
4 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 1 (11.11%) CentOS
4 1 (11.11%) RTSP
4 1 (11.11%) QA
4 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Test 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 Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (22.22%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) soapUI
2 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) IIS
1 1 (11.11%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (33.33%) MS Project
1 3 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) DVB
2 1 (11.11%) RTSP
2 1 (11.11%) Firewall
2 1 (11.11%) FTP
2 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle BI EE
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
1 1 (11.11%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) IPTV
2 3 (33.33%) Computer Science
2 3 (33.33%) STB
2 3 (33.33%) MPEG
3 1 (11.11%) Video on Demand
3 1 (11.11%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Windows
2 1 (11.11%) CentOS
2 1 (11.11%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
1 2 (22.22%) Test Automation
2 1 (11.11%) Integration Testing
2 1 (11.11%) ETL
2 1 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Tcl
1 2 (22.22%) C
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
1 2 (22.22%) VBScript
1 2 (22.22%) VB
2 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) COBOL
2 1 (11.11%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) PL/SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) Degree
1 3 (33.33%) HND
2 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Oracle
2 1 (11.11%) VMware
2 1 (11.11%) Informatica
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