The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Automated Testing 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 Woking 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
Automated Testing
Rank 13 17 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 2 1 0
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 4.651% 1.639% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.714% 2.222% -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 0
Average daily rate £375 £280 -
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+33.92% -
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £328 £323
% change year-on-year
-0.76% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £42.50 £40.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+6.25% +35.59%
All Processes & Methodologies
Woking
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
35 45 41
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Woking 81.40% 73.77% 73.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 27 29
Average daily rate £375 £320 £335
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+17.18% -4.47%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £325 £253 £260
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £425
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 0
Average hourly rate - £40.00 -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.45 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+21.78% -13.79%
Automated Testing
Surrey

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking 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 Woking region.

Woking Automated Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 2 (66.67%) XML
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Financials
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Law
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
2 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
2 1 (33.33%) Games

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Woking 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 2 (66.67%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) SOAP
Business Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle Financials
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
1 1 (33.33%) Bugzilla
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Law
2 1 (33.33%) Games
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Developer
1 2 (66.67%) ETL Developer
1 2 (66.67%) Senior ETL Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 2 (66.67%) ERP
1 2 (66.67%) ETL
1 2 (66.67%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (66.67%) Oracle