The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the 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 19 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 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 103 101 99
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -2
Contract jobs citing Automated Testing 14 21 7
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 0.719% 0.866% 0.367%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.036% 1.222% 0.568%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 15 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
Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1352 1719 1232
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 69.40% 70.92% 64.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 748 932 619
Average daily rate £325 £346 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.93% -1.28%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £213 £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 53 47 61
Average hourly rate £37.50 £16.50 £25.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+127.27% -34.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.45 £12.50 £11.30
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £30.00 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Automated Testing
England

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 Yorkshire region.

Yorkshire Automated Testing Daily Rate Trend

Automated Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Yorkshire Automated Testing Daily Rate Histogram

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 Yorkshire region.

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 Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 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
West Yorkshire -2 11 £213 -29.16% 8
North Yorkshire 0 2 £330 +32.00% 5
South Yorkshire +3 1 £355 +54.34% 2
East Yorkshire - - - -
Automated Testing
England

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 19 (63.33%) Web Services
2 18 (60.00%) Scrum
3 16 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
4 15 (50.00%) JavaScript
5 13 (43.33%) C#
5 13 (43.33%) .NET
5 13 (43.33%) Selenium
6 11 (36.67%) Oracle
7 10 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
8 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
8 9 (30.00%) Web Development
8 9 (30.00%) .NET Framework
8 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
8 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
9 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
10 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
10 7 (23.33%) TDD
10 7 (23.33%) XML
10 7 (23.33%) JSON
10 7 (23.33%) QA
10 7 (23.33%) BDD
11 6 (20.00%) HTML5
11 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
11 6 (20.00%) CSS
12 5 (16.67%) MySQL
12 5 (16.67%) Internet
12 5 (16.67%) MVC
12 5 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
12 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
12 5 (16.67%) SQL

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the 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 19 (63.33%) Web Services
2 13 (43.33%) .NET
3 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 9 (30.00%) .NET Framework
3 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET
3 9 (30.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 7 (23.33%) XML
4 7 (23.33%) JSON
5 6 (20.00%) HTML5
5 6 (20.00%) CSS
6 5 (16.67%) HTML
6 5 (16.67%) jQuery
6 5 (16.67%) Ajax
6 5 (16.67%) CSS3
7 4 (13.33%) Gherkin
7 4 (13.33%) ASP
8 3 (10.00%) J2EE
8 3 (10.00%) MDX
8 3 (10.00%) NHibernate
9 2 (6.667%) REST
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon EC2
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon AWS
1 5 (16.67%) Route 53
2 1 (3.333%) Apache
2 1 (3.333%) Tomcat
2 1 (3.333%) Jetty
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (16.67%) MySQL
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server
1 5 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft Analysis Services
1 5 (16.67%) MongoDB
1 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Analysis Services
1 5 (16.67%) Amazon RDS
1 5 (16.67%) Redis
2 1 (3.333%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (43.33%) Selenium
2 8 (26.67%) Jenkins
3 5 (16.67%) Subversion
3 5 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 4 (13.33%) SpecFlow
4 4 (13.33%) TeamCity
4 4 (13.33%) WebDriver
4 4 (13.33%) Visual Studio
4 4 (13.33%) MSI
5 3 (10.00%) Maven
5 3 (10.00%) Hudson
6 2 (6.667%) PhoneGap
6 2 (6.667%) Ant
6 2 (6.667%) JUnit
6 2 (6.667%) JMeter
7 1 (3.333%) Xcode
7 1 (3.333%) CruiseControl
7 1 (3.333%) QuickTest Pro
7 1 (3.333%) Eclipse
General
1 2 (6.667%) Telecoms
1 2 (6.667%) Finance
2 1 (3.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 18 (60.00%) Developer
2 8 (26.67%) Tester
3 6 (20.00%) Web Developer
4 5 (16.67%) C# Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Mobile Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Front-End Developer
4 5 (16.67%) Front-End Web Developer
5 4 (13.33%) Agile Tester
5 4 (13.33%) C# ASP.NET Developer
5 4 (13.33%) C# .NET Developer
5 4 (13.33%) .NET Developer
5 4 (13.33%) ASP.NET Developer
6 3 (10.00%) Analyst
6 3 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 2 (6.667%) Android Developer
7 2 (6.667%) QA Analyst
8 1 (3.333%) Senior Developer
8 1 (3.333%) Software Tester
8 1 (3.333%) Java Developer
8 1 (3.333%) QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.00%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (6.667%) Open Source
2 2 (6.667%) NHS
3 1 (3.333%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.333%) iPad
3 1 (3.333%) iPhone
3 1 (3.333%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 4 (13.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) Android
3 1 (3.333%) Linux
3 1 (3.333%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Scrum
2 16 (53.33%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (33.33%) Dependency Injection
4 9 (30.00%) Web Development
5 7 (23.33%) TDD
5 7 (23.33%) BDD
6 6 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
7 5 (16.67%) MVC
7 5 (16.67%) OO
7 5 (16.67%) Security Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
7 5 (16.67%) Software Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Agile Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Manual Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Kanban
8 4 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Performance Testing
9 3 (10.00%) Test Scripting
10 2 (6.667%) Test Strategy
10 2 (6.667%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 13 (43.33%) C#
3 5 (16.67%) SQL
4 4 (13.33%) VB
5 3 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (3.333%) Objective-C
6 1 (3.333%) PL/SQL
6 1 (3.333%) VBA
Qualifications
1 4 (13.33%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) BC Cleared
2 3 (10.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (3.333%) ISEB
3 1 (3.333%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (23.33%) QA
System Software
1 4 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (3.333%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 11 (36.67%) Oracle
2 7 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 5 (16.67%) Percona
4 4 (13.33%) VMware
5 1 (3.333%) HP
5 1 (3.333%) JBoss
York, North Yorkshire
olid software design and engineering experience and techniques as well as experience in consuming JSON and XML interfaces in Android apps - REST and SOAP... with Continuous Build approaches...
Ioko
Posted: 12 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
Front End Web/Mobile developersOpus Recruitment Solutions are urgently seeking 2 Front end web/Mobile developers for an initial 6 month contract, for a global outfit- The sucessful...
OPUS
Rate: GBP175 to GBP275 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You will have experience developing large scale web and mobile using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript/JQuery... , Experience - HTML5, JSON, AJAX, Javascript, JQuery, CSS2/3 - working within an web...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £175 to £275 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
You will have experience developing large scale web and mobile using HTML5, CSS3 and Javascript/JQuery... , Experience - HTML5, JSON, AJAX, Javascript, JQuery, CSS2/3 - working within an web...
Opus Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Rate: £175 to £275 per day
Posted: 17 June 2013
East Riding
My client is a leading eCommerce client based in Yorkshire and are looking to add an experienced JavaScript developer to an already existing team on a contract basis.
Timothy James Consulting Ltd
Rate: £225 - £250 per day
Posted: 14 June 2013
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