Test Automation Contracts in Yorkshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation 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 Test Automation over the 3 months to 24 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 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
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 79 104 86
Rank change year-on-year
+25 -18
Contract jobs citing Test Automation 31 8 12
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.668% 0.358% 0.656%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.426% 0.508% 1.040%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 0 5
Average daily rate £275 - £325
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 - £285
10% offered a daily rate of more than £295 - £400
UK excluding London average daily rate £344 £316 £350
% change year-on-year
+8.86% -9.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £23.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.50 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year
-23.52% +21.42%
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Yorkshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1278 1574 1154
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Yorkshire 68.78% 70.46% 63.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 868 548
Average daily rate £325 £350 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a daily rate of more than £225 £225 £225
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £455 £475
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 40 60
Average hourly rate £26.00 £16.50 £23.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+57.57% -29.78%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.00 £12.45 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £170.00 £32.50 £60.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Yorkshire Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Test Automation Daily Rate Trend

Test Automation
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Yorkshire Test Automation Daily Rate Histogram

Test Automation
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Yorkshire Test Automation Hourly Rate Trend

Test Automation
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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
West Yorkshire +29 30 £275 -
North Yorkshire - 1 - -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation.

1 30 (66.67%) Linux
2 27 (60.00%) Apache
2 27 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 27 (60.00%) Java
3 26 (57.78%) MySQL
3 26 (57.78%) Oracle
3 26 (57.78%) PHP
3 26 (57.78%) Web Services
3 26 (57.78%) Telecoms
4 25 (55.56%) Python
4 25 (55.56%) C++
4 25 (55.56%) Ruby
4 25 (55.56%) Kanban
4 25 (55.56%) nginx
4 25 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
4 25 (55.56%) Amazon S3
4 25 (55.56%) Amazon AWS
4 25 (55.56%) Bash shell
4 25 (55.56%) MongoDB
4 25 (55.56%) Node.js
4 25 (55.56%) Redis
4 25 (55.56%) Route 53
4 25 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
5 24 (53.33%) DNS
6 23 (51.11%) Perl
7 20 (44.44%) SSL
8 19 (42.22%) Security Testing
9 18 (40.00%) Internet
9 18 (40.00%) Configuration Management
9 18 (40.00%) Puppet

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 26 (57.78%) Web Services
2 25 (55.56%) Node.js
3 8 (17.78%) CSS
4 7 (15.56%) J2EE
4 7 (15.56%) SOAP
4 7 (15.56%) HTML5
4 7 (15.56%) jQuery
4 7 (15.56%) Hibernate
4 7 (15.56%) Spring
4 7 (15.56%) REST
4 7 (15.56%) CSS3
5 2 (4.444%) ASP
5 2 (4.444%) POSIX
5 2 (4.444%) LAMP
6 1 (2.222%) .NET
6 1 (2.222%) HTML
6 1 (2.222%) soapUI
6 1 (2.222%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 27 (60.00%) Apache
2 25 (55.56%) nginx
2 25 (55.56%) Amazon EC2
2 25 (55.56%) Amazon S3
2 25 (55.56%) Amazon AWS
2 25 (55.56%) Route 53
3 8 (17.78%) SharePoint
4 7 (15.56%) Tomcat
4 7 (15.56%) Apache Solr
4 7 (15.56%) Adobe CQ
5 6 (13.33%) SharePoint 2010
6 2 (4.444%) IIS
7 1 (2.222%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 13 (28.89%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 24 (53.33%) DNS
2 20 (44.44%) SSL
3 18 (40.00%) Internet
4 17 (37.78%) TCP/IP
4 17 (37.78%) DHCP
5 12 (26.67%) Intrusion Detection
6 11 (24.44%) HTTP
7 2 (4.444%) RTSP
7 2 (4.444%) DVB
8 1 (2.222%) VPN
8 1 (2.222%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (57.78%) MySQL
2 25 (55.56%) MongoDB
2 25 (55.56%) Redis
2 25 (55.56%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (4.444%) NoSQL
3 2 (4.444%) SimpleDB
3 2 (4.444%) SQL Server
3 2 (4.444%) RDBMS
3 2 (4.444%) Couchbase
Development Applications
1 9 (20.00%) Selenium
2 8 (17.78%) WebDriver
2 8 (17.78%) JIRA
3 7 (15.56%) Git (software)
3 7 (15.56%) Maven
3 7 (15.56%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.667%) Visual Studio
4 3 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (2.222%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle Forms
5 1 (2.222%) Rational Performance Tester
5 1 (2.222%) Oracle APEX
General
1 26 (57.78%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.444%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (22.22%) Developer
2 9 (20.00%) Operations Engineer
3 8 (17.78%) Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Test Analyst
4 7 (15.56%) Java Developer
5 5 (11.11%) Tester
6 3 (6.667%) QA Analyst
6 3 (6.667%) Test Engineer
7 2 (4.444%) QA Test Analyst
7 2 (4.444%) Linux Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Administrator
7 2 (4.444%) Performance Tester
7 2 (4.444%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Software Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Software Tester
8 1 (2.222%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Web Developer
8 1 (2.222%) Consultant
8 1 (2.222%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 27 (60.00%) Client/Server
2 2 (4.444%) IPTV
2 2 (4.444%) Video on Demand
3 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
3 1 (2.222%) Open Source
3 1 (2.222%) STB
Operating Systems
1 30 (66.67%) Linux
2 2 (4.444%) CentOS
2 2 (4.444%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (55.56%) Kanban
2 19 (42.22%) Security Testing
3 18 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 17 (37.78%) Load Balancing
5 16 (35.56%) Incident Management
5 16 (35.56%) Capacity Management
6 13 (28.89%) TDD
6 13 (28.89%) Scrum
7 10 (22.22%) BDD
8 9 (20.00%) Performance Testing
9 8 (17.78%) SOA
10 7 (15.56%) Software Engineering
11 4 (8.889%) User Stories
12 3 (6.667%) Disaster Recovery
13 2 (4.444%) Agile Software Development
13 2 (4.444%) Network Design
13 2 (4.444%) Waterfall
13 2 (4.444%) Continuous Integration
14 1 (2.222%) Agile Testing
14 1 (2.222%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 27 (60.00%) Java
2 26 (57.78%) PHP
3 25 (55.56%) Python
3 25 (55.56%) C++
3 25 (55.56%) Ruby
3 25 (55.56%) Bash shell
4 23 (51.11%) Perl
5 8 (17.78%) JavaScript
5 8 (17.78%) C#
6 2 (4.444%) C
6 2 (4.444%) SQL
7 1 (2.222%) VBScript
7 1 (2.222%) VB
7 1 (2.222%) VB.NET
7 1 (2.222%) COBOL
7 1 (2.222%) BeanShell
Qualifications
1 2 (4.444%) Degree
1 2 (4.444%) ISEB
2 1 (2.222%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 18 (40.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 26 (57.78%) Oracle
2 17 (37.78%) Percona
3 7 (15.56%) Adobe
3 7 (15.56%) hybris
4 1 (2.222%) HP
4 1 (2.222%) IBM
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