The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 22 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 Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 104 93 88
Rank change year-on-year
-11 -5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 8 7 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.473% 0.469% 0.153%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.638% 0.678% 0.240%
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 1
Average salary £40,000 £30,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% -29.41%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1254 1033 833
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 74.20% 69.14% 63.59%
Number of salaries quoted 1060 906 718
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £70,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
West Midlands

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Birmingham region.

Birmingham Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Birmingham Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Test Automation.

1 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (47.06%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
2 8 (47.06%) Subversion
3 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
3 7 (41.18%) .NET
3 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
3 7 (41.18%) Velocity
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
4 6 (35.29%) BDD
4 6 (35.29%) Hudson
4 6 (35.29%) Release Management
4 6 (35.29%) HP Quality Center
4 6 (35.29%) Confluence
4 6 (35.29%) ClearCase
4 6 (35.29%) HP
4 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
4 6 (35.29%) TDD
4 6 (35.29%) Maven
4 6 (35.29%) Requirements Analysis
4 6 (35.29%) JIRA
4 6 (35.29%) Bugzilla
5 5 (29.41%) QA
5 5 (29.41%) Microsoft
5 5 (29.41%) CSS
5 5 (29.41%) C#
5 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
5 5 (29.41%) jQuery
6 4 (23.53%) Web Services

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham 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 IT job ads sampled that cited Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
1 7 (41.18%) ASP.NET
1 7 (41.18%) Velocity
2 5 (29.41%) CSS
2 5 (29.41%) jQuery
3 4 (23.53%) Web Services
4 3 (17.65%) Ajax
4 3 (17.65%) HTML
4 3 (17.65%) HTML5
4 3 (17.65%) CSS3
5 2 (11.76%) ASP.NET MVC
5 2 (11.76%) WCF
5 2 (11.76%) WPF
5 2 (11.76%) WinForms
6 1 (5.882%) JSON
6 1 (5.882%) XML
6 1 (5.882%) ASP
6 1 (5.882%) SOAP
6 1 (5.882%) Dojo
Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Confluence
2 2 (11.76%) MSMQ
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Agresso
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (29.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (11.76%) GIS
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (11.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) Team Foundation Server
1 8 (47.06%) Subversion
2 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
2 6 (35.29%) Hudson
2 6 (35.29%) ClearCase
2 6 (35.29%) Maven
2 6 (35.29%) JIRA
2 6 (35.29%) Bugzilla
3 2 (11.76%) MSBuild
3 2 (11.76%) Git (software)
3 2 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 2 (11.76%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
2 1 (5.882%) Games
2 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) ScrumMaster
2 5 (29.41%) Developer
3 3 (17.65%) ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) QA Engineer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C# Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Senior Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C# .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 2 (11.76%) Quality Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Test Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Inversion of Control
1 2 (11.76%) Client/Server
1 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 2 (11.76%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Continuous Integration
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
3 7 (41.18%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (35.29%) BDD
4 6 (35.29%) Release Management
4 6 (35.29%) Configuration Management
4 6 (35.29%) TDD
4 6 (35.29%) Requirements Analysis
5 4 (23.53%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (17.65%) MVC
6 3 (17.65%) Web Development
7 2 (11.76%) Bug Management
7 2 (11.76%) Parallel Programming
7 2 (11.76%) Dependency Injection
7 2 (11.76%) Performance Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Unit Testing
7 2 (11.76%) CRM
7 2 (11.76%) AOP
7 2 (11.76%) Migration
8 1 (5.882%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
2 5 (29.41%) C#
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 2 (11.76%) Java
3 2 (11.76%) PHP
3 2 (11.76%) SQL
3 2 (11.76%) T-SQL
3 2 (11.76%) VB
3 2 (11.76%) VB.NET
3 2 (11.76%) PowerHouse
3 2 (11.76%) VB6
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (29.41%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (35.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) HP
2 5 (29.41%) Microsoft