Test Automation Jobs in Cambridge
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 17 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 Cambridge region.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 97 87 112
Rank change year-on-year
-10 +25
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 30 38 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 1.594% 1.920% 0.550%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.294% 2.969% 0.821%
Number of salaries quoted 25 36 10
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,500 £30,000 £28,850
10% offered a salary of more than £76,000 £45,000 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 1308 1280 1461
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 69.50% 64.68% 66.99%
Number of salaries quoted 1123 1083 1306
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,450 £30,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
Cambridgeshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge 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 Cambridge region.

Cambridge Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Cambridge region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cambridge Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 35 (48.61%) QA
2 34 (47.22%) Software Testing
2 34 (47.22%) Python
3 28 (38.89%) C++
4 27 (37.50%) UNIX
5 26 (36.11%) Linux
6 23 (31.94%) C
6 23 (31.94%) Degree
7 16 (22.22%) Perl
8 14 (19.44%) Java
8 14 (19.44%) Windows
8 14 (19.44%) Computer Science
9 13 (18.06%) Agile Software Development
9 13 (18.06%) Automated Testing
9 13 (18.06%) ISEB
10 10 (13.89%) Mathematics
11 9 (12.50%) Visual Studio
12 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
12 8 (11.11%) C#
12 8 (11.11%) Manual Testing
13 7 (9.722%) Test Scripting
13 7 (9.722%) OO
13 7 (9.722%) Scrum
14 6 (8.333%) Validation
14 6 (8.333%) TDD
15 5 (6.944%) Physics
15 5 (6.944%) WATIR
15 5 (6.944%) Selenium
15 5 (6.944%) Bugzilla
15 5 (6.944%) Eclipse

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge 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 5 (6.944%) Web Services
2 3 (4.167%) HTML
3 2 (2.778%) .NET
3 2 (2.778%) STL
3 2 (2.778%) Boost C++ Libraries
4 1 (1.389%) HTML5
4 1 (1.389%) Natural Language Processing
4 1 (1.389%) Flash
4 1 (1.389%) Ajax
4 1 (1.389%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 4 (5.556%) MediaWiki
Applications
1 4 (5.556%) MS Office
1 4 (5.556%) Google Apps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.778%) HTTP
1 2 (2.778%) TCP/IP
1 2 (2.778%) Wireless
2 1 (1.389%) STUN
2 1 (1.389%) VLAN
2 1 (1.389%) iSCSI
2 1 (1.389%) xDSL
2 1 (1.389%) Fibre Channel
2 1 (1.389%) Broadband
2 1 (1.389%) Ethernet
2 1 (1.389%) DNS
2 1 (1.389%) SSL
2 1 (1.389%) IPv6
2 1 (1.389%) Internet
2 1 (1.389%) 3G
2 1 (1.389%) X.509
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.556%) Data Mining
1 4 (5.556%) Text Mining
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) Visual Studio
2 5 (6.944%) Eclipse
2 5 (6.944%) Bugzilla
2 5 (6.944%) JUnit
2 5 (6.944%) WATIR
2 5 (6.944%) Selenium
2 5 (6.944%) GCC
2 5 (6.944%) SCons
3 4 (5.556%) GoogleTest
3 4 (5.556%) Mercurial
4 1 (1.389%) TestComplete
4 1 (1.389%) Ant
4 1 (1.389%) NUnit
4 1 (1.389%) JIRA
General
1 4 (5.556%) Electronics
2 3 (4.167%) Multimedia
3 2 (2.778%) Games
4 1 (1.389%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (1.389%) Finance
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Tester
2 25 (34.72%) Software Engineer
3 23 (31.94%) Test Engineer
4 18 (25.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 14 (19.44%) Junior
6 13 (18.06%) Senior Tester
7 12 (16.67%) Junior Tester
8 6 (8.333%) Developer
9 5 (6.944%) Software Developer
9 5 (6.944%) Senior Developer
9 5 (6.944%) QA Tester
9 5 (6.944%) Senior Software Developer
10 4 (5.556%) QA Analyst
10 4 (5.556%) Analyst
11 3 (4.167%) Senior Software Engineer
11 3 (4.167%) Technical Leader
11 3 (4.167%) Senior QA Tester
12 2 (2.778%) Junior Analyst
12 2 (2.778%) Software Manager
12 2 (2.778%) Senior QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (19.44%) Computer Science
2 10 (13.89%) Mathematics
3 5 (6.944%) Physics
4 4 (5.556%) Semantic Web
4 4 (5.556%) Visualisation
4 4 (5.556%) Grid Computing
5 2 (2.778%) Augmented Reality
5 2 (2.778%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.389%) Streaming Media
6 1 (1.389%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.389%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 27 (37.50%) UNIX
2 26 (36.11%) Linux
3 14 (19.44%) Windows
4 1 (1.389%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (47.22%) Software Testing
2 13 (18.06%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (18.06%) Automated Testing
3 8 (11.11%) Manual Testing
4 7 (9.722%) Test Scripting
4 7 (9.722%) Scrum
4 7 (9.722%) OO
5 6 (8.333%) TDD
5 6 (8.333%) Validation
6 5 (6.944%) Software Architecture
7 4 (5.556%) Continuous Integration
7 4 (5.556%) Software Engineering
7 4 (5.556%) OOP
8 3 (4.167%) Test Strategy
8 3 (4.167%) Automation Testing
9 2 (2.778%) Feature Driven Development
9 2 (2.778%) Game Development
9 2 (2.778%) Kanban
9 2 (2.778%) Unit Testing
9 2 (2.778%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Python
2 28 (38.89%) C++
3 23 (31.94%) C
4 16 (22.22%) Perl
5 14 (19.44%) Java
6 8 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 8 (11.11%) C#
7 4 (5.556%) Ruby
8 2 (2.778%) SQL
9 1 (1.389%) VB.NET
9 1 (1.389%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 23 (31.94%) Degree
2 13 (18.06%) ISEB
3 3 (4.167%) Postgraduate
4 2 (2.778%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.389%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 35 (48.61%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.389%) XenServer
Vendors
1 5 (6.944%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.556%) Google
3 1 (1.389%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.389%) Adobe
3 1 (1.389%) Perforce
3 1 (1.389%) Progress
Test Lead / Senior Tester
Cambridge, East Anglia
Job Role: Test Lead / Senior Tester Location: CambridgeSalary: £40k to £55k + benefitsTest Lead / Senior Tester (Automation / Automated Testing, Selenium, Grinder, JMeter, Python, C++/Java). Bright, articulate Tester with...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Test Lead / Senior Tester
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Requirements: Automated testing experience (having used tools such as Selenium, Grinder, JMeter, JUnit, HttpUnit) and have experience of writing custom scripts using Java, Python and / or C++ Ability...
Client Server
Salary: £40k to £55k + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Software Test Developer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
2+ years recent experience of C# programming - 1+ years recent experience of software testing - Testing and/or developing applications based on Microsoft technologies - Unit testing libraries (for example,...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: From £28,000 to £40,000 per annum + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
QA Engineer - Mobile Products
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
QA Engineer - Software QA, Linux, IP, Wi-Fi, Mobile. A fantastic opportunity for an experienced Software QA professional with mobile software knowledge to get involved in technical Android...
Anderson Lamb
Salary: From £30,000 to £50,000 per annum plus benefits package
Posted: 13 May 2013
Software Test Engineer - Automation, C++, Python
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Although an element of manual testing is involved, the main focus is on the design and development of a comprehensive set of automated tests using an internally-developed...
Ability Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Share Options, BUPA
Posted: 13 May 2013
Senior Engineer,Software
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The Test Automation Software is written in the Python scripting language and also makes use of high level languages such as C and C++... Develop and maintain Automated...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Software Engineer (Automated Test, C, C++, Python)
Cambridge, East Anglia
Software Engineer (Test Design, C, C++ Python)Location: CambridgeSalary: up to £50KSkills: Python, C++, C, Test Design, Automated, EmbeddedOur client, a world-renowned blue-chip company, is seeking...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Shares, Private medical, pension
Posted: 4 May 2013
Senior Software Developer (C++)
Cambridge, East Anglia
This is a great opportunity to join a highly successful, rapidly growing company.Key responsibilities for the Senior C++ Software Engineer:Participation the full development life cycle: Requirement...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + Flexi-time, pension, health
Posted: 4 May 2013
Senior Engineer, Software - Compilers and Tool Chains
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
GCC machine descriptions).It will also involve scripting for build and test automation using GNU make, Python and occasionally a little Perl... A good understanding of C++ Python...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Test Automation Engineer - Wireless Embedded Software
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Requirements: To be successful with this role you will have: - Good degree in a relevant technical discipline - Experience of Python or other scripting language - Experience in test automation...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013
Senior Software Tools Engineer - C / C++, Linux, Python / Ruby, Tools, compilers / debuggers / IDEs, Cambridge, £DOE + Benefits
Cambridge, East Anglia
This role will involve writing, debugging, and maintaining software for Linux (and occasionally in Windows) in C and C++, with the use of scripting for build and test...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: £DOE + Benefits
Posted: 23 April 2013
Senior Engineer - Test, Characterisation, Validation, Scripting
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Requirements: - Degree qualified in maths / science / electronics / software. - Proven commercial experience in one or more scripting or programming language - especially Python, Perl, or C / C++... - Experience or understanding...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to c£45k + benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Software Test Engineer
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Development and maintance of the existing test automation system using Python... Person Specification Experience within testing of wireless or Bluetooth devices... Proven experience of Python scripting/programming language.....
Vertex Solutions
Salary: £25000.00 - £40000.00 per annum
Posted: 13 May 2013
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