The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Automation Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Automation Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Rank 316 320 -
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 5 3 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.043% 0.023% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.025% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 3 0
Average salary £45,000 £57,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.73% -
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-10.63% +10.58%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
QA Automation Engineer
London

QA Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London QA Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer across the City of London region.

City of London QA Automation Engineer Salary Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London QA Automation Engineer Salary Histogram

QA Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited QA Automation Engineer in their job title 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 with QA Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 17 (100.00%) QA
2 13 (76.47%) Selenium
3 11 (64.71%) Java
4 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
5 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
6 8 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
6 8 (47.06%) SQL
6 8 (47.06%) Finance
6 8 (47.06%) Open Source
7 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
7 7 (41.18%) Performance Testing
8 6 (35.29%) JUnit
8 6 (35.29%) BDD
8 6 (35.29%) WebDriver
9 5 (29.41%) SpecFlow
9 5 (29.41%) Python
9 5 (29.41%) HTTP
9 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
9 5 (29.41%) JIRA
10 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
10 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
10 4 (23.53%) JMeter
10 4 (23.53%) Degree
11 3 (17.65%) JBehave
11 3 (17.65%) Gherkin
11 3 (17.65%) User Stories
11 3 (17.65%) Hudson
11 3 (17.65%) soapUI
11 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
11 3 (17.65%) PeopleCode

QA Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited QA Automation Engineer in their job title 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 with QA Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (17.65%) Gherkin
1 3 (17.65%) soapUI
1 3 (17.65%) HTML
1 3 (17.65%) Spring
2 1 (5.882%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (17.65%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.882%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (29.41%) HTTP
2 2 (11.76%) BSS
Development Applications
1 13 (76.47%) Selenium
2 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
3 6 (35.29%) JUnit
3 6 (35.29%) WebDriver
4 5 (29.41%) SpecFlow
4 5 (29.41%) JIRA
5 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
5 4 (23.53%) JMeter
6 3 (17.65%) JBehave
6 3 (17.65%) Hudson
6 3 (17.65%) TestNG
6 3 (17.65%) Maven
6 3 (17.65%) Subversion
7 1 (5.882%) LoadRunner
7 1 (5.882%) WebLOAD
7 1 (5.882%) FitNesse
7 1 (5.882%) jMock
7 1 (5.882%) JSUnit
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
3 1 (5.882%) Games
3 1 (5.882%) Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Open Source
2 2 (11.76%) Blog
3 1 (5.882%) Online Games
3 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (52.94%) Test Automation
2 8 (47.06%) Agile Software Development
3 7 (41.18%) Performance Testing
4 6 (35.29%) BDD
5 5 (29.41%) Automated Testing
6 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
7 3 (17.65%) User Stories
7 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
7 3 (17.65%) Scrum
7 3 (17.65%) Regression Testing
7 3 (17.65%) ETL
7 3 (17.65%) OO
7 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
7 3 (17.65%) Integration Testing
8 2 (11.76%) Security Testing
8 2 (11.76%) CRM
9 1 (5.882%) Automation Testing
9 1 (5.882%) Agile Testing
9 1 (5.882%) OOP
9 1 (5.882%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) Java
2 8 (47.06%) SQL
3 7 (41.18%) JavaScript
4 5 (29.41%) Python
5 3 (17.65%) PeopleCode
5 3 (17.65%) Perl
5 3 (17.65%) C#
6 2 (11.76%) VBScript
7 1 (5.882%) VB
7 1 (5.882%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ISEB
3 1 (5.882%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
City, London
QA Automation Engineer - High calibre expanding tech city company are looking for an experienced QA Automation Engineer to work on world leading, high profile social / online game testing.....
Connectus
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013