The first table below looks at the demand for the Test 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 Test 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
Test Automation Engineer
Rank 318 318 -
Rank change year-on-year
0 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 3 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.026% 0.038% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.028% 0.041% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £46,250 £43,750
% change year-on-year
-29.72% +5.71%
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%
Test Automation Engineer
London

Test Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Test Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

City of London Test Automation Engineer Salary Trend

Test 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 Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 4 (80.00%) Java
3 3 (60.00%) JUnit
3 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
3 3 (60.00%) TestNG
4 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (40.00%) Open Source
4 2 (40.00%) Scrum
4 2 (40.00%) QA
4 2 (40.00%) Perl
4 2 (40.00%) Python
4 2 (40.00%) TDD
4 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
4 2 (40.00%) Subversion
4 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
4 2 (40.00%) BDD
5 1 (20.00%) soapUI
5 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
5 1 (20.00%) Spring
5 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 1 (20.00%) Front Office
5 1 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (20.00%) UNIX
5 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (20.00%) C#
5 1 (20.00%) HTML
5 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development

Test 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 Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (20.00%) soapUI
1 1 (20.00%) Spring
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) JUnit
2 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (60.00%) TestNG
3 2 (40.00%) TeamCity
3 2 (40.00%) Subversion
3 2 (40.00%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (20.00%) Front Office
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Open Source
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (20.00%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) UNIX
1 1 (20.00%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) TDD
2 2 (40.00%) Pair Programming
2 2 (40.00%) BDD
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (20.00%) Algorithmic Trading
3 1 (20.00%) Performance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) Java
2 2 (40.00%) Perl
2 2 (40.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) SQL
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (20.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA