The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 75 74 86
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +12
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 12 18 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 1.131% 1.327% 0.656%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.508% 1.829% 0.830%
Number of salaries quoted 7 8 7
Average salary £40,000 £38,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.22% +29.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,000 £33,950 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £48,000 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
796 984 1205
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.02% 72.57% 79.07%
Number of salaries quoted 466 691 848
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Scotland

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Edinburgh Automated Testing Salary Histogram

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing.

1 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 12 (37.50%) .NET
2 12 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
3 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 11 (34.38%) C#
4 9 (28.13%) Oracle
4 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET
4 9 (28.13%) CSS
4 9 (28.13%) jQuery
5 8 (25.00%) WCF
6 7 (21.88%) Selenium
6 7 (21.88%) XPath
6 7 (21.88%) Web Services
6 7 (21.88%) XML
6 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
6 7 (21.88%) OO
6 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
6 7 (21.88%) Finance
7 6 (18.75%) HTML5
7 6 (18.75%) Regular Expression
8 5 (15.63%) SWIFT
8 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
8 5 (15.63%) Ajax
8 5 (15.63%) TDD
8 5 (15.63%) MVC
8 5 (15.63%) Linux
8 5 (15.63%) XQuery
8 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
8 5 (15.63%) OOD
8 5 (15.63%) JUnit

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (37.50%) .NET
2 9 (28.13%) ASP.NET
2 9 (28.13%) CSS
2 9 (28.13%) jQuery
3 8 (25.00%) WCF
4 7 (21.88%) Web Services
4 7 (21.88%) XML
5 6 (18.75%) HTML5
5 6 (18.75%) Regular Expression
6 5 (15.63%) Ajax
6 5 (15.63%) .NET Framework
7 4 (12.50%) HTML
8 3 (9.375%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (6.250%) Spring MVC
9 2 (6.250%) Hibernate
9 2 (6.250%) Spring
9 2 (6.250%) Servlets
10 1 (3.125%) JSON
10 1 (3.125%) iPhone SDK
10 1 (3.125%) REST
Applications
1 2 (6.250%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.125%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.88%) SQL Server
2 2 (6.250%) MySQL
3 1 (3.125%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Selenium
2 5 (15.63%) JUnit
3 3 (9.375%) Eclipse
4 2 (6.250%) JMeter
4 2 (6.250%) Subversion
4 2 (6.250%) Maven
4 2 (6.250%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.125%) WatiN
5 1 (3.125%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.125%) MSTest
5 1 (3.125%) Cucumber
5 1 (3.125%) Concordion
5 1 (3.125%) Jenkins
5 1 (3.125%) ReSharper
5 1 (3.125%) Firebug
5 1 (3.125%) Bugzilla
5 1 (3.125%) CruiseControl
5 1 (3.125%) Visual Studio
5 1 (3.125%) TestDirector
5 1 (3.125%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 7 (21.88%) Finance
2 1 (3.125%) Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Test Analyst
2 10 (31.25%) Developer
3 7 (21.88%) .NET Developer
4 6 (18.75%) Test Engineer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior C# Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior .NET Developer
5 5 (15.63%) C# .NET Developer
5 5 (15.63%) C# Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Senior Developer
5 5 (15.63%) Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Software Engineer
7 3 (9.375%) Software Tester
7 3 (9.375%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (9.375%) Software Test Engineer
8 2 (6.250%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (6.250%) Senior Software Test Engineer
8 2 (6.250%) Software Test Analyst
9 1 (3.125%) Test Leader
9 1 (3.125%) C# Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) SWIFT
2 2 (6.250%) Mobile App
2 2 (6.250%) Computer Science
3 1 (3.125%) iPhone
3 1 (3.125%) SaaS
3 1 (3.125%) Blackberry
Operating Systems
1 5 (15.63%) Linux
2 3 (9.375%) UNIX
2 3 (9.375%) Windows
3 1 (3.125%) Android
3 1 (3.125%) Windows Phone
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (37.50%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (21.88%) OO
3 5 (15.63%) OOD
3 5 (15.63%) TDD
3 5 (15.63%) MVC
4 4 (12.50%) Software Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Regression Testing
4 4 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
4 4 (12.50%) Scrum
5 3 (9.375%) System Testing
5 3 (9.375%) Validation
5 3 (9.375%) Web Development
5 3 (9.375%) Refactoring
5 3 (9.375%) Unit Testing
6 2 (6.250%) Test Management
6 2 (6.250%) Test Scripting
6 2 (6.250%) Compatibility Testing
6 2 (6.250%) V-Model
6 2 (6.250%) Waterfall
6 2 (6.250%) Web Application Development
Programming Languages
1 15 (46.88%) JavaScript
2 11 (34.38%) C#
2 11 (34.38%) SQL
3 7 (21.88%) XPath
4 5 (15.63%) XQuery
5 4 (12.50%) Java
6 2 (6.250%) Python
6 2 (6.250%) VBScript
7 1 (3.125%) VB.NET
7 1 (3.125%) Perl
7 1 (3.125%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (12.50%) ISEB
3 3 (9.375%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.125%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.125%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (3.125%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (3.125%) Puppet
Vendors
1 9 (28.13%) Oracle
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.125%) Symbian
Edinburgh, Midlothian
The successful Senior Automated Test Engineer will be experienced in the following areas; -Testing within an Agile environment -Design and development of automated tests and systems using a...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + top package
Posted: 13 May 2013
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Responsibilities: perform system and user acceptance testing. perform manual and automated testing... implement and maintain test environments and perform compatibility testing... QAComplete and TestComplete) knowledge of testing methodologies...
Advantage XPO
Posted: 14 May 2013