The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 79 81 92
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 5 9 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.467% 0.661% 0.574%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.617% 0.899% 0.726%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 6
Average salary £47,500 £35,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+35.71% -30.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
810 1001 1239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.63% 73.49% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 477 699 869
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 £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
Scotland

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 9 (64.29%) Software Testing
3 7 (50.00%) ISTQB
3 7 (50.00%) ISEB
4 6 (42.86%) HP
4 6 (42.86%) QA
5 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
5 4 (28.57%) Eclipse
5 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
6 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
6 3 (21.43%) Build Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
6 3 (21.43%) Java
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
6 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (21.43%) Banking
6 3 (21.43%) Subversion
6 3 (21.43%) Maven
6 3 (21.43%) Matrix Management
6 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (14.29%) jQuery
7 2 (14.29%) Degree
7 2 (14.29%) JIRA
7 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
7 2 (14.29%) Selenium
7 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
7 2 (14.29%) Spring
7 2 (14.29%) Retail
7 2 (14.29%) MVC
7 2 (14.29%) Hibernate

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (14.29%) jQuery
1 2 (14.29%) Spring MVC
1 2 (14.29%) Spring
1 2 (14.29%) Hibernate
1 2 (14.29%) J2EE
1 2 (14.29%) HTML
1 2 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (7.143%) ASP.NET
2 1 (7.143%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (14.29%) IIS
1 2 (14.29%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (7.143%) MS Excel
1 1 (7.143%) MS Office
Development Applications
1 4 (28.57%) Eclipse
1 4 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 3 (21.43%) Subversion
2 3 (21.43%) Maven
3 2 (14.29%) JIRA
3 2 (14.29%) Selenium
3 2 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (14.29%) LoadRunner
4 1 (7.143%) WebDriver
4 1 (7.143%) Cucumber
4 1 (7.143%) Concordion
4 1 (7.143%) Ant
4 1 (7.143%) JUnit
General
1 12 (85.71%) Finance
2 3 (21.43%) Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Retail Banking
3 2 (14.29%) Retail
4 1 (7.143%) Legal
Job Titles
1 5 (35.71%) Test Team Leader
1 5 (35.71%) Team Leader
2 4 (28.57%) Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Test Leader
3 1 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
3 1 (7.143%) Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Test Consultant
3 1 (7.143%) Systems Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.143%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Software Testing
2 4 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (21.43%) Test Strategy
3 3 (21.43%) Build Automation
3 3 (21.43%) Configuration Management
3 3 (21.43%) Scrum
3 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (21.43%) Matrix Management
3 3 (21.43%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (14.29%) MVC
4 2 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
4 2 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (7.143%) Waterfall
5 1 (7.143%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (7.143%) Automation Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Service Delivery
5 1 (7.143%) TDD
5 1 (7.143%) Automated Testing
5 1 (7.143%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Java
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.143%) Groovy
3 1 (7.143%) C#
3 1 (7.143%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 7 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle Certification
2 2 (14.29%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (42.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (7.143%) Puppet
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) Oracle
2 2 (14.29%) JBoss
3 1 (7.143%) Microsoft