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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Analyst
Rank 767 737 799
Rank change year-on-year
-30 +62
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Analyst 63 126 60
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.062% 0.111% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.117% 0.054%
Number of salaries quoted 55 112 44
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £61,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
+8.10% +2.77%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95250 107641 110251
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.45% 94.76% 94.31%
Number of salaries quoted 80210 93021 93605
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Automation Analyst
UK

Automation Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Automation Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Analyst
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automation Analyst across the England region.

England Automation Analyst Salary Trend

Automation Analyst
Salary Histogram

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

England Automation Analyst Salary Histogram

Automation Analyst
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Analyst within the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +1 29 £47,500 +11.76%
South West -1 9 £40,000 +7.93%
Yorkshire -22 8 £40,000 +14.28%
South East -10 6 £35,750 -10.62%
East of England +1 4 £55,000 +37.50%
East Midlands -3 3 £37,000 +1.36%
West Midlands -17 3 £35,000 +12.00%
North West - 1 £33,000 -
Automation Analyst
UK

Automation Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Automation Analyst 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 Automation Analyst in their job title.

1 106 (71.62%) Selenium
2 79 (53.38%) QA
3 60 (40.54%) Automated Testing
4 59 (39.86%) Test Automation
5 58 (39.19%) Java
6 56 (37.84%) Agile Software Development
7 50 (33.78%) ISEB
8 42 (28.38%) SQL
9 41 (27.70%) QuickTest Pro
10 40 (27.03%) Finance
10 40 (27.03%) Scrum
11 38 (25.68%) .NET
12 32 (21.62%) Automation Testing
13 31 (20.95%) Test Scripting
13 31 (20.95%) E-Commerce
14 29 (19.59%) C#
14 29 (19.59%) Open Source
15 28 (18.92%) WebDriver
15 28 (18.92%) Cucumber
15 28 (18.92%) XML
16 26 (17.57%) Software Testing
16 26 (17.57%) FitNesse
17 25 (16.89%) Android
18 24 (16.22%) Robotium
18 24 (16.22%) ISTQB
18 24 (16.22%) Python
19 23 (15.54%) Internet
20 22 (14.86%) TDD
21 21 (14.19%) Ruby
21 21 (14.19%) MS Excel

Automation Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Automation Analyst 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 Automation Analyst in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 38 (25.68%) .NET
2 28 (18.92%) XML
3 17 (11.49%) ASP.NET
4 16 (10.81%) soapUI
5 12 (8.108%) CSS
6 10 (6.757%) .NET Framework
7 8 (5.405%) HTML
7 8 (5.405%) SOAP
8 7 (4.730%) XHTML
9 5 (3.378%) Web Services
10 2 (1.351%) Middleware
11 1 (0.676%) Spring
11 1 (0.676%) Ajax
11 1 (0.676%) WPF
11 1 (0.676%) HTML5
11 1 (0.676%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 3 (2.027%) LiveSite
2 1 (0.676%) Confluence
Applications
1 21 (14.19%) MS Excel
2 4 (2.703%) MS Office
3 3 (2.027%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 23 (15.54%) Internet
2 4 (2.703%) HTTP
3 1 (0.676%) LAN
3 1 (0.676%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (7.432%) SQL Server
2 8 (5.405%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (4.730%) SQL Server 2000
3 7 (4.730%) SQL Server 2005
4 3 (2.027%) TOAD
5 2 (1.351%) Big Data
6 1 (0.676%) RDBMS
6 1 (0.676%) DB2
Development Applications
1 106 (71.62%) Selenium
2 41 (27.70%) QuickTest Pro
3 28 (18.92%) WebDriver
3 28 (18.92%) Cucumber
4 26 (17.57%) FitNesse
5 24 (16.22%) Robotium
6 21 (14.19%) MonkeyTalk
7 10 (6.757%) JIRA
8 8 (5.405%) Visual Studio
8 8 (5.405%) SpecFlow
9 5 (3.378%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.378%) JMeter
10 3 (2.027%) Xcode
10 3 (2.027%) Eclipse
10 3 (2.027%) JUnit
10 3 (2.027%) WATIR
10 3 (2.027%) Team Foundation Server
11 2 (1.351%) MSTest
11 2 (1.351%) TestComplete
11 2 (1.351%) TestNG
General
1 40 (27.03%) Finance
2 14 (9.459%) Banking
3 8 (5.405%) Publishing
4 7 (4.730%) Investment Banking
5 2 (1.351%) Advertising
5 2 (1.351%) Front Office
6 1 (0.676%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.676%) Legal
6 1 (0.676%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 29 (19.59%) Open Source
2 15 (10.14%) Mobile App
3 12 (8.108%) Social Network
4 10 (6.757%) Social Media
4 10 (6.757%) Digital Media
5 7 (4.730%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.730%) N-Tier
6 3 (2.027%) Blackberry
6 3 (2.027%) iPhone
7 2 (1.351%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.676%) SaaS
8 1 (0.676%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.676%) Equities
8 1 (0.676%) Derivative
8 1 (0.676%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.676%) EPoS
8 1 (0.676%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 25 (16.89%) Android
2 7 (4.730%) Apple iOS
2 7 (4.730%) UNIX
2 7 (4.730%) Windows
3 4 (2.703%) Linux
4 3 (2.027%) Windows 8
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (40.54%) Automated Testing
2 59 (39.86%) Test Automation
3 56 (37.84%) Agile Software Development
4 40 (27.03%) Scrum
5 32 (21.62%) Automation Testing
6 31 (20.95%) Test Scripting
6 31 (20.95%) E-Commerce
7 26 (17.57%) Software Testing
8 22 (14.86%) TDD
9 21 (14.19%) BDD
10 16 (10.81%) Validation
11 14 (9.459%) Performance Testing
12 12 (8.108%) Unit Testing
13 11 (7.432%) OO
14 8 (5.405%) Regression Testing
14 8 (5.405%) User Acceptance Testing
14 8 (5.405%) Manual Testing
15 7 (4.730%) System Testing
15 7 (4.730%) Test Strategy
16 6 (4.054%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 58 (39.19%) Java
2 42 (28.38%) SQL
3 29 (19.59%) C#
4 24 (16.22%) Python
5 21 (14.19%) Ruby
6 19 (12.84%) VBScript
7 13 (8.784%) VBA
8 11 (7.432%) VB
9 8 (5.405%) JavaScript
10 6 (4.054%) Perl
10 6 (4.054%) C++
11 4 (2.703%) C
12 3 (2.027%) Groovy
13 2 (1.351%) PHP
14 1 (0.676%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.676%) Scala
14 1 (0.676%) Bash shell
14 1 (0.676%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 50 (33.78%) ISEB
2 24 (16.22%) ISTQB
3 4 (2.703%) Degree
4 1 (0.676%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (53.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (9.459%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (2.703%) BladeLogic
2 4 (2.703%) Opalis
3 1 (0.676%) SCCM
3 1 (0.676%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (12.84%) HP
2 15 (10.14%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.027%) Oracle
3 3 (2.027%) BMC
3 3 (2.027%) Twitter
4 1 (0.676%) CA
4 1 (0.676%) Perforce
4 1 (0.676%) Telerik
4 1 (0.676%) Facebook
4 1 (0.676%) Citrix
City of London
Automation Test Analyst (C# Platform, Selenium) London Up to £40,000+Bonus+Benefits+Package A successful Financial software provider for the Foreign Exchange market is currently looking for...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bonus+Benefits+package
Posted: 19 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
Knowledge of other test automation tools (such as Selenium) would be advantageous * A knowledge of VBScript, SQL and MS Excel (including formulae and VBA macros), XML, DOS/Shell *...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 13 May 2013
Fareham, Hampshire
Our Information Management team, 230-strong over two sites, has a hugely important part to play in modernising and streamlining the Office for National Statistics... For the Office...
Office for National Statistics
Salary: From £25,460 to £31,180 per annum (plus benefits and pension)
Posted: 26 April 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
To develop and maintain some Manual test scripts in HP QC to supplement the test AUTOMATION scripts. - Mentor other QA staff in the use of HP QTP, test...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
YOUR SKILLS AND EXPERIENCE: The successful candidate will have the following essential qualities and skills: 2.1 in a relevant degree (mathematics, statistics, economics, physics) Experience using or...
Harnham
Salary: £32000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013