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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 35 - 22
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 2 0 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 1.136% - 5.042%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.370% - 5.941%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 6
Average salary £25,000 - £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
146 177 101
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 82.95% 75.64% 84.87%
Number of salaries quoted 132 164 99
Average salary £45,000 £40,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% +1.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £34,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £51,150 £71,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Hampshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 13 (100.00%) QA
2 12 (92.31%) MS Office
2 12 (92.31%) MS Exchange
2 12 (92.31%) Microsoft
2 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
3 11 (84.62%) Performance Testing
4 10 (76.92%) MS Excel
5 8 (61.54%) Software Testing
5 8 (61.54%) Manual Testing
6 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
7 1 (7.692%) C#
7 1 (7.692%) PHP
7 1 (7.692%) MySQL
7 1 (7.692%) MVC
7 1 (7.692%) LAMP
7 1 (7.692%) Information Security
7 1 (7.692%) XML
7 1 (7.692%) DOM
7 1 (7.692%) Linux
7 1 (7.692%) Apache
7 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
7 1 (7.692%) RESTful
7 1 (7.692%) Kohana
7 1 (7.692%) CodeIgniter
7 1 (7.692%) PHP5
7 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (7.692%) XPath
7 1 (7.692%) Degree

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 1 (7.692%) LAMP
1 1 (7.692%) XML
1 1 (7.692%) DOM
1 1 (7.692%) RESTful
1 1 (7.692%) Kohana
1 1 (7.692%) CodeIgniter
Application Platforms
1 12 (92.31%) MS Exchange
2 1 (7.692%) Apache
Applications
1 12 (92.31%) MS Office
2 10 (76.92%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) QA Tester
1 8 (61.54%) Tester
2 7 (53.85%) Administrator
2 7 (53.85%) Software Tester
3 5 (38.46%) Exchange Administrator
4 3 (23.08%) QA Engineer
5 2 (15.38%) IT Support
5 2 (15.38%) Systems Administrator
5 2 (15.38%) Systems Support
6 1 (7.692%) Manual Tester
6 1 (7.692%) Junior
6 1 (7.692%) Developer
6 1 (7.692%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.692%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Performance Testing
2 8 (61.54%) Software Testing
2 8 (61.54%) Manual Testing
3 1 (7.692%) MVC
3 1 (7.692%) Information Security
3 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
3 1 (7.692%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (7.692%) C#
2 1 (7.692%) PHP
2 1 (7.692%) PHP5
2 1 (7.692%) XPath
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 12 (92.31%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 12 (92.31%) Microsoft