The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank - 40 28
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 0 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough - 0.418% 2.479%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.559% 2.885%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 3
Average salary - £32,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -31.57%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
156 179 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 83.42% 74.90% 85.95%
Number of salaries quoted 141 166 102
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £34,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £51,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
Hampshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) PHP5
1 1 (100.00%) Kohana
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) DOM
1 1 (100.00%) LAMP
1 1 (100.00%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (100.00%) Kohana
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 1 (100.00%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Developer
1 1 (100.00%) PHP Developer
Operating Systems
1 1 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Information Security
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (100.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) PHP
1 1 (100.00%) XPath
1 1 (100.00%) PHP5
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA