The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hampshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 23 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 Hampshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 167 160 151
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 9 24 22
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 0.263% 0.625% 0.600%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.345% 0.816% 0.833%
Number of salaries quoted 8 20 19
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,550 £28,300 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £52,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Hampshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2606 2940 2642
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hampshire 76.11% 76.54% 72.03%
Number of salaries quoted 2202 2545 2224
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £66,500 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hampshire 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 Hampshire region.

Hampshire Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Hampshire Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the Hampshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Basingstoke -13 4 £45,000 -11.33%
Winchester - 1 £28,500 -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 15 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 12 (44.44%) Test Scripting
3 10 (37.04%) UNIX
4 9 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
5 8 (29.63%) QA
5 8 (29.63%) Oracle
6 7 (25.93%) Linux
6 7 (25.93%) ISEB
7 6 (22.22%) Python
8 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
8 5 (18.52%) SQL
8 5 (18.52%) HP
8 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
8 5 (18.52%) DNS
8 5 (18.52%) Test Management
8 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
8 5 (18.52%) ISTQB
8 5 (18.52%) Bash shell
9 4 (14.81%) Digital Media
9 4 (14.81%) Replication
9 4 (14.81%) Retail
9 4 (14.81%) Degree
9 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
9 4 (14.81%) Control-M
9 4 (14.81%) Project Management
9 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
9 4 (14.81%) .NET
9 4 (14.81%) MySQL
9 4 (14.81%) C++
9 4 (14.81%) SQL Server

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hampshire 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 4 (14.81%) .NET
1 4 (14.81%) XML
2 3 (11.11%) Swing
2 3 (11.11%) JDBC
2 3 (11.11%) JSP
2 3 (11.11%) SOAP
2 3 (11.11%) Web Services
2 3 (11.11%) Hibernate
2 3 (11.11%) JAXB
2 3 (11.11%) JSON
2 3 (11.11%) WebSphere
2 3 (11.11%) Velocity
2 3 (11.11%) Spring
2 3 (11.11%) JDO
2 3 (11.11%) REST
2 3 (11.11%) JAX-WS
3 1 (3.704%) LAMP
3 1 (3.704%) DOM
3 1 (3.704%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (3.704%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 3 (11.11%) Tomcat
1 3 (11.11%) WebSphere MQ
1 3 (11.11%) ESB
1 3 (11.11%) Windows Azure
1 3 (11.11%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.704%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 5 (18.52%) TCP/IP
1 5 (18.52%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (18.52%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (14.81%) MySQL
2 4 (14.81%) SQL Server
3 3 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (14.81%) Visual Studio
2 3 (11.11%) Ant
2 3 (11.11%) JUnit
2 3 (11.11%) Bugzilla
2 3 (11.11%) Log4j
2 3 (11.11%) Subversion
2 3 (11.11%) Maven
2 3 (11.11%) NetBeans
2 3 (11.11%) Hudson
2 3 (11.11%) Mockito
3 1 (3.704%) LabVIEW
3 1 (3.704%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (3.704%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 4 (14.81%) Retail
1 4 (14.81%) Telecoms
2 1 (3.704%) Electronics
2 1 (3.704%) Multimedia
Job Titles
1 10 (37.04%) Test Engineer
2 7 (25.93%) Test Manager
3 5 (18.52%) Test Analyst
3 5 (18.52%) Analyst
4 4 (14.81%) Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Java Developer
5 3 (11.11%) Senior Java Developer
6 2 (7.407%) Tester
7 1 (3.704%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Systems Analyst
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Tester
7 1 (3.704%) Software Test Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) QA Tester
7 1 (3.704%) PHP Developer
7 1 (3.704%) Technical Tester
7 1 (3.704%) Senior Test Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Test Development Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) QA Engineer
7 1 (3.704%) Systems Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (14.81%) Digital Media
1 4 (14.81%) Replication
2 3 (11.11%) Clustering
2 3 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (3.704%) MPEG
3 1 (3.704%) Derivative
3 1 (3.704%) SCADA
3 1 (3.704%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 10 (37.04%) UNIX
2 7 (25.93%) Linux
3 4 (14.81%) Windows
3 4 (14.81%) AIX
3 4 (14.81%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 12 (44.44%) Test Scripting
3 5 (18.52%) Test Management
4 4 (14.81%) Load Balancing
4 4 (14.81%) Project Management
4 4 (14.81%) ITIL
5 3 (11.11%) EAI
5 3 (11.11%) SOA
5 3 (11.11%) Workflow
5 3 (11.11%) Scrum
5 3 (11.11%) Web Testing
5 3 (11.11%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (11.11%) TDD
5 3 (11.11%) BDD
6 2 (7.407%) Automated Testing
7 1 (3.704%) MVC
7 1 (3.704%) UML
7 1 (3.704%) Software Engineering
7 1 (3.704%) Information Security
7 1 (3.704%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Python
2 5 (18.52%) PL/SQL
2 5 (18.52%) SQL
2 5 (18.52%) Bash shell
3 4 (14.81%) C++
4 3 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (11.11%) C#
5 1 (3.704%) C
5 1 (3.704%) PHP
5 1 (3.704%) PHP5
5 1 (3.704%) XPath
Qualifications
1 7 (25.93%) ISEB
2 5 (18.52%) ISTQB
3 4 (14.81%) Degree
4 1 (3.704%) HNC
4 1 (3.704%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (29.63%) QA
System Software
1 3 (11.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 9 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (14.81%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (29.63%) Oracle
2 5 (18.52%) HP
3 3 (11.11%) Microsoft
3 3 (11.11%) VMware