The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Harrogate region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Harrogate region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 23 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 14 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 5.622% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.292% - -
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Harrogate
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
192 128 159
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Harrogate 77.11% 67.02% 65.70%
Number of salaries quoted 159 101 129
Average salary £42,500 £32,500 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.76% +4.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £18,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £37,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
North Yorkshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Harrogate 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 Harrogate region.

Harrogate Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Harrogate region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Harrogate Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 24 (100.00%) C#
2 22 (91.67%) Java
2 22 (91.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 22 (91.67%) LoadRunner
2 22 (91.67%) QA
2 22 (91.67%) Selenium
3 18 (75.00%) Automated Testing
4 14 (58.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (8.333%) TDD
5 2 (8.333%) Scrum
5 2 (8.333%) Extreme Programming
5 2 (8.333%) SEO
5 2 (8.333%) Systems Analysis
5 2 (8.333%) HTML
5 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET
5 2 (8.333%) CSS
5 2 (8.333%) XML
5 2 (8.333%) XSLT
5 2 (8.333%) PHP
5 2 (8.333%) PL/SQL
5 2 (8.333%) SQL
5 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
5 2 (8.333%) VBScript
5 2 (8.333%) VB
5 2 (8.333%) .NET
5 2 (8.333%) MySQL
5 2 (8.333%) Oracle
5 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET 2.0
5 2 (8.333%) WordPress
5 2 (8.333%) Waterfall

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Harrogate 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 (8.333%) HTML
1 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET
1 2 (8.333%) CSS
1 2 (8.333%) XML
1 2 (8.333%) XSLT
1 2 (8.333%) .NET
1 2 (8.333%) ASP.NET 2.0
2 1 (4.167%) Flash
2 1 (4.167%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 2 (8.333%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (4.167%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.333%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (91.67%) QuickTest Pro
1 22 (91.67%) LoadRunner
1 22 (91.67%) Selenium
2 14 (58.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (4.167%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (4.167%) Finance
Job Titles
1 22 (91.67%) Tester
2 13 (54.17%) Automation Tester
3 9 (37.50%) Automated Tester
4 6 (25.00%) QA Tester
5 2 (8.333%) Developer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.167%) Social Media
1 1 (4.167%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (75.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (8.333%) TDD
2 2 (8.333%) Scrum
2 2 (8.333%) Extreme Programming
2 2 (8.333%) SEO
2 2 (8.333%) Systems Analysis
2 2 (8.333%) Waterfall
3 1 (4.167%) Release Management
3 1 (4.167%) Content Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (100.00%) C#
2 22 (91.67%) Java
3 2 (8.333%) PHP
3 2 (8.333%) PL/SQL
3 2 (8.333%) SQL
3 2 (8.333%) T-SQL
3 2 (8.333%) VBScript
3 2 (8.333%) VB
4 1 (4.167%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (91.67%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (8.333%) Oracle
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Automation/Tester/Agile/QA/Harrogate/Selenium/QTP/Loadrunner/Cucumber... You will have an excellent knowledge of automated test tools ( Selenium, QTP, Loadrunner, Cucumber etc ) to work on their...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013