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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 114 110 91
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -19
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 30 38 74
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.236% 1.515% 2.281%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.620% 2.056% 2.990%
Number of salaries quoted 24 32 66
Average salary £45,000 £41,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.43% +3.75%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1852 1848 2475
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 76.28% 73.65% 76.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1469 1501 1990
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £31,250 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
East of England

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region.

Hertfordshire Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Hertfordshire Automated Testing Salary Histogram

Automated Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Hertford - 13 £45,000 -
Watford +6 6 - -
Welwyn Garden City -15 6 £35,000 -
Hemel Hempstead -2 1 £32,500 -21.68%
Royston - 1 £40,000 -
Automated Testing
East of England

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 40 (65.57%) SQL
2 38 (62.30%) Scrum
3 32 (52.46%) Agile Software Development
4 28 (45.90%) C++
5 24 (39.34%) C#
6 23 (37.70%) .NET
7 21 (34.43%) QA
8 20 (32.79%) SQL Server
8 20 (32.79%) User Stories
9 19 (31.15%) E-Commerce
10 18 (29.51%) ISEB
10 18 (29.51%) Java
10 18 (29.51%) MVC
10 18 (29.51%) ASP.NET MVC
11 16 (26.23%) JMeter
12 15 (24.59%) WinForms
12 15 (24.59%) Selenium
12 15 (24.59%) WPF
12 15 (24.59%) Retail
12 15 (24.59%) ASP.NET
12 15 (24.59%) Client/Server
12 15 (24.59%) N-Tier
12 15 (24.59%) Waterfall
13 14 (22.95%) HP Quality Center
13 14 (22.95%) XML
14 13 (21.31%) TDD
14 13 (21.31%) ATL
14 13 (21.31%) COM+
14 13 (21.31%) Linux
14 13 (21.31%) MFC

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 23 (37.70%) .NET
2 18 (29.51%) ASP.NET MVC
3 15 (24.59%) WinForms
3 15 (24.59%) ASP.NET
3 15 (24.59%) WPF
4 14 (22.95%) XML
5 13 (21.31%) ATL
5 13 (21.31%) COM+
5 13 (21.31%) MFC
6 6 (9.836%) J2EE
6 6 (9.836%) WebSphere
7 5 (8.197%) HTML
8 3 (4.918%) SOAP
8 3 (4.918%) Flash
8 3 (4.918%) NHibernate
8 3 (4.918%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
8 3 (4.918%) ASP.NET MVC 3
8 3 (4.918%) Razor View Engine
8 3 (4.918%) .NET Framework
8 3 (4.918%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 4 (6.557%) CMS
2 3 (4.918%) WebSphere Application Server
2 3 (4.918%) Tomcat
2 3 (4.918%) MQSeries
2 3 (4.918%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 3 (4.918%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.557%) Internet
2 3 (4.918%) HTTP
2 3 (4.918%) HTTPS
3 2 (3.279%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (32.79%) SQL Server
2 6 (9.836%) DB2
3 3 (4.918%) DbVisualizer
4 2 (3.279%) SQL Server 2000
4 2 (3.279%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 16 (26.23%) JMeter
2 15 (24.59%) Selenium
3 10 (16.39%) QuickTest Pro
4 8 (13.11%) Ant
5 5 (8.197%) NUnit
5 5 (8.197%) WatiN
6 4 (6.557%) Visual Studio
7 3 (4.918%) LoadRunner
7 3 (4.918%) CruiseControl
7 3 (4.918%) MSTest
7 3 (4.918%) MSBuild
8 2 (3.279%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 15 (24.59%) Retail
2 11 (18.03%) Finance
3 8 (13.11%) Pharmaceutical
4 6 (9.836%) Manufacturing
5 5 (8.197%) Banking
6 3 (4.918%) Retail Banking
7 2 (3.279%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (29.51%) Developer
2 16 (26.23%) C# Developer
3 15 (24.59%) Test Engineer
3 15 (24.59%) Tester
4 14 (22.95%) C++ Developer
4 14 (22.95%) C++/C# Developer
5 13 (21.31%) C# Software Developer
5 13 (21.31%) Senior C++ Developer
5 13 (21.31%) Senior Software Developer
5 13 (21.31%) C++ Software Developer
5 13 (21.31%) Senior C# Developer
5 13 (21.31%) Software Developer
5 13 (21.31%) Senior Developer
6 11 (18.03%) Analyst
6 11 (18.03%) Test Analyst
7 8 (13.11%) Senior Test Engineer
8 7 (11.48%) QA Engineer
9 5 (8.197%) Web Tester
10 3 (4.918%) Junior Tester
10 3 (4.918%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 15 (24.59%) Client/Server
1 15 (24.59%) N-Tier
2 2 (3.279%) EPoS
2 2 (3.279%) EMV
2 2 (3.279%) Chip and PIN
2 2 (3.279%) APACS
2 2 (3.279%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 13 (21.31%) Linux
2 12 (19.67%) UNIX
3 9 (14.75%) Windows
4 3 (4.918%) AIX
5 2 (3.279%) Windows Server 2003
5 2 (3.279%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (62.30%) Scrum
2 32 (52.46%) Agile Software Development
3 20 (32.79%) User Stories
4 19 (31.15%) E-Commerce
5 18 (29.51%) MVC
6 15 (24.59%) Waterfall
7 13 (21.31%) TDD
8 12 (19.67%) Regression Testing
8 12 (19.67%) System Testing
8 12 (19.67%) Test Automation
9 10 (16.39%) Software Testing
10 8 (13.11%) V-Model
11 7 (11.48%) BDD
11 7 (11.48%) Load Testing
11 7 (11.48%) OO
11 7 (11.48%) Automation Testing
12 6 (9.836%) Agile Testing
12 6 (9.836%) Web Testing
12 6 (9.836%) Test Strategy
13 5 (8.197%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (65.57%) SQL
2 28 (45.90%) C++
3 24 (39.34%) C#
4 18 (29.51%) Java
5 9 (14.75%) Shell Script
6 8 (13.11%) Ruby
7 7 (11.48%) C
8 5 (8.197%) JavaScript
9 2 (3.279%) T-SQL
9 2 (3.279%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 18 (29.51%) ISEB
2 12 (19.67%) ISTQB
3 2 (3.279%) Degree
4 1 (1.639%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (34.43%) QA
Systems Management
1 14 (22.95%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (13.11%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.48%) HP
2 7 (11.48%) Nortel
2 7 (11.48%) Avaya
2 7 (11.48%) Cisco
3 6 (9.836%) IBM
4 3 (4.918%) Oracle
4 3 (4.918%) JBoss
4 3 (4.918%) Sun
Watford, Hertfordshire
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