The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 19 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 35 46 -
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 16 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 4.923% 0.690% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.306% 0.844% -
Number of salaries quoted 16 2 0
Average salary £42,500 £45,250 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.07% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
219 237 230
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 67.38% 81.72% 74.68%
Number of salaries quoted 200 208 219
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Suffolk

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich 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 Ipswich region.

Ipswich Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Ipswich region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Ipswich Automated Testing Salary Histogram

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 15 (78.95%) C#
1 15 (78.95%) .NET
2 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET
2 13 (68.42%) WCF
3 9 (47.37%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (47.37%) TDD
4 6 (31.58%) Windows
5 4 (21.05%) OLAP
5 4 (21.05%) VSS/SourceSafe
5 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
5 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
5 4 (21.05%) LINQ
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 4 (21.05%) QA
5 4 (21.05%) Selenium
6 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
6 3 (15.79%) jQuery
6 3 (15.79%) CSS
6 3 (15.79%) ISEB
7 2 (10.53%) OO
7 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
7 2 (10.53%) Oracle
7 2 (10.53%) Java
7 2 (10.53%) SQL
7 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
7 2 (10.53%) Games
7 2 (10.53%) Test Automation

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich 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 15 (78.95%) .NET
2 13 (68.42%) ASP.NET
2 13 (68.42%) WCF
3 4 (21.05%) LINQ
4 3 (15.79%) Hibernate
4 3 (15.79%) jQuery
4 3 (15.79%) CSS
5 1 (5.263%) NHibernate
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.263%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (68.42%) SQL Server
2 4 (21.05%) OLAP
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server 2008
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Analysis Services
2 4 (21.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle 8/8i
4 1 (5.263%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (21.05%) VSS/SourceSafe
1 4 (21.05%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (21.05%) Selenium
2 2 (10.53%) SpecFlow
2 2 (10.53%) JIRA
3 1 (5.263%) Bugzilla
3 1 (5.263%) NUnit
General
1 2 (10.53%) Games
2 1 (5.263%) Finance
Job Titles
1 13 (68.42%) Developer
2 12 (63.16%) Lead .NET Developer
2 12 (63.16%) Lead Developer
2 12 (63.16%) .NET Developer
3 10 (52.63%) Software Developer
4 9 (47.37%) Lead Software Developer
4 9 (47.37%) .NET Software Developer
5 4 (21.05%) Analyst
5 4 (21.05%) Test Analyst
6 3 (15.79%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (15.79%) C# .NET Developer
6 3 (15.79%) Lead SQL Server Developer
6 3 (15.79%) C# Developer
6 3 (15.79%) SQL Developer
6 3 (15.79%) SQL Server Developer
7 2 (10.53%) Tester
7 2 (10.53%) Automation Tester
8 1 (5.263%) QA Test Analyst
8 1 (5.263%) QA Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Online Games
2 1 (5.263%) Mobile Games
Operating Systems
1 6 (31.58%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server 2008
3 1 (5.263%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (47.37%) Agile Software Development
1 9 (47.37%) TDD
2 2 (10.53%) OO
2 2 (10.53%) Test Automation
2 2 (10.53%) Unit Testing
2 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
3 1 (5.263%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 15 (78.95%) C#
2 2 (10.53%) Java
2 2 (10.53%) SQL
2 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) ISEB
2 1 (5.263%) Degree
2 1 (5.263%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (21.05%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.263%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Oracle
1 2 (10.53%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.263%) VMware