The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicestershire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Leicestershire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 73 66 60
Rank change year-on-year
-7 -6
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 8 9 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 1.151% 1.286% 0.379%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.590% 1.741% 0.541%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 2
Average salary £31,500 £33,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.54% -1.49%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £32,200 £28,700
10% offered a salary of more than £36,200 £45,000 £38,300
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicestershire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
503 517 370
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicestershire 72.37% 73.86% 70.08%
Number of salaries quoted 441 449 333
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
East Midlands

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region.

Leicestershire Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leicestershire 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 Leicestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Leicester -13 2 £33,000 -
Loughborough -4 1 £31,500 -8.69%
Automated Testing
East Midlands

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (41.67%) .NET
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
1 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 4 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) ISEB
3 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
3 3 (25.00%) QA
4 2 (16.67%) Selenium
4 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
4 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 2 (16.67%) JIRA
4 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
4 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (16.67%) MS Office
4 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 2 (16.67%) C++
4 2 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
5 1 (8.333%) Electronics
5 1 (8.333%) Device Driver
5 1 (8.333%) Perforce
5 1 (8.333%) Java

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicestershire 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 5 (41.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.333%) MFC
2 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET
2 1 (8.333%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 2 (16.67%) MS Office
1 2 (16.67%) MS Visio
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (16.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 4 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 2 (16.67%) Selenium
2 2 (16.67%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (16.67%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (8.333%) NUnit
General
1 1 (8.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (33.33%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Software Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Test Leader
3 2 (16.67%) Graduate Software Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Graduate
3 2 (16.67%) Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Applications Consultant
4 1 (8.333%) Team Leader
4 1 (8.333%) Senior Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Automated Tester
4 1 (8.333%) Lead Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (8.333%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 5 (41.67%) Windows
2 2 (16.67%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Agile Software Development
2 4 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 1 (8.333%) OO
4 1 (8.333%) Automation Testing
4 1 (8.333%) MSF
4 1 (8.333%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
4 1 (8.333%) Test Automation
4 1 (8.333%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (25.00%) SQL
3 2 (16.67%) C++
4 1 (8.333%) Java
4 1 (8.333%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.333%) PHP
4 1 (8.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Degree
2 3 (25.00%) ISEB
3 1 (8.333%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.333%) Perforce
2 1 (8.333%) IBM