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

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 46 61 50
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -11
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 11 2 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.594% 0.394% 1.205%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.116% 0.522% 1.667%
Number of salaries quoted 11 1 4
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £56,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% -37.77%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
353 383 240
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 83.25% 75.54% 72.29%
Number of salaries quoted 318 337 201
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,700 £28,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £65,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Merseyside

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 14 (82.35%) Selenium
2 11 (64.71%) PHP
2 11 (64.71%) Manual Testing
2 11 (64.71%) Mobile App
3 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (58.82%) Behat
3 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
3 10 (58.82%) User Stories
3 10 (58.82%) Java
3 10 (58.82%) Web Development
3 10 (58.82%) QA
3 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
3 10 (58.82%) WebDriver
3 10 (58.82%) Open Source
3 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
3 10 (58.82%) Hudson
3 10 (58.82%) Apache
3 10 (58.82%) ISEB
3 10 (58.82%) FitNesse
3 10 (58.82%) ISTQB
3 10 (58.82%) JMeter
3 10 (58.82%) Scrum
3 10 (58.82%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
4 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 4 (23.53%) Load Testing
4 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
4 4 (23.53%) TestComplete
5 1 (5.882%) Symfony

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 1 (5.882%) Symfony
1 1 (5.882%) .NET
1 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
1 1 (5.882%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 10 (58.82%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) MySQL
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2000
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 14 (82.35%) Selenium
2 10 (58.82%) Behat
2 10 (58.82%) Jenkins
2 10 (58.82%) WebDriver
2 10 (58.82%) Cucumber
2 10 (58.82%) Hudson
2 10 (58.82%) FitNesse
2 10 (58.82%) JMeter
3 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (23.53%) TestComplete
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) Software Engineer
2 4 (23.53%) Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Test Analyst
2 4 (23.53%) Automated Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Manual Test Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Software Tester
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Tester
4 1 (5.882%) PHP Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Tester
4 1 (5.882%) PHP MySQL Developer
4 1 (5.882%) Lead Tester
4 1 (5.882%) Senior Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (64.71%) Mobile App
2 10 (58.82%) Open Source
3 1 (5.882%) N-Tier
3 1 (5.882%) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Manual Testing
2 10 (58.82%) Continuous Integration
2 10 (58.82%) User Stories
2 10 (58.82%) Web Development
2 10 (58.82%) Test Automation
2 10 (58.82%) Scrum
2 10 (58.82%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (23.53%) Regression Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Load Testing
3 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
4 1 (5.882%) TDD
4 1 (5.882%) Software Testing
4 1 (5.882%) OO
4 1 (5.882%) MVC
4 1 (5.882%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 11 (64.71%) PHP
2 10 (58.82%) Java
3 4 (23.53%) SQL
4 1 (5.882%) PHP5
4 1 (5.882%) C#
Qualifications
1 10 (58.82%) ISEB
1 10 (58.82%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (58.82%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.882%) Zend
1 1 (5.882%) Telerik
1 1 (5.882%) Microsoft