The first table below looks at the demand for the Automation Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automation Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automation Tester
Rank 534 570 572
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +2
Permanent jobs requiring an Automation Tester 63 71 46
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.145% 0.132% 0.081%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.155% 0.141% 0.087%
Number of salaries quoted 57 70 39
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £34,750 £38,300
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £36,250
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -0.68%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40625 50517 53034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.40% 93.86% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 34197 43879 44601
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Automation Tester across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

London Automation Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Automation Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automation Tester across the London region.

London Automation Tester Salary Trend

Automation Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automation Tester across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Automation Tester Salary Histogram

Automation Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Tester within the London 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
City of London +15 23 £57,500 +21.05%
Docklands, London - 2 £75,000 -
Kingston Upon Thames - 2 £26,000 -
Isleworth - 1 £45,000 -
Automation Tester
England

Automation Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Automation Tester in their job title 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 with Automation Tester in their job title.

1 101 (78.91%) Selenium
2 77 (60.16%) QA
3 65 (50.78%) Test Automation
4 62 (48.44%) WebDriver
5 60 (46.88%) Agile Software Development
6 52 (40.63%) SQL
7 47 (36.72%) Scrum
8 46 (35.94%) Java
9 44 (34.38%) C#
9 44 (34.38%) BDD
10 43 (33.59%) TDD
11 39 (30.47%) QuickTest Pro
12 36 (28.13%) Cucumber
13 34 (26.56%) Automation Testing
14 31 (24.22%) Finance
15 29 (22.66%) Test Scripting
16 24 (18.75%) .NET
17 21 (16.41%) E-Commerce
17 21 (16.41%) Ruby
17 21 (16.41%) Open Source
18 20 (15.63%) LoadRunner
18 20 (15.63%) JMeter
18 20 (15.63%) Python
19 19 (14.84%) JUnit
19 19 (14.84%) Performance Testing
19 19 (14.84%) SpecFlow
19 19 (14.84%) Gherkin
20 16 (12.50%) OO
21 15 (11.72%) UNIX
22 14 (10.94%) Linux

Automation Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Automation Tester in their job title 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 with Automation Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (18.75%) .NET
2 19 (14.84%) Gherkin
3 10 (7.813%) soapUI
4 9 (7.031%) SOAP
5 8 (6.250%) XML
6 7 (5.469%) J2EE
7 5 (3.906%) ASP.NET
8 4 (3.125%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.563%) HTML
9 2 (1.563%) Web Services
10 1 (0.781%) LAMP
10 1 (0.781%) CSS
10 1 (0.781%) JSON
10 1 (0.781%) Django
10 1 (0.781%) RESTful
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.906%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.781%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (2.344%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.563%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.125%) HTTP
2 1 (0.781%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.031%) RDBMS
2 2 (1.563%) MySQL
2 2 (1.563%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.781%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 101 (78.91%) Selenium
2 62 (48.44%) WebDriver
3 39 (30.47%) QuickTest Pro
4 36 (28.13%) Cucumber
5 20 (15.63%) LoadRunner
5 20 (15.63%) JMeter
6 19 (14.84%) JUnit
6 19 (14.84%) SpecFlow
7 14 (10.94%) WebLOAD
8 12 (9.375%) NUnit
8 12 (9.375%) Rational Robot
9 11 (8.594%) TeamCity
10 10 (7.813%) TestComplete
10 10 (7.813%) FitNesse
11 8 (6.250%) Subversion
12 7 (5.469%) Visual Studio
12 7 (5.469%) WinRunner
13 6 (4.688%) Eclipse
13 6 (4.688%) Maven
13 6 (4.688%) TestNG
General
1 31 (24.22%) Finance
2 11 (8.594%) Banking
3 8 (6.250%) Financial Institution
4 7 (5.469%) Retail
4 7 (5.469%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.688%) Publishing
5 6 (4.688%) Telecoms
6 4 (3.125%) Games
6 4 (3.125%) Front Office
7 2 (1.563%) Marketing
8 1 (0.781%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 21 (16.41%) Open Source
2 5 (3.906%) Social Media
2 5 (3.906%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 5 (3.906%) Derivative
3 4 (3.125%) Digital Media
3 4 (3.125%) Mobile App
4 3 (2.344%) Hedge funds
5 2 (1.563%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.563%) Equity Derivative
5 2 (1.563%) Credit Risk
5 2 (1.563%) Equities
6 1 (0.781%) iPad
6 1 (0.781%) Online Games
6 1 (0.781%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 15 (11.72%) UNIX
2 14 (10.94%) Linux
3 8 (6.250%) Windows
4 6 (4.688%) Solaris
5 4 (3.125%) Windows XP
5 4 (3.125%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (3.125%) Windows 7
6 3 (2.344%) Android
7 2 (1.563%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (50.78%) Test Automation
2 60 (46.88%) Agile Software Development
3 47 (36.72%) Scrum
4 44 (34.38%) BDD
5 43 (33.59%) TDD
6 34 (26.56%) Automation Testing
7 29 (22.66%) Test Scripting
8 21 (16.41%) E-Commerce
9 19 (14.84%) Performance Testing
10 16 (12.50%) OO
11 14 (10.94%) Automated Testing
12 12 (9.375%) Unit Testing
12 12 (9.375%) Test Strategy
13 11 (8.594%) User Stories
14 9 (7.031%) Integration Testing
14 9 (7.031%) Manual Testing
15 8 (6.250%) Load Testing
15 8 (6.250%) Regression Testing
16 6 (4.688%) Web Testing
16 6 (4.688%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (40.63%) SQL
2 46 (35.94%) Java
3 44 (34.38%) C#
4 21 (16.41%) Ruby
5 20 (15.63%) Python
6 14 (10.94%) VBScript
7 11 (8.594%) JavaScript
7 11 (8.594%) Perl
8 8 (6.250%) PowerShell
9 6 (4.688%) PL/SQL
10 5 (3.906%) PHP
11 3 (2.344%) Korn
12 2 (1.563%) Lua
12 2 (1.563%) VBA
12 2 (1.563%) C
12 2 (1.563%) C++
13 1 (0.781%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 14 (10.94%) Degree
2 11 (8.594%) ISEB
3 10 (7.813%) ISTQB
4 2 (1.563%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 77 (60.16%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (1.563%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (6.250%) Oracle
2 5 (3.906%) Microsoft
3 2 (1.563%) SAP
3 2 (1.563%) Facebook
4 1 (0.781%) Progress
4 1 (0.781%) HP
4 1 (0.781%) TIBCO
4 1 (0.781%) Wall Street Systems
London
We are looking for experienced Automation Testers to join our Testing practice to develop robust manual and automated test scripts on a variety of projects... Sogeti UK is...
Sogeti
Salary: Excellent salary plus flexible benefits
Posted: 9 May 2013
London
Candidates must have experience building automation frameworks from scratch using open source testing tools such as Selenium WebDriver or Cucumber JVM... BDD/TDD is also nice to have...
Hydrogen Group
Salary: £40000.00 - £55000.00 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
The trading systems focus entirely on Commodity Derivatives and their systems are built from scratch in C# and SQL, no formal automation tools are used in Testing and...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits and bonus and training
Posted: 18 May 2013
City, London
The trading systems focus entirely on Commodity Derivatives and their systems are built from scratch in C# and SQL, no formal automation tools are used in Testing and...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 18 May 2013
City of London
The trading systems focus entirely on Commodity Derivatives and their systems are built from scratch in C# and SQL, no formal automation tools are used in Testing and...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + bonus and benefits and training
Posted: 19 May 2013
City of London
The trading systems focus entirely on Commodity Derivatives and their systems are built from scratch in C# and SQL, no formal automation tools are used in Testing and...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum + benefits and bonus and training
Posted: 19 May 2013
City of London
Huxley Associates is seeking a QA Analyst to join a Top Financial Derivatives House to work within their Equities department. The candidate will be working within a team...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
London
Key skills needed:- Selenium2/Webdriver - in-house framework development- Keyword driven automation- Agile/Scrum environment- Excellent knowledge of Soap UI- Experience of Jenkins/Maven continuous integration tools- Strong...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: Good benefits!
Posted: 15 May 2013
East London
Ideally suited to a candidate with a strong knowledge programming experience with programming languages like Java, python, etc... - Strong of OO programming - Ideally Java - Managing test frameworks and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + annual bonus + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Angel, Central London
Sage Pay Europe is a leading, European, payments service provider and is one of the most trusted payment brands. A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced tester...
Sage Pay
Salary: Competetive
Posted: 20 May 2013
London
A new opportunity has arisen for an experienced Agile tester with a keen interest in test automation to join our London based Ecommerce Development department. The department is...
Sage Pay
Salary: Unspecified - Competetive
Posted: 9 May 2013