The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 43 45 31
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -14
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 1 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 0.270% 0.267% 3.113%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.330% 0.459% 3.509%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 8
Average salary £28,500 - £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
303 218 228
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.89% 58.13% 88.72%
Number of salaries quoted 266 180 194
Average salary £47,500 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,250 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Bedfordshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton 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 Luton region.

Luton Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
2 1 (50.00%) MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Advertising
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Web Development

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton 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 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (50.00%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (50.00%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Analyst
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA