The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 97 75 88
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +13
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 7 12 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.547% 1.211% 0.103%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.719% 1.542% 0.143%
Number of salaries quoted 6 9 1
Average salary £28,000 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
974 778 701
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 76.09% 78.51% 72.42%
Number of salaries quoted 828 648 607
Average salary £42,500 £41,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.65% +7.89%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £28,580
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
Buckinghamshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Milton Keynes region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Milton Keynes Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Salary Trend

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

Milton Keynes Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Top 29 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation.

1 13 (86.67%) Java
1 13 (86.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 12 (80.00%) Finance
2 12 (80.00%) Automation Testing
3 9 (60.00%) Web Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (13.33%) C#
6 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
6 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
6 1 (6.667%) Degree
6 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
6 1 (6.667%) QA
6 1 (6.667%) Selenium
6 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
6 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (6.667%) V-Model
6 1 (6.667%) WebDriver
6 1 (6.667%) Cucumber
6 1 (6.667%) LoadRunner
6 1 (6.667%) Tcl
6 1 (6.667%) Windows
6 1 (6.667%) Python
6 1 (6.667%) Microsoft
6 1 (6.667%) ISEB
6 1 (6.667%) .NET
6 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
6 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
6 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing Test Automation 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 Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (6.667%) .NET Framework
2 1 (6.667%) .NET
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.667%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (6.667%) Selenium
2 1 (6.667%) WebDriver
2 1 (6.667%) Cucumber
2 1 (6.667%) LoadRunner
2 1 (6.667%) Visual Studio
General
1 12 (80.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Test Engineer
2 13 (86.67%) Automation Engineer
3 12 (80.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.667%) Software Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Software Tester
5 1 (6.667%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.667%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Automation Testing
2 9 (60.00%) Web Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) Automated Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.667%) Continuous Integration
3 1 (6.667%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 13 (86.67%) Java
2 2 (13.33%) C#
3 1 (6.667%) Tcl
3 1 (6.667%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.667%) Degree
1 1 (6.667%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.667%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (6.667%) Microsoft