The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 214 235 184
Rank change year-on-year
+21 -51
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 27 10 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.380% 0.141% 0.768%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.497% 0.194% 1.120%
Number of salaries quoted 23 9 50
Average salary £30,000 £29,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.44% -10.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £40,400 £35,800 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5428 5167 4641
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.39% 72.89% 68.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4541 4521 4074
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% -2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West 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 North West region.

North West Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

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

North West Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation within the North West 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
Merseyside - 10 £30,000 -
Manchester -11 9 £30,000 +3.44%
Cheshire +6 7 £37,500 -3.84%
Lancashire +4 1 - -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 24 (40.68%) ISEB
2 22 (37.29%) Scrum
2 22 (37.29%) Selenium
3 21 (35.59%) Agile Software Development
4 20 (33.90%) ISTQB
5 17 (28.81%) QA
6 15 (25.42%) Continuous Integration
6 15 (25.42%) Manual Testing
6 15 (25.42%) Cucumber
7 13 (22.03%) Software Testing
7 13 (22.03%) Hudson
7 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
8 12 (20.34%) Automated Testing
8 12 (20.34%) TDD
8 12 (20.34%) Degree
8 12 (20.34%) C#
9 11 (18.64%) Web Development
9 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
10 10 (16.95%) Java
10 10 (16.95%) SQL
10 10 (16.95%) .NET
11 9 (15.25%) JIRA
11 9 (15.25%) WebDriver
12 8 (13.56%) Open Source
12 8 (13.56%) User Stories
12 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
13 7 (11.86%) JMeter
13 7 (11.86%) PHP
13 7 (11.86%) Velocity
13 7 (11.86%) Test Management

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West 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 10 (16.95%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) Velocity
3 3 (5.085%) jQuery
4 2 (3.390%) RESTful
4 2 (3.390%) HTML5
4 2 (3.390%) JSON
4 2 (3.390%) CSS3
4 2 (3.390%) CSS
4 2 (3.390%) Web Services
5 1 (1.695%) Middleware
5 1 (1.695%) LAMP
5 1 (1.695%) Spring
5 1 (1.695%) SOAP
5 1 (1.695%) J2EE
5 1 (1.695%) HTML
5 1 (1.695%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 6 (10.17%) Apache
1 6 (10.17%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.780%) MS Office
2 2 (3.390%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (6.780%) BASE24
Communications & Networking
1 3 (5.085%) SS7
1 3 (5.085%) SIGTRAN
2 1 (1.695%) HTTP
2 1 (1.695%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (10.17%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.780%) DB2
2 4 (6.780%) SQL Server 2000
3 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (3.390%) SQL Server 2008
4 1 (1.695%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 22 (37.29%) Selenium
2 15 (25.42%) Cucumber
3 13 (22.03%) Hudson
3 13 (22.03%) Jenkins
4 9 (15.25%) WebDriver
4 9 (15.25%) JIRA
5 7 (11.86%) JMeter
6 6 (10.17%) Bugzilla
6 6 (10.17%) ClearCase
6 6 (10.17%) FitNesse
6 6 (10.17%) Subversion
6 6 (10.17%) Maven
6 6 (10.17%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (10.17%) Behat
7 4 (6.780%) Visual Studio
8 3 (5.085%) NUnit
8 3 (5.085%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (3.390%) LoadRunner
9 2 (3.390%) WinRunner
9 2 (3.390%) WATIR
General
1 5 (8.475%) Banking
2 4 (6.780%) Finance
2 4 (6.780%) Games
3 3 (5.085%) Retail
3 3 (5.085%) Telecoms
4 1 (1.695%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (23.73%) Software Engineer
1 14 (23.73%) Test Engineer
2 9 (15.25%) Tester
3 8 (13.56%) Software Test Engineer
4 7 (11.86%) ScrumMaster
5 5 (8.475%) Test Analyst
5 5 (8.475%) Developer
5 5 (8.475%) Analyst
6 4 (6.780%) Architect
6 4 (6.780%) Test Architect
7 3 (5.085%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Test Manager
7 3 (5.085%) Systems Test Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Senior Software Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Senior Tester
7 3 (5.085%) Systems Engineer
7 3 (5.085%) Senior Software Test Engineer
8 2 (3.390%) Senior Technical Tester
8 2 (3.390%) Software Tester
8 2 (3.390%) Technical Tester
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.64%) Computer Science
2 8 (13.56%) Open Source
3 6 (10.17%) Mobile App
4 2 (3.390%) New Media
4 2 (3.390%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.390%) BBC
4 2 (3.390%) Interactive TV
5 1 (1.695%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.695%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.695%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.780%) UNIX
2 1 (1.695%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (37.29%) Scrum
2 21 (35.59%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (25.42%) Continuous Integration
3 15 (25.42%) Manual Testing
4 13 (22.03%) Software Testing
5 12 (20.34%) Automated Testing
5 12 (20.34%) TDD
6 11 (18.64%) Web Development
7 8 (13.56%) Configuration Management
7 8 (13.56%) User Stories
8 7 (11.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (11.86%) Kanban
8 7 (11.86%) Test Management
9 6 (10.17%) Release Management
9 6 (10.17%) Requirements Analysis
9 6 (10.17%) System Testing
10 5 (8.475%) Multithreading
10 5 (8.475%) BDD
10 5 (8.475%) Automation Testing
10 5 (8.475%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 12 (20.34%) C#
2 10 (16.95%) Java
2 10 (16.95%) SQL
3 7 (11.86%) PHP
4 4 (6.780%) PL/SQL
4 4 (6.780%) C++
4 4 (6.780%) Python
4 4 (6.780%) Perl
5 3 (5.085%) JavaScript
6 2 (3.390%) T-SQL
6 2 (3.390%) Ruby
7 1 (1.695%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 24 (40.68%) ISEB
2 20 (33.90%) ISTQB
3 12 (20.34%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (28.81%) QA
2 1 (1.695%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 6 (10.17%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) HP
2 5 (8.475%) IBM
3 4 (6.780%) Oracle
4 2 (3.390%) Microsoft
4 2 (3.390%) Cognizant
Crewe, North West
Tester- main duties will include Join an existing Agile team developing WPF .Net (Vb.net) applications and websites written with ASP.net/jQuery. Regression, performance and blackbox testing,...
OCC Computing
Salary: £0 - 35k per year
Posted: 16 May 2013
Crewe, Cheshire
Ideal skills: Testing/Agile/ Manual/Automated Test Tools/Performance Testing/Regression Testing... Join an existing Agile team developing WPF .Net (Vb.net) applications and websites written with ASP...
OCC
Salary: £0 - 35k per year
Posted: 15 May 2013