The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 54 42 58
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +16
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 2 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 0.513% 2.376% 0.625%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.687% 3.134% 0.904%
Number of salaries quoted 2 11 3
Average salary £30,750 £32,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.90% -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,350 £25,000 £26,600
10% offered a salary of more than £32,150 £45,000 £39,800
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
291 351 332
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 74.62% 75.81% 69.17%
Number of salaries quoted 250 339 312
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Northamptonshire

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton 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 Northampton region.

Northampton Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 2 (50.00%) DTS
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 2 (50.00%) C#
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Fault Management
3 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
3 1 (25.00%) Control-M
3 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (25.00%) XHTML
3 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
3 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
3 1 (25.00%) CSS
3 1 (25.00%) XML

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton 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 2 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) XHTML
2 1 (25.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (25.00%) CSS
2 1 (25.00%) XML
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) DTS
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2005
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Analyst
1 4 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Developer
3 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (25.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (25.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Project Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Fault Management
2 1 (25.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft