The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 46 39 47
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +8
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 19 17 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 2.983% 3.855% 1.677%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.800% 5.015% 2.532%
Number of salaries quoted 19 17 5
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% -14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £38,400 £30,700 £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +2.85%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
500 339 316
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 78.49% 76.87% 66.25%
Number of salaries quoted 457 323 294
Average salary £37,500 £39,160 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.23% +4.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
South West

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset 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 Somerset region.

Somerset Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Somerset Automated Testing Salary Histogram

Automated Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bath -13 14 £35,000 +16.66%
Taunton - 4 £30,000 -
Automated Testing
South West

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 19 (40.43%) C++
1 19 (40.43%) .NET
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 16 (34.04%) User Acceptance Testing
4 13 (27.66%) Java
5 11 (23.40%) C#
5 11 (23.40%) ASP.NET
5 11 (23.40%) QA
6 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
6 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
6 10 (21.28%) Multithreading
6 10 (21.28%) CppUnit
6 10 (21.28%) GoogleTest
6 10 (21.28%) Linux
6 10 (21.28%) C
6 10 (21.28%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (19.15%) IGMP
7 9 (19.15%) Perl
7 9 (19.15%) MySQL
7 9 (19.15%) Tcl
7 9 (19.15%) TCP/IP
7 9 (19.15%) VPN
7 9 (19.15%) RDBMS
7 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
7 9 (19.15%) Bash shell
7 9 (19.15%) Waterfall
8 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
8 8 (17.02%) Scrum
9 7 (14.89%) WinForms
9 7 (14.89%) TDD

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset 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 19 (40.43%) .NET
2 11 (23.40%) ASP.NET
3 7 (14.89%) WinForms
3 7 (14.89%) WCF
3 7 (14.89%) LINQ
4 6 (12.77%) CSS
5 4 (8.511%) XML
5 4 (8.511%) jQuery
5 4 (8.511%) HTML
6 1 (2.128%) Flash
6 1 (2.128%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.128%) CMS
Communications & Networking
1 9 (19.15%) TCP/IP
1 9 (19.15%) VPN
1 9 (19.15%) IGMP
2 3 (6.383%) HTTP
3 1 (2.128%) DVB
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (19.15%) MySQL
1 9 (19.15%) RDBMS
2 8 (17.02%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (21.28%) CppUnit
1 10 (21.28%) GoogleTest
2 4 (8.511%) QuickTest Pro
3 3 (6.383%) Selenium
4 2 (4.255%) WebDriver
4 2 (4.255%) Cucumber
General
1 4 (8.511%) Telecoms
2 3 (6.383%) Finance
2 3 (6.383%) Games
Job Titles
1 23 (48.94%) Software Engineer
2 21 (44.68%) Tester
3 17 (36.17%) Test Engineer
3 17 (36.17%) Software Test Engineer
4 12 (25.53%) Developer
5 11 (23.40%) Software Tester
6 10 (21.28%) Analyst
6 10 (21.28%) Graduate
6 10 (21.28%) Graduate Software Engineer
7 9 (19.15%) Senior Tester
8 8 (17.02%) QA Analyst
8 8 (17.02%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (17.02%) QA Tester
9 7 (14.89%) Senior Developer
9 7 (14.89%) Senior QA Analyst
9 7 (14.89%) Senior QA Tester
9 7 (14.89%) Quality Analyst
9 7 (14.89%) ScrumMaster
10 6 (12.77%) Agile .NET Developer
10 6 (12.77%) .NET Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 10 (21.28%) Computer Science
2 4 (8.511%) Digital Media
3 3 (6.383%) EPoS
4 2 (4.255%) SWIFT
5 1 (2.128%) STB
5 1 (2.128%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.28%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (34.04%) User Acceptance Testing
2 10 (21.28%) Software Engineering
2 10 (21.28%) Multithreading
2 10 (21.28%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (19.15%) Test Automation
3 9 (19.15%) Waterfall
4 8 (17.02%) Scrum
5 7 (14.89%) TDD
5 7 (14.89%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (12.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 5 (10.64%) Project Management
8 4 (8.511%) Migration
8 4 (8.511%) Manual Testing
9 3 (6.383%) Software Testing
10 2 (4.255%) Test Scripting
10 2 (4.255%) E-Commerce
10 2 (4.255%) Regression Testing
11 1 (2.128%) Service Delivery
11 1 (2.128%) Web Testing
11 1 (2.128%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (40.43%) C++
2 17 (36.17%) SQL
3 13 (27.66%) Java
4 11 (23.40%) C#
5 10 (21.28%) C
6 9 (19.15%) Tcl
6 9 (19.15%) Bash shell
6 9 (19.15%) Perl
7 6 (12.77%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.255%) Delphi
8 2 (4.255%) VB.NET
9 1 (2.128%) Embedded C
9 1 (2.128%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 6 (12.77%) Degree
2 3 (6.383%) ISEB
3 1 (2.128%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.128%) BC Cleared
3 1 (2.128%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (23.40%) QA
2 1 (2.128%) ISO 9001
Vendors
1 3 (6.383%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.128%) Atmel
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