Test Automation Jobs in the South East
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 265 202 300
Rank change year-on-year
-63 +98
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 174 280 126
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.786% 1.177% 0.549%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.079% 1.609% 0.775%
Number of salaries quoted 139 248 112
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,800 £31,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £56,750
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
Search 18 Test Automation jobs in the South East
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16132 17403 16257
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 72.89% 73.18% 70.85%
Number of salaries quoted 13115 14896 13926
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
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 South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South East 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 South East region.

South East Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the South East region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

South East 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 South East region over the 3 months to 24 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
Surrey +11 73 £45,000 -12.19%
Berkshire -46 45 £50,000 +42.85%
East Sussex +6 16 £75,000 +82.92%
Buckinghamshire -18 10 £28,000 -20.00%
Oxfordshire -17 9 £55,000 +64.17%
Hampshire -18 9 £45,000 +5.88%
Kent -19 5 £33,750 -3.57%
West Sussex -29 5 £44,000 +10.00%
Middlesex -15 4 £65,000 +44.44%
Thames Valley - 1 £50,000 -
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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.

1 140 (40.82%) ISEB
2 132 (38.48%) Degree
3 130 (37.90%) QuickTest Pro
4 126 (36.73%) SQL
5 118 (34.40%) Agile Software Development
6 109 (31.78%) Finance
7 105 (30.61%) Java
8 104 (30.32%) QA
9 100 (29.15%) .NET
10 97 (28.28%) HP
11 96 (27.99%) Scrum
11 96 (27.99%) Software Testing
12 94 (27.41%) Selenium
13 93 (27.11%) Test Scripting
14 92 (26.82%) C#
15 80 (23.32%) Regression Testing
16 78 (22.74%) HP Quality Center
17 72 (20.99%) Waterfall
18 71 (20.70%) Computer Science
19 66 (19.24%) Automated Testing
20 65 (18.95%) TDD
20 65 (18.95%) ISTQB
21 58 (16.91%) Windows
22 52 (15.16%) C++
22 52 (15.16%) Oracle
23 51 (14.87%) OO
23 51 (14.87%) Mathematics
24 47 (13.70%) XML
25 42 (12.24%) Test Strategy
26 39 (11.37%) Visual Studio

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East 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
1 100 (29.15%) .NET
2 47 (13.70%) XML
3 26 (7.580%) .NET Framework
4 22 (6.414%) XSLT
5 14 (4.082%) Web Services
6 11 (3.207%) SOAP
6 11 (3.207%) Middleware
7 10 (2.915%) ASP.NET
7 10 (2.915%) Java EE
7 10 (2.915%) REST
8 8 (2.332%) ASP.NET MVC
9 7 (2.041%) Spring
9 7 (2.041%) J2EE
10 6 (1.749%) HTML
10 6 (1.749%) Velocity
11 5 (1.458%) soapUI
11 5 (1.458%) JSP
12 4 (1.166%) LAMP
12 4 (1.166%) JSON
12 4 (1.166%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 17 (4.956%) Tomcat
2 14 (4.082%) IIS
3 7 (2.041%) SharePoint
4 5 (1.458%) SharePoint Server
5 3 (0.875%) Windows Azure
5 3 (0.875%) RabbitMQ
5 3 (0.875%) ESB
5 3 (0.875%) Documentum
5 3 (0.875%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.292%) CMS
6 1 (0.292%) Apache
Applications
1 11 (3.207%) MS Excel
2 7 (2.041%) MS Office
3 4 (1.166%) MS Project
4 1 (0.292%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 17 (4.956%) WAN
1 17 (4.956%) LAN
2 5 (1.458%) DNS
2 5 (1.458%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.166%) Internet
3 4 (1.166%) SNMP
4 3 (0.875%) IPv6
4 3 (0.875%) Ethernet
4 3 (0.875%) 3GPP
5 2 (0.583%) DVB
5 2 (0.583%) UMTS
5 2 (0.583%) HTTP
6 1 (0.292%) LTE
6 1 (0.292%) FTP
6 1 (0.292%) ATM
6 1 (0.292%) GSM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (10.79%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.373%) Oracle 8/8i
3 13 (3.790%) MySQL
4 6 (1.749%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (1.458%) Oracle BI EE
6 4 (1.166%) PostgreSQL
6 4 (1.166%) SQL Server 2012
7 3 (0.875%) Hadoop
7 3 (0.875%) Redis
7 3 (0.875%) GIS
7 3 (0.875%) TOAD
7 3 (0.875%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (0.583%) DB2
8 2 (0.583%) Big Data
9 1 (0.292%) MongoDB
9 1 (0.292%) NoSQL
9 1 (0.292%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 130 (37.90%) QuickTest Pro
2 94 (27.41%) Selenium
3 39 (11.37%) Visual Studio
4 28 (8.163%) LoadRunner
5 23 (6.706%) Team Foundation Server
6 16 (4.665%) JUnit
7 11 (3.207%) Subversion
8 10 (2.915%) WebDriver
9 9 (2.624%) Cucumber
9 9 (2.624%) SilkTest
10 8 (2.332%) Ant
10 8 (2.332%) WinRunner
10 8 (2.332%) JMeter
11 7 (2.041%) Hudson
12 6 (1.749%) TestDirector
12 6 (1.749%) Maven
12 6 (1.749%) WATIR
12 6 (1.749%) Visual Studio Team System
13 5 (1.458%) QADirector
13 5 (1.458%) ClearCase
General
1 109 (31.78%) Finance
2 32 (9.329%) Telecoms
3 24 (6.997%) Retail
4 13 (3.790%) Legal
5 5 (1.458%) Publishing
6 3 (0.875%) Electronics
6 3 (0.875%) Games
7 2 (0.583%) Front Office
7 2 (0.583%) Back Office
8 1 (0.292%) Marketing
8 1 (0.292%) Multimedia
8 1 (0.292%) Banking
8 1 (0.292%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.292%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.292%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 122 (35.57%) Test Engineer
2 62 (18.08%) Analyst
3 59 (17.20%) Tester
4 53 (15.45%) Test Analyst
5 39 (11.37%) Developer
6 32 (9.329%) Automation Engineer
7 26 (7.580%) Test Manager
8 24 (6.997%) Software Engineer
8 24 (6.997%) Test Automation Engineer
9 23 (6.706%) Software Tester
10 21 (6.122%) Consultant
11 19 (5.539%) Software Test Engineer
12 15 (4.373%) Test Consultant
13 14 (4.082%) Automation Tester
13 14 (4.082%) QA Engineer
13 14 (4.082%) Senior Analyst
14 13 (3.790%) QA Analyst
15 11 (3.207%) QA Tester
15 11 (3.207%) Security Analyst
15 11 (3.207%) Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 71 (20.70%) Computer Science
2 51 (14.87%) Mathematics
3 17 (4.956%) Enterprise Software
4 14 (4.082%) Open Source
5 6 (1.749%) Chemistry
5 6 (1.749%) Life Science
6 5 (1.458%) Client/Server
7 4 (1.166%) Replication
7 4 (1.166%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.166%) Digital Media
7 4 (1.166%) SaaS
8 3 (0.875%) Video Conferencing
8 3 (0.875%) Physics
8 3 (0.875%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 3 (0.875%) Clustering
8 3 (0.875%) MPEG
9 2 (0.583%) DTV
9 2 (0.583%) Mainframe
9 2 (0.583%) STB
10 1 (0.292%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 58 (16.91%) Windows
2 35 (10.20%) UNIX
3 34 (9.913%) Linux
4 23 (6.706%) Windows Server 2003
5 21 (6.122%) Windows XP
6 18 (5.248%) Windows 7
7 17 (4.956%) Windows Server 2008
8 11 (3.207%) Solaris
9 8 (2.332%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (1.166%) AIX
11 1 (0.292%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.292%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 118 (34.40%) Agile Software Development
2 96 (27.99%) Scrum
2 96 (27.99%) Software Testing
3 93 (27.11%) Test Scripting
4 80 (23.32%) Regression Testing
5 72 (20.99%) Waterfall
6 66 (19.24%) Automated Testing
7 65 (18.95%) TDD
8 51 (14.87%) OO
9 42 (12.24%) Test Strategy
10 38 (11.08%) BDD
11 37 (10.79%) Continuous Integration
12 29 (8.455%) Automation Testing
13 28 (8.163%) ATDD
14 25 (7.289%) Software Engineering
15 23 (6.706%) User Acceptance Testing
16 19 (5.539%) Manual Testing
16 19 (5.539%) Migration
17 18 (5.248%) SOA
17 18 (5.248%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 126 (36.73%) SQL
2 105 (30.61%) Java
3 92 (26.82%) C#
4 52 (15.16%) C++
5 39 (11.37%) Python
6 36 (10.50%) VB
7 34 (9.913%) VBA
8 33 (9.621%) VBScript
9 26 (7.580%) VB.NET
10 19 (5.539%) Perl
11 14 (4.082%) C
12 9 (2.624%) PHP
13 8 (2.332%) Ruby
14 6 (1.749%) JavaScript
14 6 (1.749%) Bash shell
15 5 (1.458%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.875%) Scala
17 2 (0.583%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.583%) PowerShell
18 1 (0.292%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 140 (40.82%) ISEB
2 132 (38.48%) Degree
3 65 (18.95%) ISTQB
4 32 (9.329%) Security Cleared
5 29 (8.455%) SC Cleared
6 6 (1.749%) PhD
7 3 (0.875%) HND
8 2 (0.583%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.292%) Sun Certification
9 1 (0.292%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 104 (30.32%) QA
System Software
1 23 (6.706%) Active Directory
2 21 (6.122%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (4.373%) VMware ESX
3 15 (4.373%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (0.875%) Apache ZooKeeper
Systems Management
1 78 (22.74%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (1.458%) Netcool
2 5 (1.458%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 4 (1.166%) Control-M
Vendors
1 97 (28.28%) HP
2 52 (15.16%) Oracle
3 38 (11.08%) Microsoft
4 21 (6.122%) VMware
5 19 (5.539%) Fujitsu
6 5 (1.458%) Siebel
7 3 (0.875%) Nokia Siemens Networks
7 3 (0.875%) Twitter
7 3 (0.875%) Telelogic
7 3 (0.875%) Cisco
7 3 (0.875%) IBM
8 2 (0.583%) Compuware
8 2 (0.583%) SunGard
8 2 (0.583%) Perforce
9 1 (0.292%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.292%) Google
9 1 (0.292%) Telerik
9 1 (0.292%) MKS
QA Engineer - 40000 - Winnersh
Reading, Berkshire
Responsible for test automation within QA . Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts . Implement automation tests using Selenium Webdriver . Implement automation service tests using SoapU or JMeter . Exposure...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40000
Posted: 20 May 2013
Test Analyst (HP QC or QTP)
Berkshire, Thames Valley
The position requires good HP Quality Centre/ QTP and reasonable Visual Basic experience... We are looking for knowledge of SQL, Toad (or any Oracle database query tool) and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 1 May 2013
Automation Tester
Surrey, South East
It is essential that you have a high attention to detail, the ability to work in a fast paced environment and motivation to learn test automation. Desirable skills...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £22000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 3 May 2013
Senior QA Tester
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Test Automation Analyst - stock control/warehouse/distribution software
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
To develop and maintain some Manual test scripts in HP QC to supplement the test AUTOMATION scripts. - Mentor other QA staff in the use of HP QTP, test...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Test Analyst - QTP Automation Testing Specialist - QTP Tester
Hungerford, Berkshire, South East
With through on-going training and career management, the Company offers opportunities for individual growth and development.Responsibilities: To develop and maintain automated test scripts in HP QTP...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: £0 - £37,000 per year + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Software Tester/Systems Tester - GUI Linux Solaris C++ - Surrey - NEW
Walton-On-Thames, Surrey
Desktop Software Testing. on Windows with some Solaris 10, RHEL-5 UNIX Linux and Windows-7 basic administrative experience... Programming skills with Python, Perl and XML are desirable.
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £24,000 to £28,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Test Manager - CRM Systems - Oxfordshire -£50k -£60k + package
Oxfordshire
ISEB Foundation Certificate in Software Testing preferred... Testing applications such as CRM (Siebel), Business Intelligence systems (such as OBIEE), ETL (such as Oracle Data Integrator) preferred. Experience with...
Robert Walters
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Test Consultant with Automation Experience
South East
Strong Test Automation experience with tools like QTP, Selenium (Primary Skill) - Strong experience in Performance testing using tools like loadrunner, Jmeter, silkperformer etc... ISEB/ISTQB qualification is essential.
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 6 May 2013
Test Analyst (SC Cleared)
Reading, Thames Valley
You will have qualifications in: ISEB or ISTQB accreditation. Security cleared to at least SC level... Mercury TestDirector/HP Quality Center. Desirable skills include: Testing on MOSS (Sharepoint).....
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Test Analyst (SC Cleared)
Reading, Berkshire
You will have qualifications in: ISEB or ISTQB accreditation. Security cleared to at least SC level... Mercury TestDirector/HP Quality Center. Desirable skills include: Testing on MOSS (Sharepoint).....
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Automation Engineer, Guildford, Surrey
Guildford, South East
Make, MSBuild, Ant, Visual Studio)* Knowledge of programming in scripting languages and environments such as Python, Powershell etc.* Knowledge of Perforce (administration knowledge a distinct plus)* Knowledge of...
Salary: £30000 - £52000 per annum + Competitive Benefits.
Posted: 14 May 2013
Technical Architect
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
As the dedicated Technical Architect, you will lead and govern the design, implementation and on-going improvement of .Net based software architecture... A strong .Net development background is...
Connections Recruitment Ltd.
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Development Discipline Lead / Java / Brighton
Brighton, East Sussex
Awareness of enterprise architecture patterns and trends e.g. SOA. Awareness of a range of commonly used development tools & frameworks in JavaEE and/or .NET... Sound knowledge of...
RDF Resources
Salary: £60000 - £75000 per annum + Excellent Salary
Posted: 21 May 2013
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