Test Automation Jobs in Surrey
 
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 Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 146 158 163
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 70 73 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 1.338% 1.223% 0.967%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.803% 1.642% 1.311%
Number of salaries quoted 65 72 49
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £36,600 £34,600
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £45,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 3882 4445 3890
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 74.23% 74.44% 73.76%
Number of salaries quoted 3021 3863 3390
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £33,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

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

Surrey 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 Surrey 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
Reigate +15 16 £54,000 -6.08%
Epsom +22 12 £65,000 +18.18%
Guildford -3 5 £41,000 +26.15%
Walton-on-Thames - 5 £26,000 -
Camberley - 3 £32,000 -
Staines +25 2 £45,000 +16.12%
Chertsey - 1 - -
Dorking - 1 £30,000 -
Test Automation
South East

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 92 (59.35%) Degree
2 85 (54.84%) Agile Software Development
3 80 (51.61%) SQL
4 77 (49.68%) .NET
5 76 (49.03%) QuickTest Pro
6 66 (42.58%) Scrum
6 66 (42.58%) C#
7 65 (41.94%) Waterfall
8 61 (39.35%) Software Testing
9 60 (38.71%) ISEB
10 58 (37.42%) HP
11 57 (36.77%) Finance
12 55 (35.48%) Regression Testing
12 55 (35.48%) TDD
13 51 (32.90%) Computer Science
14 46 (29.68%) Mathematics
14 46 (29.68%) QA
15 45 (29.03%) Selenium
16 43 (27.74%) Java
17 42 (27.10%) C++
18 38 (24.52%) Test Scripting
19 36 (23.23%) OO
20 35 (22.58%) Test Strategy
21 34 (21.94%) VBA
21 34 (21.94%) XML
22 30 (19.35%) Visual Studio
23 29 (18.71%) VBScript
24 28 (18.06%) BDD
25 27 (17.42%) Automated Testing
26 25 (16.13%) VB

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 77 (49.68%) .NET
2 34 (21.94%) XML
3 24 (15.48%) .NET Framework
4 22 (14.19%) XSLT
5 6 (3.871%) Web Services
6 5 (3.226%) ASP.NET
7 4 (2.581%) SOAP
7 4 (2.581%) LAMP
7 4 (2.581%) Silverlight
7 4 (2.581%) ASP.NET MVC
8 3 (1.935%) CORBA
8 3 (1.935%) Velocity
9 2 (1.290%) JSF
10 1 (0.645%) WCF
10 1 (0.645%) WPF
10 1 (0.645%) HTML
10 1 (0.645%) CSS
10 1 (0.645%) ODBC
10 1 (0.645%) DOM
10 1 (0.645%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 1 (0.645%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (1.935%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.581%) SNMP
2 3 (1.935%) 3GPP
3 2 (1.290%) DVB
4 1 (0.645%) LTE
4 1 (0.645%) UMTS
4 1 (0.645%) FTP
4 1 (0.645%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (5.806%) MySQL
2 4 (2.581%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.935%) GIS
4 1 (0.645%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (0.645%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 76 (49.03%) QuickTest Pro
2 45 (29.03%) Selenium
3 30 (19.35%) Visual Studio
4 8 (5.161%) Team Foundation Server
5 5 (3.226%) Visual Studio Team System
6 3 (1.935%) Telelogic TAU
6 3 (1.935%) SilkTest
6 3 (1.935%) Ant
6 3 (1.935%) Rational Rose
7 2 (1.290%) TestComplete
7 2 (1.290%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.290%) Hudson
7 2 (1.290%) MSBuild
7 2 (1.290%) Maven
8 1 (0.645%) SpecFlow
8 1 (0.645%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.645%) Concordion
8 1 (0.645%) JBehave
8 1 (0.645%) MSTest
8 1 (0.645%) FitNesse
General
1 57 (36.77%) Finance
2 13 (8.387%) Legal
3 7 (4.516%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.290%) Electronics
4 2 (1.290%) Games
5 1 (0.645%) Retail
5 1 (0.645%) Front Office
5 1 (0.645%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 67 (43.23%) Test Engineer
2 34 (21.94%) Tester
3 29 (18.71%) Developer
4 15 (9.677%) Analyst
5 14 (9.032%) Test Analyst
6 13 (8.387%) Software Tester
7 8 (5.161%) Team Leader
7 8 (5.161%) Automation Engineer
8 7 (4.516%) Lead Tester
8 7 (4.516%) QA Tester
9 6 (3.871%) Test Team Leader
9 6 (3.871%) Automation Tester
10 5 (3.226%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (3.226%) Senior Test Engineer
10 5 (3.226%) QA Engineer
11 4 (2.581%) Test Manager
11 4 (2.581%) Junior
11 4 (2.581%) Software Developer
11 4 (2.581%) Test Leader
11 4 (2.581%) QA Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 51 (32.90%) Computer Science
2 46 (29.68%) Mathematics
3 6 (3.871%) Client/Server
3 6 (3.871%) Life Science
3 6 (3.871%) Chemistry
4 3 (1.935%) Physics
4 3 (1.935%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.290%) STB
5 2 (1.290%) MPEG
5 2 (1.290%) DTV
6 1 (0.645%) N-Tier
6 1 (0.645%) Open Source
6 1 (0.645%) Hedge funds
Operating Systems
1 8 (5.161%) Windows
2 7 (4.516%) Linux
2 7 (4.516%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 6 (3.871%) Solaris
4 4 (2.581%) UNIX
5 1 (0.645%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (54.84%) Agile Software Development
2 66 (42.58%) Scrum
3 65 (41.94%) Waterfall
4 61 (39.35%) Software Testing
5 55 (35.48%) TDD
5 55 (35.48%) Regression Testing
6 38 (24.52%) Test Scripting
7 36 (23.23%) OO
8 35 (22.58%) Test Strategy
9 28 (18.06%) BDD
10 27 (17.42%) Automated Testing
11 23 (14.84%) ATDD
12 18 (11.61%) Software Engineering
13 14 (9.032%) Automation Testing
14 13 (8.387%) Continuous Integration
15 10 (6.452%) E-Commerce
15 10 (6.452%) Continuous Improvement
16 9 (5.806%) Performance Testing
17 8 (5.161%) Manual Testing
18 7 (4.516%) RAD
Programming Languages
1 80 (51.61%) SQL
2 66 (42.58%) C#
3 43 (27.74%) Java
4 42 (27.10%) C++
5 34 (21.94%) VBA
6 29 (18.71%) VBScript
7 25 (16.13%) VB
8 22 (14.19%) VB.NET
9 11 (7.097%) Python
10 7 (4.516%) Perl
11 6 (3.871%) C
12 4 (2.581%) PHP
13 2 (1.290%) PowerShell
13 2 (1.290%) Shell Script
14 1 (0.645%) XPath
14 1 (0.645%) PHP5
14 1 (0.645%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 92 (59.35%) Degree
2 60 (38.71%) ISEB
3 14 (9.032%) ISTQB
4 6 (3.871%) PhD
5 5 (3.226%) Security Cleared
6 2 (1.290%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.290%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.290%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 46 (29.68%) QA
System Software
1 1 (0.645%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 25 (16.13%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 58 (37.42%) HP
2 15 (9.677%) Microsoft
3 14 (9.032%) Oracle
4 3 (1.935%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 3 (1.935%) Telelogic
5 2 (1.290%) Perforce
6 1 (0.645%) VMware
6 1 (0.645%) Telerik
6 1 (0.645%) Google
6 1 (0.645%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.645%) SunGard
6 1 (0.645%) MKS
6 1 (0.645%) Twitter
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
Developer in Test - C# .Net Testing
Reigate, South East
Hugely profitable financial software house based in Surrey is seeking a skilled software developer with test automation experience to test complex Object Orientated C# .Net financial software products.
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £45k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Developer in Test - C# .Net Testing
Reigate, Surrey
Developer in Test C# .Net Surrey (RH) to £40k. Developer in Test / C# Test Developer (C# .Net Test Automation Agile)... Requirements for C# Tester: Strong software testing experience,...
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £45k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Manager, financial software - Surrey (build a team)
Redhill, Surrey
You will have to design and implement Software Quality assurance processes and procedures that allow the testing function to integrate with the Development (and the rest of the...
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 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
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