The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 51 55 50
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -5
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 2 5 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 0.433% 0.975% 0.820%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.521% 1.222% 1.130%
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 3
Average salary £22,500 £34,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-33.82% -15.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
384 409 354
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 83.12% 79.73% 72.54%
Number of salaries quoted 333 360 327
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
Wiltshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 6 (60.00%) XML
2 6 (60.00%) HP
3 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
3 4 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (40.00%) OOP
3 4 (40.00%) OO
3 4 (40.00%) VBScript
3 4 (40.00%) VB
3 4 (40.00%) VBA
3 4 (40.00%) C++
3 4 (40.00%) MS Office
3 4 (40.00%) Legal
3 4 (40.00%) Scrum
3 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 4 (40.00%) QA
3 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 4 (40.00%) System Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
4 3 (30.00%) Degree
4 3 (30.00%) Linux
4 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
5 2 (20.00%) ISEB
5 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
5 2 (20.00%) Borland
5 2 (20.00%) Tcl
5 2 (20.00%) UNIX
5 2 (20.00%) Windows

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 6 (60.00%) XML
2 2 (20.00%) Web Services
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
1 4 (40.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (10.00%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) 3GPP
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (10.00%) VPN
1 1 (10.00%) Wireless
1 1 (10.00%) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (10.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (20.00%) LoadRunner
2 2 (20.00%) SilkPerformer
3 1 (10.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 4 (40.00%) Legal
2 2 (20.00%) Games
3 1 (10.00%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Developer
1 4 (40.00%) VB Developer
2 3 (30.00%) VBA Developer
2 3 (30.00%) Developer Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Test Analyst
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Software Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate
3 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Graduate Software Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Technical Architect
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (10.00%) Device Driver
2 1 (10.00%) Mathematics
2 1 (10.00%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 3 (30.00%) Linux
2 2 (20.00%) UNIX
2 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) OOP
1 4 (40.00%) OO
1 4 (40.00%) Scrum
1 4 (40.00%) Test Scripting
1 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
1 4 (40.00%) System Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
2 3 (30.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
3 2 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 2 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) V-Model
3 2 (20.00%) Multithreading
4 1 (10.00%) Signal Processing
4 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (10.00%) OOD
4 1 (10.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (70.00%) SQL
2 4 (40.00%) VBScript
2 4 (40.00%) VB
2 4 (40.00%) VBA
2 4 (40.00%) C++
3 2 (20.00%) Perl
3 2 (20.00%) Tcl
3 2 (20.00%) C
4 1 (10.00%) MATLAB
4 1 (10.00%) Bash shell
4 1 (10.00%) Python
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded C
4 1 (10.00%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
2 2 (20.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) JTAG
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) HP
2 2 (20.00%) Borland
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