The first table below looks at the demand for the Automated Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Test Engineer
Rank 854 863 867
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +4
Permanent jobs requiring an Automated Test Engineer 14 22 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.018% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.014% 0.019% 0.012%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 15
Average salary £28,500 £47,500 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-40.00% +31.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £29,000 £26,600
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £54,750 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £28,500 £47,500 £36,000
% change year-on-year
-40.00% +31.94%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Automated Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Automated Test Engineer within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Automated Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Test Engineer
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automated Test Engineer within the UK.

Automated Test Engineer Salary Trend

Automated Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Test Engineer over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Automated Test Engineer Salary Histogram

Automated Test Engineer
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Test Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +13 10 £28,500 -40.00%
South East +8 5 £28,500 -45.71%
Southampton - 5 £28,500 -
Hampshire - 5 £28,500 -
Edinburgh - 4 - -
Scotland - 4 - -
Yorkshire +9 3 £35,000 +20.68%
North Yorkshire - 3 £35,000 -
York - 3 £35,000 -
London +36 1 £50,000 -4.76%
North West +5 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -

Automated Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Automated Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Automated Test Engineer in their job title.

1 20 (66.67%) QA
1 20 (66.67%) Selenium
2 18 (60.00%) Scrum
2 18 (60.00%) C#
2 18 (60.00%) Java
3 15 (50.00%) Ant
3 15 (50.00%) ISEB
4 14 (46.67%) Test Scripting
5 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
5 11 (36.67%) Automated Testing
6 10 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
7 9 (30.00%) PHP
7 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
8 8 (26.67%) Degree
8 8 (26.67%) Performance Testing
8 8 (26.67%) Web Testing
8 8 (26.67%) Puppet
8 8 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
8 8 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
8 8 (26.67%) WebDriver
8 8 (26.67%) Internet
8 8 (26.67%) TDD
8 8 (26.67%) Games
9 7 (23.33%) XML
9 7 (23.33%) Tomcat
9 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
9 7 (23.33%) HTML
9 7 (23.33%) J2EE
10 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
10 6 (20.00%) TestNG

Automated Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Automated Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Automated Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (23.33%) XML
1 7 (23.33%) HTML
1 7 (23.33%) J2EE
2 4 (13.33%) .NET
3 3 (10.00%) WPF
4 1 (3.333%) Silverlight
4 1 (3.333%) LAMP
4 1 (3.333%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Amazon EC2
2 7 (23.33%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 8 (26.67%) Internet
2 1 (3.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (20.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (66.67%) Selenium
2 15 (50.00%) Ant
3 11 (36.67%) Jenkins
4 8 (26.67%) WebDriver
5 6 (20.00%) TestNG
5 6 (20.00%) JUnit
6 3 (10.00%) Visual Studio
6 3 (10.00%) LoadRunner
6 3 (10.00%) JMeter
6 3 (10.00%) Hudson
6 3 (10.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 3 (10.00%) Cucumber
7 1 (3.333%) JIRA
General
1 8 (26.67%) Games
2 3 (10.00%) Publishing
3 1 (3.333%) Marketing
3 1 (3.333%) Law
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (20.00%) Ubuntu
1 6 (20.00%) Windows
1 6 (20.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (60.00%) Scrum
2 14 (46.67%) Test Scripting
3 11 (36.67%) Automated Testing
4 10 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Performance Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Web Testing
6 8 (26.67%) Continuous Integration
6 8 (26.67%) TDD
7 3 (10.00%) System Testing
7 3 (10.00%) Unit Testing
8 2 (6.667%) Test Strategy
9 1 (3.333%) Test Automation
9 1 (3.333%) Automation Testing
9 1 (3.333%) Waterfall
9 1 (3.333%) Digital Marketing
9 1 (3.333%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 18 (60.00%) C#
1 18 (60.00%) Java
2 9 (30.00%) PHP
3 7 (23.33%) JavaScript
4 6 (20.00%) SQL
5 1 (3.333%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 15 (50.00%) ISEB
2 8 (26.67%) Degree
3 3 (10.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) Puppet
Vendors
1 3 (10.00%) Telerik
2 1 (3.333%) VMware