Automation Engineer Jobs

Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automation Engineer over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Automation Engineer
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automation Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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	-29	92	£42,500	-5.55%	16
London	+19	55	£50,000	+5.26%	8
South East	-7	16	£32,500	-23.52%	4
City of London	+12	13	£50,000	-0.49%	1
South West	+4	10	£41,000	+47.74%	2
Bristol	+2	8	£41,000	-8.88%	2
East Midlands	+3	6	£32,500	-27.77%
Milton Keynes	-	6	£28,000	-
Buckinghamshire	-	6	£28,000	-
Nottinghamshire	-	5	£32,500	-
Surrey	+1	4	£36,750	-22.63%	2
Kent	-	4	£35,000	-	1
Nottingham	-	4	£32,500	-
Canary Wharf	-	4	-	-
Reading	+1	2	£48,750	+8.33%	1
East of England	-15	2	-	-	1
West Midlands	-21	2	£27,500	-15.38%
Berkshire	-22	2	£48,750	+30.00%	1
Cheshire	-	2	-	-
West Malling	-	2	£33,750	-
Guildford	-	2	£41,000	-
Maidstone	-	2	£33,750	-
Chester	-	2	-	-
Coventry	-	2	£27,500	-
North West	-	2	-	-
Scotland	-	2	£38,750	-
Yorkshire	+5	1	£27,500	-
Hertfordshire	0	1	-	-
Stevenage	-5	1	-	-
West Yorkshire	-7	1	£27,500	-

Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Automation 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 Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 122 (54.71%) Selenium 2 119 (53.36%) QA 3 118 (52.91%) Test Automation 4 103 (46.19%) Java 5 82 (36.77%) Agile Software Development 6 67 (30.04%) Finance 7 60 (26.91%) Cucumber 8 59 (26.46%) WebDriver 9 58 (26.01%) BDD 10 55 (24.66%) SQL 11 51 (22.87%) Scrum 12 50 (22.42%) Python 13 48 (21.52%) C# 13 48 (21.52%) TDD 14 45 (20.18%) Linux

15 44 (19.73%) Automation Testing 16 43 (19.28%) Automated Testing 17 41 (18.39%) Test Scripting 18 40 (17.94%) Ruby 19 37 (16.59%) Perl 19 37 (16.59%) Windows 20 36 (16.14%) QuickTest Pro 21 35 (15.70%) OO 22 33 (14.80%) User Stories 23 32 (14.35%) Open Source 24 31 (13.90%) E-Commerce 25 29 (13.00%) Continuous Integration 26 28 (12.56%) .NET 27 27 (12.11%) SOAP 27 27 (12.11%) Web Services

Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 28 (12.56%) .NET 2 27 (12.11%) SOAP 2 27 (12.11%) Web Services 3 25 (11.21%) soapUI 4 17 (7.623%) XML 5 10 (4.484%) J2EE 6 8 (3.587%) HTML 7 7 (3.139%) Grails 8 6 (2.691%) XSD 8 6 (2.691%) ASP.NET 9 5 (2.242%) RESTful 9 5 (2.242%) WPF 9 5 (2.242%) Gherkin 10 4 (1.794%) REST 10 4 (1.794%) .NET Framework 11 3 (1.345%) LINQ 11 3 (1.345%) Silverlight 11 3 (1.345%) JSON 11 3 (1.345%) CSS 12 2 (0.897%) HTML5	Application Platforms 1 7 (3.139%) IIS 1 7 (3.139%) MS Exchange 1 7 (3.139%) Apache 1 7 (3.139%) Exchange Server 2010 2 5 (2.242%) Tomcat 3 4 (1.794%) Magento 4 1 (0.448%) NServiceBus
Applications 1 6 (2.691%) MS Excel 2 1 (0.448%) Simulink 2 1 (0.448%) MS Visio	Communications & Networking 1 19 (8.520%) Internet 2 11 (4.933%) SAN 3 10 (4.484%) HTTP 4 7 (3.139%) NAS 4 7 (3.139%) iSCSI 4 7 (3.139%) BSS 4 7 (3.139%) DHCP 4 7 (3.139%) VoIP 4 7 (3.139%) DNS 5 5 (2.242%) LDAP 6 3 (1.345%) Firewall 7 2 (0.897%) VLAN 8 1 (0.448%) TELNET 8 1 (0.448%) RFID 8 1 (0.448%) Broadband 8 1 (0.448%) LAN 8 1 (0.448%) WAN 8 1 (0.448%) FTP 8 1 (0.448%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 17 (7.623%) SQL Server 2 14 (6.278%) MySQL 3 5 (2.242%) Big Data 4 1 (0.448%) Oracle 11g 4 1 (0.448%) Hadoop 4 1 (0.448%) RDBMS 4 1 (0.448%) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.448%) MS Access	Development Applications 1 122 (54.71%) Selenium 2 60 (26.91%) Cucumber 3 59 (26.46%) WebDriver 4 36 (16.14%) QuickTest Pro 5 17 (7.623%) JUnit 6 13 (5.830%) Ant 6 13 (5.830%) Visual Studio 7 12 (5.381%) Maven 8 11 (4.933%) Subversion 9 10 (4.484%) SpecFlow 9 10 (4.484%) JBehave 10 9 (4.036%) JIRA 11 7 (3.139%) Xcode 11 7 (3.139%) JMeter 11 7 (3.139%) Behat 12 6 (2.691%) MbUnit 12 6 (2.691%) FitNesse 13 5 (2.242%) TestNG 13 5 (2.242%) TeamCity 13 5 (2.242%) RSpec
General 1 67 (30.04%) Finance 2 18 (8.072%) Telecoms 3 7 (3.139%) Online Betting 3 7 (3.139%) Banking 4 6 (2.691%) Games 5 4 (1.794%) Retail 5 4 (1.794%) Investment Banking 5 4 (1.794%) Marketing 6 3 (1.345%) Financial Institution 7 2 (0.897%) Manufacturing 7 2 (0.897%) Publishing 7 2 (0.897%) Front Office 8 1 (0.448%) Back Office 8 1 (0.448%) Electronics	Miscellaneous 1 32 (14.35%) Open Source 2 9 (4.036%) iPhone 2 9 (4.036%) Enterprise Software 2 9 (4.036%) Digital Media 2 9 (4.036%) iPad 3 8 (3.587%) Computer Science 4 7 (3.139%) Clustering 4 7 (3.139%) EqualLogic 4 7 (3.139%) Hedge funds 5 6 (2.691%) Mobile App 6 3 (1.345%) Online Games 6 3 (1.345%) Client/Server 7 2 (0.897%) SaaS 7 2 (0.897%) N-Tier 7 2 (0.897%) Mainframe 7 2 (0.897%) Blog 7 2 (0.897%) IBM Mainframe 8 1 (0.448%) Credit Risk 8 1 (0.448%) IPTV 8 1 (0.448%) Social Network
Operating Systems 1 45 (20.18%) Linux 2 37 (16.59%) Windows 3 23 (10.31%) UNIX 4 11 (4.933%) Android 4 11 (4.933%) Apple iOS 5 8 (3.587%) Windows Server 2008 5 8 (3.587%) Windows 7 6 7 (3.139%) Windows Server 2003 6 7 (3.139%) Windows Server 2012 7 2 (0.897%) Solaris 8 1 (0.448%) CentOS 8 1 (0.448%) Embedded Linux 8 1 (0.448%) Windows XP 8 1 (0.448%) AIX	Processes & Methodologies 1 118 (52.91%) Test Automation 2 82 (36.77%) Agile Software Development 3 58 (26.01%) BDD 4 51 (22.87%) Scrum 5 48 (21.52%) TDD 6 44 (19.73%) Automation Testing 7 43 (19.28%) Automated Testing 8 41 (18.39%) Test Scripting 9 35 (15.70%) OO 10 33 (14.80%) User Stories 11 31 (13.90%) E-Commerce 12 29 (13.00%) Continuous Integration 13 24 (10.76%) OOP 14 20 (8.969%) Test Strategy 15 19 (8.520%) Software Testing 16 15 (6.726%) Performance Testing 16 15 (6.726%) Regression Testing 17 13 (5.830%) Continuous Improvement 18 12 (5.381%) Penetration Testing 19 11 (4.933%) SOA
Programming Languages 1 103 (46.19%) Java 2 55 (24.66%) SQL 3 50 (22.42%) Python 4 48 (21.52%) C# 5 40 (17.94%) Ruby 6 37 (16.59%) Perl 7 23 (10.31%) PHP 7 23 (10.31%) JavaScript 8 15 (6.726%) VBScript 9 13 (5.830%) PowerShell 10 10 (4.484%) Groovy 11 8 (3.587%) C++ 12 7 (3.139%) VB 13 6 (2.691%) C 14 3 (1.345%) Scala 14 3 (1.345%) Lua 14 3 (1.345%) XAML 14 3 (1.345%) PeopleCode 14 3 (1.345%) Shell Script 14 3 (1.345%) Bash shell	Qualifications 1 24 (10.76%) Degree 2 19 (8.520%) ISEB 3 9 (4.036%) ISTQB 4 3 (1.345%) HND 5 2 (0.897%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 119 (53.36%) QA 2 6 (2.691%) ISO/IEC 27001	System Software 1 14 (6.278%) VMware Infrastructure 2 8 (3.587%) vSphere 3 7 (3.139%) Veritas Cluster Server 3 7 (3.139%) VMware ESX 3 7 (3.139%) NFS 3 7 (3.139%) Active Directory 4 5 (2.242%) Snort
Systems Management 1 8 (3.587%) Puppet 2 7 (3.139%) Cacti 2 7 (3.139%) OpenNMS 3 5 (2.242%) Splunk 4 3 (1.345%) SCCM 4 3 (1.345%) BladeLogic 4 3 (1.345%) Opalis 4 3 (1.345%) Nagios 4 3 (1.345%) AppManager 5 2 (0.897%) Tivoli 5 2 (0.897%) Control-M 6 1 (0.448%) HP Quality Center	Vendors 1 22 (9.865%) Microsoft 2 15 (6.726%) VMware 3 7 (3.139%) Oracle 3 7 (3.139%) NetApp 4 6 (2.691%) HP 5 5 (2.242%) BMC 6 3 (1.345%) SolarWinds 6 3 (1.345%) NetIQ 7 2 (0.897%) CA 7 2 (0.897%) IBM 7 2 (0.897%) Perforce 8 1 (0.448%) Red Hat