The first table below looks at the demand for the QA Automation Engineer role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QA Automation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Quality Assurance Automation Engineer
Rank 839 868 865
Rank change year-on-year
+29 -3
Permanent jobs requiring a QA Automation Engineer 23 30 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.021% 0.025% 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.026% 0.007%
Number of salaries quoted 22 30 8
Average salary £50,000 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+17.64% +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,200 £33,400 £39,250
10% offered a salary of more than £62,250 £52,500 £43,250
UK excluding London average salary £42,000 £47,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-10.63% +10.58%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101523 114414 118763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.78% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 84418 98091 100446
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 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

QA Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QA Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

QA Automation Engineer Salary Trend

QA Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer over the 3 months to 23 May 2013 within the UK.

QA Automation Engineer Salary Histogram

QA Automation Engineer
Top 5 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QA Automation Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 23 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
England +17 23 £50,000 +17.64%
London +42 21 £50,000 +17.64%
City of London +10 5 £45,000 -21.73%
South West - 2 £42,000 -
Bristol - 2 £42,000 -

QA Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited QA 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 QA Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 102 (100.00%) QA
2 84 (82.35%) Selenium
3 67 (65.69%) Java
4 65 (63.73%) Agile Software Development
5 62 (60.78%) Test Automation
6 45 (44.12%) Scrum
7 43 (42.16%) SQL
8 41 (40.20%) WebDriver
9 39 (38.24%) Cucumber
10 37 (36.27%) C#
11 33 (32.35%) E-Commerce
12 30 (29.41%) TDD
13 28 (27.45%) Finance
14 27 (26.47%) OO
15 24 (23.53%) Open Source
16 21 (20.59%) Python
16 21 (20.59%) Regression Testing
17 20 (19.61%) OOP
17 20 (19.61%) Ruby
17 20 (19.61%) User Stories
18 19 (18.63%) BDD
18 19 (18.63%) JavaScript
18 19 (18.63%) Internet
19 18 (17.65%) Software Testing
19 18 (17.65%) Test Scripting
19 18 (17.65%) Apple iOS
20 17 (16.67%) iPad
20 17 (16.67%) Android
20 17 (16.67%) iPhone
20 17 (16.67%) Degree

QA Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited QA 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 QA Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (15.69%) soapUI
2 15 (14.71%) J2EE
3 13 (12.75%) SOAP
4 10 (9.804%) Grails
5 9 (8.824%) Web Services
6 6 (5.882%) JSON
6 6 (5.882%) .NET
7 4 (3.922%) Gherkin
7 4 (3.922%) HTML
8 3 (2.941%) XML
8 3 (2.941%) Spring
8 3 (2.941%) Silverlight
8 3 (2.941%) RESTful
8 3 (2.941%) REST
8 3 (2.941%) HTML5
9 1 (0.980%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.922%) Magento
1 4 (3.922%) Tomcat
Applications
1 2 (1.961%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.980%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 19 (18.63%) Internet
2 13 (12.75%) HTTP
3 2 (1.961%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.922%) Big Data
2 1 (0.980%) MySQL
2 1 (0.980%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 84 (82.35%) Selenium
2 41 (40.20%) WebDriver
3 39 (38.24%) Cucumber
4 15 (14.71%) JUnit
5 9 (8.824%) FitNesse
6 8 (7.843%) QuickTest Pro
7 7 (6.863%) Subversion
7 7 (6.863%) SpecFlow
8 6 (5.882%) JIRA
8 6 (5.882%) JMeter
9 5 (4.902%) JSUnit
9 5 (4.902%) jMock
9 5 (4.902%) Hudson
9 5 (4.902%) JBehave
10 4 (3.922%) PHPUnit
10 4 (3.922%) CruiseControl
10 4 (3.922%) Maven
10 4 (3.922%) WATIR
10 4 (3.922%) Ant
11 3 (2.941%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (27.45%) Finance
2 14 (13.73%) Telecoms
3 11 (10.78%) Online Betting
4 6 (5.882%) Marketing
5 5 (4.902%) Banking
6 4 (3.922%) Financial Institution
7 3 (2.941%) Investment Banking
8 2 (1.961%) Publishing
9 1 (0.980%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 24 (23.53%) Open Source
2 17 (16.67%) iPad
2 17 (16.67%) iPhone
3 6 (5.882%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.961%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.961%) Blog
4 2 (1.961%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.980%) N-Tier
5 1 (0.980%) Online Games
5 1 (0.980%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (0.980%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 18 (17.65%) Apple iOS
2 17 (16.67%) Android
3 8 (7.843%) UNIX
4 7 (6.863%) Linux
5 5 (4.902%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 65 (63.73%) Agile Software Development
2 62 (60.78%) Test Automation
3 45 (44.12%) Scrum
4 33 (32.35%) E-Commerce
5 30 (29.41%) TDD
6 27 (26.47%) OO
7 21 (20.59%) Regression Testing
8 20 (19.61%) OOP
8 20 (19.61%) User Stories
9 19 (18.63%) BDD
10 18 (17.65%) Software Testing
10 18 (17.65%) Test Scripting
11 17 (16.67%) B2B
12 16 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
13 14 (13.73%) Automation Testing
14 13 (12.75%) Performance Testing
15 12 (11.76%) Test Strategy
16 11 (10.78%) Continuous Integration
16 11 (10.78%) Kanban
17 10 (9.804%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (65.69%) Java
2 43 (42.16%) SQL
3 37 (36.27%) C#
4 21 (20.59%) Python
5 20 (19.61%) Ruby
6 19 (18.63%) JavaScript
7 10 (9.804%) Groovy
7 10 (9.804%) Perl
8 9 (8.824%) C++
9 8 (7.843%) PHP
10 7 (6.863%) C
11 4 (3.922%) Lua
12 3 (2.941%) PeopleCode
12 3 (2.941%) VBScript
13 2 (1.961%) Scala
13 2 (1.961%) VB
14 1 (0.980%) Tcl
14 1 (0.980%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (16.67%) Degree
2 5 (4.902%) ISEB
3 2 (1.961%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (4.902%) Microsoft
2 1 (0.980%) Oracle
South West London
An experienced QA Tester / Automation Engineer is required to join the development team, to take ownership of the development and maintenance of the core testing infrastructure... This is...
Blue Glue
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Norwich, Norfolk
As a QA Automation Engineer you will: You will have a solid understanding of the Microsoft stack, object oriented development, and web application technologies... Mandatory Skills: Strong experience...
Pentasia Ltd
Salary: Unspecified (Depending on Experience)
Posted: 20 May 2013