The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Automation Tester role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Automation Tester 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
Senior Automation Tester
Rank 859 875 879
Rank change year-on-year
+16 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Automation Tester 9 10 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.008% 0.008% 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.009% 0.009% 0.002%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 3
Average salary £39,250 £46,250 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.13% +17.08%
UK excluding London average salary £37,250 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+6.43% +7.69%
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%

Senior Automation Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Automation Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Automation Tester
Salary Trend

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

Senior Automation Tester Salary Trend

Senior Automation Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Automation Tester over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Senior Automation Tester Salary Histogram

Senior Automation Tester
Top 8 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Automation Tester 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 +24 9 £39,250 -15.13% 1
London +38 5 £53,750 +13.15% 1
Bristol - 3 £36,000 -
South West - 3 £36,000 -
City of London +1 2 £57,500 -11.53%
East Midlands - 1 £40,000 -
Nottingham - 1 £40,000 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £40,000 -

Senior Automation Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Automation Tester 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 Senior Automation Tester in their job title.

1 13 (65.00%) QA
1 13 (65.00%) C#
2 12 (60.00%) Selenium
3 11 (55.00%) Java
4 10 (50.00%) SQL
4 10 (50.00%) WebDriver
5 9 (45.00%) Scrum
5 9 (45.00%) QuickTest Pro
6 8 (40.00%) Automated Testing
7 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
8 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
8 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (25.00%) TDD
9 5 (25.00%) Finance
9 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
9 5 (25.00%) BDD
9 5 (25.00%) Python
9 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
9 5 (25.00%) .NET
10 4 (20.00%) Perl
10 4 (20.00%) VBScript
10 4 (20.00%) C++
10 4 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
10 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
11 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
11 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
11 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
11 3 (15.00%) WatiN
11 3 (15.00%) HTML5
11 3 (15.00%) Social Media

Senior Automation Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior Automation Tester 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 Senior Automation Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (25.00%) .NET
2 3 (15.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (15.00%) HTML5
3 2 (10.00%) SOAP
3 2 (10.00%) soapUI
4 1 (5.000%) J2EE
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.000%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.000%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 12 (60.00%) Selenium
2 10 (50.00%) WebDriver
3 9 (45.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
4 4 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 3 (15.00%) WatiN
5 3 (15.00%) Cucumber
5 3 (15.00%) WebLOAD
5 3 (15.00%) LoadRunner
5 3 (15.00%) Rational Robot
6 2 (10.00%) JUnit
6 2 (10.00%) Visual Studio
6 2 (10.00%) Maven
6 2 (10.00%) CruiseControl
7 1 (5.000%) FitNesse
General
1 5 (25.00%) Finance
2 2 (10.00%) Marketing
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Social Media
2 1 (5.000%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.000%) UNIX
1 1 (5.000%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (45.00%) Scrum
2 8 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 6 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 6 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
5 5 (25.00%) TDD
5 5 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 5 (25.00%) BDD
5 5 (25.00%) E-Commerce
6 3 (15.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (15.00%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (15.00%) OO
7 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 2 (10.00%) Product Management
7 2 (10.00%) Web Testing
8 1 (5.000%) Agile Testing
8 1 (5.000%) Automation Testing
8 1 (5.000%) V-Model
8 1 (5.000%) Document Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (65.00%) C#
2 11 (55.00%) Java
3 10 (50.00%) SQL
4 5 (25.00%) Python
5 4 (20.00%) Perl
5 4 (20.00%) VBScript
5 4 (20.00%) C++
6 3 (15.00%) Ruby
6 3 (15.00%) JavaScript
6 3 (15.00%) VB
7 2 (10.00%) Smalltalk
7 2 (10.00%) VB.NET
8 1 (5.000%) PL/SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (65.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.000%) Oracle
1 1 (5.000%) Microsoft
1 1 (5.000%) HP
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Posted: 28 May 2013