The first table below looks at the demand for the Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation Engineer
Rank 820 856 858
Rank change year-on-year
+36 +2
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Automation Engineer 40 31 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.026% 0.011%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.039% 0.027% 0.011%
Number of salaries quoted 35 30 12
Average salary £41,000 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.68% +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £47,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
-31.57% +11.76%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
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%

Test Automation Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Automation Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Test Automation Engineer Salary Trend

Test Automation Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Test Automation Engineer Salary Histogram

Test Automation Engineer
Top 19 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation Engineer within the UK over the 3 months to 21 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 39 £41,000 -13.68%
London +44 19 £50,000 +5.26%
South East -11 11 £28,000 -37.77%
Buckinghamshire - 6 £28,000 -
Milton Keynes - 6 £28,000 -
South West - 5 £41,000 -
Bristol - 4 £41,000 -
Nottingham - 4 £32,500 -
Nottinghamshire - 4 £32,500 -
East Midlands - 4 £32,500 -
City of London +4 3 £50,000 +17.64%
Oxfordshire - 3 £40,000 -
Oxford - 3 £40,000 -
Surrey +5 1 - -
Berkshire +1 1 £35,000 -
Reading +1 1 £35,000 -22.22%
Scotland - 1 £25,000 -
Gloucestershire - 1 £34,500 -
Dundee - 1 £25,000 -

Test Automation Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in their job title.

1 106 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 67 (63.21%) Java
3 61 (57.55%) Selenium
4 57 (53.77%) QA
5 55 (51.89%) Agile Software Development
6 52 (49.06%) WebDriver
7 41 (38.68%) TDD
8 39 (36.79%) Scrum
9 37 (34.91%) C#
10 34 (32.08%) OO
11 30 (28.30%) Finance
12 29 (27.36%) Python
12 29 (27.36%) SQL
12 29 (27.36%) BDD
13 27 (25.47%) Cucumber
14 26 (24.53%) Automated Testing
15 24 (22.64%) OOP
16 22 (20.75%) Automation Testing
17 21 (19.81%) Apple iOS
17 21 (19.81%) Web Services
17 21 (19.81%) Android
18 20 (18.87%) .NET
19 19 (17.92%) QuickTest Pro
19 19 (17.92%) Test Scripting
20 18 (16.98%) iPhone
20 18 (16.98%) Ruby
20 18 (16.98%) Regression Testing
21 17 (16.04%) B2B
21 17 (16.04%) iPad
22 16 (15.09%) Windows

Test Automation Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Test 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 Test Automation Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 21 (19.81%) Web Services
2 20 (18.87%) .NET
3 9 (8.491%) REST
4 7 (6.604%) XML
5 6 (5.660%) WPF
6 5 (4.717%) RESTful
6 5 (4.717%) HTML
7 4 (3.774%) ASP.NET
7 4 (3.774%) SOAP
8 3 (2.830%) .NET Framework
8 3 (2.830%) LINQ
8 3 (2.830%) Middleware
9 2 (1.887%) WCF
10 1 (0.943%) ASP.NET MVC
10 1 (0.943%) Silverlight
10 1 (0.943%) Spring
10 1 (0.943%) XSD
10 1 (0.943%) XSLT
10 1 (0.943%) COM
10 1 (0.943%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 6 (5.660%) IIS
2 2 (1.887%) Apache
3 1 (0.943%) MSMQ
3 1 (0.943%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 3 (2.830%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.943%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.660%) Internet
2 1 (0.943%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (8.491%) SQL Server
2 3 (2.830%) Big Data
3 1 (0.943%) MS Access
Development Applications
1 61 (57.55%) Selenium
2 52 (49.06%) WebDriver
3 27 (25.47%) Cucumber
4 19 (17.92%) QuickTest Pro
5 10 (9.434%) JIRA
5 10 (9.434%) Ant
6 9 (8.491%) Capybara
6 9 (8.491%) JUnit
6 9 (8.491%) Visual Studio
6 9 (8.491%) RSpec
7 6 (5.660%) CruiseControl
7 6 (5.660%) FitNesse
7 6 (5.660%) jMock
7 6 (5.660%) JSUnit
8 5 (4.717%) MbUnit
8 5 (4.717%) Subversion
9 4 (3.774%) Maven
9 4 (3.774%) TeamCity
10 3 (2.830%) Behat
10 3 (2.830%) TestComplete
General
1 30 (28.30%) Finance
2 6 (5.660%) Financial Institution
3 3 (2.830%) Telecoms
4 1 (0.943%) Marketing
4 1 (0.943%) Front Office
4 1 (0.943%) Publishing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (16.98%) iPhone
2 17 (16.04%) iPad
3 11 (10.38%) Open Source
4 6 (5.660%) Computer Science
4 6 (5.660%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.774%) Mobile App
6 3 (2.830%) Digital Media
6 3 (2.830%) Mathematics
7 1 (0.943%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.943%) Social Network
7 1 (0.943%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.943%) N-Tier
7 1 (0.943%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 21 (19.81%) Apple iOS
1 21 (19.81%) Android
2 16 (15.09%) Windows
3 15 (14.15%) UNIX
4 14 (13.21%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 55 (51.89%) Agile Software Development
3 41 (38.68%) TDD
4 39 (36.79%) Scrum
5 34 (32.08%) OO
6 29 (27.36%) BDD
7 26 (24.53%) Automated Testing
8 24 (22.64%) OOP
9 22 (20.75%) Automation Testing
10 19 (17.92%) Test Scripting
11 18 (16.98%) Regression Testing
12 17 (16.04%) B2B
13 15 (14.15%) Continuous Integration
13 15 (14.15%) User Stories
14 10 (9.434%) Software Testing
14 10 (9.434%) Test Strategy
15 8 (7.547%) Web Testing
15 8 (7.547%) Penetration Testing
16 5 (4.717%) SOA
17 3 (2.830%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 67 (63.21%) Java
2 37 (34.91%) C#
3 29 (27.36%) Python
3 29 (27.36%) SQL
4 18 (16.98%) Ruby
5 15 (14.15%) Perl
6 10 (9.434%) PHP
7 9 (8.491%) C++
8 8 (7.547%) JavaScript
9 6 (5.660%) C
9 6 (5.660%) Lua
10 3 (2.830%) XAML
11 1 (0.943%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.943%) VB.NET
11 1 (0.943%) VBA
11 1 (0.943%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (12.26%) Degree
2 2 (1.887%) ISEB
3 1 (0.943%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (53.77%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (0.943%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (4.717%) Microsoft
1 5 (4.717%) HP
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
You will need to have a minimum of 2 years of experience of using Test Automation tools(Ranorex, Selenium) Experience of coding in C#, C, Java and HTML.
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £40000.00 - £45000.00 per annum + benefits + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Nottinghamshire
Automation Test Analyst / Developer/ Tester - C#.Net/ SQL Server/ QTP/ QC Nottingham based... Responsibilities of the role include: *Develop tools for QA and testing frameworks to run automated...
Spring Technology
Salary: £30000.00 - £35000.00 per annum + Bonus plus benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Requirements: To be successful with this role you will have: - Good degree in a relevant technical discipline - Experience of Python or other scripting language - Experience in test automation...
MJH Personnel Associates
Salary: Excellent + bens
Posted: 16 May 2013