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The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 20 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 283 296 366
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +70
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 989 991 757
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.895% 0.837% 0.587%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.174% 1.118% 0.797%
Number of salaries quoted 837 845 650
Average salary £45,000 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.88% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 84211 88661 95036
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.24% 74.90% 73.69%
Number of salaries quoted 69122 75412 79844
Average salary £45,000 £46,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.22% -2.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Automation Jobs Demand Trend

Test Automation
Salary Trend

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

Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

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

Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Automation 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 0 921 £45,000 +5.88% 120
London +15 485 £50,500 +1.00% 62
South East -71 161 £45,000 +12.50% 26
City of London +17 123 £53,750 +7.50% 22
East of England +11 82 £42,500 +13.33% 12
South West +15 56 £40,000 +28.00% 10
Surrey +6 56 £45,000 -21.73% 2
Yorkshire +18 50 £35,000 -2.77% 4
West Yorkshire +6 45 £35,000 -2.77% 2
Leeds +12 44 £35,000 - 2
Berkshire -56 42 £51,750 +29.37% 16
North West +29 36 £30,000 +26.31% 3
Scotland +11 36 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Hertfordshire +24 33 £42,500 - 2
Bristol +4 28 £40,000 +37.93% 4
Cambridgeshire -12 28 £45,000 +12.50% 6
West Midlands -18 28 £38,750 +19.23% 3
Cambridge -12 27 £45,000 +20.00% 6
Glasgow -2 23 £50,000 +4.16% 2
South Wales +12 21 £35,000 -52.38%
Wales +9 21 £35,000 -52.38%
Cardiff +6 18 £35,000 +12.90%
East Midlands +1 17 £32,500 -7.14%
East Sussex -3 15 £75,000 +82.92% 4
Brighton -8 15 £75,000 +82.92% 4
North Yorkshire +16 14 £35,000 - 1
Nottinghamshire -2 14 £32,500 -7.14%
Harrogate - 14 £35,000 - 1
Merseyside +28 13 £30,000 -
Hampshire +1 13 £45,000 +44.00% 2

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Test Automation also 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 that cited Test Automation.

1 925 (44.66%) QA
2 862 (41.62%) Selenium
3 781 (37.71%) Agile Software Development
4 758 (36.60%) Java
5 678 (32.74%) SQL
6 535 (25.83%) Scrum
7 498 (24.05%) C#
8 477 (23.03%) .NET
9 470 (22.69%) Finance
10 463 (22.36%) TDD
11 454 (21.92%) ISEB
12 452 (21.83%) QuickTest Pro
13 435 (21.00%) Degree
14 431 (20.81%) Test Scripting
15 429 (20.71%) Automated Testing
16 367 (17.72%) Software Testing
17 365 (17.62%) WebDriver
18 364 (17.58%) Cucumber
19 344 (16.61%) BDD
20 332 (16.03%) Continuous Integration
21 297 (14.34%) Windows
22 277 (13.38%) ISTQB
23 261 (12.60%) Test Strategy
24 249 (12.02%) E-Commerce
25 248 (11.97%) XML
26 238 (11.49%) C++
27 236 (11.40%) Python
28 224 (10.82%) Oracle
29 223 (10.77%) HP
30 222 (10.72%) Web Services

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Test Automation also 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 that cited Test Automation. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 477 (23.03%) .NET
2 248 (11.97%) XML
3 222 (10.72%) Web Services
4 167 (8.064%) HTML
5 114 (5.505%) CSS
6 107 (5.167%) SOAP
7 101 (4.877%) soapUI
8 99 (4.780%) .NET Framework
9 96 (4.635%) ASP.NET
10 70 (3.380%) JSON
11 63 (3.042%) WPF
12 61 (2.945%) RESTful
13 59 (2.849%) Gherkin
14 55 (2.656%) J2EE
15 52 (2.511%) REST
16 43 (2.076%) WCF
17 39 (1.883%) Ajax
18 38 (1.835%) Spring
19 33 (1.593%) HTML5
20 30 (1.449%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 67 (3.235%) IIS
2 32 (1.545%) Tomcat
3 30 (1.449%) SharePoint
4 25 (1.207%) CMS
4 25 (1.207%) Confluence
5 21 (1.014%) Windows Azure
6 18 (0.869%) Apache
7 9 (0.435%) ESB
8 8 (0.386%) SharePoint Server
8 8 (0.386%) WebLogic
9 7 (0.338%) MediaWiki
9 7 (0.338%) Sitecore CMS
10 5 (0.241%) Amazon AWS
10 5 (0.241%) MQSeries
11 4 (0.193%) Documentum
12 3 (0.145%) Oracle Coherence
12 3 (0.145%) Oracle Application Server
13 2 (0.097%) WordPress
13 2 (0.097%) Alfresco
14 1 (0.048%) NServiceBus
Applications
1 70 (3.380%) MS Excel
2 37 (1.787%) MS Office
3 12 (0.579%) MS Project
4 7 (0.338%) Google Apps
5 4 (0.193%) MS PowerPoint
6 3 (0.145%) Simulink
6 3 (0.145%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.048%) Mingle
7 1 (0.048%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 10 (0.483%) Oracle BPM
2 7 (0.338%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.241%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (0.145%) BASE24
5 2 (0.097%) Agresso
6 1 (0.048%) Google Analytics
6 1 (0.048%) FINCAD Analytics
6 1 (0.048%) WebTrends
6 1 (0.048%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.048%) Endur
6 1 (0.048%) VisionPLUS
6 1 (0.048%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.048%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.048%) SAP SCM
Communications & Networking
1 126 (6.084%) Internet
2 73 (3.525%) HTTP
3 38 (1.835%) TCP/IP
4 27 (1.304%) LAN
4 27 (1.304%) WAN
5 22 (1.062%) BSS
6 18 (0.869%) DNS
6 18 (0.869%) Broadband
7 13 (0.628%) SSL
7 13 (0.628%) LDAP
8 12 (0.579%) HTTPS
9 10 (0.483%) Firewall
9 10 (0.483%) IGMP
9 10 (0.483%) VPN
9 10 (0.483%) ATM
10 8 (0.386%) 3GPP
11 7 (0.338%) DVB
11 7 (0.338%) Ethernet
12 6 (0.290%) Wireless
12 6 (0.290%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 207 (9.995%) SQL Server
2 45 (2.173%) RDBMS
3 44 (2.125%) MySQL
4 31 (1.497%) Oracle 8/8i
5 22 (1.062%) Data Warehouse
6 21 (1.014%) SQL Server 2008
7 18 (0.869%) Big Data
8 14 (0.676%) Oracle 11g
9 12 (0.579%) NoSQL
10 11 (0.531%) DB2
10 11 (0.531%) SQL Server 2005
11 10 (0.483%) Apache Cassandra
12 7 (0.338%) SQL Server 2012
12 7 (0.338%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 7 (0.338%) PostgreSQL
13 6 (0.290%) Text Mining
13 6 (0.290%) Data Mining
13 6 (0.290%) Oracle BI EE
13 6 (0.290%) Oracle ODI
14 5 (0.241%) CouchDB
Development Applications
1 862 (41.62%) Selenium
2 452 (21.83%) QuickTest Pro
3 365 (17.62%) WebDriver
4 364 (17.58%) Cucumber
5 177 (8.547%) JUnit
6 160 (7.726%) Jenkins
7 151 (7.291%) LoadRunner
8 144 (6.953%) JIRA
9 143 (6.905%) FitNesse
10 134 (6.470%) SpecFlow
11 132 (6.374%) Visual Studio
12 119 (5.746%) JMeter
13 103 (4.973%) JBehave
14 101 (4.877%) Maven
15 99 (4.780%) Subversion
16 95 (4.587%) Team Foundation Server
17 66 (3.187%) Ant
18 63 (3.042%) Hudson
19 59 (2.849%) Git (software)
19 59 (2.849%) NUnit
General
1 470 (22.69%) Finance
2 161 (7.774%) Banking
3 98 (4.732%) Telecoms
4 79 (3.815%) Games
4 79 (3.815%) Investment Banking
5 78 (3.766%) Retail
6 73 (3.525%) Marketing
7 51 (2.463%) Front Office
8 35 (1.690%) Financial Institution
9 32 (1.545%) Publishing
10 26 (1.255%) Back Office
11 20 (0.966%) Legal
12 19 (0.917%) Electronics
13 17 (0.821%) Law
14 16 (0.773%) Online Betting
15 13 (0.628%) Advertising
16 12 (0.579%) Multimedia
17 11 (0.531%) Pharmaceutical
17 11 (0.531%) Retail Banking
18 10 (0.483%) Billing
Job Titles
1 539 (26.03%) Analyst
2 488 (23.56%) Test Analyst
3 462 (22.31%) Tester
4 337 (16.27%) Test Engineer
5 331 (15.98%) Developer
6 154 (7.436%) QA Engineer
7 153 (7.388%) Software Engineer
8 146 (7.050%) Automation Tester
9 118 (5.698%) Automation Engineer
10 116 (5.601%) Test Manager
11 113 (5.456%) QA Analyst
12 110 (5.311%) Senior Analyst
13 99 (4.780%) Senior Test Analyst
14 94 (4.539%) Software Tester
15 92 (4.442%) QA Tester
16 85 (4.104%) Test Automation Engineer
17 75 (3.621%) Software Test Engineer
18 61 (2.945%) Agile Test Analyst
19 59 (2.849%) Test Leader
20 56 (2.704%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 195 (9.416%) Computer Science
2 149 (7.195%) Open Source
3 146 (7.050%) Mobile App
4 98 (4.732%) Enterprise Software
5 78 (3.766%) Mathematics
6 41 (1.980%) Management Information System
7 37 (1.787%) Client/Server
7 37 (1.787%) iPad
8 36 (1.738%) iPhone
9 35 (1.690%) Derivative
10 34 (1.642%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
10 34 (1.642%) Digital Media
11 26 (1.255%) Social Media
12 25 (1.207%) SaaS
13 24 (1.159%) Social Network
13 24 (1.159%) Video on Demand
14 20 (0.966%) Mobile Banking
15 19 (0.917%) Blackberry
16 16 (0.773%) Hedge funds
17 15 (0.724%) New Media
Operating Systems
1 297 (14.34%) Windows
2 221 (10.67%) UNIX
3 217 (10.48%) Linux
4 93 (4.491%) Android
5 79 (3.815%) Apple iOS
6 40 (1.931%) Windows XP
7 34 (1.642%) Windows 7
8 32 (1.545%) Solaris
9 27 (1.304%) Windows Server 2008
10 26 (1.255%) Windows Server 2003
11 15 (0.724%) AIX
12 11 (0.531%) Windows Phone
13 9 (0.435%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 7 (0.338%) Mac OS X
15 3 (0.145%) Windows 8
16 1 (0.048%) Windows Vista
16 1 (0.048%) Mac OS
16 1 (0.048%) Embedded Linux
16 1 (0.048%) Ubuntu
16 1 (0.048%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 781 (37.71%) Agile Software Development
2 535 (25.83%) Scrum
3 463 (22.36%) TDD
4 431 (20.81%) Test Scripting
5 429 (20.71%) Automated Testing
6 367 (17.72%) Software Testing
7 344 (16.61%) BDD
8 332 (16.03%) Continuous Integration
9 261 (12.60%) Test Strategy
10 249 (12.02%) E-Commerce
11 209 (10.09%) OO
12 204 (9.850%) Waterfall
12 204 (9.850%) Automation Testing
13 197 (9.512%) Regression Testing
14 173 (8.353%) Test Management
15 146 (7.050%) Performance Testing
16 136 (6.567%) User Stories
17 125 (6.036%) Manual Testing
18 124 (5.987%) User Acceptance Testing
19 117 (5.649%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 758 (36.60%) Java
2 678 (32.74%) SQL
3 498 (24.05%) C#
4 238 (11.49%) C++
5 236 (11.40%) Python
6 192 (9.271%) Ruby
7 164 (7.919%) JavaScript
8 151 (7.291%) Perl
9 128 (6.181%) VBScript
10 122 (5.891%) C
11 81 (3.911%) VB
12 77 (3.718%) PHP
13 67 (3.235%) VBA
14 45 (2.173%) Shell Script
15 41 (1.980%) VB.NET
16 40 (1.931%) PL/SQL
17 39 (1.883%) Groovy
18 31 (1.497%) Bash shell
19 30 (1.449%) T-SQL
20 20 (0.966%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 454 (21.92%) ISEB
2 435 (21.00%) Degree
3 277 (13.38%) ISTQB
4 58 (2.801%) Security Cleared
5 36 (1.738%) SC Cleared
6 16 (0.773%) ISEB Practitioner
7 14 (0.676%) Sun Certification
8 13 (0.628%) PMI Certification
9 11 (0.531%) DV Cleared
9 11 (0.531%) PhD
10 10 (0.483%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 6 (0.290%) PMP
11 6 (0.290%) CSQA
12 5 (0.241%) Postgraduate
13 3 (0.145%) HND
14 2 (0.097%) Oracle Certification
15 1 (0.048%) Microsoft Certification
15 1 (0.048%) MCSD
15 1 (0.048%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 925 (44.66%) QA
2 4 (0.193%) ISO 9001
2 4 (0.193%) PCI DSS
2 4 (0.193%) Data Quality
3 3 (0.145%) Solvency II
3 3 (0.145%) WAI
4 2 (0.097%) Basel II
4 2 (0.097%) JTAG
5 1 (0.048%) Section 508
5 1 (0.048%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 33 (1.593%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.497%) VMware Infrastructure
3 15 (0.724%) VMware ESX
3 15 (0.724%) VMware Workstation
4 3 (0.145%) Apache ZooKeeper
4 3 (0.145%) Oracle RAC
5 2 (0.097%) XenServer
6 1 (0.048%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 213 (10.28%) HP Quality Center
2 8 (0.386%) Netcool
2 8 (0.386%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 6 (0.290%) WMI
4 5 (0.241%) Puppet
5 4 (0.193%) Control-M
6 3 (0.145%) McAfee ePO
7 2 (0.097%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
7 2 (0.097%) SCCM
8 1 (0.048%) OpenView
Vendors
1 224 (10.82%) Oracle
2 223 (10.77%) HP
3 206 (9.947%) Microsoft
4 32 (1.545%) VMware
5 19 (0.917%) Fujitsu
6 18 (0.869%) IBM
7 17 (0.821%) Facebook
8 16 (0.773%) Twitter
9 14 (0.676%) Capita
10 13 (0.628%) Siebel
11 12 (0.579%) Perforce
11 12 (0.579%) Cisco
12 11 (0.531%) Salesforce.com
13 10 (0.483%) Google
13 10 (0.483%) SAP
13 10 (0.483%) Citrix
14 9 (0.435%) Informatica
14 9 (0.435%) JBoss
15 8 (0.386%) Apple
15 8 (0.386%) Compuware
Automation Tester / Test Automation - Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Automation/Tester/Agile/QA/Harrogate/Selenium/QTP/Loadrunner/Cucumber... You will have an excellent knowledge of automated test tools ( Selenium, QTP, Loadrunner, Cucumber etc ) to work on their...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
QA Engineer - 40000 - Winnersh
Reading, Berkshire
Responsible for test automation within QA . Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts . Implement automation tests using Selenium Webdriver . Implement automation service tests using SoapU or JMeter . Exposure...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40000
Posted: 14 June 2013
QA Engineer - 40000 - Winnersh
Reading, Berkshire
Responsible for test automation within QA . Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts . Implement automation tests using Selenium Webdriver . Implement automation service tests using SoapU or JMeter . Exposure...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 40000
Posted: 14 June 2013
QA Engineer - Winnersh, Berkshire - 40000
Wokingham, Berkshire
Responsible for test automation within QA . Create, execute and maintain automated test scripts . Implement automation tests using Selenium Webdriver . Implement automation service tests using SoapU or JMeter . Exposure...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: Circa 40,000 Plus benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Senior Test Analyst (Automation)
City, London
Implement test automation frameworks to support automated regression testing... WebDriver, Coded UI framework and / or any other development based testing in C#... Significant experience with SQL to interrogate...
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Senior Test Analyst (Automation)
City of London
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Test Automation Lead - News and Media - Agile Development
City, London
Oliver Bernard
Salary: From £65,000 to £70,000 per annum + bonus + package + benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Test Analyst
Gloucestershire
Big Red Recruitment
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 14 June 2013
Test Analyst / Automation / Agile TDD / Java / Selenium / Digital /
London
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Tester / QA Test Analyst - Hedge Fund
London
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Tester / QA Test Analyst - Hedge Fund
South West London
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Test Analyst (HP QC or QTP)
Newbury, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 11 June 2013
QA Tester / C# Test Automation - Web Testing
Central London / West End
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £35k + share options
Posted: 18 June 2013
QA Engineer
London, Angel, EC1 4EX
Expedia
Salary: Market competitive which includes a Base, Bonus and an extensive benefits package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Automation Test Analyst/Tester (QTP) x 2 - Bristol/Bath
Bristol, Avon
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Developer in Test - C# .Net Testing
Reigate, South East
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £45k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Test Automation Analyst
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
Brightside Group
Posted: 6 May 2013
QA Test Analyst
Greater Manchester
SG Gaming
Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum depending on experience + benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Senior QA Engineer (Java development, Automation, Selenium) - Berks
Berkshire
Arden Resourcing Limited
Salary: From £50,000 to £60,000 per annum + Benefits and Bonus
Posted: 19 June 2013
QA / Software Tester (QTP), Hungerford , £37k + 8% Bonus.
Hungerford, Berkshire
The People Network
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + 8% bonus, 7% pension plus others
Posted: 14 June 2013
Test Analyst
Leeds, Yorkshire
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Package
Posted: 12 June 2013
Senior Automated Test Analyst - London
London
Connectus
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Lead Test Analyst (Compliance and AML)
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Senior QA Automation Engineer (Selenium, TDD, Java, BDD)
Central London / West End
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Great package
Posted: 19 June 2013
Senior QA Automation Engineer (Selenium, TDD, Java, BDD)
City, London
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £45,000 to £55,000 per annum + Bonus + Great package
Posted: 19 June 2013
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