The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Midlands region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 22 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the West Midlands region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 176 168 156
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -12
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 23 22 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 0.457% 0.477% 0.368%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.612% 0.686% 0.536%
Number of salaries quoted 17 20 14
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -17.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £27,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,250 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
West Midlands
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3760 3207 2799
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the West Midlands 74.75% 69.49% 68.72%
Number of salaries quoted 3164 2776 2362
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Midlands 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 across the West Midlands region.

West Midlands Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

West Midlands Test Automation Salary Histogram

Test Automation
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 West Midlands region over the 3 months to 22 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
Solihull - 9 £38,750 -
Birmingham -11 8 £40,000 +33.33%
Warwickshire +8 3 £32,500 +8.33%
Staffordshire -10 1 - -
Coventry -14 1 £35,000 -30.00%
Test Automation
England

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 19 (42.22%) .NET
2 18 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
3 17 (37.78%) QA
4 15 (33.33%) JavaScript
5 14 (31.11%) SQL
5 14 (31.11%) ISEB
5 14 (31.11%) Agile Software Development
6 13 (28.89%) ASP.NET
7 12 (26.67%) CSS
7 12 (26.67%) C#
7 12 (26.67%) SQL Server
7 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
7 12 (26.67%) Scrum
7 12 (26.67%) ISTQB
7 12 (26.67%) Selenium
8 11 (24.44%) TDD
8 11 (24.44%) BDD
9 10 (22.22%) jQuery
9 10 (22.22%) Web Services
10 8 (17.78%) HP
10 8 (17.78%) XML
10 8 (17.78%) Test Scripting
10 8 (17.78%) JIRA
10 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
10 8 (17.78%) Team Foundation Server
10 8 (17.78%) HP Quality Center
10 8 (17.78%) Ajax
10 8 (17.78%) Subversion
10 8 (17.78%) HTML5
10 8 (17.78%) CSS3

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region 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 19 (42.22%) .NET
2 13 (28.89%) ASP.NET
3 12 (26.67%) CSS
4 10 (22.22%) jQuery
4 10 (22.22%) Web Services
5 8 (17.78%) XML
5 8 (17.78%) Ajax
5 8 (17.78%) HTML5
5 8 (17.78%) CSS3
6 7 (15.56%) Velocity
6 7 (15.56%) HTML
7 6 (13.33%) ASP
8 5 (11.11%) JSON
8 5 (11.11%) Dojo
8 5 (11.11%) SOAP
9 3 (6.667%) RESTful
10 2 (4.444%) WinForms
10 2 (4.444%) ASP.NET MVC
10 2 (4.444%) WCF
10 2 (4.444%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (4.444%) MSMQ
Applications
1 7 (15.56%) MS Excel
2 2 (4.444%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.444%) Agresso
1 2 (4.444%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.444%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (26.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.444%) GIS
2 2 (4.444%) RDBMS
2 2 (4.444%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 2 (4.444%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 12 (26.67%) Selenium
2 8 (17.78%) JIRA
2 8 (17.78%) Team Foundation Server
2 8 (17.78%) Subversion
3 6 (13.33%) Bugzilla
3 6 (13.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 6 (13.33%) ClearCase
3 6 (13.33%) Maven
3 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
3 6 (13.33%) Hudson
4 5 (11.11%) TestPartner
4 5 (11.11%) Rational Functional Tester
4 5 (11.11%) Rational Robot
5 3 (6.667%) WebDriver
6 2 (4.444%) MSBuild
6 2 (4.444%) Visual Studio
6 2 (4.444%) VSS/SourceSafe
6 2 (4.444%) Git (software)
7 1 (2.222%) TestComplete
7 1 (2.222%) JUnit
General
1 6 (13.33%) Retail
2 5 (11.11%) Games
3 2 (4.444%) Telecoms
4 1 (2.222%) Finance
Job Titles
1 12 (26.67%) Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 10 (22.22%) Developer
3 9 (20.00%) Tester
4 8 (17.78%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (17.78%) .NET Developer
4 8 (17.78%) C# Developer
4 8 (17.78%) ASP.NET Developer
4 8 (17.78%) C# .NET Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Senior ASP.NET Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Test Engineer
5 7 (15.56%) Senior C# Developer
5 7 (15.56%) Senior .NET Developer
5 7 (15.56%) ScrumMaster
5 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
6 6 (13.33%) Software Tester
7 5 (11.11%) Automation Tester
8 4 (8.889%) Software Engineer
9 3 (6.667%) QA Analyst
9 3 (6.667%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
2 6 (13.33%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.667%) Client/Server
4 2 (4.444%) E-Learning
4 2 (4.444%) Inversion of Control
5 1 (2.222%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 5 (11.11%) Windows
2 3 (6.667%) Linux
2 3 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (40.00%) Continuous Integration
2 14 (31.11%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (26.67%) Scrum
4 11 (24.44%) TDD
4 11 (24.44%) BDD
5 8 (17.78%) Test Scripting
6 7 (15.56%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (15.56%) Web Development
6 7 (15.56%) MVC
7 6 (13.33%) Regression Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Configuration Management
7 6 (13.33%) Release Management
7 6 (13.33%) Manual Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Automated Testing
7 6 (13.33%) Requirements Analysis
8 5 (11.11%) Software Testing
9 3 (6.667%) Performance Testing
9 3 (6.667%) SOA
9 3 (6.667%) Migration
9 3 (6.667%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 14 (31.11%) SQL
3 12 (26.67%) C#
4 7 (15.56%) VB.NET
5 4 (8.889%) Java
5 4 (8.889%) PHP
6 2 (4.444%) PowerHouse
6 2 (4.444%) Python
6 2 (4.444%) Perl
6 2 (4.444%) C++
6 2 (4.444%) T-SQL
6 2 (4.444%) VBScript
6 2 (4.444%) VB
6 2 (4.444%) VB6
6 2 (4.444%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 14 (31.11%) ISEB
2 12 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 4 (8.889%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (37.78%) QA
System Software
1 1 (2.222%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (17.78%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 8 (17.78%) HP
3 5 (11.11%) Compuware
4 1 (2.222%) VMware
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
At least 4 years solid Automation experience in a tool such as QTP, Rational Robot, Compuware TestPartner or Rational Functional Tester ?At least 2 years development experience in...
Next Move IT
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
West Midlands
working with test rigs) and software/hardware integration testing... Python) for test automation or AdaTest for software integration tests or low-level module test experience... - DO-178B knowledge.
Experis Engineering
Salary: £25000 - £38000 per annum + Bonus and benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013