The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Automation over the 3 months to 17 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 Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 72 81 82
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 6 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.686% 0.590% 0.455%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.824% 0.729% 0.642%
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 3
Average salary £30,000 £34,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.76% -15.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
All Processes & Methodologies
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
728 823 779
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 83.20% 80.92% 70.88%
Number of salaries quoted 655 702 720
Average salary £39,000 £38,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.29% -3.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,805 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Automation across the Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Wiltshire 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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Malmesbury - 3 £30,000 -
Swindon +3 2 £22,500 -33.82%
Test Automation
South West

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 8 (47.06%) OO
2 7 (41.18%) SQL
3 6 (35.29%) HP
3 6 (35.29%) XML
3 6 (35.29%) OOD
4 5 (29.41%) C++
4 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 5 (29.41%) Degree
5 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
5 4 (23.53%) QA
5 4 (23.53%) Selenium
5 4 (23.53%) OOP
5 4 (23.53%) Scrum
5 4 (23.53%) NUnit
5 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
5 4 (23.53%) System Testing
5 4 (23.53%) Sitecore CMS
5 4 (23.53%) Sitecore
5 4 (23.53%) TeamCity
5 4 (23.53%) Mercurial
5 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
5 4 (23.53%) MSBuild
5 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
5 4 (23.53%) HTML
5 4 (23.53%) Perl
5 4 (23.53%) C#
5 4 (23.53%) VBScript
5 4 (23.53%) VB
5 4 (23.53%) VBA
5 4 (23.53%) .NET

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 6 (35.29%) XML
2 4 (23.53%) HTML
2 4 (23.53%) .NET
2 4 (23.53%) CSS
3 3 (17.65%) Web Services
3 3 (17.65%) jQuery
4 1 (5.882%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (23.53%) CMS
1 4 (23.53%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (23.53%) MS Office
1 4 (23.53%) MS Excel
2 3 (17.65%) Simulink
Communications & Networking
1 3 (17.65%) Ethernet
1 3 (17.65%) Wireless
1 3 (17.65%) 3GPP
2 1 (5.882%) VoIP
2 1 (5.882%) DHCP
2 1 (5.882%) 2G
2 1 (5.882%) 2.5G
2 1 (5.882%) TETRA
2 1 (5.882%) WiMAX
2 1 (5.882%) IGMP
2 1 (5.882%) HSPA
2 1 (5.882%) LTE
2 1 (5.882%) 4G
2 1 (5.882%) FTP
2 1 (5.882%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.882%) VPN
2 1 (5.882%) 3G
2 1 (5.882%) DVB
2 1 (5.882%) RTP
2 1 (5.882%) TELNET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (23.53%) RDBMS
2 1 (5.882%) MySQL
2 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (23.53%) QuickTest Pro
1 4 (23.53%) NUnit
1 4 (23.53%) Selenium
1 4 (23.53%) TeamCity
1 4 (23.53%) Mercurial
1 4 (23.53%) MSBuild
1 4 (23.53%) Jenkins
2 3 (17.65%) LoadRunner
2 3 (17.65%) LabVIEW
3 2 (11.76%) SilkPerformer
4 1 (5.882%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (23.53%) Legal
2 3 (17.65%) Electronics
3 2 (11.76%) Games
4 1 (5.882%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Developer
2 4 (23.53%) VB Developer
3 3 (17.65%) .NET Developer
3 3 (17.65%) VBA Developer
3 3 (17.65%) Developer Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Tester
3 3 (17.65%) Software Engineer
4 2 (11.76%) Graduate
4 2 (11.76%) Non-Functional Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Graduate Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Technical Architect
5 1 (5.882%) Consultant
5 1 (5.882%) Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Senior Systems Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) DSP Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Software Engineer
5 1 (5.882%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
2 3 (17.65%) Mathematics
2 3 (17.65%) Physics
3 2 (11.76%) Device Driver
4 1 (5.882%) Streaming Video
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Linux
2 2 (11.76%) UNIX
2 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (47.06%) OO
2 6 (35.29%) OOD
3 5 (29.41%) Software Engineering
4 4 (23.53%) Scrum
4 4 (23.53%) OOP
4 4 (23.53%) Test Scripting
4 4 (23.53%) Manual Testing
4 4 (23.53%) System Testing
5 3 (17.65%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (17.65%) Waterfall
5 3 (17.65%) Content Management
5 3 (17.65%) Business Development
5 3 (17.65%) Unit Testing
5 3 (17.65%) UML
5 3 (17.65%) E-Commerce
5 3 (17.65%) Project Management
5 3 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (11.76%) Business Continuity
6 2 (11.76%) Software Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) SQL
2 5 (29.41%) C++
3 4 (23.53%) Perl
3 4 (23.53%) C#
3 4 (23.53%) VBScript
3 4 (23.53%) VB
3 4 (23.53%) VBA
3 4 (23.53%) Tcl
4 3 (17.65%) MATLAB
4 3 (17.65%) Python
4 3 (17.65%) C
5 2 (11.76%) Embedded C
5 2 (11.76%) Embedded C++
6 1 (5.882%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 2 (11.76%) ISEB
3 1 (5.882%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
2 2 (11.76%) JTAG
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (35.29%) HP
2 4 (23.53%) Sitecore
3 2 (11.76%) Borland
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