The first table below looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Woking region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Woking region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Automated Testing
Rank 55 53 36
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -17
Permanent jobs citing Automated Testing 1 7 26
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 0.261% 1.613% 5.579%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.369% 2.251% 7.927%
Number of salaries quoted 0 5 8
Average salary - £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-1.40% +1.42%
All Processes & Methodologies
Woking
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
271 311 328
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Woking 70.76% 71.66% 70.39%
Number of salaries quoted 239 223 243
Average salary £40,250 £42,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.29% -5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Automated Testing
Surrey

Automated Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Woking Automated Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Automated Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Woking region.

Woking Automated Testing Salary Trend

Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Woking region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing.

1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) CCTV
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) XPath
2 1 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) WCF
2 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (33.33%) PHP5
2 1 (33.33%) Kohana
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) RESTful
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics
2 1 (33.33%) Automotive
2 1 (33.33%) LAMP
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) C++
2 1 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (33.33%) VB
2 1 (33.33%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (33.33%) IIS
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) XML
2 1 (33.33%) DOM
2 1 (33.33%) Windows

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Woking region citing Automated Testing 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) WCF
1 1 (33.33%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (33.33%) Kohana
1 1 (33.33%) RESTful
1 1 (33.33%) LAMP
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
1 1 (33.33%) XML
1 1 (33.33%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 1 (33.33%) IIS
1 1 (33.33%) Apache
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (33.33%) Electronics
1 1 (33.33%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 1 (33.33%) Electronics Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) CCTV
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
1 1 (33.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) MVC
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Information Security
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) OO
2 1 (33.33%) OOD
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) XPath
1 1 (33.33%) PHP5
1 1 (33.33%) C++
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
1 1 (33.33%) Degree
1 1 (33.33%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft