The first table below looks at the demand for Test Automation skills in IT jobs advertised for the York region. 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 for the York region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Automation
Rank 59 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -
Permanent jobs citing Test Automation 1 1 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 0.221% 0.230% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.267% 0.312% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £20,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.00% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
York
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
375 321 342
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in York 82.96% 73.96% 82.61%
Number of salaries quoted 210 211 287
Average salary £35,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £53,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Automation
North Yorkshire

Test Automation
Jobs Demand Trend

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

York 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 York region.

York Test Automation Salary Trend

Test Automation
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) HTML
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
2 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) CSS
2 1 (50.00%) XML
2 1 (50.00%) XSLT
2 1 (50.00%) Flash
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (50.00%) SEO
2 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Content Management

Test Automation
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the York 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 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) XSLT
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
1 1 (50.00%) Ajax
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET 2.0
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Photoshop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (50.00%) Bugzilla
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Functional Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (50.00%) SEO
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Extreme Programming
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Content Management
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Systems Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Release Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) PHP
2 1 (50.00%) PL/SQL
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (50.00%) VBScript
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle