The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Abingdon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting 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 Abingdon region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 38 17 28
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +11
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 1 5 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 0.676% 4.717% 1.481%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.075% 8.333% 2.667%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 2
Average salary £36,000 £27,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+30.90% -38.88%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
Abingdon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
93 60 75
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Abingdon 62.84% 56.60% 55.56%
Number of salaries quoted 72 59 66
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £27,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Oxfordshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Abingdon Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Abingdon region.

Abingdon Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing Test Scripting 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 Scripting.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) FitNesse
2 2 (66.67%) C#
2 2 (66.67%) Java
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Scala
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) Concordion
3 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Kanban
3 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
3 1 (33.33%) ISEB
3 1 (33.33%) Middleware
3 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Replication
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
3 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 1 (33.33%) .NET

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Abingdon region citing Test Scripting 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 Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (33.33%) Middleware
1 1 (33.33%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
1 2 (66.67%) FitNesse
1 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
1 2 (66.67%) Concordion
General
1 1 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Test Leader
1 1 (33.33%) QA Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Manager
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Test Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior Tester
1 1 (33.33%) Team Leader
1 1 (33.33%) QA Tester
1 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) QA Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) QA Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Test Analyst
1 1 (33.33%) Senior QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
1 1 (33.33%) Replication
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Kanban
2 1 (33.33%) Service Delivery
2 1 (33.33%) Validation
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Project Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) C#
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) Scala
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
2 1 (33.33%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA