The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Basildon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Basildon region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 27 26 40
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +14
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 8 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 5.714% 2.970% 0.633%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.557% 3.659% 0.725%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
Average salary £50,000 £35,000 £65,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+42.85% -46.15%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
- +6.06%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basildon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
122 82 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basildon 87.14% 81.19% 87.34%
Number of salaries quoted 93 71 101
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £32,250 £21,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £70,000 £68,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Essex

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basildon System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Basildon System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 10 (58.82%) Business Analysis
1 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
2 7 (41.18%) C#
2 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 7 (41.18%) WCF
2 7 (41.18%) WPF
2 7 (41.18%) Silverlight
2 7 (41.18%) Wealth Management
3 6 (35.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
3 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (35.29%) Web Services
3 6 (35.29%) OOP
3 6 (35.29%) .NET Framework
3 6 (35.29%) XAML
3 6 (35.29%) Finance
4 5 (29.41%) SQL
4 5 (29.41%) T-SQL
4 5 (29.41%) Unity DI Container
4 5 (29.41%) TDD
4 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Dependency Injection
4 5 (29.41%) MSTest
4 5 (29.41%) Rhino Mocks
5 1 (5.882%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
5 1 (5.882%) OO
5 1 (5.882%) Data Protection

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basildon region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
1 7 (41.18%) WCF
1 7 (41.18%) WPF
1 7 (41.18%) Silverlight
2 6 (35.29%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 6 (35.29%) Web Services
2 6 (35.29%) .NET Framework
3 5 (29.41%) Unity DI Container
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (29.41%) MSTest
1 5 (29.41%) Rhino Mocks
General
1 6 (35.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (94.12%) Analyst
2 10 (58.82%) Business Analyst
3 5 (29.41%) Developer
4 4 (23.53%) C# .NET Developer
4 4 (23.53%) C# Developer
4 4 (23.53%) Technical Analyst
4 4 (23.53%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (5.882%) .NET Developer
5 1 (5.882%) Analyst Programmer
5 1 (5.882%) Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.882%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Business Analysis
1 10 (58.82%) Data Modelling
2 7 (41.18%) Wealth Management
3 6 (35.29%) OOP
4 5 (29.41%) TDD
4 5 (29.41%) Unit Testing
4 5 (29.41%) Dependency Injection
5 1 (5.882%) OO
5 1 (5.882%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (41.18%) C#
2 6 (35.29%) XAML
3 5 (29.41%) SQL
3 5 (29.41%) T-SQL