The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the Basingstoke region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB 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 Qualifications for the Basingstoke region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 65 56 62
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +6
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 12 6 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.794% 1.047% 0.165%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.478% 4.412% 0.526%
Number of salaries quoted 3 5 0
Average salary £42,500 £47,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.52% -
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
All Qualifications
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
268 136 190
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 40.06% 23.73% 31.30%
Number of salaries quoted 193 107 132
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £30,000 £24,250
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £63,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
Hampshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISTQB across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Basingstoke ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

Basingstoke ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISTQB across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Basingstoke ISTQB Salary Histogram

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 16 (72.73%) Software Testing
2 15 (68.18%) HP Quality Center
3 13 (59.09%) Test Strategy
4 12 (54.55%) ITIL
5 11 (50.00%) ATM
5 11 (50.00%) Project Management
6 8 (36.36%) Waterfall
6 8 (36.36%) Test Scripting
7 7 (31.82%) QA
7 7 (31.82%) Test Management
7 7 (31.82%) Niku
7 7 (31.82%) Niku Workbench
7 7 (31.82%) PRINCE2
7 7 (31.82%) IBM
7 7 (31.82%) ISEB
8 6 (27.27%) Selenium
9 5 (22.73%) Windows
10 4 (18.18%) AIX
10 4 (18.18%) Solaris
10 4 (18.18%) HTML
10 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
10 4 (18.18%) Control-M
10 4 (18.18%) Blackberry
10 4 (18.18%) UNIX
10 4 (18.18%) J2ME
10 4 (18.18%) Symbian
10 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
10 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (18.18%) Replication
10 4 (18.18%) XSL

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (18.18%) HTML
1 4 (18.18%) J2ME
1 4 (18.18%) XSL
2 2 (9.091%) SOAP
Applications
1 7 (31.82%) Niku Workbench
Communications & Networking
1 11 (50.00%) ATM
2 1 (4.545%) VLAN
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Selenium
2 4 (18.18%) JIRA
2 4 (18.18%) Maven
2 4 (18.18%) Cucumber
2 4 (18.18%) Git (software)
General
1 4 (18.18%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 8 (36.36%) Test Analyst
3 7 (31.82%) Test Manager
4 4 (18.18%) Tester
4 4 (18.18%) Lead Test Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Mobile Tester
5 3 (13.64%) QA Engineer
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Tester
6 2 (9.091%) Lead Tester
6 2 (9.091%) Test Engineer
6 2 (9.091%) Senior Tester
7 1 (4.545%) QA Tester
7 1 (4.545%) Software Engineer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior QA Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Blackberry
1 4 (18.18%) Replication
1 4 (18.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 5 (22.73%) Windows
2 4 (18.18%) AIX
2 4 (18.18%) Solaris
2 4 (18.18%) UNIX
2 4 (18.18%) Windows Mobile
2 4 (18.18%) Android
2 4 (18.18%) Apple iOS
3 1 (4.545%) Linux
3 1 (4.545%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.545%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (72.73%) Software Testing
2 13 (59.09%) Test Strategy
3 12 (54.55%) ITIL
4 11 (50.00%) Project Management
5 8 (36.36%) Waterfall
5 8 (36.36%) Test Scripting
6 7 (31.82%) Test Management
6 7 (31.82%) PRINCE2
7 4 (18.18%) Regression Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (18.18%) Load Balancing
7 4 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
7 4 (18.18%) Performance Management
7 4 (18.18%) Test Automation
7 4 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) ISEB
2 1 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
System Software
1 2 (9.091%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 15 (68.18%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (18.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 7 (31.82%) Niku
1 7 (31.82%) IBM
2 4 (18.18%) Symbian
3 2 (9.091%) VMware