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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 65 57 57
Rank change year-on-year
-8 0
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 12 11 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 1.742% 1.792% 0.564%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.410% 2.376% 0.733%
Number of salaries quoted 7 10 1
Average salary £32,000 £47,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-32.63% +35.71%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
Basingstoke
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
498 463 409
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Basingstoke 72.28% 75.41% 76.88%
Number of salaries quoted 383 355 298
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £32,550 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £60,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Hampshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Basingstoke 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 Basingstoke region.

Basingstoke Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Basingstoke region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Basingstoke Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 15 (46.88%) Software Testing
2 14 (43.75%) Java
2 14 (43.75%) SQL
3 12 (37.50%) QA
4 11 (34.38%) UNIX
5 8 (25.00%) ITIL
5 8 (25.00%) Linux
5 8 (25.00%) Oracle
5 8 (25.00%) Project Management
5 8 (25.00%) Telecoms
5 8 (25.00%) Manufacturing
5 8 (25.00%) ERP
5 8 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
5 8 (25.00%) SaaS
5 8 (25.00%) ISTQB
5 8 (25.00%) Automation Testing
6 7 (21.88%) Subversion
6 7 (21.88%) Selenium
6 7 (21.88%) Shell Script
6 7 (21.88%) ProC
6 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
6 7 (21.88%) Web Services
6 7 (21.88%) PL/SQL
6 7 (21.88%) C
6 7 (21.88%) Oracle Forms
7 6 (18.75%) C#
7 6 (18.75%) IIS
7 6 (18.75%) Firebug
7 6 (18.75%) Fiddler
7 6 (18.75%) Web Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Basingstoke 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 7 (21.88%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 6 (18.75%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.50%) ATM
2 2 (6.250%) VLAN
2 2 (6.250%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.125%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (21.88%) Subversion
1 7 (21.88%) Selenium
1 7 (21.88%) ProC
1 7 (21.88%) Oracle Forms
2 6 (18.75%) Firebug
2 6 (18.75%) Fiddler
3 3 (9.375%) Rational Functional Tester
General
1 8 (25.00%) Telecoms
1 8 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (12.50%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 26 (81.25%) Analyst
2 19 (59.38%) Test Analyst
3 6 (18.75%) Configuration Analyst
4 4 (12.50%) Lead Test Analyst
5 3 (9.375%) Tester
5 3 (9.375%) QA Engineer
5 3 (9.375%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) QA Analyst
6 2 (6.250%) Software Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Release Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Graduate
7 1 (3.125%) Software Test Analyst
7 1 (3.125%) Test Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) QA Tester
7 1 (3.125%) Verification Engineer
7 1 (3.125%) Graduate Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 8 (25.00%) SaaS
2 4 (12.50%) Replication
3 2 (6.250%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) UNIX
2 8 (25.00%) Linux
3 4 (12.50%) Windows
3 4 (12.50%) AIX
3 4 (12.50%) Solaris
4 2 (6.250%) Windows 7
4 2 (6.250%) Windows Server 2008
4 2 (6.250%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Software Testing
2 8 (25.00%) ITIL
2 8 (25.00%) Project Management
2 8 (25.00%) ERP
2 8 (25.00%) Automation Testing
3 7 (21.88%) Configuration Management
4 6 (18.75%) Web Testing
5 5 (15.63%) Waterfall
6 4 (12.50%) Test Automation
6 4 (12.50%) Integration Testing
6 4 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
6 4 (12.50%) Load Balancing
6 4 (12.50%) Test Strategy
7 2 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (6.250%) Performance Testing
7 2 (6.250%) Unit Testing
7 2 (6.250%) Automated Testing
7 2 (6.250%) Regression Testing
8 1 (3.125%) E-Commerce
8 1 (3.125%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) Java
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
2 7 (21.88%) Shell Script
2 7 (21.88%) PL/SQL
2 7 (21.88%) C
3 6 (18.75%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 3 (9.375%) ISEB
3 2 (6.250%) Degree
4 1 (3.125%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (12.50%) Control-M
Vendors
1 8 (25.00%) Oracle
2 1 (3.125%) Microsoft