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This section looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Basingstoke region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the last 3 months to 16 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

 Tester
Location
3 months to 16 May 2008Same period last year
Rank9066
Rank change on same period last yearDown-24
Matching permanent IT job ads194
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.009 %0.002 %
As % of the category below1.134 %0.451 %
Salaries quoted172
Average minimum salary£26,882£32,500
Average salary£32,588£35,000
% change on same period last year-6.89 %
Average maximum salary£38,294£37,500
UK excluding London average salary£31,923£31,351
% change on same period last year+1.82 %
Job Titles BasingstokeJob Titles
Basingstoke
Matching permanent IT job ads1675886
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.821 %0.392 %
Salaries quoted1310657
Average minimum salary£34,555£37,108
Average salary£38,179£39,827
% change on same period last year-4.13 %
Average maximum salary£41,802£42,547
UK excluding London average salary£38,585£39,157
% change on same period last year-1.46 %
Tester HampshireTester
Hampshire

Tester
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing Tester across the Basingstoke region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Basingstoke Tester Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Basingstoke Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Basingstoke region over the past 3 months.

Basingstoke Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Tester also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Tester.

115 (39.47 %)Windows
115 (39.47 %)ISEB
213 (34.21 %)Unix
311 (28.95 %)Test Scripting
410 (26.32 %)QA
58 (21.05 %)Finance
67 (18.42 %)Exchange Server 2003
67 (18.42 %)Active Directory
67 (18.42 %)AIX
67 (18.42 %)Oracle
67 (18.42 %)VSS/SourceSafe
76 (15.79 %)SQL
76 (15.79 %)Degree
76 (15.79 %)Government
85 (13.16 %)Military
85 (13.16 %)Software Testing
85 (13.16 %)Exchange Server 2007
85 (13.16 %)MS Excel
85 (13.16 %)Oracle 9i
85 (13.16 %)Oracle 10g
85 (13.16 %)SMS
85 (13.16 %)WINS
85 (13.16 %)DNS
85 (13.16 %)MOM
94 (10.53 %)Sun
94 (10.53 %)Windows 2000
94 (10.53 %)Java
103 (7.895 %)Perl
103 (7.895 %)C
103 (7.895 %).NET

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Basingstoke region citing Tester also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Tester. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
13 (7.895 %)HTML
13 (7.895 %).NET
13 (7.895 %)ASP
13 (7.895 %)WebSphere
22 (5.263 %)ASP.NET
22 (5.263 %)COM+
Application Platforms
17 (18.42 %)Exchange Server 2003
25 (13.16 %)Exchange Server 2007
33 (7.895 %)WebSphere MQ
42 (5.263 %)Exchange Server 2000
42 (5.263 %)MS Exchange
Applications
15 (13.16 %)MS Excel
22 (5.263 %)MS Project
Communications & Networking
15 (13.16 %)SMS
15 (13.16 %)WINS
15 (13.16 %)DNS
23 (7.895 %)Internet
23 (7.895 %)TCP/IP
32 (5.263 %)X.400
32 (5.263 %)X.500
41 (2.632 %)Firewall
41 (2.632 %)SSH
41 (2.632 %)IMAP
41 (2.632 %)DVB
41 (2.632 %)SSL
41 (2.632 %)SMTP
41 (2.632 %)Ethernet
41 (2.632 %)HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
15 (13.16 %)Oracle 9i
15 (13.16 %)Oracle 10g
23 (7.895 %)RDBMS
23 (7.895 %)SQL Server
32 (5.263 %)MySQL
Development Applications
17 (18.42 %)VSS/SourceSafe
23 (7.895 %)TestDirector
32 (5.263 %)QuickTest Pro
32 (5.263 %)LabVIEW
32 (5.263 %)ClearCase
32 (5.263 %)Visual Studio
41 (2.632 %)QADirector
General
18 (21.05 %)Finance
26 (15.79 %)Government
35 (13.16 %)Military
42 (5.263 %)Banking
42 (5.263 %)Pharmaceutical
42 (5.263 %)Telecoms
51 (2.632 %)Electronics
51 (2.632 %)Electric
51 (2.632 %)Pensions
Miscellaneous
12 (5.263 %)DTV
12 (5.263 %)STB
21 (2.632 %)IPTV
21 (2.632 %)Physics
21 (2.632 %)Computer Science
21 (2.632 %)Device Driver
21 (2.632 %)Handset
21 (2.632 %)Streaming Video
21 (2.632 %)Client/Server
Operating Systems
115 (39.47 %)Windows
213 (34.21 %)Unix
37 (18.42 %)AIX
44 (10.53 %)Windows 2000
53 (7.895 %)Solaris
62 (5.263 %)Windows XP
71 (2.632 %)Linux
Processes & Methodologies
111 (28.95 %)Test Scripting
25 (13.16 %)Software Testing
33 (7.895 %)Configuration Management
33 (7.895 %)Validation
42 (5.263 %)PRINCE
42 (5.263 %)Automated Testing
42 (5.263 %)PRINCE2
42 (5.263 %)UML
42 (5.263 %)Project Planning
42 (5.263 %)Manual Testing
51 (2.632 %)User Acceptance Testing
51 (2.632 %)Performance Testing
51 (2.632 %)Unit Testing
51 (2.632 %)Integration Testing
51 (2.632 %)E-Commerce
51 (2.632 %)Regression Testing
51 (2.632 %)Information Security
Programming Languages
16 (15.79 %)SQL
24 (10.53 %)Java
33 (7.895 %)Perl
33 (7.895 %)C
33 (7.895 %)Python
42 (5.263 %)Transact-SQL
42 (5.263 %)VB
42 (5.263 %)C#
42 (5.263 %)C++
42 (5.263 %)VB6
51 (2.632 %)Ruby
51 (2.632 %)PHP
51 (2.632 %)Embedded C
Qualifications
115 (39.47 %)ISEB
26 (15.79 %)Degree
32 (5.263 %)HND
41 (2.632 %)ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
110 (26.32 %)QA
21 (2.632 %)PCI DSS
21 (2.632 %)ISO8583
System Software
17 (18.42 %)Active Directory
Systems Management
15 (13.16 %)MOM
23 (7.895 %)CONTROL-M
23 (7.895 %)Tivoli
Vendors
17 (18.42 %)Oracle
24 (10.53 %)Sun
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