The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the Bedford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Bedford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 44 35 37
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +2
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 6 6 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 2.381% 2.913% 1.176%
As % of the Qualifications category 9.231% 6.742% 3.636%
Number of salaries quoted 6 6 2
Average salary £30,000 £30,000 £26,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +13.20%
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,250
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.04%
All Qualifications
Bedford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
65 89 55
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bedford 25.79% 43.20% 32.35%
Number of salaries quoted 62 86 54
Average salary £38,000 £41,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.31% +22.38%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
Bedfordshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bedford 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 Bedford region.

Bedford ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Top 21 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 7 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (100.00%) ISEB
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (57.14%) JIRA
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Wiki
2 4 (57.14%) System Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Visual Studio Team System
2 4 (57.14%) TestComplete
2 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
2 4 (57.14%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (57.14%) XML
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bedford 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 (57.14%) XML
2 3 (42.86%) .NET
Applications
1 7 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (57.14%) SQL Server
1 4 (57.14%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) JIRA
1 4 (57.14%) Visual Studio Team System
1 4 (57.14%) TestComplete
2 3 (42.86%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 7 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (57.14%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 7 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 4 (57.14%) System Testing
2 4 (57.14%) Automation Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) Software Architecture
3 3 (42.86%) Automated Testing
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft