Bedfordshire Test Scripting Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting (Test Scripts) skills within the Bedfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Location Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Clapham Colchester Congleton Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Havant Hayes Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hounslow Hungerford Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Rickmansworth Royston Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tadworth Thames Valley Tring Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	73	48
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	19
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.008 %
As % of the category below	0.491 %	4.270 %
Salaries quoted	3	19
Average minimum salary	£38,333	£30,579
Average salary	£38,333	£31,763
% change on same period last year	+20.68 %
Average maximum salary	£38,333	£32,947
UK excluding London average salary	£33,251	£33,246
% change on same period last year	+0.01 %
Processes & Methodologies Bedfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	611	445
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.354 %	0.191 %
Salaries quoted	487	396
Average minimum salary	£37,775	£34,938
Average salary	£40,605	£38,113
% change on same period last year	+6.53 %
Average maximum salary	£43,436	£41,289
UK excluding London average salary	£42,675	£44,216
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Test Scripting East of England

Test Scripting
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Bedfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Bedfordshire region.

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Bedfordshire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

Test Scripting
Top 11 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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 6 (75.00 %) Software Testing 2 4 (50.00 %) ISEB 3 3 (37.50 %) SQL 3 3 (37.50 %) Performance Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) V-Model 4 2 (25.00 %) Risk Analysis 5 1 (12.50 %) QA 5 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 5 1 (12.50 %) WinRunner 5 1 (12.50 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (12.50 %) Automated Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Bedfordshire 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.

Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) WinRunner 1 1 (12.50 %) LoadRunner	Job Titles 1 5 (62.50 %) Test Team Leader 1 5 (62.50 %) Team Leader 2 2 (25.00 %) Analyst 2 2 (25.00 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Technical Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Tester
Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (75.00 %) Software Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) Performance Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) V-Model 3 2 (25.00 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Automated Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (50.00 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (12.50 %) QA