The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 212 213 190
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -23
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 3 10 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.058% 0.163% 0.117%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.084% 0.233% 0.171%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 5
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +38.46%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3567 4292 3513
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 69.33% 69.98% 68.21%
Number of salaries quoted 2719 3622 2916
Average salary £47,000 £45,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.44% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £67,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Testing
South East

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Load Testing Salary Trend

Load Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Reading +2 2 - -
Load Testing
South East

Load Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Load Testing 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 Load Testing.

1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) VMware
2 5 (83.33%) Fedora
2 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 5 (83.33%) ZABBIX
2 5 (83.33%) Mercurial
2 5 (83.33%) Puppet
2 5 (83.33%) Rackspace
2 5 (83.33%) UNIX
2 5 (83.33%) Linux
2 5 (83.33%) VMS
2 5 (83.33%) Nagios
2 5 (83.33%) Configuration Management
2 5 (83.33%) Subversion
2 5 (83.33%) Ubuntu
2 5 (83.33%) Marketing
3 1 (16.67%) QA
3 1 (16.67%) QADirector
3 1 (16.67%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) JMeter
3 1 (16.67%) Java
3 1 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing Load Testing 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (16.67%) Web Services
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Subversion
1 5 (83.33%) Mercurial
2 1 (16.67%) JMeter
2 1 (16.67%) QADirector
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 5 (83.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 5 (83.33%) Linux Administrator
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Operating Systems
1 5 (83.33%) UNIX
1 5 (83.33%) Linux
1 5 (83.33%) VMS
1 5 (83.33%) Fedora
1 5 (83.33%) Ubuntu
1 5 (83.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Scrum
2 5 (83.33%) Configuration Management
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Nagios
1 5 (83.33%) ZABBIX
1 5 (83.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) VMware
1 5 (83.33%) Rackspace