The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro skills in IT jobs advertised for the Berkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro 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 Development Applications category for the Berkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 195 156 150
Rank change year-on-year
-39 -6
Permanent jobs citing QuickTest Pro 24 66 61
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.461% 1.071% 1.173%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.117% 8.560% 7.403%
Number of salaries quoted 13 60 53
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,800 £30,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,000 £47,600 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
- +1.35%
All Development Applications
Berkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
583 771 824
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 11.19% 12.51% 15.84%
Number of salaries quoted 487 710 724
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +1.33%
QuickTest Pro
South East

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Berkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Berkshire QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire QuickTest Pro Salary Trend

QuickTest Pro
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Berkshire QuickTest Pro Salary Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 24 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 -25 9 £40,000 -11.11%
Bracknell -42 4 £45,000 +16.88%
Hungerford - 2 £41,750 -
Newbury - 2 £35,000 -
QuickTest Pro
South East

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 27 (61.36%) HP Quality Center
2 24 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 24 (54.55%) HP
3 22 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 18 (40.91%) ISEB
5 17 (38.64%) Windows
5 17 (38.64%) Finance
5 17 (38.64%) SC Cleared
5 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
6 14 (31.82%) Regression Testing
6 14 (31.82%) SQL
7 13 (29.55%) WinRunner
7 13 (29.55%) LoadRunner
7 13 (29.55%) Automated Testing
7 13 (29.55%) ISTQB
8 12 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
8 12 (27.27%) Oracle
9 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
9 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
9 11 (25.00%) Telecoms
9 11 (25.00%) Selenium
10 10 (22.73%) QA
10 10 (22.73%) Fujitsu
10 10 (22.73%) Retail
11 9 (20.45%) Migration
11 9 (20.45%) Windows XP
11 9 (20.45%) C#
11 9 (20.45%) .NET
12 8 (18.18%) Performance Testing
13 7 (15.91%) Microsoft

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Berkshire region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (20.45%) .NET
2 2 (4.545%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 7 (15.91%) SharePoint
2 5 (11.36%) SharePoint Server
3 4 (9.091%) Tomcat
3 4 (9.091%) IIS
4 1 (2.273%) MS Exchange
4 1 (2.273%) Exchange Server 2010
Applications
1 4 (9.091%) MS Office
2 3 (6.818%) MS Project
3 2 (4.545%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.36%) LAN
1 5 (11.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (25.00%) SQL Server
2 5 (11.36%) Oracle 8/8i
3 3 (6.818%) TOAD
4 2 (4.545%) SQL Server 2005
5 1 (2.273%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (29.55%) WinRunner
1 13 (29.55%) LoadRunner
2 11 (25.00%) Selenium
3 7 (15.91%) TestDirector
4 5 (11.36%) SilkPerformer
4 5 (11.36%) SilkTest
5 4 (9.091%) FitNesse
6 3 (6.818%) Visual Studio
7 1 (2.273%) JMeter
7 1 (2.273%) TestComplete
General
1 17 (38.64%) Finance
2 11 (25.00%) Telecoms
3 10 (22.73%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (47.73%) Analyst
2 19 (43.18%) Test Analyst
3 11 (25.00%) Tester
4 9 (20.45%) Test Consultant
4 9 (20.45%) Consultant
4 9 (20.45%) Performance Test Consultant
5 6 (13.64%) Security Analyst
6 5 (11.36%) Web Tester
7 4 (9.091%) Security Consultant
8 3 (6.818%) Senior Tester
8 3 (6.818%) QA Test Analyst
8 3 (6.818%) QA Analyst
8 3 (6.818%) Test Automation Analyst
8 3 (6.818%) Automation Tester
8 3 (6.818%) Automation Analyst
9 2 (4.545%) Automated Tester
9 2 (4.545%) C# Programmer
9 2 (4.545%) Performance Analyst
9 2 (4.545%) Performance Test Analyst
9 2 (4.545%) C# Analyst Programmer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.545%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (4.545%) SaaS
2 1 (2.273%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 17 (38.64%) Windows
2 12 (27.27%) Windows Server 2003
3 9 (20.45%) Windows XP
4 5 (11.36%) Windows 7
4 5 (11.36%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (9.091%) Linux
6 3 (6.818%) UNIX
7 1 (2.273%) SUSE
7 1 (2.273%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (54.55%) Test Automation
2 22 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 14 (31.82%) Regression Testing
4 13 (29.55%) Automated Testing
5 9 (20.45%) Migration
6 8 (18.18%) Performance Testing
7 5 (11.36%) Validation
7 5 (11.36%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (11.36%) Manual Testing
7 5 (11.36%) Software Testing
7 5 (11.36%) Non-Functional Testing
8 3 (6.818%) Automation Testing
9 2 (4.545%) Unit Testing
9 2 (4.545%) Web Testing
9 2 (4.545%) System Testing
9 2 (4.545%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (4.545%) Stakeholder Management
10 1 (2.273%) Document Management
10 1 (2.273%) Scalability Testing
10 1 (2.273%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (31.82%) SQL
2 9 (20.45%) C#
3 6 (13.64%) VB
4 2 (4.545%) Java
5 1 (2.273%) Perl
5 1 (2.273%) C++
5 1 (2.273%) Python
5 1 (2.273%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (40.91%) ISEB
2 17 (38.64%) SC Cleared
2 17 (38.64%) Security Cleared
3 13 (29.55%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.545%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (22.73%) QA
System Software
1 11 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (11.36%) VMware ESX
2 5 (11.36%) VMware Workstation
2 5 (11.36%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 27 (61.36%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (11.36%) Netcool
2 5 (11.36%) OpenView Configuration Management
Vendors
1 24 (54.55%) HP
2 12 (27.27%) Oracle
3 10 (22.73%) Fujitsu
4 7 (15.91%) Microsoft
5 5 (11.36%) VMware
5 5 (11.36%) Borland
6 2 (4.545%) IBM
Berkshire, Thames Valley
The position requires good HP Quality Centre/ QTP and reasonable Visual Basic experience... We are looking for knowledge of SQL, Toad (or any Oracle database query tool) and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 1 May 2013
Berkshire
As part of the Product delivery team they are looking for a QA Analyst with experience of Quality Center (QTP) to introduce this product into the business... You...
F5 IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £30,000 to £37,000 per annum plus bonus & benefits incl. private
Posted: 20 May 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
To develop and maintain some Manual test scripts in HP QC to supplement the test AUTOMATION scripts. - Mentor other QA staff in the use of HP QTP, test...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Hungerford, Berkshire, South East
With through on-going training and career management, the Company offers opportunities for individual growth and development.Responsibilities: To develop and maintain automated test scripts in HP QTP...
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: £0 - £37,000 per year + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Selenium, QTP, TestComplete) Experience of working within an Agile environment... Strong SQL knowledge and experience (Postgresql an advantage) Experience of Server OS (Linux, Windows Server, Suse and Ubuntu)...
Experis IT
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
You will have qualifications in: ISEB or ISTQB accreditation. Security cleared to at least SC level... Mercury TestDirector/HP Quality Center. Desirable skills include: Testing on MOSS (Sharepoint).....
Capita Resourcing Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
You will have qualifications in: ISEB or ISTQB accreditation. Security cleared to at least SC level... Mercury TestDirector/HP Quality Center. Desirable skills include: Testing on MOSS (Sharepoint).....
Capita Resourcing - IT Resourcing
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Reading, Berkshire
Skills: Current Security Clearance to SC level, proficient with Quality Centre/Test Director, LoadRunner, Winrunner or QTP, Knowledge of Windows server 2003, Lifecycle test management experience. Desirable: Defence /...
Lorien Resourcing
Salary: Negotiable on Application
Posted: 20 May 2013