Software Testing Jobs in Berkshire
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software 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 Software 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
Software Testing
Rank 192 131 113
Rank change year-on-year
-61 -18
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 23 94 84
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Berkshire 0.447% 1.533% 1.631%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.645% 2.190% 2.391%
Number of salaries quoted 19 82 79
Average salary £35,000 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.89% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £29,400
10% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £52,300 £60,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
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%
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Berkshire Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Berkshire Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Berkshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Berkshire Software Testing Salary Histogram

Software Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software 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 -24 9 £35,000 -6.66%
Newbury +5 4 £30,500 -9.62%
Bracknell -54 1 - -
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 34 (56.67%) ISEB
2 27 (45.00%) Windows
3 23 (38.33%) C#
4 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
4 22 (36.67%) QA
5 20 (33.33%) SQL Server
5 20 (33.33%) Selenium
6 19 (31.67%) .NET
7 15 (25.00%) Degree
7 15 (25.00%) Automated Testing
7 15 (25.00%) Performance Testing
8 14 (23.33%) Java
9 12 (20.00%) Web Services
9 12 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
10 11 (18.33%) Linux
10 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
10 11 (18.33%) HTML
10 11 (18.33%) Enterprise Software
11 10 (16.67%) Integration Testing
11 10 (16.67%) Open Source
11 10 (16.67%) SQL
11 10 (16.67%) Tomcat
11 10 (16.67%) XML
12 9 (15.00%) J2EE
12 9 (15.00%) JUnit
12 9 (15.00%) Test Management
13 8 (13.33%) Test Scripting
13 8 (13.33%) Scalability Testing
13 8 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
13 8 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (31.67%) .NET
2 12 (20.00%) Web Services
3 11 (18.33%) HTML
4 10 (16.67%) XML
5 9 (15.00%) J2EE
6 8 (13.33%) Silverlight
7 6 (10.00%) COM
8 2 (3.333%) ASP
8 2 (3.333%) JSP
8 2 (3.333%) soapUI
9 1 (1.667%) VTK
9 1 (1.667%) ASP.NET
9 1 (1.667%) EJB
9 1 (1.667%) CSS
9 1 (1.667%) JDBC
9 1 (1.667%) Swing
9 1 (1.667%) JMS
9 1 (1.667%) LAMP
9 1 (1.667%) Ajax
9 1 (1.667%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 10 (16.67%) Tomcat
2 2 (3.333%) Apache
3 1 (1.667%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.00%) Wireless
2 5 (8.333%) ZigBee
2 5 (8.333%) 3G
2 5 (8.333%) Bluetooth
2 5 (8.333%) GPRS
2 5 (8.333%) GSM
3 2 (3.333%) Internet
4 1 (1.667%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.667%) VoIP
4 1 (1.667%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 8 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (13.33%) SQL Server 2008
3 7 (11.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (33.33%) Selenium
2 9 (15.00%) JUnit
3 8 (13.33%) Visual Studio
3 8 (13.33%) Ant
4 7 (11.67%) QuickTest Pro
4 7 (11.67%) TestNG
4 7 (11.67%) WebDriver
5 4 (6.667%) Rational Robot
6 3 (5.000%) JMeter
6 3 (5.000%) SilkPerformer
6 3 (5.000%) TestComplete
6 3 (5.000%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.333%) TestDirector
7 2 (3.333%) JIRA
8 1 (1.667%) Subversion
8 1 (1.667%) Jenkins
8 1 (1.667%) Eclipse
8 1 (1.667%) WinRunner
General
1 6 (10.00%) Finance
2 5 (8.333%) Advertising
3 3 (5.000%) Retail
3 3 (5.000%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (3.333%) Electronics
5 1 (1.667%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Analyst
2 18 (30.00%) Test Engineer
3 14 (23.33%) Software Engineer
4 12 (20.00%) Test Analyst
4 12 (20.00%) Software Test Engineer
5 10 (16.67%) Tester
6 8 (13.33%) QA Analyst
6 8 (13.33%) Automated Test Engineer
7 6 (10.00%) Software Tester
8 5 (8.333%) Senior Analyst
8 5 (8.333%) Developer
8 5 (8.333%) Senior QA Analyst
9 3 (5.000%) Senior Tester
9 3 (5.000%) QA Tester
9 3 (5.000%) Graduate
9 3 (5.000%) Consultant
10 2 (3.333%) Principle Engineer
10 2 (3.333%) Senior Software Engineer
10 2 (3.333%) Coordinator
10 2 (3.333%) Software Developer
Miscellaneous
1 11 (18.33%) Enterprise Software
2 10 (16.67%) Open Source
3 8 (13.33%) EPoS
4 6 (10.00%) Mathematics
4 6 (10.00%) Embedded Systems
4 6 (10.00%) Mobile App
5 5 (8.333%) SaaS
6 3 (5.000%) Computer Science
7 2 (3.333%) Life Science
7 2 (3.333%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (3.333%) Firmware
8 1 (1.667%) IVR
8 1 (1.667%) Physics
8 1 (1.667%) Visualisation
Operating Systems
1 27 (45.00%) Windows
2 11 (18.33%) Linux
3 8 (13.33%) Windows Vista
3 8 (13.33%) Windows Server 2008
3 8 (13.33%) Windows 7
4 7 (11.67%) Ubuntu
5 3 (5.000%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (25.00%) Automated Testing
1 15 (25.00%) Performance Testing
2 12 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
3 10 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 9 (15.00%) Test Management
5 8 (13.33%) Test Scripting
5 8 (13.33%) Scalability Testing
5 8 (13.33%) E-Commerce
5 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 7 (11.67%) Scrum
6 7 (11.67%) Manual Testing
7 6 (10.00%) Quality Management
8 4 (6.667%) Software Engineering
8 4 (6.667%) System Testing
9 3 (5.000%) Regression Testing
9 3 (5.000%) CRM
9 3 (5.000%) User Acceptance Testing
10 2 (3.333%) Automation Testing
10 2 (3.333%) Change Control
10 2 (3.333%) OO
Programming Languages
1 23 (38.33%) C#
2 14 (23.33%) Java
3 11 (18.33%) JavaScript
4 10 (16.67%) SQL
5 8 (13.33%) VB
6 3 (5.000%) VB.NET
6 3 (5.000%) C++
7 1 (1.667%) PHP
7 1 (1.667%) Python
7 1 (1.667%) Fortran
7 1 (1.667%) DataFlex
7 1 (1.667%) C
Qualifications
1 34 (56.67%) ISEB
2 15 (25.00%) Degree
3 7 (11.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.667%) DV Cleared
4 1 (1.667%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (36.67%) QA
2 6 (10.00%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 3 (5.000%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.333%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.667%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 22 (36.67%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.333%) HP
3 4 (6.667%) Citrix
3 4 (6.667%) Oracle
4 3 (5.000%) IBM
4 3 (5.000%) Borland
4 3 (5.000%) VMware
5 2 (3.333%) Progress
Test Analyst, Software Tester, JScript, Microsoft SQL Server
Reading, Berkshire
This position will be mainly software testing with a small amount of hardware testing and it will be 50% manual testing and 50% automated testing... * Familiarity with JScript,...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Software QA Tester ISEB, Web, SQL, Automated. Newbury, Berks
Newbury, Berkshire
ISEB Foundation in Software Testing accreditation is preferred... Strong understanding of technical documentation review and requirements analysis. Able to work with technologies such as HTML, XML, SQL and...
Applause IT Innovation
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + +Great Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
QA Test Analyst - Manual Tester, Functional testing
Newbury, Thames Valley
Strong understanding of technical documentation review and requirements analysis. Understanding of quality process models and methodologies such as ISO, IEEE and ISEB Key responsibilities: Creating detailed Test Plans...
Satigo
Salary: £3000 - £3500 per annum + Benefit
Posted: 17 May 2013
QA Engineer + need C#
Berkshire
Senior QA TEST... Technical Skills & Experience Essential skills; - Good understanding of current Microsoft technologies: SQL Server (2005/2008), Windows 2008, 2003, XP, Windows 7, .NET (v2 / 3.5),...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
QA Engineer
Berkshire
Senior QA TEST... Technical Skills & Experience Essential skills; - Good understanding of current Microsoft technologies: SQL Server (2005/2008), Windows 2008, 2003, XP, Windows 7, .NET (v2 / 3.5),...
North Point Recruitment
Salary: £35000 per annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
QA Analyst - Software Testing, Agile, .Net, Automated tools
Berkshire
Of specific interest are .Net, C#, VB, Silverlight, hardware integration testing (example card readers, printers, turnstiles', and epos)... Additionally knowledge SQL Server 2005/2008 would be a distinct...
Go Partnership.
Salary: £35,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Head of Environements / Software Configuration Manager
Berkshire, Thames Valley
Configuration Manager / Head of Environment Transformation (Software/Testing) - £85K + Package - Berks As Head of Environment Transformation, you will be a member of the IS Leadership team, providing input...
Salt
Salary: £75000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus + Package
Posted: 18 May 2013
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