Birmingham Performance Testing Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills within the Birmingham region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Performance Testing
Location Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Congleton Coventry Croydon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dunbartonshire East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertford Hertfordshire Ipswich Kenilworth Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Preston Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swindon UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	117	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.391 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	5	0
Average minimum salary	£22,400	-
Average salary	£28,000	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£33,600	-
UK excluding London average salary	£37,930	£40,332
% change on same period last year	-5.95 %
Processes & Methodologies Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	1536	1643
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.850 %	0.689 %
Salaries quoted	1356	1378
Average minimum salary	£38,761	£39,819
Average salary	£43,361	£44,290
% change on same period last year	-2.09 %
Average maximum salary	£47,962	£48,761
UK excluding London average salary	£42,540	£44,374
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
Performance Testing West Midlands

Performance Testing
Demand Trend

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

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Birmingham region.

Performance Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Performance Testing across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 1 6 (75.00 %) LoadRunner 2 5 (62.50 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (50.00 %) JMeter 4 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 4 3 (37.50 %) SQL 4 3 (37.50 %) Process Management 4 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 5 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 5 2 (25.00 %) Load Testing 5 2 (25.00 %) Java 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL 6 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 6 1 (12.50 %) C++

6 1 (12.50 %) HTML 6 1 (12.50 %) Health 6 1 (12.50 %) Validation 6 1 (12.50 %) Replication 6 1 (12.50 %) Unified Process 6 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 6 1 (12.50 %) DB2 6 1 (12.50 %) EJB 6 1 (12.50 %) JSP 6 1 (12.50 %) Servlets 6 1 (12.50 %) XML 6 1 (12.50 %) XSL 6 1 (12.50 %) Windows 6 1 (12.50 %) UML 6 1 (12.50 %) OO

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (12.50 %) HTML 1 1 (12.50 %) J2EE 1 1 (12.50 %) EJB 1 1 (12.50 %) JSP 1 1 (12.50 %) Servlets 1 1 (12.50 %) XML 1 1 (12.50 %) XSL 1 1 (12.50 %) AJAX 1 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere	Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (12.50 %) SAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server 1 1 (12.50 %) DB2 1 1 (12.50 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (12.50 %) DTS
Development Applications 1 6 (75.00 %) LoadRunner 2 4 (50.00 %) JMeter 3 3 (37.50 %) TestDirector 4 1 (12.50 %) WebSphere Studio Application Developer	General 1 1 (12.50 %) Health 1 1 (12.50 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 6 (75.00 %) Tester 2 4 (50.00 %) Software Tester 3 2 (25.00 %) Senior Tester 3 2 (25.00 %) Performance Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Test Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL DBA 4 1 (12.50 %) Senior Test Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Server Administrator 4 1 (12.50 %) Senior Performance Tester 4 1 (12.50 %) Java Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) SQL Server DBA 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Senior Software Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 4 1 (12.50 %) Developer 4 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) Test Analyst 4 1 (12.50 %) DBA 4 1 (12.50 %) Administrator	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Replication
Operating Systems 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows Server 2003 1 1 (12.50 %) Windows 2000 Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (62.50 %) Test Scripting 2 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 2 3 (37.50 %) Process Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Software Testing 3 2 (25.00 %) Load Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Validation 4 1 (12.50 %) Unified Process 4 1 (12.50 %) UML 4 1 (12.50 %) OO 4 1 (12.50 %) RUP 4 1 (12.50 %) B2B
Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) SQL 2 2 (25.00 %) Java 3 1 (12.50 %) C++ 3 1 (12.50 %) Transact-SQL	Vendors 1 6 (75.00 %) Oracle 2 1 (12.50 %) IBM 2 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Compaq