Birmingham Systems Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Systems Tester role in IT jobs within the Birmingham region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Systems Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

System Tester
Location Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Cirencester City of London Coventry Devon Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Exeter Fareham Folkestone Glasgow Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Hampshire Hertfordshire Kenilworth Kent Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth London Manchester Middlesex Newcastle Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Reading Reigate Scotland Sheffield South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire St Albans Staffordshire Surrey Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Yorkshire Wigston Wiltshire Woking Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	135	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.082 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	1	0
Average minimum salary	£21,000	-
Average salary	£25,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£30,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£30,784	£30,000
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Job Titles Birmingham
Matching permanent IT job ads	2440	2739
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.332 %	1.150 %
Salaries quoted	2134	2352
Average minimum salary	£35,551	£36,650
Average salary	£39,054	£40,194
% change on same period last year	-2.83 %
Average maximum salary	£42,558	£43,738
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Systems Tester West Midlands

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Systems Tester across the Birmingham region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

Systems Tester
Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Systems Tester in their job title 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 with Systems Tester in their job title.

1 3 (100.00 %) ISEB 2 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 2 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 3 1 (33.33 %) HND 3 1 (33.33 %) LoadRunner 3 1 (33.33 %) WinRunner 3 1 (33.33 %) Software Testing 3 1 (33.33 %) Degree 3 1 (33.33 %) QA

Systems Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited Systems Tester in their job title 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 with Systems Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 2 1 (33.33 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (33.33 %) WinRunner	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Testing
Qualifications 1 3 (100.00 %) ISEB 2 1 (33.33 %) Degree 2 1 (33.33 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (33.33 %) QA