The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Birmingham region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the Birmingham region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 100 79 83
Rank change year-on-year
-21 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 14 21 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 0.830% 1.450% 0.617%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.876% 1.504% 0.642%
Number of salaries quoted 12 21 7
Average salary £21,500 £28,000 £24,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.21% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Birmingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1598 1396 1246
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Birmingham 94.78% 96.41% 96.07%
Number of salaries quoted 1340 1245 1079
Average salary £41,250 £37,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.00% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
West Midlands

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Birmingham Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Birmingham Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Birmingham region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Birmingham Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 16 (53.33%) QA
2 14 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 14 (46.67%) Automated Testing
3 12 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 11 (36.67%) Selenium
5 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
5 9 (30.00%) Finance
5 9 (30.00%) Java
6 8 (26.67%) Firmware
6 8 (26.67%) JMX
6 8 (26.67%) SOAP
6 8 (26.67%) JBoss
6 8 (26.67%) Tomcat
6 8 (26.67%) JMS
6 8 (26.67%) Eclipse
6 8 (26.67%) Hibernate
6 8 (26.67%) MVC
6 8 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
6 8 (26.67%) Subversion
6 8 (26.67%) Spring
6 8 (26.67%) Maven
6 8 (26.67%) JasperReports
6 8 (26.67%) Ajax
6 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
6 8 (26.67%) FitNesse
6 8 (26.67%) Spring MVC
6 8 (26.67%) Java EE
6 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
6 8 (26.67%) TeamCity
6 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Birmingham region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (26.67%) JMX
1 8 (26.67%) SOAP
1 8 (26.67%) JMS
1 8 (26.67%) Hibernate
1 8 (26.67%) Spring
1 8 (26.67%) Ajax
1 8 (26.67%) Spring MVC
1 8 (26.67%) Java EE
2 5 (16.67%) HTML
3 4 (13.33%) .NET
4 1 (3.333%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) Tomcat
1 8 (26.67%) ActiveMQ
Communications & Networking
1 2 (6.667%) Firewall
1 2 (6.667%) Wireless
1 2 (6.667%) VPN
2 1 (3.333%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (46.67%) SQL Server
2 8 (26.67%) JasperReports
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 8 (26.67%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Selenium
2 8 (26.67%) Eclipse
2 8 (26.67%) Subversion
2 8 (26.67%) Maven
2 8 (26.67%) FitNesse
2 8 (26.67%) TeamCity
2 8 (26.67%) Apache Continuum
3 3 (10.00%) LoadRunner
4 2 (6.667%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 9 (30.00%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Banking
3 1 (3.333%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Firmware
2 3 (10.00%) Mainframe
3 2 (6.667%) Mobile App
3 2 (6.667%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 7 (23.33%) Windows
2 3 (10.00%) UNIX
2 3 (10.00%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (46.67%) Automated Testing
2 12 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 8 (26.67%) MVC
5 3 (10.00%) Test Strategy
5 3 (10.00%) Integration Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Web Testing
5 3 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (10.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Unit Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Test Management
6 2 (6.667%) Test Scripting
6 2 (6.667%) System Testing
6 2 (6.667%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Software Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (30.00%) Java
2 7 (23.33%) SQL
3 3 (10.00%) VB
3 3 (10.00%) C#
4 2 (6.667%) JavaScript
5 1 (3.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 6 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (3.333%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (53.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (26.67%) JBoss
2 3 (10.00%) Oracle
2 3 (10.00%) HP
3 2 (6.667%) Citrix
4 1 (3.333%) Avaya
4 1 (3.333%) Empirix
Birmingham, West Midlands
Global financial institution requires an experienced Voice platform test generator who is able to architect and design global voice testing applications to be used across all the voice...
Scope AT Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £50000 per annum + benefits, bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013