The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bolton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Bolton region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 35 37 22
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -15
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 2 2 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 1.667% 1.481% 1.724%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.151% 2.151% 3.030%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
Average salary £35,000 £32,500 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.69% +44.44%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bolton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
93 93 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bolton 77.50% 68.89% 56.90%
Number of salaries quoted 81 92 32
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,000 £28,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £41,500 £40,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Manchester

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bolton 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 Bolton region.

Bolton Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) DO-178B
2 1 (50.00%) Change Control
2 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (50.00%) C
2 1 (50.00%) UML
2 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
2 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
2 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bolton 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.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) Ethernet
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Design Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Team Leader
1 1 (50.00%) Software Design Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (50.00%) Embedded Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Change Control
1 1 (50.00%) UML
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) Assembly Language
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) DO-178B