Bournemouth Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Bournemouth 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	52	23
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching permanent IT job ads	6	72
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.029 %
As % of the category below	1.293 %	8.791 %
Salaries quoted	5	45
Average minimum salary	£21,000	£30,556
Average salary	£23,700	£37,122
% change on same period last year	-36.15 %
Average maximum salary	£26,400	£43,689
UK excluding London average salary	£32,359	£32,198
% change on same period last year	+0.50 %
Job Titles Bournemouth
Matching permanent IT job ads	464	819
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.245 %	0.335 %
Salaries quoted	372	631
Average minimum salary	£29,944	£37,508
Average salary	£32,706	£41,187
% change on same period last year	-20.59 %
Average maximum salary	£35,469	£44,866
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Tester Dorset

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Bournemouth 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 Tester across the Bournemouth region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Bournemouth region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bournemouth 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 5 (55.56 %) ISEB 1 5 (55.56 %) QA 2 4 (44.44 %) Finance 3 3 (33.33 %) SQL 3 3 (33.33 %) Automated Testing 3 3 (33.33 %) Software Testing 3 3 (33.33 %) Pensions 4 1 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (11.11 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft 4 1 (11.11 %) Replication 4 1 (11.11 %) Firmware 4 1 (11.11 %) Electronics 4 1 (11.11 %) Workflow

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Bournemouth 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.

General 1 4 (44.44 %) Finance 2 3 (33.33 %) Pensions 3 1 (11.11 %) Electronics	Miscellaneous 1 1 (11.11 %) Firmware 1 1 (11.11 %) Replication
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (33.33 %) Automated Testing 1 3 (33.33 %) Software Testing 2 1 (11.11 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (11.11 %) Manual Testing 2 1 (11.11 %) Workflow	Programming Languages 1 3 (33.33 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 5 (55.56 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (55.56 %) QA
Vendors 1 1 (11.11 %) Microsoft