The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Bracknell region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 79 52 -
Rank change year-on-year
-27 -
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 3 4 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 0.563% 1.008% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.718% 1.606% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 4 0
Average salary £50,000 £38,750 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.03% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £36,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
418 249 258
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 78.42% 62.72% 70.68%
Number of salaries quoted 241 189 216
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,500 £27,500 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Berkshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Bracknell System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 11 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (83.33%) NFS
2 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 10 (83.33%) HP
2 10 (83.33%) UNIX
2 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 10 (83.33%) Veritas
2 10 (83.33%) Legato
2 10 (83.33%) Degree
2 10 (83.33%) QA
2 10 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 10 (83.33%) Product Management
2 10 (83.33%) HP Quality Center
3 9 (75.00%) NAS
4 8 (66.67%) VLAN
4 8 (66.67%) IPv6
5 5 (41.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
6 4 (33.33%) Hitachi
7 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
7 2 (16.67%) Finance
7 2 (16.67%) Scrum
7 2 (16.67%) C
7 2 (16.67%) C#
7 2 (16.67%) .NET
7 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
7 2 (16.67%) IIS
7 2 (16.67%) XML
7 2 (16.67%) XSD
7 2 (16.67%) XSLT

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) XML
1 2 (16.67%) XSD
1 2 (16.67%) XSLT
1 2 (16.67%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 2 (16.67%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (83.33%) TCP/IP
2 9 (75.00%) NAS
3 8 (66.67%) VLAN
3 8 (66.67%) IPv6
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (16.67%) Financial Institution
1 2 (16.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 6 (50.00%) Test Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior QA Engineer
3 4 (33.33%) Senior QA Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Systems Tester
3 4 (33.33%) QA Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Senior Tester
3 4 (33.33%) Tester
4 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 2 (16.67%) Systems Engineer
4 2 (16.67%) Systems Test Engineer
5 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (16.67%) Management Information System
2 2 (16.67%) N-Tier
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 2 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 10 (83.33%) UNIX
1 10 (83.33%) Windows
2 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (83.33%) Test Scripting
2 10 (83.33%) Product Management
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) OOA/OOD
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Unit Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (16.67%) Refactoring
3 2 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (8.333%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (16.67%) C
1 2 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (83.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (83.33%) QA
System Software
1 10 (83.33%) NFS
2 1 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (83.33%) Legato
1 10 (83.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) HP
1 10 (83.33%) Veritas
2 4 (33.33%) Hitachi
3 1 (8.333%) VMware