The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bracknell region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 62 38 47
Rank change year-on-year
-24 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 18 13 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 3.352% 3.377% 0.539%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.225% 5.417% 0.763%
Number of salaries quoted 2 13 2
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £41,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.19%
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £38,800 £37,150
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £40,000 £46,350
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bracknell
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
426 240 262
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bracknell 79.33% 62.34% 70.62%
Number of salaries quoted 238 183 222
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 £55,000 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Berkshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bracknell Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Bracknell Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 32 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 28 (87.50%) Windows
3 24 (75.00%) HP
4 22 (68.75%) ISEB
4 22 (68.75%) Regression Testing
4 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
4 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
5 21 (65.63%) Test Automation
5 21 (65.63%) LoadRunner
6 20 (62.50%) Migration
6 20 (62.50%) Oracle
6 20 (62.50%) SQL Server
7 18 (56.25%) Active Directory
7 18 (56.25%) Windows XP
7 18 (56.25%) LAN
7 18 (56.25%) WAN
7 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2003
7 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
7 18 (56.25%) Windows 7
8 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
8 17 (53.13%) VMware
9 16 (50.00%) VMware ESX
9 16 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
9 16 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
9 16 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 16 (50.00%) Validation
10 14 (43.75%) Telecoms
10 14 (43.75%) Finance
10 14 (43.75%) Retail
10 14 (43.75%) Automated Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bracknell region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 14 (43.75%) IIS
1 14 (43.75%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 18 (56.25%) LAN
1 18 (56.25%) WAN
2 10 (31.25%) TCP/IP
3 9 (28.13%) NAS
4 8 (25.00%) IPv6
4 8 (25.00%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 20 (62.50%) SQL Server
2 16 (50.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 21 (65.63%) LoadRunner
2 9 (28.13%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (15.63%) SilkTest
General
1 14 (43.75%) Telecoms
1 14 (43.75%) Finance
1 14 (43.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 13 (40.63%) Analyst
1 13 (40.63%) Test Analyst
2 11 (34.38%) Senior Analyst
2 11 (34.38%) Senior Test Analyst
3 9 (28.13%) Test Consultant
3 9 (28.13%) Consultant
3 9 (28.13%) Performance Test Consultant
4 8 (25.00%) QA Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Test Engineer
5 6 (18.75%) Security Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Systems Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Security Consultant
6 4 (12.50%) QA Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Tester
6 4 (12.50%) Senior Security Analyst
6 4 (12.50%) Senior QA Engineer
6 4 (12.50%) Senior QA Tester
7 2 (6.250%) Systems Test Engineer
7 2 (6.250%) Systems Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 2 (6.250%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 28 (87.50%) Windows
2 18 (56.25%) Windows XP
2 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2003
2 18 (56.25%) Windows Server 2008
2 18 (56.25%) Windows 7
3 10 (31.25%) UNIX
4 1 (3.125%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (68.75%) Regression Testing
2 21 (65.63%) Test Automation
3 20 (62.50%) Migration
4 16 (50.00%) Validation
4 16 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 14 (43.75%) Automated Testing
6 10 (31.25%) Product Management
6 10 (31.25%) System Testing
7 9 (28.13%) Agile Software Development
8 5 (15.63%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (43.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 22 (68.75%) ISEB
1 22 (68.75%) SC Cleared
1 22 (68.75%) Security Cleared
2 10 (31.25%) Degree
3 6 (18.75%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (31.25%) QA
System Software
1 18 (56.25%) Active Directory
2 17 (53.13%) VMware Infrastructure
3 16 (50.00%) VMware ESX
3 16 (50.00%) VMware Workstation
4 10 (31.25%) NFS
Systems Management
1 32 (100.00%) HP Quality Center
2 10 (31.25%) Legato
Vendors
1 24 (75.00%) HP
2 20 (62.50%) Oracle
3 17 (53.13%) VMware
4 14 (43.75%) Fujitsu
5 10 (31.25%) Veritas
6 4 (12.50%) Hitachi