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This section looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills within the Bradford region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkManual Testing
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank7556
Rank change on same period last yearDown-19
Matching permanent IT job ads24
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.002 %
As % of the category below0.311 %1.114 %
Salaries quoted22
Average minimum salary£27,500£24,500
Average salary£31,750£25,500
% change on same period last year+24.50 %
Average maximum salary£36,000£26,500
UK excluding London average salary£31,508£33,203
% change on same period last year-5.10 %
Bradford IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Bradford
Matching permanent IT job ads644359
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.352 %0.151 %
Salaries quoted427288
Average minimum salary£38,088£34,490
Average salary£41,120£36,108
% change on same period last year+13.88 %
Average maximum salary£44,153£37,726
UK excluding London average salary£42,478£44,432
% change on same period last year-4.39 %
Manual Testing West YorkshireManual Testing
West Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the Bradford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Bradford Manual Testing Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the Bradford region.

Bradford Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Bradford region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

16 (85.71 %)Finance
24 (57.14 %)Automated Testing
24 (57.14 %)Software Testing
24 (57.14 %)ISEB
33 (42.86 %)TestDirector
33 (42.86 %)LoadRunner
33 (42.86 %)Publishing
33 (42.86 %)Test Scripting
33 (42.86 %)System Testing
33 (42.86 %)Regression Testing
42 (28.57 %)Problem Management
51 (14.29 %)ISEB Practitioner
51 (14.29 %)WinRunner
51 (14.29 %)C
51 (14.29 %)SQL
51 (14.29 %)XML

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Bradford region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Bradford IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (14.29 %)XML
Bradford IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
13 (42.86 %)TestDirector
13 (42.86 %)LoadRunner
21 (14.29 %)WinRunner
Bradford IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
16 (85.71 %)Finance
23 (42.86 %)Publishing
Bradford IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
16 (85.71 %)Tester
23 (42.86 %)Software Tester
31 (14.29 %)Systems Test Analyst
31 (14.29 %)Analyst
31 (14.29 %)Test Analyst
31 (14.29 %)Systems Analyst
Bradford IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
14 (57.14 %)Automated Testing
14 (57.14 %)Software Testing
23 (42.86 %)Test Scripting
23 (42.86 %)System Testing
23 (42.86 %)Regression Testing
32 (28.57 %)Problem Management
Bradford IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (14.29 %)C
11 (14.29 %)SQL
Bradford IT Job Market, QualificationsQualifications
14 (57.14 %)ISEB
21 (14.29 %)ISEB Practitioner