Bradford Manual Testing Jobs

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.

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Location Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Cirencester City of London Clapham Coalville Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hungerford Huntingdon Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newton Aycliffe North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	75	56
Rank change on same period last year	-19
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.311 %	1.114 %
Salaries quoted	2	2
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 %
Processes & Methodologies Bradford
Matching permanent IT job ads	644	359
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.352 %	0.151 %
Salaries quoted	427	288
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 %
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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.

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Salary Trend

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

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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.

1 6 (85.71 %) Finance 2 4 (57.14 %) Automated Testing 2 4 (57.14 %) Software Testing 2 4 (57.14 %) ISEB 3 3 (42.86 %) TestDirector 3 3 (42.86 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (42.86 %) Publishing 3 3 (42.86 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (42.86 %) System Testing 3 3 (42.86 %) Regression Testing 4 2 (28.57 %) Problem Management 5 1 (14.29 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (14.29 %) WinRunner 5 1 (14.29 %) C 5 1 (14.29 %) SQL

5 1 (14.29 %) XML

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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.

Application Development 1 1 (14.29 %) XML	Development Applications 1 3 (42.86 %) TestDirector 1 3 (42.86 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (14.29 %) WinRunner
General 1 6 (85.71 %) Finance 2 3 (42.86 %) Publishing	Job Titles 1 6 (85.71 %) Tester 2 3 (42.86 %) Software Tester 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Test Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (14.29 %) Systems Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (57.14 %) Automated Testing 1 4 (57.14 %) Software Testing 2 3 (42.86 %) Test Scripting 2 3 (42.86 %) System Testing 2 3 (42.86 %) Regression Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Problem Management	Programming Languages 1 1 (14.29 %) C 1 1 (14.29 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (57.14 %) ISEB 2 1 (14.29 %) ISEB Practitioner