The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bradford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 20 June 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 36 39 34
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -5
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 8 8 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 2.477% 2.247% 2.604%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.974% 3.042% 3.906%
Number of salaries quoted 2 6 3
Average salary £26,250 £30,750 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.63% -10.86%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
269 263 256
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 83.28% 73.88% 66.67%
Number of salaries quoted 169 203 146
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +12.30%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,300 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £54,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
West Yorkshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Bradford Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
1 9 (81.82%) Retail
1 9 (81.82%) Investment Banking
2 7 (63.64%) Test Scripting
3 6 (54.55%) Retail Banking
3 6 (54.55%) Degree
3 6 (54.55%) ISEB
4 3 (27.27%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (27.27%) LoadRunner
4 3 (27.27%) HP
4 3 (27.27%) Scrum
4 3 (27.27%) Quality Management
4 3 (27.27%) Project Planning
4 3 (27.27%) Selenium
4 3 (27.27%) FitNesse
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Management
4 3 (27.27%) Open Source
4 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
4 3 (27.27%) Mingle
4 3 (27.27%) SpecFlow
4 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
5 2 (18.18%) Windows
6 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
6 1 (9.091%) Microsoft
6 1 (9.091%) SQL
6 1 (9.091%) .NET
6 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
6 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (27.27%) Gherkin
2 1 (9.091%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Mingle
2 1 (9.091%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (27.27%) LoadRunner
1 3 (27.27%) Selenium
1 3 (27.27%) FitNesse
1 3 (27.27%) Cucumber
1 3 (27.27%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (81.82%) Telecoms
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
1 9 (81.82%) Banking
1 9 (81.82%) Retail
1 9 (81.82%) Investment Banking
2 6 (54.55%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Test Consultant
1 6 (54.55%) Consultant
2 3 (27.27%) Test Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Test Consultant
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
3 1 (9.091%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Applications Support
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) Scrum
2 3 (27.27%) Quality Management
2 3 (27.27%) Project Planning
2 3 (27.27%) Performance Management
3 1 (9.091%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.091%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) Degree
1 6 (54.55%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Microsoft