The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Bradford region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 42 53 27
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -26
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 3 1 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 0.888% 0.236% 4.908%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.103% 0.327% 7.692%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 16
Average salary £28,250 £36,500 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.60% +28.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,050 £36,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £28,450 £36,500 £30,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +9.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bradford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
272 306 208
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bradford 80.47% 72.34% 63.80%
Number of salaries quoted 173 180 116
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £31,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% +16.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £47,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
West Yorkshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bradford 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 Bradford region.

Bradford System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 22 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) C
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle
2 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
2 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) TDD
2 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
2 1 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bradford 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 (66.67%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Visual Studio
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle Forms
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle APEX
1 1 (33.33%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Support
2 1 (33.33%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (33.33%) IT Support
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
1 1 (33.33%) TDD
1 1 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
1 1 (33.33%) Test Automation
1 1 (33.33%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) VB.NET
2 1 (33.33%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft