The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 24 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 Qualifications for the Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 60 78 61
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -17
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 25 8 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 3.189% 1.046% 2.028%
As % of the Qualifications category 11.85% 3.113% 8.130%
Number of salaries quoted 15 8 10
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +2.18%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £28,000 £29,700
10% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £43,250 £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,250
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.04%
All Qualifications
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
211 257 123
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 26.91% 33.59% 24.95%
Number of salaries quoted 188 244 116
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £28,000 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £45,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
East Sussex

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISTQB across the Brighton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Brighton ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

Brighton ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISTQB across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Brighton ISTQB Salary Histogram

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 27 (90.00%) ISEB
2 19 (63.33%) Selenium
3 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 15 (50.00%) Windows
4 14 (46.67%) QA
5 10 (33.33%) Automated Testing
5 10 (33.33%) TDD
5 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
6 9 (30.00%) QuickTest Pro
6 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (30.00%) JIRA
7 8 (26.67%) V-Model
7 8 (26.67%) Social Media
8 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
9 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
9 5 (16.67%) Degree
9 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
9 5 (16.67%) Ruby
9 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
9 5 (16.67%) Git (software)
9 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
9 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
9 5 (16.67%) BDD
9 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
9 5 (16.67%) Finance
9 5 (16.67%) CMS
9 5 (16.67%) Scrum
9 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
9 5 (16.67%) UNIX

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (16.67%) Middleware
1 5 (16.67%) .NET
1 5 (16.67%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (16.67%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (16.67%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 19 (63.33%) Selenium
2 9 (30.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 9 (30.00%) JIRA
3 5 (16.67%) WebDriver
3 5 (16.67%) Git (software)
3 5 (16.67%) Cucumber
3 5 (16.67%) Visual Studio
4 4 (13.33%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (16.67%) Finance
2 3 (10.00%) Games
3 2 (6.667%) Marketing
4 1 (3.333%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (46.67%) Analyst
1 14 (46.67%) Test Analyst
2 7 (23.33%) Tester
3 6 (20.00%) Automated Tester
3 6 (20.00%) Web Tester
4 5 (16.67%) QA Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Test Automation Consultant
4 5 (16.67%) Test Consultant
4 5 (16.67%) QA Test Analyst
4 5 (16.67%) Consultant
4 5 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
5 3 (10.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Graduate
7 1 (3.333%) Web Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Web Test Analyst
7 1 (3.333%) Test Manager
7 1 (3.333%) Applications Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Test Manager
7 1 (3.333%) Manual Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Senior Manager
Miscellaneous
1 8 (26.67%) Social Media
2 5 (16.67%) Computer Science
2 5 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.333%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 15 (50.00%) Windows
2 5 (16.67%) UNIX
2 5 (16.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Automated Testing
1 10 (33.33%) TDD
2 9 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
3 8 (26.67%) V-Model
4 6 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 6 (20.00%) Test Automation
5 5 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 5 (16.67%) Waterfall
5 5 (16.67%) BDD
5 5 (16.67%) Scrum
6 4 (13.33%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (10.00%) Software Testing
8 2 (6.667%) Web Development
8 2 (6.667%) Digital Marketing
8 2 (6.667%) Manual Testing
9 1 (3.333%) Process Improvement
9 1 (3.333%) Test Strategy
9 1 (3.333%) Test Management
9 1 (3.333%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (50.00%) SQL
2 5 (16.67%) Ruby
2 5 (16.67%) C++
2 5 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 27 (90.00%) ISEB
2 5 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (46.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 5 (16.67%) HP
1 5 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (3.333%) CheckPoint
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Posted: 22 May 2013
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