The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 78 83 65
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -18
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 9 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 1.151% 0.394% 1.417%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.449% 0.569% 2.167%
Number of salaries quoted 8 3 7
Average salary £52,500 £42,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.52% +11.84%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
621 527 323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 79.41% 69.16% 65.38%
Number of salaries quoted 555 462 310
Average salary £38,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.75% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
East Sussex

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton 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 Brighton region.

Brighton Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Brighton region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Brighton Software Testing Salary Histogram

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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 11 (91.67%) QA
2 8 (66.67%) ISEB
3 7 (58.33%) MS Excel
3 7 (58.33%) Back Office
3 7 (58.33%) Finance
3 7 (58.33%) MS Project
3 7 (58.33%) PRINCE2
3 7 (58.33%) ISEB Practitioner
3 7 (58.33%) MS PowerPoint
3 7 (58.33%) Migration
3 7 (58.33%) HP
3 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (58.33%) Integration Testing
3 7 (58.33%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (25.00%) Social Media
4 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (25.00%) Games
4 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Selenium
4 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 3 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (16.67%) LabVIEW
6 1 (8.333%) Online Games
6 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
6 1 (8.333%) Embedded Linux
6 1 (8.333%) Windows
6 1 (8.333%) Linux
6 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
6 1 (8.333%) C
6 1 (8.333%) C#

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Brighton 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.

Applications
1 7 (58.33%) MS Excel
1 7 (58.33%) MS Project
1 7 (58.33%) MS PowerPoint
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Selenium
1 3 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (16.67%) LabVIEW
3 1 (8.333%) Visual Studio
3 1 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 7 (58.33%) Back Office
1 7 (58.33%) Finance
2 3 (25.00%) Games
3 1 (8.333%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.333%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Test Manager
2 3 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Validation Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 1 (8.333%) Validation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Social Media
2 1 (8.333%) Online Games
2 1 (8.333%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.333%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (8.333%) Windows
1 1 (8.333%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) PRINCE2
1 7 (58.33%) Migration
1 7 (58.33%) User Acceptance Testing
1 7 (58.33%) Integration Testing
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (25.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (8.333%) Software Engineering
3 1 (8.333%) Validation
3 1 (8.333%) Embedded Software Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.333%) C
1 1 (8.333%) C#
1 1 (8.333%) C++
1 1 (8.333%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) ISEB
2 7 (58.33%) ISEB Practitioner
3 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (91.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (58.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (58.33%) HP
2 1 (8.333%) IBM
2 1 (8.333%) Microsoft