The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Brighton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Brighton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 69 81 62
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -19
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 16 5 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 2.041% 0.654% 1.826%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.581% 0.942% 2.786%
Number of salaries quoted 14 5 9
Average salary £36,500 £34,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.79% -1.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,950 £28,000 £31,600
10% offered a salary of more than £37,550 £36,500 £39,800
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
Brighton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
620 531 323
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Brighton 79.08% 69.41% 65.52%
Number of salaries quoted 554 466 310
Average salary £39,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.25% +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%
Test Scripting
East Sussex

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Brighton Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Brighton Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 14 (87.50%) QA
1 14 (87.50%) Selenium
2 13 (81.25%) WebDriver
3 12 (75.00%) Social Media
3 12 (75.00%) Cucumber
3 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 12 (75.00%) Scrum
3 12 (75.00%) Ruby
4 11 (68.75%) Automated Testing
5 10 (62.50%) Degree
5 10 (62.50%) Windows
5 10 (62.50%) Linux
6 7 (43.75%) Marketing
6 7 (43.75%) Digital Marketing
7 6 (37.50%) JIRA
7 6 (37.50%) ISTQB
7 6 (37.50%) ISEB
8 5 (31.25%) CMS
8 5 (31.25%) Git (software)
9 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
9 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
10 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
10 3 (18.75%) Finance
11 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
11 2 (12.50%) BDD
12 1 (6.250%) CSS3
12 1 (6.250%) SpecFlow
12 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
12 1 (6.250%) HTML5
12 1 (6.250%) Test Automation

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) CSS3
1 1 (6.250%) HTML5
1 1 (6.250%) Spring
1 1 (6.250%) Hibernate
1 1 (6.250%) CSS
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) CMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.250%) MySQL
1 1 (6.250%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 14 (87.50%) Selenium
2 13 (81.25%) WebDriver
3 12 (75.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (37.50%) JIRA
5 5 (31.25%) Git (software)
6 4 (25.00%) Jenkins
7 1 (6.250%) SpecFlow
General
1 7 (43.75%) Marketing
2 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 1 (6.250%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 9 (56.25%) Tester
2 7 (43.75%) Web Tester
3 5 (31.25%) Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Test Analyst
3 5 (31.25%) Automated Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Manual Tester
4 2 (12.50%) Developer
4 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Java Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Junior Developer
5 1 (6.250%) Applications Tester
5 1 (6.250%) Web Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Web Test Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 12 (75.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
1 10 (62.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Scrum
2 11 (68.75%) Automated Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Digital Marketing
4 4 (25.00%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
6 2 (12.50%) BDD
7 1 (6.250%) Test Automation
7 1 (6.250%) Web Testing
7 1 (6.250%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (75.00%) SQL
1 12 (75.00%) Ruby
2 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.250%) Bash shell
3 1 (6.250%) Perl
3 1 (6.250%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) ISTQB
2 6 (37.50%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (87.50%) QA
Brighton, South East
Main duties will be:Work with the product team leads, technical leads and product managers to understandthe new functionality being developedCreate and execute manual and automated test plans,...
DP Connect Ltd
Salary: Negotiable + Monthly and yearly bonuses
Posted: 30 April 2013