The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bristol region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing 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 Bristol region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 93 105 109
Rank change year-on-year
+12 +4
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 25 8 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 1.450% 0.462% 0.379%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.863% 0.605% 0.537%
Number of salaries quoted 11 8 7
Average salary £34,000 £28,250 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.35% -16.91%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,900 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,500 £35,100 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bristol
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1342 1322 1304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bristol 77.84% 76.42% 70.56%
Number of salaries quoted 1161 1159 1018
Average salary £37,500 £39,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.06% +5.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
South West

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bristol Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Bristol Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Bristol Manual Testing Salary Histogram

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bristol region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 28 (70.00%) QA
2 24 (60.00%) SQL
3 23 (57.50%) Data Warehouse
3 23 (57.50%) Agile Software Development
3 23 (57.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 22 (55.00%) ETL
5 20 (50.00%) Test Scripting
6 19 (47.50%) Scrum
6 19 (47.50%) Marketing
7 18 (45.00%) Project Management
8 17 (42.50%) Management Information System
9 16 (40.00%) Legal
9 16 (40.00%) Kimball Methodology
10 12 (30.00%) Automated Testing
11 9 (22.50%) C#
12 8 (20.00%) VBScript
12 8 (20.00%) Windows
12 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
13 7 (17.50%) Software Testing
14 6 (15.00%) N-Tier
14 6 (15.00%) .NET
14 6 (15.00%) C++
14 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
15 5 (12.50%) ISEB
15 5 (12.50%) WMI
16 4 (10.00%) Java
16 4 (10.00%) Analytics
17 3 (7.500%) Selenium
17 3 (7.500%) Degree
17 3 (7.500%) Oracle

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (15.00%) .NET
2 3 (7.500%) XML
3 2 (5.000%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.500%) soapUI
4 1 (2.500%) RESTful
4 1 (2.500%) Web Services
4 1 (2.500%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 1 (2.500%) Shopify
1 1 (2.500%) Magento
1 1 (2.500%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 1 (2.500%) MS Excel
1 1 (2.500%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (57.50%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.500%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.500%) Hazelcast
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (2.500%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 3 (7.500%) Selenium
1 3 (7.500%) NUnit
2 1 (2.500%) Cucumber
2 1 (2.500%) GoogleTest
2 1 (2.500%) WebDriver
2 1 (2.500%) CppUnit
2 1 (2.500%) JIRA
2 1 (2.500%) FitNesse
2 1 (2.500%) WATIR
2 1 (2.500%) JUnit
2 1 (2.500%) Bugzilla
General
1 19 (47.50%) Marketing
2 16 (40.00%) Legal
3 2 (5.000%) Finance
4 1 (2.500%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (52.50%) Senior QA Engineer
1 21 (52.50%) QA Engineer
2 9 (22.50%) Tester
3 8 (20.00%) Software Engineer
4 7 (17.50%) Analyst
4 7 (17.50%) Test Engineer
5 5 (12.50%) Test Analyst
5 5 (12.50%) Software Test Engineer
6 3 (7.500%) Senior Tester
6 3 (7.500%) QA Tester
6 3 (7.500%) Software Tester
7 2 (5.000%) Systems Tester
7 2 (5.000%) Team Leader
7 2 (5.000%) Senior QA Tester
7 2 (5.000%) Quality Analyst
7 2 (5.000%) Integration Tester
7 2 (5.000%) QA Leader
8 1 (2.500%) Junior Test Engineer
8 1 (2.500%) Agile Test Analyst
8 1 (2.500%) Agile Tester
Miscellaneous
1 17 (42.50%) Management Information System
2 6 (15.00%) N-Tier
3 1 (2.500%) Computer Science
3 1 (2.500%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (2.500%) UNIX
2 1 (2.500%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (57.50%) Agile Software Development
1 23 (57.50%) User Acceptance Testing
2 22 (55.00%) ETL
3 20 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 19 (47.50%) Scrum
5 18 (45.00%) Project Management
6 16 (40.00%) Kimball Methodology
7 12 (30.00%) Automated Testing
8 7 (17.50%) Software Testing
9 6 (15.00%) Test Automation
10 4 (10.00%) Analytics
11 3 (7.500%) OO
12 2 (5.000%) E-Commerce
12 2 (5.000%) System Testing
12 2 (5.000%) Agile Testing
12 2 (5.000%) Integration Testing
13 1 (2.500%) User Stories
13 1 (2.500%) Marketing Analytics
13 1 (2.500%) Continuous Integration
13 1 (2.500%) Multithreading
Programming Languages
1 24 (60.00%) SQL
2 9 (22.50%) C#
3 8 (20.00%) VBScript
3 8 (20.00%) PowerShell
4 6 (15.00%) C++
5 4 (10.00%) Java
6 2 (5.000%) Python
6 2 (5.000%) C
7 1 (2.500%) JavaScript
7 1 (2.500%) COBOL
7 1 (2.500%) VB
7 1 (2.500%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 5 (12.50%) ISEB
2 3 (7.500%) Degree
3 1 (2.500%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (70.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) WMI
Vendors
1 3 (7.500%) Oracle
2 1 (2.500%) Zend
Bristol, Avon
Cucumber , Watir-Webdriver, Selenium or Robot Framework) A good grasp of relational databases... FitNesse) SQL knowledge... Some examples of this are Zend; connectors for eBay, Amazon, Magento and...
Parham Consulting
Salary: From £30,000 to £38,000 per annum £30,000 - £38,000 plus full benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
The senior manual tester will possess the following skills: *Must have the ability to WRITE YOUR OWN SCRIPTS in any OOP as opposed to just running pre written...
People Source Consulting
Salary: £37000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013