Bristol User Acceptance Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Bristol region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the last 3 months to 15 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Burnley Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chatham Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Colchester Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Dunfermline Dunstable East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Folkestone Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Havant Hebden Bridge Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Huddersfield Hull Isle of Man Jersey Kendal Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Liversedge Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Rotherham Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Ives Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stockport Sunbury-on-Thames Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Trowbridge Tunbridge Wells Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walsall Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wilmslow Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 15 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	91	84
Rank change on same period last year	-7
Matching permanent IT job ads	50	35
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.024 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	2.684 %	2.874 %
Salaries quoted	49	33
Average minimum salary	£30,862	£35,212
Average salary	£33,758	£36,765
% change on same period last year	-8.18 %
Average maximum salary	£36,653	£38,318
UK excluding London average salary	£38,301	£37,221
% change on same period last year	+2.90 %
Processes & Methodologies Bristol
Matching permanent IT job ads	1863	1218
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.913 %	0.539 %
Salaries quoted	1645	955
Average minimum salary	£34,310	£35,938
Average salary	£37,739	£39,013
% change on same period last year	-3.26 %
Average maximum salary	£41,168	£42,088
UK excluding London average salary	£42,863	£44,085
% change on same period last year	-2.77 %
User Acceptance Testing South West

User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total starting in 2004 of permanent IT jobs ads citing User Acceptance Testing across the Bristol region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs ads citing User Acceptance Testing across the Bristol region.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Bristol region over the past 3 months.

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Bristol region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing User Acceptance Testing.

1 37 (49.33 %) SQL 2 30 (40.00 %) ISEB 2 30 (40.00 %) Finance 3 29 (38.67 %) Web Testing 4 28 (37.33 %) TestDirector 5 26 (34.67 %) Client/Server 6 15 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 6 15 (20.00 %) Regression Testing 7 14 (18.67 %) Project Management 7 14 (18.67 %) Insurance 8 11 (14.67 %) QA 9 9 (12.00 %) Integration Testing 9 9 (12.00 %) Software Testing 10 7 (9.333 %) Performance Testing 10 7 (9.333 %) SQL Server

11 6 (8.000 %) Oracle 11 6 (8.000 %) SAP 11 6 (8.000 %) Pensions 12 5 (6.667 %) Oracle EBS 12 5 (6.667 %) J2EE 12 5 (6.667 %) Java 12 5 (6.667 %) LoadRunner 13 4 (5.333 %) CMMI 13 4 (5.333 %) Business Analysis 13 4 (5.333 %) Banking 13 4 (5.333 %) Test Management 14 3 (4.000 %) Performance Management 14 3 (4.000 %) Ab Initio 14 3 (4.000 %) Shell Script 14 3 (4.000 %) Six Sigma

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the Bristol region citing User Acceptance Testing also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 5 (6.667 %) J2EE 2 2 (2.667 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.667 %) SAS 2 1 (1.333 %) Oracle Application Server
Applications 1 1 (1.333 %) MS Office 1 1 (1.333 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 5 (6.667 %) Oracle EBS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (9.333 %) SQL Server 2 3 (4.000 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (2.667 %) OLAP 3 2 (2.667 %) BusinessObjects 3 2 (2.667 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (2.667 %) Microsoft Analysis Services 3 2 (2.667 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 3 2 (2.667 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (2.667 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (2.667 %) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 1 (1.333 %) RDBMS 4 1 (1.333 %) Oracle 10g	Development Applications 1 28 (37.33 %) TestDirector 2 5 (6.667 %) LoadRunner 3 2 (2.667 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.333 %) Oracle Forms
General 1 30 (40.00 %) Finance 2 14 (18.67 %) Insurance 3 6 (8.000 %) Pensions 4 4 (5.333 %) Banking 5 2 (2.667 %) Telecoms 5 2 (2.667 %) Government 5 2 (2.667 %) Health 6 1 (1.333 %) Manufacturing 6 1 (1.333 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 51 (68.00 %) Analyst 2 45 (60.00 %) Test Analyst 3 11 (14.67 %) Tester 4 9 (12.00 %) Junior 4 9 (12.00 %) Test Manager 4 9 (12.00 %) Junior Analyst 5 8 (10.67 %) Junior Test Analyst 6 7 (9.333 %) Developer 7 6 (8.000 %) Graduate 7 6 (8.000 %) Business Analyst 7 6 (8.000 %) Trainee 8 5 (6.667 %) UAT Analyst 9 3 (4.000 %) UAT Tester 9 3 (4.000 %) Ab Initio Developer 10 2 (2.667 %) Business Developer 10 2 (2.667 %) Consultant 10 2 (2.667 %) Business Intelligence Developer 11 1 (1.333 %) Training Manager 11 1 (1.333 %) Solutions Consultant 11 1 (1.333 %) Development Specialist
Miscellaneous 1 26 (34.67 %) Client/Server	Processes & Methodologies 1 29 (38.67 %) Web Testing 2 15 (20.00 %) Regression Testing 2 15 (20.00 %) PRINCE2 3 14 (18.67 %) Project Management 4 9 (12.00 %) Software Testing 4 9 (12.00 %) Integration Testing 5 7 (9.333 %) Performance Testing 6 4 (5.333 %) Test Management 6 4 (5.333 %) CMMI 6 4 (5.333 %) Business Analysis 7 3 (4.000 %) Performance Management 7 3 (4.000 %) ITIL 7 3 (4.000 %) Six Sigma 8 2 (2.667 %) CRM 8 2 (2.667 %) Business Intelligence 8 2 (2.667 %) PRINCE 8 2 (2.667 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (2.667 %) System Testing 9 1 (1.333 %) GAP Analysis 9 1 (1.333 %) Systems Analysis
Programming Languages 1 37 (49.33 %) SQL 2 5 (6.667 %) Java 3 3 (4.000 %) Shell Script 4 1 (1.333 %) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 30 (40.00 %) ISEB 2 3 (4.000 %) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 11 (14.67 %) QA	Vendors 1 6 (8.000 %) Oracle 1 6 (8.000 %) SAP 2 3 (4.000 %) Ab Initio 3 2 (2.667 %) Netezza 3 2 (2.667 %) Agresso 3 2 (2.667 %) Business Objects 4 1 (1.333 %) Cognos 4 1 (1.333 %) Planview