The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the Bromley region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 20 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 Bromley region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 20 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 7 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 5.426% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 33.33% - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
All Qualifications
Bromley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
21 21 27
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 16.28% 21.65% 25.47%
Number of salaries quoted 9 18 24
Average salary £52,500 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+50.00% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £35,000 £29,750
10% offered a salary of more than £61,250 £50,000 £50,100
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
London

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bromley 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 Bromley region.

Bromley ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Wholesale Banking
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 7 (87.50%) Change Management
2 7 (87.50%) Financial Institution
2 7 (87.50%) ISEB
2 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
2 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (62.50%) LoadRunner
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Marketing
4 4 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (50.00%) zOS
4 4 (50.00%) Middleware
4 4 (50.00%) Citrix
4 4 (50.00%) C#
4 4 (50.00%) Java
4 4 (50.00%) VB
4 4 (50.00%) MS Office
4 4 (50.00%) UNIX
4 4 (50.00%) Windows
4 4 (50.00%) AIX
4 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
4 4 (50.00%) OpenVMS
4 4 (50.00%) Waterfall

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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 4 (50.00%) Middleware
2 1 (12.50%) XML
Applications
1 4 (50.00%) MS Office
1 4 (50.00%) MS Excel
1 4 (50.00%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (12.50%) Spreadsheet
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) QuickTest Pro
1 5 (62.50%) LoadRunner
General
1 8 (100.00%) Finance
2 7 (87.50%) Banking
2 7 (87.50%) Wholesale Banking
2 7 (87.50%) Financial Institution
3 4 (50.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Test Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 2 (25.00%) Performance Test Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) AIX
1 4 (50.00%) OpenVMS
1 4 (50.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (87.50%) Change Management
2 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
3 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
4 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
4 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
4 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (37.50%) Test Management
5 3 (37.50%) Performance Management
5 3 (37.50%) Revenue Management
5 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
5 3 (37.50%) Cash Management
5 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
5 3 (37.50%) Release Management
6 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) C#
1 4 (50.00%) Java
1 4 (50.00%) VB
2 1 (12.50%) XPath
2 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (87.50%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) HP