The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Bromley region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Bromley region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 20 - 27
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 7 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 5.385% - 0.885%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.731% - 1.266%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 1
Average salary - - £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Bromley
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
104 56 79
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Bromley 80.00% 56.57% 69.91%
Number of salaries quoted 74 42 69
Average salary £60,000 £45,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+31.86% +13.75%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £25,000 £22,000
10% offered a salary of more than £76,800 £50,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Bromley 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 Bromley region.

Bromley Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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 8 (100.00%) Finance
1 8 (100.00%) ISTQB
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%) 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%) MS PowerPoint
4 4 (50.00%) Waterfall

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Bromley 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.

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%) Wholesale Banking
2 7 (87.50%) 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%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 4 (50.00%) zOS
1 4 (50.00%) UNIX
1 4 (50.00%) Windows
1 4 (50.00%) AIX
1 4 (50.00%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Change Management
1 7 (87.50%) Test Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (50.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (50.00%) Agile Software Development
3 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (37.50%) Test Management
4 3 (37.50%) Performance Management
4 3 (37.50%) Revenue Management
4 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
4 3 (37.50%) Cash Management
4 3 (37.50%) Resource Management
4 3 (37.50%) Release Management
5 2 (25.00%) Performance Testing
5 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%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) XPath
Qualifications
1 8 (100.00%) ISTQB
2 7 (87.50%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (25.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Citrix
2 2 (25.00%) HP