The first table below looks at the demand for Performance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cambridge region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Performance Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Cambridge region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Performance Testing
Rank 107 113 103
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -10
Permanent jobs citing Performance Testing 12 13 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 0.704% 0.641% 0.953%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.002% 0.929% 1.422%
Number of salaries quoted 12 10 18
Average salary £37,500 £52,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% +31.25%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,251 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-0.62% +0.62%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cambridge
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1198 1400 1406
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cambridge 70.26% 69.07% 67.02%
Number of salaries quoted 1033 1178 1258
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £62,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Performance Testing
Cambridgeshire

Performance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cambridge Performance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Performance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Cambridge Performance Testing Salary Trend

Performance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing.

1 16 (69.57%) Software Testing
2 14 (60.87%) QA
2 14 (60.87%) C++
2 14 (60.87%) Java
3 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
3 13 (56.52%) C#
3 13 (56.52%) CSS
3 13 (56.52%) Degree
4 12 (52.17%) ISTQB
4 12 (52.17%) User Stories
4 12 (52.17%) C
4 12 (52.17%) HTML
4 12 (52.17%) ISEB
5 11 (47.83%) Games
6 9 (39.13%) Agile Software Development
6 9 (39.13%) Automated Testing
7 7 (30.43%) Python
8 6 (26.09%) Selenium
9 5 (21.74%) WebDriver
9 5 (21.74%) Linux
9 5 (21.74%) Finance
9 5 (21.74%) Law
10 4 (17.39%) Perl
10 4 (17.39%) Bash shell
10 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
10 4 (17.39%) Ruby
11 2 (8.696%) HTTP
11 2 (8.696%) Ajax
11 2 (8.696%) Banking
12 1 (4.348%) WATIR

Performance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Cambridge region citing Performance 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 Performance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (56.52%) CSS
2 12 (52.17%) HTML
3 2 (8.696%) Ajax
4 1 (4.348%) HTML5
4 1 (4.348%) WCF
4 1 (4.348%) jQuery
4 1 (4.348%) .NET
4 1 (4.348%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.696%) HTTP
2 1 (4.348%) STUN
2 1 (4.348%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.348%) SSL
2 1 (4.348%) X.509
Development Applications
1 6 (26.09%) Selenium
2 5 (21.74%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.348%) WATIR
3 1 (4.348%) Git (software)
General
1 11 (47.83%) Games
2 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 5 (21.74%) Law
3 2 (8.696%) Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) QA Engineer
2 5 (21.74%) Tester
2 5 (21.74%) Test Engineer
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Test Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Senior Tester
3 3 (13.04%) Analyst
3 3 (13.04%) Test Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) QA Tester
5 1 (4.348%) Junior Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Junior
5 1 (4.348%) Software Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Solutions Architect
5 1 (4.348%) Software Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
1 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 5 (21.74%) Linux
2 1 (4.348%) Mac OS X
2 1 (4.348%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (69.57%) Software Testing
2 12 (52.17%) User Stories
3 9 (39.13%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (39.13%) Automated Testing
4 4 (17.39%) Test Scripting
5 1 (4.348%) Test Automation
5 1 (4.348%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
5 1 (4.348%) Security Testing
5 1 (4.348%) OO
5 1 (4.348%) OOD
5 1 (4.348%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 14 (60.87%) C++
1 14 (60.87%) Java
2 13 (56.52%) JavaScript
2 13 (56.52%) C#
3 12 (52.17%) C
4 7 (30.43%) Python
5 4 (17.39%) Perl
5 4 (17.39%) Bash shell
5 4 (17.39%) Ruby
6 1 (4.348%) SQL
Qualifications
1 13 (56.52%) Degree
2 12 (52.17%) ISTQB
2 12 (52.17%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (60.87%) QA