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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 58 50 48
Rank change year-on-year
-8 -2
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 9 4 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 1.619% 0.907% 3.136%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.239% 1.333% 3.939%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 17
Average salary £34,500 £33,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.54% +15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,300 £30,600 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,100 £33,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £36,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cardiff
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
402 300 457
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cardiff 72.30% 68.03% 79.62%
Number of salaries quoted 351 280 426
Average salary £34,500 £34,008 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.44% -5.53%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £52,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
South Wales

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cardiff System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Cardiff System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Cardiff System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 5 (21.74%) Marketing
2 5 (21.74%) QlikView
2 5 (21.74%) Risk Analysis
2 5 (21.74%) Project Management
2 5 (21.74%) Salesforce.com
2 5 (21.74%) CRM
2 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
2 5 (21.74%) Java
2 5 (21.74%) XML
2 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
2 5 (21.74%) Kimball Methodology
2 5 (21.74%) Inmon Methodology
3 4 (17.39%) EJB 3.0
3 4 (17.39%) XSLT
3 4 (17.39%) EJB
3 4 (17.39%) JSP
3 4 (17.39%) HTML
3 4 (17.39%) .NET
3 4 (17.39%) J2EE
3 4 (17.39%) ISEB
3 4 (17.39%) Struts
3 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Banking
3 4 (17.39%) Spring
3 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
3 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
3 4 (17.39%) Scrum
4 3 (13.04%) Requirements Analysis

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (21.74%) XML
2 4 (17.39%) EJB 3.0
2 4 (17.39%) XSLT
2 4 (17.39%) EJB
2 4 (17.39%) JSP
2 4 (17.39%) HTML
2 4 (17.39%) .NET
2 4 (17.39%) J2EE
2 4 (17.39%) Struts
2 4 (17.39%) Spring
2 4 (17.39%) Hibernate
3 3 (13.04%) ASP.NET
4 2 (8.696%) .NET Framework
5 1 (4.348%) WCF
5 1 (4.348%) SOAP
5 1 (4.348%) Web Services
5 1 (4.348%) soapUI
5 1 (4.348%) REST
Application Platforms
1 3 (13.04%) SharePoint
1 3 (13.04%) Umbraco
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) QlikView
2 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Selenium
2 1 (4.348%) JMeter
2 1 (4.348%) Visual Studio
2 1 (4.348%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (4.348%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 5 (21.74%) Marketing
2 4 (17.39%) Banking
2 4 (17.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Analyst
2 9 (39.13%) Developer
3 7 (30.43%) Senior Analyst
4 5 (21.74%) Database Analyst
4 5 (21.74%) Analyst Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Database Developer
4 5 (21.74%) Project Manager
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Analyst Programmer
5 4 (17.39%) Senior Programmer
5 4 (17.39%) Analyst Programmer
5 4 (17.39%) Programmer
6 3 (13.04%) .NET Developer
6 3 (13.04%) Business Analyst
7 2 (8.696%) VB.NET Developer
7 2 (8.696%) Test Analyst
7 2 (8.696%) Senior Business Analyst
8 1 (4.348%) Senior Test Analyst
8 1 (4.348%) Systems Developer
8 1 (4.348%) Functional Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Handset
1 1 (4.348%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.348%) Blackberry
1 1 (4.348%) iPhone
1 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.348%) Windows
1 1 (4.348%) Apple iOS
1 1 (4.348%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (21.74%) Risk Analysis
1 5 (21.74%) Project Management
1 5 (21.74%) CRM
1 5 (21.74%) Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Unit Testing
1 5 (21.74%) Kimball Methodology
1 5 (21.74%) Inmon Methodology
2 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (17.39%) Scrum
3 3 (13.04%) Requirements Analysis
4 2 (8.696%) Test Strategy
4 2 (8.696%) Waterfall
4 2 (8.696%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
5 1 (4.348%) TDD
5 1 (4.348%) OO
5 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.348%) SOA
5 1 (4.348%) Test Automation
5 1 (4.348%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (52.17%) SQL
2 5 (21.74%) Java
3 3 (13.04%) VB.NET
4 2 (8.696%) VB
4 2 (8.696%) VB6
5 1 (4.348%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) Degree
2 4 (17.39%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.04%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.348%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Salesforce.com
2 3 (13.04%) Oracle
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Aid the planning of integration and system testing... Expert knowledge on the latest version of the C# /.NET framework, WCF and Visual Studio/TFS. Agile/ Scrum process. The...
Net Talent
Salary: excellent benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Experience as C# developer within a Microsoft.Net environment... Experience of web development on the .Net platform, ideally with exposure to the Microsoft MVC framework, JQuery and XML.
Confused.com
Posted: 21 May 2013
Cardiff, South Glamorgan, Wales
Digital Project ManagerDigital Agency, Agile, Scrum, SharePoint, UmbracoDo you love all things digital and have a passion for web?If you are ticking the boxes then this role...
OPUS
Salary: GBP33000 to GBP36000 per annum
Posted: 27 April 2013