Cheshire Software Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Cheshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	81	87
Rank change on same period last year	+6
Matching permanent IT job ads	68	56
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.023 %
As % of the category below	3.233 %	3.003 %
Salaries quoted	57	45
Average minimum salary	£32,018	£27,191
Average salary	£35,026	£29,277
% change on same period last year	+19.63 %
Average maximum salary	£38,035	£31,362
UK excluding London average salary	£34,409	£33,204
% change on same period last year	+3.63 %
Processes & Methodologies Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2103	1865
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.110 %	0.764 %
Salaries quoted	1948	1670
Average minimum salary	£36,669	£36,058
Average salary	£40,680	£39,045
% change on same period last year	+4.18 %
Average maximum salary	£44,691	£42,031
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Cheshire region.

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Warrington	-4	34	£35,076	+17.17 %
Runcorn	-	12	£37,042	-
Chester	+1	5	£37,600	+29.90 %
Knutsford	-	3	£27,833	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 71 (57.72 %) Citrix 1 71 (57.72 %) Windows 2 60 (48.78 %) SQL 3 50 (40.65 %) Terminal Server 4 37 (30.08 %) Automated Testing 5 35 (28.46 %) Degree 6 34 (27.64 %) VB 7 29 (23.58 %) Perl 8 24 (19.51 %) C# 8 24 (19.51 %) SQL Server 9 22 (17.89 %) ISEB 10 16 (13.01 %) Performance Testing 11 14 (11.38 %) QA 11 14 (11.38 %) Microsoft 11 14 (11.38 %) Security Cleared

12 13 (10.57 %) Test Management 12 13 (10.57 %) Pensions 13 12 (9.756 %) Test Scripting 13 12 (9.756 %) Health 14 11 (8.943 %) WebServices 15 10 (8.130 %) .NET 15 10 (8.130 %) VBScript 15 10 (8.130 %) UML 15 10 (8.130 %) SSADM 15 10 (8.130 %) DSDM 15 10 (8.130 %) Finance 15 10 (8.130 %) Manual Testing 15 10 (8.130 %) DV Cleared 16 9 (7.317 %) Regression Testing 17 7 (5.691 %) BT

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 11 (8.943 %) WebServices 2 10 (8.130 %) .NET 3 3 (2.439 %) J2EE 4 2 (1.626 %) XML 4 2 (1.626 %) AJAX 4 2 (1.626 %) HTML 5 1 (0.813 %) ASP.NET	Application Platforms 1 1 (0.813 %) SharePoint 1 1 (0.813 %) Commerce Server
Applications 1 4 (3.252 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 2 (1.626 %) Internet 2 1 (0.813 %) Firewall 2 1 (0.813 %) HTTP 2 1 (0.813 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (0.813 %) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 24 (19.51 %) SQL Server 2 3 (2.439 %) SQL Server 2000 3 2 (1.626 %) SQL Server 2005 3 2 (1.626 %) SQL Server Integration Services 3 2 (1.626 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (1.626 %) DTS 4 1 (0.813 %) Datawarehouse	Development Applications 1 4 (3.252 %) TestDirector 2 3 (2.439 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (2.439 %) WinRunner 3 1 (0.813 %) QARun
General 1 13 (10.57 %) Pensions 2 12 (9.756 %) Health 3 10 (8.130 %) Finance 4 4 (3.252 %) Legal 5 3 (2.439 %) Retail 6 2 (1.626 %) Banking 7 1 (0.813 %) Investment Banking 7 1 (0.813 %) Insurance 7 1 (0.813 %) Law 7 1 (0.813 %) Pharmaceutical 7 1 (0.813 %) Telecoms 7 1 (0.813 %) Retail Banking	Job Titles 1 72 (58.54 %) Tester 2 42 (34.15 %) Software Tester 3 41 (33.33 %) Analyst 4 37 (30.08 %) Test Analyst 5 19 (15.45 %) Team Leader 6 18 (14.63 %) Software Team Leader 7 9 (7.317 %) Test Manager 8 8 (6.504 %) Senior Test Analyst 8 8 (6.504 %) Senior Analyst 9 7 (5.691 %) Senior Tester 9 7 (5.691 %) Systems Administrator 9 7 (5.691 %) 3rd Line Support 9 7 (5.691 %) Administrator 10 6 (4.878 %) Developer 11 5 (4.065 %) Quality Engineer 11 5 (4.065 %) Test Team Leader 12 4 (3.252 %) Junior 12 4 (3.252 %) Junior Tester 13 3 (2.439 %) Software Test Analyst 13 3 (2.439 %) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous 1 2 (1.626 %) Replication 2 1 (0.813 %) Statistics 2 1 (0.813 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.813 %) DTV	Operating Systems 1 71 (57.72 %) Windows 2 1 (0.813 %) Windows NT
Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (30.08 %) Automated Testing 2 16 (13.01 %) Performance Testing 3 14 (11.38 %) Security Cleared 4 13 (10.57 %) Test Management 5 12 (9.756 %) Test Scripting 6 10 (8.130 %) Manual Testing 6 10 (8.130 %) UML 6 10 (8.130 %) SSADM 6 10 (8.130 %) DSDM 6 10 (8.130 %) DV Cleared 7 9 (7.317 %) Regression Testing 8 4 (3.252 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (2.439 %) Risk Management 9 3 (2.439 %) Project Planning 10 2 (1.626 %) Web Development 10 2 (1.626 %) Business Analysis 10 2 (1.626 %) Scrum 11 1 (0.813 %) Content Management 11 1 (0.813 %) E-Commerce 11 1 (0.813 %) Business Development	Programming Languages 1 60 (48.78 %) SQL 2 34 (27.64 %) VB 3 29 (23.58 %) Perl 4 24 (19.51 %) C# 5 10 (8.130 %) VBScript 6 7 (5.691 %) C 6 7 (5.691 %) VB.NET 7 6 (4.878 %) C++ 7 6 (4.878 %) Java 8 2 (1.626 %) VB6 8 2 (1.626 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 35 (28.46 %) Degree 2 22 (17.89 %) ISEB 3 6 (4.878 %) HND 4 3 (2.439 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 3 (2.439 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (11.38 %) QA
System Software 1 50 (40.65 %) Terminal Server 2 7 (5.691 %) MetaFrame 3 1 (0.813 %) VMware Infrastructure	Vendors 1 71 (57.72 %) Citrix 2 14 (11.38 %) Microsoft 3 7 (5.691 %) BT 3 7 (5.691 %) HP 4 3 (2.439 %) BEA 5 1 (0.813 %) Compuware 5 1 (0.813 %) VMware