The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Cheshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Cheshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 88 115 105
Rank change year-on-year
+27 -10
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 32 9 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 1.789% 0.467% 0.664%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.346% 0.613% 0.965%
Number of salaries quoted 32 9 11
Average salary £28,500 £30,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.00% +9.09%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,125 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-3.11% +11.15%
All Processes & Methodologies
Cheshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1364 1469 1140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Cheshire 76.24% 76.23% 68.80%
Number of salaries quoted 1042 1291 967
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.31%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
North West

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Cheshire 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 Cheshire region.

Cheshire System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing System Testing across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Cheshire System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Macclesfield -3 4 £28,500 -5.00%
Chester - 2 £37,500 -
Warrington +14 1 £55,000 +134.04%
System Testing
North West

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 28 (73.68%) Finance
1 28 (73.68%) SQL
2 26 (68.42%) SOAP
2 26 (68.42%) Web Services
2 26 (68.42%) Unit Testing
3 24 (63.16%) Java
3 24 (63.16%) Oracle
4 23 (60.53%) WebSphere
4 23 (60.53%) Ajax
5 21 (55.26%) Spring
5 21 (55.26%) Java EE
5 21 (55.26%) Apache Axis
5 21 (55.26%) CSS
5 21 (55.26%) JavaScript
5 21 (55.26%) PL/SQL
5 21 (55.26%) Servlets
5 21 (55.26%) Apache
5 21 (55.26%) WSDL
5 21 (55.26%) JAX-RPC
5 21 (55.26%) Legal
5 21 (55.26%) Hibernate
5 21 (55.26%) Agile Software Development
6 19 (50.00%) Data Management
7 15 (39.47%) XML
8 14 (36.84%) HTML
9 13 (34.21%) JSF
10 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
10 12 (31.58%) C#
10 12 (31.58%) .NET
10 12 (31.58%) ASP.NET

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 26 (68.42%) SOAP
1 26 (68.42%) Web Services
2 23 (60.53%) Ajax
2 23 (60.53%) WebSphere
3 21 (55.26%) Java EE
3 21 (55.26%) Apache Axis
3 21 (55.26%) CSS
3 21 (55.26%) WSDL
3 21 (55.26%) JAX-RPC
3 21 (55.26%) Servlets
3 21 (55.26%) Hibernate
3 21 (55.26%) Spring
4 15 (39.47%) XML
5 14 (36.84%) HTML
6 13 (34.21%) JSF
7 12 (31.58%) ASP.NET
7 12 (31.58%) .NET
8 10 (26.32%) JSP
8 10 (26.32%) XSLT
9 7 (18.42%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 21 (55.26%) Apache
2 2 (5.263%) WebSphere MQ
2 2 (5.263%) Oracle Workflow
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (28.95%) SQL Server
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server 2005
2 5 (13.16%) SQL Server 2008
2 5 (13.16%) MySQL
3 4 (10.53%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (10.53%) OLTP
4 2 (5.263%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (15.79%) Team Foundation Server
2 5 (13.16%) Visual Studio
2 5 (13.16%) Subversion
General
1 28 (73.68%) Finance
2 21 (55.26%) Legal
3 2 (5.263%) Banking
Job Titles
1 29 (76.32%) Developer
2 21 (55.26%) Java Developer
3 8 (21.05%) .NET Developer
3 8 (21.05%) C# Developer
3 8 (21.05%) ASP.NET Developer
3 8 (21.05%) C# ASP.NET Developer
3 8 (21.05%) C# .NET Developer
4 6 (15.79%) Tester
5 5 (13.16%) Software Developer
5 5 (13.16%) .NET Software Developer
5 5 (13.16%) C# Software Developer
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Software Tester
6 4 (10.53%) Senior Tester
6 4 (10.53%) Software Tester
7 2 (5.263%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Architect
7 2 (5.263%) Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) SQL Developer
7 2 (5.263%) Credit Analyst
7 2 (5.263%) Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (28.95%) Web 2.0
2 5 (13.16%) Data Integration
3 4 (10.53%) Computer Science
4 2 (5.263%) Credit Risk
4 2 (5.263%) IBM Mainframe
4 2 (5.263%) Mainframe
4 2 (5.263%) Management Information System
4 2 (5.263%) Tandem
4 2 (5.263%) Cryptography
4 2 (5.263%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Windows Server 2003
3 2 (5.263%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (68.42%) Unit Testing
2 21 (55.26%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (50.00%) Data Management
4 12 (31.58%) Software Engineering
5 5 (13.16%) Requirements Analysis
5 5 (13.16%) Web Testing
6 4 (10.53%) Software Testing
7 3 (7.895%) Risk Management
7 3 (7.895%) Test Strategy
8 2 (5.263%) MVC
8 2 (5.263%) Workflow
8 2 (5.263%) E-Commerce
8 2 (5.263%) Project Management
8 2 (5.263%) Service Delivery
8 2 (5.263%) Data Analysis
8 2 (5.263%) Supply Chain Management
9 1 (2.632%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (2.632%) Integration Testing
9 1 (2.632%) Regression Testing
9 1 (2.632%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 28 (73.68%) SQL
2 24 (63.16%) Java
3 21 (55.26%) JavaScript
3 21 (55.26%) PL/SQL
4 12 (31.58%) C#
5 10 (26.32%) XPath
6 4 (10.53%) VB.NET
7 3 (7.895%) C++
8 2 (5.263%) COBOL
9 1 (2.632%) VC++
9 1 (2.632%) C
Qualifications
1 5 (13.16%) ISEB
2 4 (10.53%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (2.632%) QA
Vendors
1 24 (63.16%) Oracle
2 5 (13.16%) Microsoft
2 5 (13.16%) Sencha
3 2 (5.263%) Pega
3 2 (5.263%) IBM
Macclesfield, North West
ASP.NET C# Software Developer - ASP.NET / C# / SQL / Macclesfield £25-32K.Our client based in Macclesfield is currently looking for a skilled ASP.NET C# Software Developer.
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 May 2013
Macclesfield, Cheshire
Skills Required *Experience with C#, ASP.NET and Microsoft Visual Studio 2010/ 2012. *Experience of designing, building and maintaining SQL Server 2005/2008 R2/MySQL databases. *Experience of...
Adria Solutions Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Cheshire
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: * Java (Java EE preferred) * Experience in web service development using JAXRPC, WSDL, SOAP, Apache AXIS, Websphere * Experience of...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 14 May 2013
Cheshire
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: * Java (Java EE) and JSF * Experience in web service development using JAXRPC, WSDL, SOAP, Apache AXIS, Websphere * Experience...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £25000 - £32000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INSURANCE,PENSION
Posted: 14 May 2013