Chester Automated Testing Jobs

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

Automated Testing
Location Aberdeen Amersham Aylesbury Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorchester Dorking Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Elland England Exeter Fareham Farnborough Ferndown Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Greenock Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lymm Manchester Mayfield Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newmarket Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stowmarket Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Torfaen Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Worcester Worcestershire Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	57
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.796 %
Salaries quoted	0	3
Average minimum salary	-	£32,667
Average salary	-	£33,333
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£34,000
UK excluding London average salary	£34,446	£33,958
% change on same period last year	+1.43 %
Processes & Methodologies Chester
Matching permanent IT job ads	238	377
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.126 %	0.154 %
Salaries quoted	220	347
Average minimum salary	£34,262	£32,974
Average salary	£36,494	£35,518
% change on same period last year	+2.74 %
Average maximum salary	£38,726	£38,061
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Automated Testing Cheshire

Automated Testing
Demand Trend

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

Automated Testing
Salary Trend

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

Automated Testing
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing.

1 2 (66.67 %) Health 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 1 2 (66.67 %) Banking 1 2 (66.67 %) Retail 1 2 (66.67 %) Pensions 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 2 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse 2 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 2 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (33.33 %) DNS 2 1 (33.33 %) ISEB

2 1 (33.33 %) Commerce Server 2 1 (33.33 %) Internet 2 1 (33.33 %) Scrum 2 1 (33.33 %) Firewall

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Chester region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 1 (33.33 %) SharePoint 1 1 (33.33 %) Commerce Server	Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) HTTP 1 1 (33.33 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (33.33 %) DNS 1 1 (33.33 %) Internet 1 1 (33.33 %) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (33.33 %) Datawarehouse	General 1 2 (66.67 %) Health 1 2 (66.67 %) Banking 1 2 (66.67 %) Retail 1 2 (66.67 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) Business Analyst 2 2 (66.67 %) IT Business Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Tester 3 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Analyst 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Tester 3 1 (33.33 %) Systems Test Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) UML 2 1 (33.33 %) Scrum 2 1 (33.33 %) Content Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Security Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) ISEB