The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 City of London region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 300 306 297
Rank change year-on-year
+6 -9
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 20 22 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.172% 0.168% 0.192%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.221% 0.220% 0.255%
Number of salaries quoted 20 21 28
Average salary £50,000 £52,500 £44,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% +18.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £42,500 £36,750
10% offered a salary of more than £55,250 £60,000 £50,750
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% +2.73%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9031 10009 11787
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.86% 76.60% 75.45%
Number of salaries quoted 7748 9078 10549
Average salary £55,000 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.34% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £37,500 £36,300 £37,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Testing
London

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Load Testing across the City of London region.

City of London Load Testing Salary Trend

Load Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

City of London Load Testing Salary Histogram

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 24 (43.64%) QA
2 23 (41.82%) Agile Software Development
3 19 (34.55%) Scrum
3 19 (34.55%) Continuous Integration
4 18 (32.73%) Finance
5 17 (30.91%) C#
5 17 (30.91%) Linux
6 16 (29.09%) Configuration Management
7 14 (25.45%) SQL
7 14 (25.45%) .NET
7 14 (25.45%) Performance Testing
8 13 (23.64%) Automated Testing
9 12 (21.82%) Selenium
9 12 (21.82%) Puppet
10 11 (20.00%) Automation Testing
11 10 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 10 (18.18%) ZABBIX
11 10 (18.18%) Fedora
11 10 (18.18%) Nagios
11 10 (18.18%) Ubuntu
11 10 (18.18%) Maven
11 10 (18.18%) Ant
11 10 (18.18%) UNIX
11 10 (18.18%) VMS
12 9 (16.36%) LoadRunner
12 9 (16.36%) HP
12 9 (16.36%) HTML
12 9 (16.36%) Test Scripting
13 8 (14.55%) JMeter
13 8 (14.55%) Regression Testing

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 14 (25.45%) .NET
2 9 (16.36%) HTML
3 8 (14.55%) XML
4 6 (10.91%) Web Services
5 5 (9.091%) CSS
6 3 (5.455%) ASP.NET
7 2 (3.636%) Ajax
8 1 (1.818%) JMX
8 1 (1.818%) XHTML
8 1 (1.818%) SOAP
8 1 (1.818%) DHTML
8 1 (1.818%) J2EE
8 1 (1.818%) .NET Framework
8 1 (1.818%) ASP.NET MVC
8 1 (1.818%) soapUI
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.091%) IIS
2 2 (3.636%) Apache
3 1 (1.818%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.818%) nginx
3 1 (1.818%) Drupal
3 1 (1.818%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (3.636%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.91%) Firewall
2 5 (9.091%) Cisco ASA
2 5 (9.091%) Network Security
2 5 (9.091%) Wireshark
2 5 (9.091%) NetScaler
3 2 (3.636%) Internet
3 2 (3.636%) HTTP
4 1 (1.818%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.818%) DNS
4 1 (1.818%) SSL
4 1 (1.818%) Reverse Proxy
4 1 (1.818%) OpenVPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (14.55%) SQL Server
2 6 (10.91%) SQL Server 2008
3 5 (9.091%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.636%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.818%) TOAD
5 1 (1.818%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.818%) MySQL
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (1.818%) SQL Server 2012
5 1 (1.818%) MarkLogic
Development Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Selenium
2 10 (18.18%) Maven
2 10 (18.18%) Ant
3 9 (16.36%) LoadRunner
4 8 (14.55%) JMeter
5 7 (12.73%) WebDriver
6 6 (10.91%) Cucumber
6 6 (10.91%) QuickTest Pro
7 5 (9.091%) Visual Studio
7 5 (9.091%) NUnit
8 2 (3.636%) Team Foundation Server
8 2 (3.636%) Robotium
8 2 (3.636%) CruiseControl
8 2 (3.636%) Xcode
9 1 (1.818%) TestDirector
9 1 (1.818%) JUnit
9 1 (1.818%) ReSharper
9 1 (1.818%) Subversion
9 1 (1.818%) TeamCity
9 1 (1.818%) Git (software)
General
1 18 (32.73%) Finance
2 6 (10.91%) Advertising
3 1 (1.818%) Legal
3 1 (1.818%) Publishing
3 1 (1.818%) Games
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Test Engineer
2 11 (20.00%) DevOps Engineer
3 10 (18.18%) Analyst
4 9 (16.36%) Test Analyst
5 8 (14.55%) Performance Engineer
6 7 (12.73%) Tester
6 7 (12.73%) Performance Manager
7 6 (10.91%) QA Engineer
8 5 (9.091%) Developer
8 5 (9.091%) Performance Tester
8 5 (9.091%) Network Support
9 4 (7.273%) Performance Test Engineer
9 4 (7.273%) Senior Performance Tester
9 4 (7.273%) Senior Tester
9 4 (7.273%) Senior Manager
10 3 (5.455%) Test Manager
10 3 (5.455%) Support Specialist
10 3 (5.455%) Security Specialist
10 3 (5.455%) Network Support Specialist
10 3 (5.455%) Network Security Specialist
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.091%) Open Source
2 4 (7.273%) Computer Science
3 3 (5.455%) iPad
4 1 (1.818%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.818%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.818%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 17 (30.91%) Linux
2 10 (18.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 10 (18.18%) Fedora
2 10 (18.18%) Ubuntu
2 10 (18.18%) UNIX
2 10 (18.18%) VMS
3 6 (10.91%) Windows
4 5 (9.091%) Windows Server 2008
5 4 (7.273%) Windows Server 2003
6 3 (5.455%) Android
7 1 (1.818%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.818%) CentOS
7 1 (1.818%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (41.82%) Agile Software Development
2 19 (34.55%) Scrum
2 19 (34.55%) Continuous Integration
3 16 (29.09%) Configuration Management
4 14 (25.45%) Performance Testing
5 13 (23.64%) Automated Testing
6 11 (20.00%) Automation Testing
7 9 (16.36%) Test Scripting
8 8 (14.55%) Regression Testing
9 6 (10.91%) Unit Testing
9 6 (10.91%) Integration Testing
9 6 (10.91%) Test Automation
9 6 (10.91%) System Testing
10 5 (9.091%) Penetration Testing
10 5 (9.091%) Knowledge Management
10 5 (9.091%) Software Testing
10 5 (9.091%) Change Control
10 5 (9.091%) Network Management
11 4 (7.273%) User Acceptance Testing
12 3 (5.455%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) C#
2 14 (25.45%) SQL
3 6 (10.91%) JavaScript
4 5 (9.091%) Java
5 3 (5.455%) C
6 2 (3.636%) Bash shell
6 2 (3.636%) Ruby
6 2 (3.636%) VB
6 2 (3.636%) PHP
7 1 (1.818%) Python
7 1 (1.818%) T-SQL
7 1 (1.818%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) ISEB
2 5 (9.091%) Degree
3 4 (7.273%) ISTQB
4 2 (3.636%) CCNA
4 2 (3.636%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.818%) CCNP
5 1 (1.818%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 24 (43.64%) QA
2 5 (9.091%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.818%) NFS
1 1 (1.818%) Postfix
1 1 (1.818%) Varnish
1 1 (1.818%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 12 (21.82%) Puppet
2 10 (18.18%) ZABBIX
2 10 (18.18%) Nagios
3 1 (1.818%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (16.36%) HP
2 8 (14.55%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.091%) Citrix
3 5 (9.091%) Dell
3 5 (9.091%) CheckPoint
3 5 (9.091%) Cisco
3 5 (9.091%) Riverbed
4 2 (3.636%) Oracle
5 1 (1.818%) Red Hat
5 1 (1.818%) JBoss