The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 195 255 172
Rank change year-on-year
+60 -83
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 127 78 169
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 1.082% 0.588% 1.114%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.390% 0.768% 1.475%
Number of salaries quoted 118 77 152
Average salary £45,000 £52,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +40.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £82,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,250 £33,000
% change year-on-year
-0.70% +6.81%
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
9137 10161 11456
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.83% 76.57% 75.50%
Number of salaries quoted 7848 9214 10259
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 £36,000 £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%
System Testing
London

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London 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 City of London region.

City of London System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing System Testing across the City of London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

City of London System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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.

1 126 (57.80%) Finance
2 110 (50.46%) SQL
3 92 (42.20%) C#
4 91 (41.74%) Unit Testing
5 90 (41.28%) Banking
6 89 (40.83%) Oracle
7 88 (40.37%) SQL Server
8 80 (36.70%) .NET
9 67 (30.73%) Agile Software Development
10 60 (27.52%) Software Testing
10 60 (27.52%) Microsoft
11 55 (25.23%) User Acceptance Testing
12 53 (24.31%) Java
13 52 (23.85%) QA
14 49 (22.48%) MS Excel
15 47 (21.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
16 46 (21.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
17 45 (20.64%) Investment Banking
18 42 (19.27%) Team Foundation Server
19 40 (18.35%) Visual Studio
20 37 (16.97%) Data Management
20 37 (16.97%) Legal
21 36 (16.51%) SharePoint
22 35 (16.06%) PL/SQL
22 35 (16.06%) VBA
22 35 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
22 35 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
23 33 (15.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
24 32 (14.68%) ISEB
25 31 (14.22%) UNIX

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 80 (36.70%) .NET
2 30 (13.76%) WinForms
3 28 (12.84%) MDX
4 26 (11.93%) Hibernate
5 22 (10.09%) ASP.NET
6 20 (9.174%) Spring
6 20 (9.174%) Web Services
7 19 (8.716%) WPF
8 18 (8.257%) XML
9 12 (5.505%) SOAP
9 12 (5.505%) J2EE
10 10 (4.587%) WebSphere
10 10 (4.587%) HTML
11 8 (3.670%) .NET Framework
12 7 (3.211%) WCF
12 7 (3.211%) Swing
12 7 (3.211%) CSS
13 6 (2.752%) EJB
13 6 (2.752%) J2SE
13 6 (2.752%) EJB 3.0
Application Platforms
1 36 (16.51%) SharePoint
2 12 (5.505%) Apache
3 6 (2.752%) WebLogic
4 4 (1.835%) WebSphere MQ
5 1 (0.459%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 49 (22.48%) MS Excel
2 14 (6.422%) MS Office
3 12 (5.505%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.128%) Oracle ERP
2 8 (3.670%) Temenos T24
3 3 (1.376%) SAP HR
4 2 (0.917%) Front Arena
4 2 (0.917%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.917%) Monis
4 2 (0.917%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.917%) Bloomberg TOMS
5 1 (0.459%) Temenos Globus
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.376%) TCP/IP
2 2 (0.917%) SMTP
3 1 (0.459%) VPN
3 1 (0.459%) FTP
3 1 (0.459%) HTTP
3 1 (0.459%) IKE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (40.37%) SQL Server
2 47 (21.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 46 (21.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 33 (15.14%) SQL Server Analysis Services
5 21 (9.633%) MS Access
6 18 (8.257%) SQL Server 2008
7 17 (7.798%) RDBMS
8 16 (7.339%) PerformancePoint
9 11 (5.046%) SQL Server 2005
10 8 (3.670%) Oracle 8/8i
10 8 (3.670%) Ingres
11 7 (3.211%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (1.835%) DB2
12 4 (1.835%) Informix
12 4 (1.835%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (1.835%) Cognos Powerplay
13 3 (1.376%) SQL Server 2000
13 3 (1.376%) TOAD
13 3 (1.376%) SQLPlus
13 3 (1.376%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 42 (19.27%) Team Foundation Server
2 40 (18.35%) Visual Studio
3 26 (11.93%) Selenium
4 25 (11.47%) Eclipse
5 16 (7.339%) QuickTest Pro
6 11 (5.046%) Visual Studio Tools for Office
7 9 (4.128%) Oracle Forms
8 6 (2.752%) JMeter
8 6 (2.752%) Ant
8 6 (2.752%) WebDriver
8 6 (2.752%) Cucumber
9 4 (1.835%) LoadRunner
10 3 (1.376%) JIRA
10 3 (1.376%) Sahi
10 3 (1.376%) NUnit
10 3 (1.376%) Subversion
11 2 (0.917%) MSI
11 2 (0.917%) TestDirector
12 1 (0.459%) Bugzilla
General
1 126 (57.80%) Finance
2 90 (41.28%) Banking
3 45 (20.64%) Investment Banking
4 37 (16.97%) Legal
5 14 (6.422%) Front Office
6 6 (2.752%) Games
6 6 (2.752%) Advertising
6 6 (2.752%) Publishing
7 4 (1.835%) Retail
8 2 (0.917%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 118 (54.13%) Developer
2 30 (13.76%) Analyst
3 29 (13.30%) C# Developer
4 26 (11.93%) Java Developer
5 19 (8.716%) Front-End Developer
6 17 (7.798%) Business Intelligence Developer
7 16 (7.339%) Test Leader
7 16 (7.339%) Business Developer
7 16 (7.339%) Test Analyst
8 15 (6.881%) Tester
9 13 (5.963%) Consultant
9 13 (5.963%) QA Leader
10 12 (5.505%) Senior Developer
11 11 (5.046%) Test Engineer
11 11 (5.046%) Access Developer
11 11 (5.046%) Excel Developer
12 8 (3.670%) Test Manager
12 8 (3.670%) C# .NET Developer
13 7 (3.211%) Applications Consultant
13 7 (3.211%) IT Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 16 (7.339%) Equities
2 13 (5.963%) Client/Server
2 13 (5.963%) Mobile App
3 7 (3.211%) Data Conversion
3 7 (3.211%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.752%) Online Games
5 5 (2.294%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.835%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 4 (1.835%) Visualisation
7 3 (1.376%) iPad
7 3 (1.376%) SWIFT
7 3 (1.376%) Computer Science
7 3 (1.376%) Derivative
8 2 (0.917%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 2 (0.917%) Mathematics
8 2 (0.917%) Psychology
8 2 (0.917%) Market Risk
9 1 (0.459%) Swaptions
9 1 (0.459%) Credit Risk
9 1 (0.459%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 31 (14.22%) UNIX
2 25 (11.47%) Windows
3 16 (7.339%) Linux
4 6 (2.752%) Android
5 4 (1.835%) Windows XP
5 4 (1.835%) Windows 7
6 3 (1.376%) Apple iOS
7 2 (0.917%) Windows Vista
7 2 (0.917%) Windows Server 2003
7 2 (0.917%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (41.74%) Unit Testing
2 67 (30.73%) Agile Software Development
3 60 (27.52%) Software Testing
4 55 (25.23%) User Acceptance Testing
5 37 (16.97%) Data Management
6 35 (16.06%) Business Intelligence
6 35 (16.06%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (12.84%) Analytics
8 27 (12.39%) Data Analytics
9 23 (10.55%) Test Scripting
10 21 (9.633%) Service Delivery
11 17 (7.798%) Project Management
11 17 (7.798%) Multithreading
12 16 (7.339%) OO
13 14 (6.422%) Regression Testing
14 13 (5.963%) Test Automation
14 13 (5.963%) Automation Testing
15 11 (5.046%) Automated Testing
16 10 (4.587%) ETL
17 9 (4.128%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 110 (50.46%) SQL
2 92 (42.20%) C#
3 53 (24.31%) Java
4 35 (16.06%) PL/SQL
4 35 (16.06%) VBA
5 16 (7.339%) VB.NET
6 12 (5.505%) VB
7 9 (4.128%) C++
8 8 (3.670%) VB6
8 8 (3.670%) JavaScript
9 6 (2.752%) T-SQL
9 6 (2.752%) PowerShell
10 5 (2.294%) Python
11 4 (1.835%) Perl
11 4 (1.835%) MATLAB
11 4 (1.835%) Shell Script
12 3 (1.376%) C
13 2 (0.917%) Ruby
13 2 (0.917%) VBScript
14 1 (0.459%) Lua
Qualifications
1 32 (14.68%) ISEB
2 24 (11.01%) ISTQB
3 18 (8.257%) Degree
4 5 (2.294%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (0.917%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (23.85%) QA
2 2 (0.917%) COBIT
2 2 (0.917%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (1.835%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.376%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.917%) Microsoft App-V
3 2 (0.917%) Cronacle
4 1 (0.459%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 2 (0.917%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.459%) SCCM
2 1 (0.459%) Sysprep
Vendors
1 89 (40.83%) Oracle
2 60 (27.52%) Microsoft
3 13 (5.963%) Bloomberg
4 11 (5.046%) Reuters
5 10 (4.587%) SAP
6 8 (3.670%) IBM
7 6 (2.752%) Telerik
7 6 (2.752%) JBoss
7 6 (2.752%) HP
7 6 (2.752%) BEA
8 5 (2.294%) Sybase
9 4 (1.835%) MKS
9 4 (1.835%) Cognos
9 4 (1.835%) Mercator
9 4 (1.835%) Informatica
10 3 (1.376%) Temenos
10 3 (1.376%) jBASE
10 3 (1.376%) VMware
11 2 (0.917%) AppSense
11 2 (0.917%) GoldenSource
City of London
I am currently recruiting for a Test Analyst. This position is based in the heart of the City in London and is for a global leading software house... *...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City of London
I am currently recruiting for a Test Analyst. This position is based in the heart of the City in London and is for a global leading software house... *...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 15 May 2013
City, London
Work closely with the QA team and support the system testing. * Produce documented & tested software for delivery to the QA team * Participate in design and code reviews Experience...
Aston Carter
Salary: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Be part of a large agile development team... Develop/build Real Time derivatives trading solutions... The Java Developer will need to have: A degree (2.i or above)...
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £55,000 to £70,000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits Package
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: *Proven C# skills *Experience in .Net *Basic knowledge of Winforms *WPF *Proficiency in PL/SQL, SQL *Unix Scripting *...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INS,PENSION
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
Ideally you will have experience of most of the following: *Proven C# skills *Experience in .Net *Basic knowledge of Winforms *WPF *Proficiency in PL/SQL, SQL *Unix Scripting *...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + BONUS,LIFE INS,PENSION
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
This is an opportunity to leverage your existing java knowledge and experience to become involved in the enhancement and continuous improvement of a high performance low latency front...
Hatstand Limited
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 16 May 2013
City, London
You will work in predominately server side development and is based upon standard J2EE technologies, with applications deployed into Jboss and BEA WebLogic application servers... Skills required Java...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 55,000
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
The chosen Oracle BI Systems Analyst ( reports, schema, DWH, ETL, OBIEE, OBIA ) would play a lead role within the team, responsible for maintaining and enhancing the Oracle BI...
Real Staffing
Salary: £52000 - £60000 per annum + benefits & pension
Posted: 22 May 2013