The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Tester role 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 Technical Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Tester
Rank 314 301 332
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +31
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Tester 9 22 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.075% 0.167% 0.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.081% 0.179% 0.027%
Number of salaries quoted 9 22 4
Average salary £60,000 £57,500 £44,875
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.34% +28.13%
90% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £37,650 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £57,500 £70,125
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-2.85% -
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
11163 12316 14730
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.96% 93.51% 93.29%
Number of salaries quoted 9631 11241 13261
Average salary £52,500 £53,000 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-0.94% -3.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £77,500 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Technical Tester
London

Technical Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Tester across the City of London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

City of London Technical Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Trend

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

City of London Technical Tester Salary Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Tester across the City of London region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

City of London Technical Tester Salary Histogram

Technical Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical Tester in their job title 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 with Technical Tester in their job title.

1 22 (91.67%) SQL
2 21 (87.50%) Java
2 21 (87.50%) UNIX
3 15 (62.50%) Finance
4 14 (58.33%) NUnit
4 14 (58.33%) C#
4 14 (58.33%) Python
4 14 (58.33%) QuickTest Pro
4 14 (58.33%) Selenium
5 13 (54.17%) Test Automation
5 13 (54.17%) ISEB
5 13 (54.17%) Rational Robot
5 13 (54.17%) JUnit
5 13 (54.17%) Ruby
6 12 (50.00%) Linux
6 12 (50.00%) Perl
6 12 (50.00%) Oracle
6 12 (50.00%) TestComplete
6 12 (50.00%) WebDriver
7 11 (45.83%) WebLOAD
7 11 (45.83%) Degree
7 11 (45.83%) PL/SQL
7 11 (45.83%) LoadRunner
7 11 (45.83%) Scrum
8 9 (37.50%) Financial Institution
8 9 (37.50%) RDBMS
8 9 (37.50%) WinRunner
8 9 (37.50%) VBScript
8 9 (37.50%) Solaris
8 9 (37.50%) ISTQB

Technical Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited Technical Tester in their job title 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 with Technical Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (12.50%) XML
1 3 (12.50%) J2EE
1 3 (12.50%) Hibernate
1 3 (12.50%) Spring
1 3 (12.50%) JSF
2 1 (4.167%) ICEfaces
2 1 (4.167%) COM
Application Platforms
1 3 (12.50%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (12.50%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.167%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 4 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (8.333%) HTTPS
3 1 (4.167%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (37.50%) RDBMS
2 2 (8.333%) SQL Server
3 1 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 14 (58.33%) NUnit
1 14 (58.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 14 (58.33%) Selenium
2 13 (54.17%) Rational Robot
2 13 (54.17%) JUnit
3 12 (50.00%) TestComplete
3 12 (50.00%) WebDriver
4 11 (45.83%) WebLOAD
4 11 (45.83%) LoadRunner
5 9 (37.50%) WinRunner
6 4 (16.67%) Cucumber
7 3 (12.50%) ClearQuest
7 3 (12.50%) JMeter
7 3 (12.50%) Bugzilla
8 2 (8.333%) Hudson
8 2 (8.333%) Jenkins
8 2 (8.333%) JBehave
9 1 (4.167%) TestNG
9 1 (4.167%) Trac
9 1 (4.167%) Subversion
General
1 15 (62.50%) Finance
2 9 (37.50%) Financial Institution
3 5 (20.83%) Investment Banking
3 5 (20.83%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (16.67%) SaaS
2 2 (8.333%) iPad
2 2 (8.333%) Cloud Computing
3 1 (4.167%) Computer Science
3 1 (4.167%) Open Source
3 1 (4.167%) Hedge funds
3 1 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (4.167%) Fixed Income
3 1 (4.167%) Equities
3 1 (4.167%) Derivative
Operating Systems
1 21 (87.50%) UNIX
2 12 (50.00%) Linux
3 9 (37.50%) Solaris
4 3 (12.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (54.17%) Test Automation
2 11 (45.83%) Scrum
3 4 (16.67%) Workflow
3 4 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 4 (16.67%) TDD
4 3 (12.50%) Data Migration
4 3 (12.50%) BDD
4 3 (12.50%) Waterfall
4 3 (12.50%) MVC
4 3 (12.50%) Migration
4 3 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (12.50%) Automated Testing
5 2 (8.333%) OO
5 2 (8.333%) Performance Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Integration Testing
5 2 (8.333%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (4.167%) Manual Testing
6 1 (4.167%) Computer Architecture
Programming Languages
1 22 (91.67%) SQL
2 21 (87.50%) Java
3 14 (58.33%) C#
3 14 (58.33%) Python
4 13 (54.17%) Ruby
5 12 (50.00%) Perl
6 11 (45.83%) PL/SQL
7 9 (37.50%) VBScript
8 6 (25.00%) Shell Script
9 5 (20.83%) Korn
10 1 (4.167%) F#
10 1 (4.167%) Tcl
10 1 (4.167%) C++
Qualifications
1 13 (54.17%) ISEB
2 11 (45.83%) Degree
3 9 (37.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.333%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (8.333%) VMware
3 1 (4.167%) Microsoft
City, London
Jmeter, Selenium Webdriver, BDD, Automation,Selenium, BDD, Automation, Selenium, BDD, Automation, Selenium, BDD, Automation, Selenium, BDD, Automation, Selenium, BDD, Automation , QTP, TDD, Selenium, Opensource, Jmeter, Cucumber, Technical, Webdriver.
Vertical IT
Salary: £50000 - £67500 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013