Test Strategy Jobs in the City of London
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy 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 City of London region.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 275 225 231
Rank change year-on-year
-50 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 42 103 105
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.360% 0.783% 0.686%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.461% 1.023% 0.909%
Number of salaries quoted 41 91 100
Average salary £55,000 £60,000 £59,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.33% +1.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £42,500 £43,400
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £85,000 £91,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 9102 10067 11556
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 77.98% 76.57% 75.46%
Number of salaries quoted 7833 9132 10306
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 £36,500
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%
Test Strategy
London

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Salary Trend

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

City of London Test Strategy Salary Trend

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Strategy across the City of London region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

City of London Test Strategy Salary Histogram

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy.

1 38 (35.85%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Banking
2 33 (31.13%) QA
3 23 (21.70%) Selenium
4 22 (20.75%) User Acceptance Testing
5 20 (18.87%) Test Management
5 20 (18.87%) Degree
5 20 (18.87%) Investment Banking
6 19 (17.92%) Test Scripting
7 18 (16.98%) Agile Software Development
8 16 (15.09%) Project Planning
9 14 (13.21%) Automated Testing
9 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
10 13 (12.26%) Performance Testing
11 12 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
11 12 (11.32%) Retail
11 12 (11.32%) Validation
11 12 (11.32%) Risk Management
11 12 (11.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
11 12 (11.32%) Project Management
11 12 (11.32%) PRINCE2
12 11 (10.38%) Java
13 10 (9.434%) C#
13 10 (9.434%) Linux
13 10 (9.434%) ISEB
14 9 (8.491%) QuickTest Pro
14 9 (8.491%) .NET
14 9 (8.491%) Regression Testing
14 9 (8.491%) Test Automation
14 9 (8.491%) Cucumber

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region citing Test Strategy 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 Test Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (8.491%) .NET
2 8 (7.547%) Gherkin
3 4 (3.774%) Web Services
3 4 (3.774%) Middleware
4 3 (2.830%) HTML
4 3 (2.830%) soapUI
5 2 (1.887%) .NET Framework
5 2 (1.887%) JSON
5 2 (1.887%) Flash
5 2 (1.887%) CSS
6 1 (0.943%) SOAP
6 1 (0.943%) COM
6 1 (0.943%) XHTML
6 1 (0.943%) XML
6 1 (0.943%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.943%) jQuery
6 1 (0.943%) Ext JS
6 1 (0.943%) HTML5
6 1 (0.943%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.943%) Spring
Application Platforms
1 4 (3.774%) Tomcat
2 2 (1.887%) ESB
Applications
1 6 (5.660%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.887%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.887%) MS Office
3 1 (0.943%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.717%) HTTP
2 3 (2.830%) SAN
3 1 (0.943%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.660%) SQL Server
2 1 (0.943%) DataStage
2 1 (0.943%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 23 (21.70%) Selenium
2 12 (11.32%) Team Foundation Server
3 9 (8.491%) Cucumber
3 9 (8.491%) QuickTest Pro
4 7 (6.604%) JMeter
5 6 (5.660%) Visual Studio
6 5 (4.717%) Eclipse
6 5 (4.717%) WebDriver
7 4 (3.774%) Hudson
7 4 (3.774%) Subversion
7 4 (3.774%) Maven
7 4 (3.774%) JIRA
8 3 (2.830%) SpecFlow
8 3 (2.830%) FitNesse
9 2 (1.887%) QADirector
9 2 (1.887%) LoadRunner
9 2 (1.887%) JUnit
10 1 (0.943%) MSTest
10 1 (0.943%) Jasmine
10 1 (0.943%) Jenkins
General
1 38 (35.85%) Finance
2 33 (31.13%) Banking
3 20 (18.87%) Investment Banking
4 12 (11.32%) Retail
5 3 (2.830%) Publishing
5 3 (2.830%) Front Office
6 1 (0.943%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.943%) Advertising
6 1 (0.943%) Financial Institution
6 1 (0.943%) Wholesale Banking
6 1 (0.943%) Retail Banking
6 1 (0.943%) International Banking
6 1 (0.943%) Marketing
6 1 (0.943%) French Language
6 1 (0.943%) German Language
6 1 (0.943%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.943%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 49 (46.23%) Test Manager
2 13 (12.26%) Team Leader
3 10 (9.434%) Tester
4 9 (8.491%) Analyst
5 7 (6.604%) Programme Manager
5 7 (6.604%) Programme Test Manager
6 6 (5.660%) Developer
6 6 (5.660%) Automation Tester
7 4 (3.774%) Test Leader
7 4 (3.774%) QA Leader
7 4 (3.774%) Test Analyst
7 4 (3.774%) Business Analyst
7 4 (3.774%) Senior Developer
7 4 (3.774%) QA Manager
7 4 (3.774%) QA Engineer
8 3 (2.830%) Development Team Leader
8 3 (2.830%) .NET Team Leader
8 3 (2.830%) QA Test Manager
8 3 (2.830%) Mobile Developer
8 3 (2.830%) QA Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 8 (7.547%) Credit Risk
2 4 (3.774%) Visualisation
2 4 (3.774%) Open Source
2 4 (3.774%) Hedge funds
3 3 (2.830%) Statistics
3 3 (2.830%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (1.887%) Computer Science
4 2 (1.887%) Mobile App
4 2 (1.887%) Client/Server
4 2 (1.887%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (1.887%) Derivative
4 2 (1.887%) Equity Derivative
5 1 (0.943%) Blackberry
5 1 (0.943%) Social Media
5 1 (0.943%) Mathematics
5 1 (0.943%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 10 (9.434%) Linux
2 8 (7.547%) Windows
3 6 (5.660%) Apple iOS
4 3 (2.830%) Android
5 2 (1.887%) Windows Phone
6 1 (0.943%) Windows 8
6 1 (0.943%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (20.75%) User Acceptance Testing
2 20 (18.87%) Test Management
3 19 (17.92%) Test Scripting
4 18 (16.98%) Agile Software Development
5 16 (15.09%) Project Planning
6 14 (13.21%) Automated Testing
7 13 (12.26%) Performance Testing
8 12 (11.32%) Validation
8 12 (11.32%) Risk Management
8 12 (11.32%) PRINCE2
8 12 (11.32%) Project Management
9 9 (8.491%) Regression Testing
9 9 (8.491%) Test Automation
9 9 (8.491%) BDD
9 9 (8.491%) Analytics
9 9 (8.491%) User Stories
10 8 (7.547%) Integration Testing
11 7 (6.604%) E-Commerce
11 7 (6.604%) Continuous Improvement
12 6 (5.660%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.38%) Java
2 10 (9.434%) C#
3 7 (6.604%) JavaScript
3 7 (6.604%) SQL
4 4 (3.774%) MATLAB
5 3 (2.830%) VB
5 3 (2.830%) C
6 2 (1.887%) VBScript
7 1 (0.943%) VBA
7 1 (0.943%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.943%) PHP
7 1 (0.943%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 20 (18.87%) Degree
2 12 (11.32%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 10 (9.434%) ISEB
4 4 (3.774%) Security Cleared
5 3 (2.830%) ISTQB
6 2 (1.887%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.943%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (31.13%) QA
System Software
1 2 (1.887%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.943%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.774%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 7 (6.604%) Reuters
2 7 (6.604%) Bloomberg
3 4 (3.774%) Citrix
3 4 (3.774%) Oracle
4 3 (2.830%) HP
5 2 (1.887%) VMware
6 1 (0.943%) Mantas
6 1 (0.943%) Actimize
6 1 (0.943%) Norkom
6 1 (0.943%) Fundtech
6 1 (0.943%) SAP
6 1 (0.943%) Remedy
Test Analyst - Automation - Proprietary Trading - Market Maker -London
City, London
Projects will include research new automated testing tools, influence testing strategy and implement testing strategy... Automated and manual testing of real-time trading applications... Expand the existing automation...
Anderson Cole Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £45,000 to £60,000 per annum Bonus and benfits package
Posted: 15 May 2013
Investment Bank - Test Manager/QA Lead - Fixed Income -eTrading
City, London
Experienced Test Manager/Lead QA with significant Investment Banking experience required for this client based in the City. This successful candidate will be responsible for defining and implementating...
Thomson Keene Associates
Salary: £90000 - £110000 per annum + competitive benefits and bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
Business Solutions Analyst
City of London
Prepare test scenarios and execute and support the user community during acceptance testing * Act as a Product Owner in Agile development process * Develop effective relationships with the user...
WorldPay
Salary: Competitive + Bens
Posted: 18 May 2013
Associate, Quality Assurance Analyst
City, London
Key words: QTP, HP Quality Centre, System/ Regression Testing, SQL, VB Script, Shell Spripting... You will have a solid degree in a computing, mathematics or finance and between...
Aston Carter
Salary: £35000 - £42000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Manager - Greenfield FX Trading Programme - £85k
City, London
Test Manager, Manual Testing, Automation, FX, Foreign Exchange, Documentation, Framework Design, QTP, VB Script, Quality Centre, Load Runner, Java. There is a new role with an Investment Bank...
Stott & May
Salary: £70000 - £85000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Test Manager - City, London
City, London
The Test Manager responsibilities will cover: Defining and agreeing test strategy at the planning stage of all projects... The Test Manager skills required: Strong exposure to working in...
Understanding Recruitment
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + 27.5 days + generous pension
Posted: 13 May 2013
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