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

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the City of London region.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 219 191 186
Rank change year-on-year
-28 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 99 140 157
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.848% 1.065% 1.025%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.914% 1.144% 1.096%
Number of salaries quoted 92 135 144
Average salary £53,750 £42,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+26.47% +11.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £26,500 £28,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 10833 12236 14328
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.81% 93.06% 93.56%
Number of salaries quoted 9362 11128 12878
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 £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
London

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

City of London Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

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

City of London Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 106 (46.49%) QA
2 100 (43.86%) SQL
3 94 (41.23%) Java
4 90 (39.47%) Selenium
5 78 (34.21%) Finance
6 73 (32.02%) C#
7 60 (26.32%) Scrum
7 60 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
8 58 (25.44%) Test Automation
9 49 (21.49%) Test Scripting
10 47 (20.61%) QuickTest Pro
11 46 (20.18%) Automated Testing
12 43 (18.86%) Ruby
13 42 (18.42%) TDD
14 41 (17.98%) ISEB
15 37 (16.23%) Degree
15 37 (16.23%) Python
15 37 (16.23%) WebDriver
16 36 (15.79%) Cucumber
16 36 (15.79%) BDD
17 33 (14.47%) .NET
17 33 (14.47%) Banking
18 32 (14.04%) Oracle
18 32 (14.04%) UNIX
18 32 (14.04%) LoadRunner
19 31 (13.60%) Automation Testing
20 30 (13.16%) JavaScript
20 30 (13.16%) Performance Testing
21 29 (12.72%) Software Testing
22 26 (11.40%) Regression Testing

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (14.47%) .NET
2 17 (7.456%) HTML
3 13 (5.702%) CSS
3 13 (5.702%) XML
4 9 (3.947%) J2EE
4 9 (3.947%) Ruby on Rails
5 8 (3.509%) Gherkin
6 7 (3.070%) WPF
6 7 (3.070%) ASP.NET
6 7 (3.070%) WinForms
6 7 (3.070%) Spring
7 5 (2.193%) SOAP
7 5 (2.193%) Web Services
7 5 (2.193%) ASP
7 5 (2.193%) HTML5
8 4 (1.754%) Ext JS
8 4 (1.754%) Middleware
9 3 (1.316%) JSF
9 3 (1.316%) Hibernate
9 3 (1.316%) DOM
Application Platforms
1 6 (2.632%) SharePoint
2 3 (1.316%) WebLogic Portal
2 3 (1.316%) WebLogic
2 3 (1.316%) Tomcat
3 2 (0.877%) Tuxedo
3 2 (0.877%) CMS
4 1 (0.439%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (2.193%) S-PLUS
2 3 (1.316%) MS Office
2 3 (1.316%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.439%) LatentZero
1 1 (0.439%) Temenos T24
1 1 (0.439%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 26 (11.40%) HTTP
2 11 (4.825%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.316%) HTTPS
3 3 (1.316%) Internet
4 1 (0.439%) BSS
4 1 (0.439%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 25 (10.96%) SQL Server
2 14 (6.140%) RDBMS
3 6 (2.632%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 6 (2.632%) SQL Server 2008
4 5 (2.193%) SQL Server Reporting Services
4 5 (2.193%) QlikView
4 5 (2.193%) Data Warehouse
5 4 (1.754%) Cognos Powerplay
5 4 (1.754%) DB2
5 4 (1.754%) Oracle Reports
6 3 (1.316%) MongoDB
7 2 (0.877%) MySQL
7 2 (0.877%) MS Access
8 1 (0.439%) Oracle 8/8i
8 1 (0.439%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 90 (39.47%) Selenium
2 47 (20.61%) QuickTest Pro
3 37 (16.23%) WebDriver
4 36 (15.79%) Cucumber
5 32 (14.04%) LoadRunner
6 23 (10.09%) JUnit
7 19 (8.333%) JIRA
7 19 (8.333%) Team Foundation Server
8 18 (7.895%) Rational Robot
9 17 (7.456%) WebLOAD
9 17 (7.456%) NUnit
10 14 (6.140%) Visual Studio
11 13 (5.702%) TestComplete
12 10 (4.386%) SpecFlow
12 10 (4.386%) JMeter
13 8 (3.509%) FitNesse
13 8 (3.509%) Hudson
14 7 (3.070%) RSpec
14 7 (3.070%) WinRunner
15 6 (2.632%) JBehave
General
1 78 (34.21%) Finance
2 33 (14.47%) Banking
3 22 (9.649%) Investment Banking
4 11 (4.825%) Publishing
5 9 (3.947%) Financial Institution
5 9 (3.947%) Telecoms
6 7 (3.070%) Games
6 7 (3.070%) Retail
7 3 (1.316%) Front Office
8 2 (0.877%) Music
8 2 (0.877%) Marketing
9 1 (0.439%) Online Betting
9 1 (0.439%) Back Office
9 1 (0.439%) Law
9 1 (0.439%) Advertising
Miscellaneous
1 15 (6.579%) Derivative
2 13 (5.702%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (5.702%) Open Source
3 9 (3.947%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.070%) Hedge funds
4 7 (3.070%) Equities
5 5 (2.193%) Computer Science
5 5 (2.193%) SaaS
6 4 (1.754%) Social Media
6 4 (1.754%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.316%) Fixed Income
7 3 (1.316%) Cloud Computing
7 3 (1.316%) iPad
8 2 (0.877%) Enterprise Software
8 2 (0.877%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.877%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.877%) Equity Derivative
8 2 (0.877%) Contract for Difference
8 2 (0.877%) Spread Betting
9 1 (0.439%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 32 (14.04%) UNIX
2 22 (9.649%) Linux
3 16 (7.018%) Windows
4 8 (3.509%) Android
5 7 (3.070%) Solaris
6 6 (2.632%) Apple iOS
7 3 (1.316%) Mac OS X
8 2 (0.877%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.439%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.439%) Windows 8
9 1 (0.439%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (26.32%) Scrum
1 60 (26.32%) Agile Software Development
2 58 (25.44%) Test Automation
3 49 (21.49%) Test Scripting
4 46 (20.18%) Automated Testing
5 42 (18.42%) TDD
6 36 (15.79%) BDD
7 31 (13.60%) Automation Testing
8 30 (13.16%) Performance Testing
9 29 (12.72%) Software Testing
10 26 (11.40%) Regression Testing
11 25 (10.96%) OO
12 22 (9.649%) User Acceptance Testing
13 16 (7.018%) System Testing
14 15 (6.579%) Manual Testing
15 14 (6.140%) E-Commerce
16 13 (5.702%) Continuous Integration
17 11 (4.825%) Integration Testing
18 10 (4.386%) Web Testing
18 10 (4.386%) Computer Architecture
Programming Languages
1 100 (43.86%) SQL
2 94 (41.23%) Java
3 73 (32.02%) C#
4 43 (18.86%) Ruby
5 37 (16.23%) Python
6 30 (13.16%) JavaScript
7 22 (9.649%) PL/SQL
8 20 (8.772%) C++
9 18 (7.895%) Perl
9 18 (7.895%) VBScript
10 9 (3.947%) Shell Script
10 9 (3.947%) Bash shell
11 7 (3.070%) Korn
11 7 (3.070%) VB
12 6 (2.632%) VBA
13 5 (2.193%) R
13 5 (2.193%) Groovy
13 5 (2.193%) F#
13 5 (2.193%) MATLAB
14 3 (1.316%) C
Qualifications
1 41 (17.98%) ISEB
2 37 (16.23%) Degree
3 23 (10.09%) ISTQB
4 1 (0.439%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (0.439%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (46.49%) QA
2 1 (0.439%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 4 (1.754%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (8.772%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.439%) SCCM
2 1 (0.439%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (14.04%) Oracle
2 17 (7.456%) HP
3 12 (5.263%) Microsoft
4 6 (2.632%) Telerik
4 6 (2.632%) Cadis
5 5 (2.193%) VMware
5 5 (2.193%) Hyperion
6 4 (1.754%) Informatica
6 4 (1.754%) Cognos
7 2 (0.877%) T-Plan
7 2 (0.877%) Facebook
7 2 (0.877%) Google
7 2 (0.877%) Murex
8 1 (0.439%) thinkFolio
8 1 (0.439%) Symbian
8 1 (0.439%) Cisco
8 1 (0.439%) SAP
8 1 (0.439%) Mercator
8 1 (0.439%) OpenLink
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