The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank - 41 49
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 0 3 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry - 0.838% 0.255%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.115% 0.338%
Number of salaries quoted 0 3 1
Average salary - £25,000 £25,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -1.96%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
435 269 296
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 68.94% 75.14% 75.51%
Number of salaries quoted 360 243 287
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £47,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -21.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £24,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £65,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
West Midlands

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the Coventry region.

Coventry Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 17 (100.00%) SQL
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
1 17 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 17 (100.00%) QA
1 17 (100.00%) Selenium
2 10 (58.82%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (41.18%) HTML
3 7 (41.18%) Release Management
3 7 (41.18%) VB
3 7 (41.18%) Oracle
3 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
3 7 (41.18%) UNIX
3 7 (41.18%) Windows
3 7 (41.18%) Windows 2000
4 3 (17.65%) ISEB
4 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
4 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (41.18%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (41.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 17 (100.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (82.35%) Tester
2 10 (58.82%) Analyst
2 10 (58.82%) Test Analyst
3 7 (41.18%) UAT Tester
3 7 (41.18%) Coordinator
3 7 (41.18%) Systems Test Analyst
3 7 (41.18%) Systems Analyst
3 7 (41.18%) Test Coordinator
3 7 (41.18%) Systems Tester
4 4 (23.53%) QA Tester
5 3 (17.65%) UAT Analyst
5 3 (17.65%) UAT Test Analyst
Operating Systems
1 7 (41.18%) UNIX
1 7 (41.18%) Windows
1 7 (41.18%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (100.00%) Automated Testing
2 10 (58.82%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (41.18%) Release Management
4 3 (17.65%) Test Scripting
4 3 (17.65%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (100.00%) SQL
2 7 (41.18%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 7 (41.18%) Oracle
Coventry, West Midlands (County)
Prepare and execute test scripts... Manual testing... In addition, we also deliver services and solutions on non Microsoft Products and Technologies, such as SAP Business One, OpenVMS, Solaris...
Trinity Expert Systems
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum (dep on exp), plus bonus & benefits
Posted: 3 May 2013