The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Coventry 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 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 Coventry region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 61 36 45
Rank change year-on-year
-25 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 2 8 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 0.310% 2.279% 2.381%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.329% 2.388% 2.428%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 11
Average salary £39,000 £31,000 £39,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.80% -21.51%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,200 £31,000 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £49,800 £31,650 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Coventry
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
608 335 453
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Coventry 94.12% 95.44% 98.05%
Number of salaries quoted 482 314 421
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,100 £24,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £65,000 £58,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Tester
West Midlands

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Coventry 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 Coventry region.

Coventry Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

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

Coventry Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 11 (100.00%) QA
2 10 (90.91%) Automated Testing
3 9 (81.82%) Selenium
3 9 (81.82%) Manual Testing
3 9 (81.82%) SQL
3 9 (81.82%) Finance
4 6 (54.55%) VB
4 6 (54.55%) Oracle
4 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
4 6 (54.55%) UNIX
4 6 (54.55%) Windows
4 6 (54.55%) Windows 2000
4 6 (54.55%) HTML
5 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
5 3 (27.27%) Release Management
5 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (9.091%) Web Services
6 1 (9.091%) Business Transformation
6 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Coventry 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 6 (54.55%) HTML
2 1 (9.091%) Web Services
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (54.55%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (81.82%) Selenium
General
1 9 (81.82%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 6 (54.55%) UNIX
1 6 (54.55%) Windows
1 6 (54.55%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Automated Testing
2 9 (81.82%) Manual Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Release Management
3 3 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (9.091%) Business Transformation
4 1 (9.091%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 9 (81.82%) SQL
2 6 (54.55%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) Oracle