The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Crewe region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Crewe region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 38 - 31
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crewe 0.680% - 1.105%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.010% - 1.667%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 2
Average salary £35,000 - £27,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Crewe
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
99 177 120
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Crewe 67.35% 72.24% 66.30%
Number of salaries quoted 56 151 92
Average salary £47,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+18.75% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £45,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Cheshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Crewe Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Crewe Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crewe region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
1 1 (100.00%) WinRunner
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Crewe region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
Applications
1 1 (100.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (100.00%) WinRunner
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Web Tester
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) E-Commerce
1 1 (100.00%) MVC
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Web Development
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) MVVM
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft