The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Croydon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting 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 Croydon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 20 31 37
Rank change year-on-year
+11 +6
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 14 18 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 4.895% 5.263% 1.413%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.143% 6.522% 2.041%
Number of salaries quoted 14 18 4
Average salary £22,500 £39,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-43.03% -1.25%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
Croydon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
196 276 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Croydon 68.53% 80.70% 69.26%
Number of salaries quoted 179 255 184
Average salary £48,500 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.11% -22.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £80,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
London

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Croydon Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Croydon region.

Croydon Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Croydon Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing Test Scripting 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 Scripting.

1 11 (39.29%) VB
2 9 (32.14%) Electronics
3 7 (25.00%) Windows
4 6 (21.43%) Visual Studio
4 6 (21.43%) ITIL
4 6 (21.43%) EPoS
4 6 (21.43%) EFT
4 6 (21.43%) Retail
4 6 (21.43%) Change Control
5 5 (17.86%) C#
6 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
6 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
6 4 (14.29%) MS Excel
6 4 (14.29%) Finance
6 4 (14.29%) Test Management
6 4 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
6 4 (14.29%) Automation Testing
7 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
7 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
7 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
7 3 (10.71%) ISEB
7 3 (10.71%) QuickTest Pro
7 3 (10.71%) SQL
8 2 (7.143%) .NET
8 2 (7.143%) MS Project
8 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2
8 2 (7.143%) Project Management
8 2 (7.143%) System Testing
8 2 (7.143%) Automated Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing Test Scripting 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 Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (7.143%) .NET
1 2 (7.143%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.571%) XML
Application Platforms
1 3 (10.71%) SharePoint
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle Service Bus
Applications
1 4 (14.29%) MS Excel
2 2 (7.143%) MS Project
Business Applications
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (3.571%) Oracle BPM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.29%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.571%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (3.571%) SQL Server 2005
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Visual Studio
2 3 (10.71%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (3.571%) Oracle Forms
General
1 9 (32.14%) Electronics
2 6 (21.43%) Retail
3 4 (14.29%) Finance
4 2 (7.143%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (39.29%) Graduate
1 11 (39.29%) Test Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Hardware Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Analyst
2 9 (32.14%) Graduate Hardware Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Hardware Test Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Test Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Systems Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Test Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Project Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Business Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Business Project Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Business Manager
4 2 (7.143%) Software Test Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (7.143%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.571%) Test Coordinator
5 1 (3.571%) Senior Tester
5 1 (3.571%) Tester
5 1 (3.571%) Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) EPoS
1 6 (21.43%) EFT
2 2 (7.143%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.571%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 7 (25.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (21.43%) ITIL
1 6 (21.43%) Change Control
2 4 (14.29%) Test Management
2 4 (14.29%) Automation Testing
3 3 (10.71%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (10.71%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (7.143%) Project Management
4 2 (7.143%) PRINCE2
4 2 (7.143%) System Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Automated Testing
4 2 (7.143%) Business Analysis
4 2 (7.143%) Customer Insight
5 1 (3.571%) Functional Testing
5 1 (3.571%) Test Strategy
5 1 (3.571%) Software Testing
5 1 (3.571%) Test Automation
5 1 (3.571%) ERP
5 1 (3.571%) Business Intelligence
5 1 (3.571%) Regression Testing
5 1 (3.571%) BPEL
Programming Languages
1 11 (39.29%) VB
2 5 (17.86%) C#
3 4 (14.29%) T-SQL
4 3 (10.71%) SQL
5 1 (3.571%) Java
5 1 (3.571%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) ISEB
2 2 (7.143%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.143%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.571%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.571%) HP
2 1 (3.571%) Oracle
2 1 (3.571%) SAP