The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Derby region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 18 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 Derby region.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Tester
Rank 34 45 37
Rank change year-on-year
+11 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Tester 1 1 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 0.488% 0.348% 2.312%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.510% 0.362% 2.402%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 8
Average salary £31,500 £30,000 £36,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.00% -16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
All Job Titles
Derby
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
196 276 333
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derby 95.61% 96.17% 96.24%
Number of salaries quoted 184 260 298
Average salary £32,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Tester
Derbyshire

Software Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derby Software Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Software Tester
Salary Trend

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

Derby Software Tester Salary Trend

Software Tester
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Derby region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) NUnit
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the Derby region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (66.67%) .NET
1 2 (66.67%) .NET Framework
2 1 (33.33%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) NUnit
1 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Configuration Management
2 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 1 (33.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
1 2 (66.67%) Degree