The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Derbyshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Derbyshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 52 57 52
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 1 1 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 0.238% 0.223% 1.145%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.255% 0.230% 1.179%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 6
Average salary £43,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.00% +7.14%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
Derbyshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
392 434 509
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Derbyshire 93.33% 96.66% 97.14%
Number of salaries quoted 340 398 465
Average salary £34,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,000 £21,850
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Tester
East Midlands

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Derbyshire Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Trend

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

Derbyshire Senior Tester Salary Trend

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title.

1 2 (100.00%) VBA
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
1 2 (100.00%) TOAD
1 2 (100.00%) HP
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) soapUI
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Derbyshire region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (100.00%) Web Services
1 2 (100.00%) XML
1 2 (100.00%) soapUI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (100.00%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JUnit
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Open Source
1 2 (100.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Automation Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C
1 2 (100.00%) Java
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) VBA
2 1 (50.00%) VB
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Oracle
1 2 (100.00%) SAP
1 2 (100.00%) Cognos
1 2 (100.00%) HP