Dorset Regression Testing Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Regression Testing skills within the Dorset region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Regression Testing over the 3 months to 5 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Altrincham Basingstoke Bath Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London County Antrim Coventry Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halesowen Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Poole Preston Reading Renfrewshire Royston Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Stockport Suffolk Sunderland Surbiton Surrey Swindon Telford Tyne and Wear UK Wales Walsall Warrington Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Woking Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 5 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	77	72
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	17
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	1.143 %	2.009 %
Salaries quoted	8	17
Average minimum salary	£28,750	£34,483
Average salary	£34,063	£40,103
% change on same period last year	-15.06 %
Average maximum salary	£39,375	£45,724
UK excluding London average salary	£33,609	£33,293
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
Processes & Methodologies Dorset
Matching permanent IT job ads	700	846
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.387 %	0.355 %
Salaries quoted	578	709
Average minimum salary	£36,442	£38,819
Average salary	£39,697	£42,135
% change on same period last year	-5.78 %
Average maximum salary	£42,952	£45,450
UK excluding London average salary	£42,540	£44,374
% change on same period last year	-4.13 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Regression Testing across the Dorset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Regression Testing across the Dorset region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Regression Testing across the Dorset region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Regression Testing within the Dorset region over the 3 months to 5 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Poole	+10	8	£34,063	-13.13 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Dorset region citing Regression 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 Regression Testing.

1 11 (45.83 %) Finance 2 9 (37.50 %) J2EE 2 9 (37.50 %) Ant 2 9 (37.50 %) Java 2 9 (37.50 %) OO 2 9 (37.50 %) Eclipse 2 9 (37.50 %) SMS 2 9 (37.50 %) WAP 2 9 (37.50 %) Agile Software Development 2 9 (37.50 %) TDD 2 9 (37.50 %) Pair Programming 2 9 (37.50 %) Ruby 2 9 (37.50 %) Ruby on Rails 2 9 (37.50 %) Refactoring 2 9 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing

2 9 (37.50 %) Continuous Integration 3 7 (29.17 %) Use Case 4 5 (20.83 %) Systems Analysis 5 4 (16.67 %) Investment Banking 5 4 (16.67 %) QA 5 4 (16.67 %) Banking 5 4 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (8.333 %) System Testing 6 2 (8.333 %) Retail 6 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 6 2 (8.333 %) Knowledge Management 6 2 (8.333 %) Fixed Income 6 2 (8.333 %) ASP 6 2 (8.333 %) ISEB 6 2 (8.333 %) TestDirector

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 5 September 2008, IT jobs across the Dorset region citing Regression 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 Regression Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 9 (37.50 %) J2EE 1 9 (37.50 %) WAP 1 9 (37.50 %) Ruby on Rails 2 2 (8.333 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (8.333 %) ASP 2 2 (8.333 %) .NET	Communications & Networking 1 9 (37.50 %) SMS
Development Applications 1 9 (37.50 %) Ant 1 9 (37.50 %) Eclipse 2 2 (8.333 %) TestDirector	General 1 11 (45.83 %) Finance 2 4 (16.67 %) Banking 2 4 (16.67 %) Investment Banking 3 2 (8.333 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 6 (25.00 %) Tester 2 5 (20.83 %) Analyst 2 5 (20.83 %) Test Analyst 2 5 (20.83 %) Systems Analyst 3 4 (16.67 %) Software Tester 4 2 (8.333 %) Systems Tester 4 2 (8.333 %) Test Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Software Test Engineer 4 2 (8.333 %) Software Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 2 (8.333 %) Fixed Income
Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (37.50 %) OO 1 9 (37.50 %) Agile Software Development 1 9 (37.50 %) TDD 1 9 (37.50 %) Pair Programming 1 9 (37.50 %) Refactoring 1 9 (37.50 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 9 (37.50 %) Continuous Integration 2 7 (29.17 %) Use Case 3 5 (20.83 %) Systems Analysis 4 4 (16.67 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (8.333 %) Knowledge Management 5 2 (8.333 %) System Testing	Programming Languages 1 9 (37.50 %) Java 1 9 (37.50 %) Ruby 2 2 (8.333 %) JavaScript 2 2 (8.333 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (16.67 %) QA