Edinburgh QuickTest Pro Jobs

This section looks at the demand for HP QuickTest Professional (QTP) skills within the Edinburgh region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Location Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gosport Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hull Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Luton M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Preston Reading Reigate Renfrewshire Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Street Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge UK Uxbridge Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire Wimbledon Windsor Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	98
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching permanent IT job ads	15	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	7.576 %	1.863 %
Salaries quoted	8	3
Average minimum salary	£23,625	£31,667
Average salary	£27,250	£36,167
% change on same period last year	-24.65 %
Average maximum salary	£30,875	£40,667
UK excluding London average salary	£37,416	£34,356
% change on same period last year	+8.90 %
Development Applications Edinburgh
Matching permanent IT job ads	198	161
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.104 %	0.066 %
Salaries quoted	131	112
Average minimum salary	£32,098	£30,969
Average salary	£35,409	£34,236
% change on same period last year	+3.42 %
Average maximum salary	£38,720	£37,503
UK excluding London average salary	£34,842	£35,816
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
QuickTest Pro Scotland

QuickTest Pro
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Edinburgh region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

QuickTest Pro
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Edinburgh region.

QuickTest Pro
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

QuickTest Pro
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 13 (54.17 %) WinRunner 2 11 (45.83 %) LoadRunner 3 9 (37.50 %) Finance 3 9 (37.50 %) Software Testing 4 8 (33.33 %) TestDirector 5 6 (25.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 6 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 6 4 (16.67 %) QA 6 4 (16.67 %) Automated Testing 7 3 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 7 3 (12.50 %) System Testing 7 3 (12.50 %) Performance Testing 7 3 (12.50 %) Integration Testing 7 3 (12.50 %) Test Management 7 3 (12.50 %) Banking

8 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 8 2 (8.333 %) ISEB 9 1 (4.167 %) ISTQB 9 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning 9 1 (4.167 %) Regression Testing 9 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 9 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 9 1 (4.167 %) SQL 9 1 (4.167 %) HP

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications 1 13 (54.17 %) WinRunner 2 11 (45.83 %) LoadRunner 3 8 (33.33 %) TestDirector	General 1 9 (37.50 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Banking
Job Titles 1 12 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 12 (50.00 %) Test Analyst 2 9 (37.50 %) Test Manager 3 3 (12.50 %) Programme Manager 3 3 (12.50 %) Software Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) Test Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) Software Test Engineer 3 3 (12.50 %) Programme Test Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Team Leader 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Test Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Test Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Manager 4 1 (4.167 %) Senior Analyst 4 1 (4.167 %) Test Team Leader	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (37.50 %) Software Testing 2 6 (25.00 %) Test Scripting 2 6 (25.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (16.67 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) Performance Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) Integration Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) Test Management 4 3 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 4 3 (12.50 %) System Testing 5 2 (8.333 %) Change Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (4.167 %) Risk Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 6 1 (4.167 %) Project Planning
Programming Languages 1 1 (4.167 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (8.333 %) ISEB 2 1 (4.167 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (16.67 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (4.167 %) HP