The first table below looks at the demand for Regression Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Regression Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Regression Testing
Rank 82 78 102
Rank change year-on-year
-4 +24
Permanent jobs citing Regression Testing 4 14 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.376% 1.024% 0.189%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.501% 1.399% 0.240%
Number of salaries quoted 1 3 1
Average salary £32,500 £33,030 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.60% +1.63%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,500 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+7.69% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
799 1001 1252
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.09% 73.23% 78.94%
Number of salaries quoted 468 697 879
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,000 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Regression Testing
Scotland

Regression Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Regression Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Regression Testing
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Regression Testing Salary Trend

Regression Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 9 (64.29%) Banking
2 9 (64.29%) Economics
3 6 (42.86%) Degree
3 6 (42.86%) Finance
4 5 (35.71%) French Language
4 5 (35.71%) German Language
5 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
5 4 (28.57%) Oracle
5 4 (28.57%) ISEB
6 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
6 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Selenium
7 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
7 2 (14.29%) System Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Cash Management
7 2 (14.29%) Validation
7 2 (14.29%) Bugzilla
7 2 (14.29%) VB.NET
7 2 (14.29%) .NET
7 2 (14.29%) UNIX
7 2 (14.29%) Windows
7 2 (14.29%) Linux
7 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
7 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
7 2 (14.29%) C#
8 1 (7.143%) HTML
8 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
8 1 (7.143%) T-SQL

Regression Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.143%) HTML
2 1 (7.143%) CSS
2 1 (7.143%) XML
2 1 (7.143%) WinForms
2 1 (7.143%) jQuery
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
1 2 (14.29%) Bugzilla
2 1 (7.143%) Visual Studio
2 1 (7.143%) VSS/SourceSafe
2 1 (7.143%) InstallShield
2 1 (7.143%) MSTest
2 1 (7.143%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (7.143%) MSBuild
2 1 (7.143%) Subversion
General
1 9 (64.29%) Banking
2 6 (42.86%) Finance
3 5 (35.71%) French Language
3 5 (35.71%) German Language
4 1 (7.143%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (64.29%) Business Analyst
1 9 (64.29%) Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Banking Business Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Technical Business Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Payments Business Analyst
4 2 (14.29%) Software Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Software Test Engineer
4 2 (14.29%) Tester
4 2 (14.29%) Software Engineer
5 1 (7.143%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.143%) UAT Manager
5 1 (7.143%) UAT Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 9 (64.29%) Economics
2 2 (14.29%) Mobile App
3 1 (7.143%) Blackberry
3 1 (7.143%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) UNIX
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.143%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (21.43%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
2 2 (14.29%) System Testing
2 2 (14.29%) Cash Management
2 2 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (7.143%) TDD
3 1 (7.143%) Test Strategy
3 1 (7.143%) Fund Accounting
3 1 (7.143%) Automation Testing
3 1 (7.143%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Unit Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Web Testing
3 1 (7.143%) Test Scripting
3 1 (7.143%) Load Balancing
Programming Languages
1 10 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (28.57%) PL/SQL
3 2 (14.29%) VB.NET
3 2 (14.29%) C#
4 1 (7.143%) JavaScript
4 1 (7.143%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (42.86%) Degree
2 4 (28.57%) ISEB
3 1 (7.143%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.143%) Sarbanes-Oxley
1 1 (7.143%) Basel II
1 1 (7.143%) Basel III
1 1 (7.143%) FATCA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.143%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (7.143%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.143%) Reuters
2 1 (7.143%) Bloomberg