The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Edinburgh 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 21 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 Edinburgh region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Tester
Rank 84 91 101
Rank change year-on-year
+7 +10
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Tester 1 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.093% 0.291% 0.262%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.305% 0.275%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 4
Average salary £37,500 £27,500 £28,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.36% -4.34%
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £28,750 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+4.34% -4.16%
All Job Titles
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1027 1312 1452
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 95.71% 95.56% 95.28%
Number of salaries quoted 596 960 1055
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,000 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Tester
Scotland

Software Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh 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 Edinburgh region.

Edinburgh Software Tester Salary Trend

Software Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 6 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Degree
2 5 (55.56%) ISEB
3 4 (44.44%) UNIX
3 4 (44.44%) Linux
3 4 (44.44%) System Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (33.33%) Web Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Puppet
4 3 (33.33%) QA
4 3 (33.33%) Selenium
4 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
4 3 (33.33%) Internet
4 3 (33.33%) Java
4 3 (33.33%) PHP
4 3 (33.33%) Ant
4 3 (33.33%) TDD
4 3 (33.33%) Games
4 3 (33.33%) Scrum
5 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Electronics
5 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) Bugzilla
5 2 (22.22%) HND
5 2 (22.22%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
6 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh 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 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (11.11%) jQuery
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
1 1 (11.11%) Flash
1 1 (11.11%) XHTML
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) XML
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 3 (33.33%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint 2010
2 1 (11.11%) SharePoint
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Selenium
1 3 (33.33%) Jenkins
1 3 (33.33%) Ant
2 2 (22.22%) Bugzilla
3 1 (11.11%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (11.11%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (33.33%) Games
2 2 (22.22%) Electronics
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 4 (44.44%) UNIX
1 4 (44.44%) Linux
2 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
2 1 (11.11%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 4 (44.44%) System Testing
2 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
3 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (33.33%) Web Testing
3 3 (33.33%) TDD
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
4 2 (22.22%) Regression Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Automated Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
4 2 (22.22%) Use Case
5 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Stress Testing
5 1 (11.11%) Scalability Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
1 3 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) Degree
1 5 (55.56%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) Puppet