The first table below looks at the demand for Stress 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 Stress Testing over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 83 89 98
Rank change year-on-year
+6 +9
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 1 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.093% 0.073% 0.191%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.123% 0.100% 0.242%
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 3
Average salary £40,000 - £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £35,750
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +11.88%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
810 1001 1239
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 75.63% 73.49% 78.97%
Number of salaries quoted 477 699 869
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -3.61%
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%
Stress Testing
Scotland

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh Stress Testing Salary Trend

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) HTML
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) CSS
1 1 (50.00%) XML
1 1 (50.00%) Flash
1 1 (50.00%) XHTML
1 1 (50.00%) JSON
1 1 (50.00%) jQuery
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
1 1 (50.00%) SAS
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint 2010
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Credit Risk
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Scalability Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (50.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
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