The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 82 84 91
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +7
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 11 10 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 0.943% 0.756% 0.498%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.237% 1.005% 0.614%
Number of salaries quoted 3 10 5
Average salary £27,000 £36,250 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.51% -9.37%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.84% +4.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Edinburgh
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
889 995 1303
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Edinburgh 76.24% 75.21% 81.18%
Number of salaries quoted 518 680 934
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -2.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Scotland

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Edinburgh System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Edinburgh System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing System Testing across the Edinburgh region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Edinburgh System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 11 (73.33%) ISEB
2 10 (66.67%) Finance
3 9 (60.00%) .NET
3 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
3 9 (60.00%) ISTQB
4 8 (53.33%) QA
5 7 (46.67%) C#
5 7 (46.67%) Test Strategy
5 7 (46.67%) Analytics
6 5 (33.33%) Product Management
6 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
7 4 (26.67%) Linux
7 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
8 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (20.00%) SQL
9 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
9 2 (13.33%) Validation
9 2 (13.33%) LAMP
9 2 (13.33%) Scrum
9 2 (13.33%) VMware
9 2 (13.33%) VB
9 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
9 2 (13.33%) VBA
9 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
9 2 (13.33%) Perl
9 2 (13.33%) Python
9 2 (13.33%) EPoS
9 2 (13.33%) MySQL
9 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
9 2 (13.33%) UNIX

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Edinburgh region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 9 (60.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) LAMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MySQL
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
1 2 (13.33%) SQL Server 2005
General
1 10 (66.67%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (60.00%) Analyst
2 8 (53.33%) Test Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) Quality Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) QA Analyst
3 5 (33.33%) QA Test Analyst
4 3 (20.00%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Software Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Tester
5 2 (13.33%) Head of Testing
6 1 (6.667%) Test Leader
6 1 (6.667%) Developer Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) EPoS
1 2 (13.33%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 4 (26.67%) Linux
2 2 (13.33%) UNIX
2 2 (13.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (60.00%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (46.67%) Test Strategy
2 7 (46.67%) Analytics
3 5 (33.33%) Product Management
3 5 (33.33%) Risk Management
4 4 (26.67%) Software Testing
5 3 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Validation
6 2 (13.33%) Scrum
6 2 (13.33%) Web Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Investment Management
6 2 (13.33%) Performance Management
6 2 (13.33%) Automated Testing
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
7 1 (6.667%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) VB
3 2 (13.33%) VB.NET
3 2 (13.33%) VBA
3 2 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (13.33%) Perl
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Ruby
4 1 (6.667%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (73.33%) ISEB
2 9 (60.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (53.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) VMware
1 2 (13.33%) DevExpress
Edinburgh, Scotland
Harvey Nash's leading financial services client is looking for an experienced Quality Assurance Analyst to join their team in Edinburgh. Testing a market leading, cutting edge product...
Harvey Nash Consulting (Scotland) Limited
Salary: £28000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 27 May 2013
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