The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile 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 England region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Testing
Rank 709 762 772
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +10
Permanent jobs citing Agile Testing 132 104 78
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.131% 0.092% 0.066%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.170% 0.123% 0.090%
Number of salaries quoted 121 88 52
Average salary £47,500 £42,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.76% -10.52%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £27,500 £30,350
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £32,750 £43,750
% change year-on-year
+6.87% -25.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
77473 84750 86518
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.60% 74.76% 73.44%
Number of salaries quoted 64240 72541 72957
Average salary £46,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.15% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £71,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Agile Testing
UK

Agile Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Agile Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Testing
Salary Trend

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

England Agile Testing Salary Trend

Agile Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Agile Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

England Agile Testing Salary Histogram

Agile Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
London +75 93 £51,250 +13.88%
East of England +7 16 £40,000 +42.85%
Yorkshire +8 8 £35,250 +3.67%
South East +1 5 £36,250 -24.87%
North West +1 4 £35,000 +16.66%
South West - 4 £28,250 -
West Midlands -20 1 £27,500 -14.06%
North East - 1 £34,000 -
Agile Testing
UK

Agile Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 168 (65.37%) Selenium
2 128 (49.81%) TDD
3 120 (46.69%) QA
4 117 (45.53%) Agile Software Development
5 113 (43.97%) Scrum
5 113 (43.97%) Java
6 98 (38.13%) Test Scripting
7 87 (33.85%) Test Automation
8 84 (32.68%) WebDriver
9 83 (32.30%) Manual Testing
10 74 (28.79%) Automated Testing
11 72 (28.02%) BDD
12 69 (26.85%) SQL
13 66 (25.68%) Test Strategy
14 64 (24.90%) E-Commerce
15 61 (23.74%) QuickTest Pro
16 56 (21.79%) ISEB
17 55 (21.40%) JMeter
18 54 (21.01%) C#
19 53 (20.62%) HTML
19 53 (20.62%) Software Testing
19 53 (20.62%) JBehave
20 47 (18.29%) Automation Testing
21 46 (17.90%) Ruby
22 43 (16.73%) JIRA
23 42 (16.34%) FitNesse
23 42 (16.34%) PHP
23 42 (16.34%) CSS
24 40 (15.56%) Web Testing
25 39 (15.18%) .NET

Agile Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 53 (20.62%) HTML
2 42 (16.34%) CSS
3 39 (15.18%) .NET
4 36 (14.01%) XML
5 35 (13.62%) Web Services
6 24 (9.339%) SOAP
7 19 (7.393%) ASP.NET
8 16 (6.226%) ASP.NET MVC
9 13 (5.058%) jQuery
9 13 (5.058%) soapUI
9 13 (5.058%) Ajax
10 12 (4.669%) .NET Framework
11 4 (1.556%) J2EE
12 3 (1.167%) LAMP
13 2 (0.778%) RESTful
14 1 (0.389%) Ruby on Rails
14 1 (0.389%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 10 (3.891%) CMS
2 9 (3.502%) IIS
3 6 (2.335%) SharePoint
4 3 (1.167%) Apache
4 3 (1.167%) Tomcat
5 2 (0.778%) BizTalk Server
5 2 (0.778%) Confluence
Applications
1 12 (4.669%) MS Excel
2 6 (2.335%) Photoshop
2 6 (2.335%) Fireworks
Business Applications
1 2 (0.778%) Dynamics AX
2 1 (0.389%) Google Analytics
2 1 (0.389%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.389%) SAP Oil and Gas
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.502%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (7.393%) SQL Server
2 18 (7.004%) MySQL
3 13 (5.058%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 168 (65.37%) Selenium
2 84 (32.68%) WebDriver
3 61 (23.74%) QuickTest Pro
4 55 (21.40%) JMeter
5 53 (20.62%) JBehave
6 43 (16.73%) JIRA
7 42 (16.34%) FitNesse
8 39 (15.18%) LoadRunner
9 29 (11.28%) WinRunner
10 27 (10.51%) Jenkins
10 27 (10.51%) Cucumber
11 19 (7.393%) JUnit
12 18 (7.004%) Hudson
13 13 (5.058%) AppScan
14 10 (3.891%) SpecFlow
14 10 (3.891%) Sahi
15 8 (3.113%) TestComplete
16 7 (2.724%) Team Foundation Server
16 7 (2.724%) WATIR
17 6 (2.335%) Visual Studio
General
1 24 (9.339%) Banking
2 23 (8.949%) Finance
3 16 (6.226%) Front Office
4 9 (3.502%) Investment Banking
5 8 (3.113%) Telecoms
5 8 (3.113%) Games
6 7 (2.724%) Marketing
7 5 (1.946%) Retail
8 2 (0.778%) Back Office
9 1 (0.389%) Electronics
9 1 (0.389%) Automotive
9 1 (0.389%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 170 (66.15%) Analyst
2 140 (54.47%) Test Analyst
3 65 (25.29%) Agile Test Analyst
4 48 (18.68%) Senior Analyst
5 44 (17.12%) QA Analyst
6 39 (15.18%) Senior Test Analyst
7 36 (14.01%) Tester
8 20 (7.782%) Test Manager
9 15 (5.837%) QA Manager
10 14 (5.447%) Web Analyst
10 14 (5.447%) Web Test Analyst
11 13 (5.058%) Web Tester
12 11 (4.280%) QA Test Analyst
13 9 (3.502%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
13 9 (3.502%) Senior QA Analyst
14 8 (3.113%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.113%) QA Tester
14 8 (3.113%) QA Engineer
14 8 (3.113%) Software Engineer
14 8 (3.113%) Automated Tester
Miscellaneous
1 21 (8.171%) Derivative
2 20 (7.782%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 20 (7.782%) Equities
3 15 (5.837%) Mobile App
4 8 (3.113%) Mathematics
4 8 (3.113%) Physics
4 8 (3.113%) Computer Science
5 7 (2.724%) Online Games
5 7 (2.724%) Statistics
6 6 (2.335%) Social Media
7 5 (1.946%) Open Source
8 3 (1.167%) Management Information System
9 2 (0.778%) N-Tier
9 2 (0.778%) Digital Media
9 2 (0.778%) Enterprise Software
10 1 (0.389%) DTV
10 1 (0.389%) Replication
10 1 (0.389%) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems
1 38 (14.79%) Windows
2 21 (8.171%) Linux
3 3 (1.167%) openSUSE
3 3 (1.167%) Ubuntu
3 3 (1.167%) UNIX
3 3 (1.167%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (49.81%) TDD
2 117 (45.53%) Agile Software Development
3 113 (43.97%) Scrum
4 98 (38.13%) Test Scripting
5 87 (33.85%) Test Automation
6 83 (32.30%) Manual Testing
7 74 (28.79%) Automated Testing
8 72 (28.02%) BDD
9 66 (25.68%) Test Strategy
10 64 (24.90%) E-Commerce
11 53 (20.62%) Software Testing
12 47 (18.29%) Automation Testing
13 40 (15.56%) Web Testing
14 35 (13.62%) User Acceptance Testing
15 30 (11.67%) Test Management
16 29 (11.28%) Time Management
17 27 (10.51%) ATDD
18 26 (10.12%) Scalability Testing
19 22 (8.560%) MVC
19 22 (8.560%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 113 (43.97%) Java
2 69 (26.85%) SQL
3 54 (21.01%) C#
4 46 (17.90%) Ruby
5 42 (16.34%) PHP
6 20 (7.782%) VBScript
7 15 (5.837%) Python
8 14 (5.447%) JavaScript
9 13 (5.058%) VB
10 7 (2.724%) C++
11 6 (2.335%) VBA
12 5 (1.946%) C
13 3 (1.167%) PowerShell
14 2 (0.778%) Perl
15 1 (0.389%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 56 (21.79%) ISEB
2 36 (14.01%) ISTQB
2 36 (14.01%) Degree
3 1 (0.389%) SC Cleared
3 1 (0.389%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (46.69%) QA
Systems Management
1 25 (9.728%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.167%) WMI
Vendors
1 19 (7.393%) HP
2 16 (6.226%) Microsoft
2 16 (6.226%) Oracle
3 13 (5.058%) IBM
4 6 (2.335%) ATG
4 6 (2.335%) Adobe
5 1 (0.389%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.389%) Facebook
5 1 (0.389%) Twitter
5 1 (0.389%) SAP
5 1 (0.389%) Google
London
You will be using TDD and Agile on a daily basis along with Selenium, JBehave etc... Solid understanding of TDD and agile testing methodologies... Core skills to carry...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
Requirements:Good communication skills is essentialStrong C#, .NET backgroundWeb application testing experienceAutomation experience with using Selenium, Cucumber, Fitnesse would be idealStrong Agile testing skills - TDD/BDD The role...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
You will be using TDD and Agile on a daily basis along with Selenium, JBehave etc... Solid understanding of TDD and agile testing methodologies... Ability to code in...
Coal IT Services
Salary: From £40,000 to £50,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
London
QA, Web Test Analyst, Automated Testing, Selenium, Cucumber, Agile, Tester, Quality Assurance... Have experience with Automated Testing in Selenium, Cucumber or TestNG tools ideally combined with Ruby programming...
Orleston Associates Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £40000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Requirements:Good communication skills is essentialStrong C#, .NET backgroundWeb application testing experienceAutomation experience with using Selenium, Cucumber, Fitnesse would be idealStrong Agile testing skills - TDD/BDD The role...
Real Staffing
Salary: £45000 - £60000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
York, North Yorkshire
Experience with any BDD tools such as Selinium, Cucumber or FitNesse... Functional, regression, ad-hoc and compatibility testing... Create test plans and manual test scripts. Perform automated testing.
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Unspecified Please get in touch to discuss salary information
Posted: 21 May 2013
Bristol, Avon
This role would suit a test engineer with 2 - 5 years of experience following a degree in Computer Science or Software Engineering. You must be able to read...
IT Connections
Salary: £25,000 to £35,000
Posted: 17 May 2013