Functional Testing Jobs in England
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Functional 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 Functional Testing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank 750 755 757
Rank change year-on-year
+5 +2
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 80 108 102
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.079% 0.095% 0.087%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.104% 0.127% 0.119%
Number of salaries quoted 62 81 88
Average salary £34,000 £40,000 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% -15.78%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £25,000 £28,550
10% offered a salary of more than £82,500 £60,000 £61,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
- -15.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 77284 84844 85896
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 76.63% 74.69% 73.48%
Number of salaries quoted 64164 72674 72257
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 £72,500 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

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

England Functional Testing Salary Trend

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Functional Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

England Functional Testing Salary Histogram

Functional Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 17 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 +6 31 £53,750 -6.52%
East of England +14 12 £34,000 +58.13%
South East +5 11 £45,600 +21.60%
North West -2 9 £38,750 -22.50%
East Midlands +6 6 £26,000 -35.00%
South West +1 4 £40,000 +60.00%
West Midlands -19 4 £22,500 -10.00%
North East - 3 £27,500 -
Functional Testing
UK

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 58 (41.73%) QA
2 54 (38.85%) SQL
3 47 (33.81%) Oracle
3 47 (33.81%) Finance
4 40 (28.78%) HTML
5 37 (26.62%) Java
5 37 (26.62%) ISEB
6 36 (25.90%) Windows
7 33 (23.74%) Software Testing
8 32 (23.02%) Degree
9 30 (21.58%) Agile Software Development
10 26 (18.71%) Regression Testing
10 26 (18.71%) TDD
10 26 (18.71%) User Acceptance Testing
11 25 (17.99%) Test Scripting
12 24 (17.27%) Spring
12 24 (17.27%) System Testing
12 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
12 24 (17.27%) J2EE
13 23 (16.55%) XML
14 22 (15.83%) MySQL
14 22 (15.83%) Groovy
15 20 (14.39%) Web Services
15 20 (14.39%) E-Commerce
16 19 (13.67%) HP Quality Center
16 19 (13.67%) Non-Functional Testing
16 19 (13.67%) Automated Testing
17 18 (12.95%) Test Management
17 18 (12.95%) JIRA
17 18 (12.95%) CSS

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 40 (28.78%) HTML
2 24 (17.27%) J2EE
2 24 (17.27%) Spring
3 23 (16.55%) XML
4 20 (14.39%) Web Services
5 18 (12.95%) CSS
6 15 (10.79%) Hibernate
6 15 (10.79%) jQuery
7 13 (9.353%) Grails
7 13 (9.353%) Java EE
7 13 (9.353%) .NET
8 9 (6.475%) Servlets
8 9 (6.475%) Struts
8 9 (6.475%) XSLT
8 9 (6.475%) XHTML
8 9 (6.475%) Velocity
9 8 (5.755%) FIX Protocol
10 6 (4.317%) JSR 168
10 6 (4.317%) WebCenter
11 5 (3.597%) Gherkin
Application Platforms
1 11 (7.914%) Tomcat
2 9 (6.475%) Apache
2 9 (6.475%) Alfresco
2 9 (6.475%) Liferay
3 6 (4.317%) CMS
4 5 (3.597%) IIS
4 5 (3.597%) Amazon AWS
5 2 (1.439%) GlassFish
Applications
1 13 (9.353%) MS Office
2 10 (7.194%) MS Excel
3 8 (5.755%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.719%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.719%) LatentZero
1 1 (0.719%) Tesseract
1 1 (0.719%) Minerva
1 1 (0.719%) Sentinel
1 1 (0.719%) Eagle PACE
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.878%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.83%) MySQL
2 18 (12.95%) SQL Server
3 14 (10.07%) DB2
4 9 (6.475%) MongoDB
5 6 (4.317%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (3.597%) SQL Server 2005
7 2 (1.439%) Apache Cassandra
7 2 (1.439%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.439%) HBase
8 1 (0.719%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 18 (12.95%) JIRA
2 16 (11.51%) Subversion
3 15 (10.79%) Visual Studio
4 14 (10.07%) Eclipse
4 14 (10.07%) Team Foundation Server
4 14 (10.07%) MSTest
5 13 (9.353%) Jenkins
6 12 (8.633%) QuickTest Pro
7 9 (6.475%) IntelliJ
7 9 (6.475%) QADirector
7 9 (6.475%) Selenium
7 9 (6.475%) GitHub
7 9 (6.475%) Gradle
8 8 (5.755%) Cucumber
9 6 (4.317%) MonkeyTalk
9 6 (4.317%) Robotium
10 5 (3.597%) Hudson
10 5 (3.597%) SpecFlow
10 5 (3.597%) TortoiseSVN
11 4 (2.878%) Mockito
General
1 47 (33.81%) Finance
2 14 (10.07%) Banking
3 8 (5.755%) Retail
4 7 (5.036%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.158%) Marketing
6 1 (0.719%) Italian Language
6 1 (0.719%) Legal
6 1 (0.719%) Advertising
6 1 (0.719%) Military
6 1 (0.719%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 37 (26.62%) Tester
2 32 (23.02%) Developer
3 28 (20.14%) Analyst
4 24 (17.27%) Java Developer
5 22 (15.83%) Test Analyst
6 15 (10.79%) Software Tester
7 13 (9.353%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 12 (8.633%) Junior
9 11 (7.914%) Junior Tester
10 10 (7.194%) Functional Test Analyst
10 10 (7.194%) Functional Analyst
11 9 (6.475%) Agile Java Developer
12 7 (5.036%) Test Engineer
12 7 (5.036%) J2EE Developer
12 7 (5.036%) Senior Developer
13 6 (4.317%) Consultant
13 6 (4.317%) Testing Specialist
13 6 (4.317%) Head of Testing
13 6 (4.317%) QA Analyst
14 5 (3.597%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.353%) N-Tier
2 12 (8.633%) Computer Science
3 9 (6.475%) Mathematics
3 9 (6.475%) Open Source
3 9 (6.475%) Mobile App
3 9 (6.475%) Derivative
4 7 (5.036%) Statistics
4 7 (5.036%) iPhone
5 6 (4.317%) Wiki
6 4 (2.878%) Smartphone
7 3 (2.158%) Equities
8 2 (1.439%) EPoS
9 1 (0.719%) Replication
9 1 (0.719%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 1 (0.719%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 36 (25.90%) Windows
2 14 (10.07%) UNIX
3 9 (6.475%) Solaris
4 8 (5.755%) Linux
4 8 (5.755%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (5.036%) Android
6 1 (0.719%) Windows Server 2008
6 1 (0.719%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (23.74%) Software Testing
2 30 (21.58%) Agile Software Development
3 26 (18.71%) TDD
3 26 (18.71%) Regression Testing
3 26 (18.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 25 (17.99%) Test Scripting
5 24 (17.27%) System Testing
6 20 (14.39%) E-Commerce
7 19 (13.67%) Automated Testing
7 19 (13.67%) Non-Functional Testing
8 18 (12.95%) Test Management
9 14 (10.07%) MVC
10 13 (9.353%) Continuous Integration
10 13 (9.353%) Test Automation
11 12 (8.633%) Integration Testing
12 11 (7.914%) Data Analysis
13 10 (7.194%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (7.194%) Test Strategy
14 9 (6.475%) Web Application Development
14 9 (6.475%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (38.85%) SQL
2 37 (26.62%) Java
3 24 (17.27%) JavaScript
4 22 (15.83%) Groovy
5 11 (7.914%) C#
6 9 (6.475%) Scala
7 7 (5.036%) C
7 7 (5.036%) Ruby
8 6 (4.317%) Objective-C
9 5 (3.597%) VBA
10 3 (2.158%) VB
10 3 (2.158%) Perl
10 3 (2.158%) PHP
11 2 (1.439%) PL/SQL
11 2 (1.439%) C++
Qualifications
1 37 (26.62%) ISEB
2 32 (23.02%) Degree
3 9 (6.475%) HNC
4 3 (2.158%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (2.158%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (1.439%) ISTQB
6 1 (0.719%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.719%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (41.73%) QA
2 1 (0.719%) Solvency II
System Software
1 1 (0.719%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 19 (13.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 47 (33.81%) Oracle
2 9 (6.475%) HP
2 9 (6.475%) GigaSpaces
3 8 (5.755%) Red Hat
4 7 (5.036%) Cognizant
5 6 (4.317%) Microsoft
5 6 (4.317%) FatWire
6 5 (3.597%) Atlassian
7 4 (2.878%) Google
8 2 (1.439%) IBM
9 1 (0.719%) Misys
9 1 (0.719%) Informatica
9 1 (0.719%) Reuters
9 1 (0.719%) Bloomberg
9 1 (0.719%) Fujitsu
9 1 (0.719%) thinkFolio
9 1 (0.719%) Cadis
QA Analyst, Testing - Derivatives - London
City of London
Huxley Associates is seeking a senior Test analyst position to join a Top Financial Derivatives House to work within their Derivatives Valuations department. The candidate will be working...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
Automation Tester - Associate Level - London
City of London
Huxley Associates is seeking a QA Analyst to join a Top Financial Derivatives House to work within their Equities department. The candidate will be working within a team...
Huxley Associates
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Support Engineer
West Sussex
Customize HP Quality Center based on on-going requirements from development and test teams... Qualifications & Experience: * Knowledge of other test tools to support software development such as HP...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £32000 Per Annum
Posted: 17 May 2013
Testing Practitioners - Fantastic Permanent Opportunties
Newcastle Upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear
Some Integration may also be required with -Unit Testing, Functional Testing, Performance Testing, Penetration Testing and Regression Testing - UAT (not all are essential) This is a fantastic opportunity!
RDF Resources
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + Salary DOE & Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Test Team Lead - London - £40,000 - £50,000 + Bonus + Benefits
London
Max overall package = £60,000.Senior Test Analyst, Test Team Lead, Team Leading, Test Team Leader, Test Lead, Test Leader, ISEB, ISTQB, Automation, Automated, Functional Testing, Performance Testing,...
Cornucopia IT Resourcing Limited
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 1 May 2013
Solutions Analyst - Business Analysis
Crawley, West Sussex
Quality Assurance... Solid experience in key disciplines of Business Analysis, QA Testing and Business Process Improvement ISEB Qualification (or equivalent) would be desirable Self-motivated, dynamic and results.....
Virgin Holidays
Salary: Highly Competitive
Posted: 26 April 2013
Junior Tester - QTP / Automated / Functional + iPad-mini
Thame, Oxfordshire
The Role The role will include using Quick Test Pro to update existing automated test scripts, participating in SCRUM / Agile meetings and a familiarity with Visual Studio will...
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £26000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Programme Test Manager - Banking IT - £75k
London
THE ROLE Build out and lead the Functional Testing function within this space. Project/programme test strategy: Formulates the approach for end to end testing, including identification of...
Nicoll Curtin
Salary: £65000 - £75000 per annum + benefits & bonus
Posted: 14 May 2013
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