England Software Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the England region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Ferndown Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	215	235
Rank change on same period last year	+20
Matching permanent IT job ads	1659	1831
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.874 %	0.751 %
As % of the category below	1.586 %	1.452 %
Salaries quoted	1296	1518
Average minimum salary	£32,767	£33,720
Average salary	£35,958	£36,339
% change on same period last year	-1.04 %
Average maximum salary	£39,149	£38,959
UK excluding London average salary	£34,416	£33,266
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Processes & Methodologies England
Matching permanent IT job ads	104614	126086
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	55.09 %	51.72 %
Salaries quoted	86306	101070
Average minimum salary	£42,805	£44,508
Average salary	£46,885	£48,647
% change on same period last year	-3.62 %
Average maximum salary	£50,964	£52,787
UK excluding London average salary	£42,575	£44,522
% change on same period last year	-4.37 %
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Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

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

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the England region over the 3 months to 24 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
London	+54	508	£40,432	-9.89 %
South East	0	415	£35,239	+1.08 %
East of England	+21	190	£34,665	+1.47 %
South West	+41	170	£29,971	+2.68 %
North West	+7	164	£32,071	+4.11 %
Yorkshire	-12	76	£34,848	+19.58 %
West Midlands	-36	76	£33,312	-6.98 %
East Midlands	-56	17	£29,545	-14.11 %
Midlands	+2	10	£29,625	+9.72 %
North East	-24	7	£34,000	+18.62 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 1268 (37.49 %) ISEB 2 829 (24.51 %) Finance 3 827 (24.45 %) QA 4 808 (23.89 %) SQL 5 595 (17.59 %) Test Scripting 6 594 (17.56 %) Windows 7 520 (15.38 %) Degree 8 479 (14.16 %) Oracle 9 450 (13.31 %) UNIX 10 448 (13.25 %) Automated Testing 11 393 (11.62 %) TestDirector 12 354 (10.47 %) Java 13 329 (9.728 %) C++ 14 326 (9.639 %) SQL Server 15 304 (8.989 %) Microsoft

16 302 (8.930 %) .NET 17 270 (7.983 %) User Acceptance Testing 18 264 (7.806 %) Insurance 18 264 (7.806 %) C# 19 262 (7.747 %) Telecoms 20 253 (7.481 %) Banking 21 239 (7.067 %) Manual Testing 22 237 (7.008 %) Pensions 23 233 (6.889 %) QuickTest Pro 24 227 (6.712 %) Test Management 25 225 (6.653 %) VB 26 210 (6.209 %) Retail 27 209 (6.180 %) MS Excel 28 196 (5.795 %) Regression Testing 29 187 (5.529 %) C

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the England region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 302 (8.930 %) .NET 2 169 (4.997 %) XML 3 167 (4.938 %) J2EE 4 113 (3.341 %) WebServices 5 89 (2.632 %) HTML 6 50 (1.478 %) ASP.NET 7 42 (1.242 %) WebSphere 8 31 (0.917 %) SOAP 9 26 (0.769 %) .NET Framework 10 24 (0.710 %) CSS 11 20 (0.591 %) ASP 12 18 (0.532 %) Hibernate 13 16 (0.473 %) Spring 14 15 (0.444 %) AJAX 14 15 (0.444 %) FIX Protocol 15 14 (0.414 %) Adobe Flex 15 14 (0.414 %) Swing 16 13 (0.384 %) JSF 17 11 (0.325 %) ODBC 17 11 (0.325 %) Middleware	Application Platforms 1 53 (1.567 %) IIS 2 29 (0.857 %) JBoss 3 22 (0.651 %) Tomcat 4 19 (0.562 %) WebLogic 4 19 (0.562 %) CMS 5 18 (0.532 %) BizTalk Server 6 16 (0.473 %) Oracle Workflow 7 15 (0.444 %) Apache 7 15 (0.444 %) Commerce Server 8 14 (0.414 %) Content Management Server 8 14 (0.414 %) SharePoint 9 11 (0.325 %) MS Exchange 10 10 (0.296 %) Exchange Server 2003 10 10 (0.296 %) Exchange Server 2007 10 10 (0.296 %) WebSphere Message Broker 11 8 (0.237 %) Oracle Application Server 11 8 (0.237 %) Exchange Server 5.5 12 7 (0.207 %) MQSeries 12 7 (0.207 %) SharePoint Server 2007 13 6 (0.177 %) OpenEdge
Applications 1 209 (6.180 %) MS Excel 2 102 (3.016 %) MS Office 3 26 (0.769 %) MS PowerPoint 4 24 (0.710 %) MS Project 5 19 (0.562 %) Spreadsheet 6 9 (0.266 %) MS Visio 7 5 (0.148 %) Photoshop 7 5 (0.148 %) Adobe Illustrator 8 2 (0.059 %) InDesign 8 2 (0.059 %) PageMaker 8 2 (0.059 %) Maya 8 2 (0.059 %) 3ds Max 9 1 (0.030 %) RoboHelp 9 1 (0.030 %) AutoCAD 9 1 (0.030 %) CA Clarity	Business Applications 1 18 (0.532 %) Oracle Financials 2 16 (0.473 %) Great Plains 2 16 (0.473 %) Axapta 2 16 (0.473 %) Navision 2 16 (0.473 %) Oracle EBS 2 16 (0.473 %) Dynamics NAV 3 14 (0.414 %) Dynamics AX 3 14 (0.414 %) Dynamics GP 4 4 (0.118 %) Oracle Applications 4 4 (0.118 %) BASE24 4 4 (0.118 %) HiPortfolio 5 3 (0.089 %) Endur 5 3 (0.089 %) SAP CRM 5 3 (0.089 %) Tesseract 5 3 (0.089 %) Minerva 5 3 (0.089 %) Sentinel 5 3 (0.089 %) Academy Revenues and Benefits 5 3 (0.089 %) Eagle PACE 6 2 (0.059 %) Misys Midas 6 2 (0.059 %) Movex
Communications & Networking 1 137 (4.051 %) Internet 2 82 (2.425 %) GSM 3 79 (2.336 %) TCP/IP 4 53 (1.567 %) LAN 4 53 (1.567 %) Wireless 5 50 (1.478 %) TCAP 5 50 (1.478 %) INAP 5 50 (1.478 %) H.323 6 46 (1.360 %) WAN 7 40 (1.183 %) VoIP 8 39 (1.153 %) Firewall 9 37 (1.094 %) Broadband 10 27 (0.798 %) VPN 11 24 (0.710 %) SNMP 12 19 (0.562 %) CTI 13 17 (0.503 %) MGCP 13 17 (0.503 %) Megaco 14 16 (0.473 %) GPRS 15 15 (0.444 %) 3G 16 14 (0.414 %) HTTP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 326 (9.639 %) SQL Server 2 62 (1.833 %) Datawarehouse 3 46 (1.360 %) SQL Server 2000 4 40 (1.183 %) RDBMS 5 35 (1.035 %) SQL Server 2005 6 32 (0.946 %) TOAD 7 27 (0.798 %) MySQL 8 20 (0.591 %) Oracle 10g 9 18 (0.532 %) Oracle Reports 10 15 (0.444 %) Crystal Reports 11 14 (0.414 %) Oracle 9i 12 12 (0.355 %) DB2 13 10 (0.296 %) MS Access 13 10 (0.296 %) Oracle 8/8i 14 9 (0.266 %) BusinessObjects 15 7 (0.207 %) GIS 16 6 (0.177 %) SQL Server Reporting Services 17 4 (0.118 %) PostgreSQL 17 4 (0.118 %) SQL Server 7 17 4 (0.118 %) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications 1 393 (11.62 %) TestDirector 2 233 (6.889 %) QuickTest Pro 3 168 (4.967 %) WinRunner 4 158 (4.672 %) LoadRunner 5 66 (1.952 %) Visual Studio 6 55 (1.626 %) SilkTest 7 35 (1.035 %) TestComplete 8 29 (0.857 %) Rational Robot 9 28 (0.828 %) Selenium 10 22 (0.651 %) Bugzilla 11 21 (0.621 %) JUnit 12 19 (0.562 %) VSS/SourceSafe 13 17 (0.503 %) ClearQuest 13 17 (0.503 %) JIRA 13 17 (0.503 %) WATIR 14 14 (0.414 %) TestPartner 14 14 (0.414 %) Ant 15 13 (0.384 %) NUnit 16 12 (0.355 %) QARun 16 12 (0.355 %) Flash	General 1 829 (24.51 %) Finance 2 264 (7.806 %) Insurance 3 262 (7.747 %) Telecoms 4 253 (7.481 %) Banking 5 237 (7.008 %) Pensions 6 210 (6.209 %) Retail 7 113 (3.341 %) Investment Banking 8 105 (3.105 %) Health 9 58 (1.715 %) Back Office 10 54 (1.597 %) Retail Banking 11 50 (1.478 %) Government 12 47 (1.390 %) Education 13 44 (1.301 %) Games 14 39 (1.153 %) Financial Institution 15 37 (1.094 %) Pharmaceutical 15 37 (1.094 %) Legal 16 29 (0.857 %) Front Office 17 28 (0.828 %) Electronics 18 24 (0.710 %) Music 18 24 (0.710 %) Marketing
Job Titles 1 1137 (33.62 %) Analyst 2 894 (26.43 %) Tester 3 872 (25.78 %) Test Analyst 4 382 (11.30 %) Software Tester 5 366 (10.82 %) Test Manager 6 254 (7.510 %) Developer 7 229 (6.771 %) Test Engineer 8 221 (6.535 %) Consultant 9 205 (6.062 %) Software Engineer 10 139 (4.110 %) Senior Analyst 11 120 (3.548 %) Team Leader 12 108 (3.193 %) QA Analyst 13 106 (3.134 %) QA Tester 14 99 (2.927 %) QA Engineer 15 98 (2.898 %) Senior Test Analyst 16 91 (2.691 %) Test Consultant 17 83 (2.454 %) Senior Tester 18 78 (2.306 %) Software Test Engineer 19 77 (2.277 %) Systems Tester 20 70 (2.070 %) Test Team Leader	Miscellaneous 1 127 (3.755 %) Client/Server 2 90 (2.661 %) Computer Science 3 73 (2.158 %) Derivative 4 53 (1.567 %) AS400 5 40 (1.183 %) Equities 6 38 (1.124 %) Mathematics 7 32 (0.946 %) Chemistry 8 30 (0.887 %) EPoS 9 29 (0.857 %) Speech Recognition 9 29 (0.857 %) Equity Derivative 10 27 (0.798 %) Biology 11 26 (0.769 %) Life Science 12 25 (0.739 %) Handset 13 22 (0.651 %) Mainframe 13 22 (0.651 %) Management Information System 14 21 (0.621 %) Physics 15 16 (0.473 %) Fixed Income 16 13 (0.384 %) NHS 17 12 (0.355 %) Firmware 17 12 (0.355 %) Credit Derivative
Operating Systems 1 594 (17.56 %) Windows 2 450 (13.31 %) UNIX 3 146 (4.317 %) Linux 4 51 (1.508 %) Windows 2000 5 49 (1.449 %) Windows XP 6 43 (1.271 %) Windows NT 7 28 (0.828 %) Solaris 8 11 (0.325 %) Windows Server 2003 9 10 (0.296 %) zOS 10 8 (0.237 %) ThreadX 11 7 (0.207 %) AIX 11 7 (0.207 %) HPUX 12 6 (0.177 %) Windows Mobile 13 4 (0.118 %) Windows CE 14 3 (0.089 %) MVS 14 3 (0.089 %) OS/400 15 2 (0.059 %) Embedded Linux 15 2 (0.059 %) SUSE 15 2 (0.059 %) VMS 16 1 (0.030 %) Debian	Processes & Methodologies 1 595 (17.59 %) Test Scripting 2 448 (13.25 %) Automated Testing 3 270 (7.983 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 239 (7.067 %) Manual Testing 5 227 (6.712 %) Test Management 6 196 (5.795 %) Regression Testing 7 175 (5.174 %) Project Management 8 123 (3.637 %) UML 9 122 (3.607 %) OO 10 109 (3.223 %) Performance Testing 11 107 (3.164 %) System Testing 12 102 (3.016 %) E-Commerce 13 97 (2.868 %) Agile Software Development 14 88 (2.602 %) Integration Testing 14 88 (2.602 %) Security Cleared 15 82 (2.425 %) PRINCE2 16 76 (2.247 %) ITIL 17 75 (2.218 %) Validation 18 71 (2.099 %) Web Testing 19 69 (2.040 %) Requirements Analysis
Programming Languages 1 808 (23.89 %) SQL 2 354 (10.47 %) Java 3 329 (9.728 %) C++ 4 264 (7.806 %) C# 5 225 (6.653 %) VB 6 187 (5.529 %) C 7 104 (3.075 %) VBScript 8 90 (2.661 %) Perl 9 74 (2.188 %) JavaScript 10 72 (2.129 %) VB.NET 11 59 (1.745 %) Python 12 57 (1.685 %) Embedded C++ 13 51 (1.508 %) RPG 14 48 (1.419 %) Shell Script 15 36 (1.064 %) Delphi 16 33 (0.976 %) PL/SQL 17 28 (0.828 %) VBA 18 22 (0.651 %) PHP 19 18 (0.532 %) Embedded C 20 17 (0.503 %) Transact-SQL	Qualifications 1 1268 (37.49 %) ISEB 2 520 (15.38 %) Degree 3 160 (4.731 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 93 (2.750 %) ISTQB 5 59 (1.745 %) Microsoft Certification 6 37 (1.094 %) HND 7 26 (0.769 %) HNC 8 25 (0.739 %) PhD 9 20 (0.591 %) MCP 10 15 (0.444 %) PRINCE2 Certification 11 12 (0.355 %) CIMA 11 12 (0.355 %) ACCA 12 9 (0.266 %) MCSE 13 4 (0.118 %) CFA 14 3 (0.089 %) MAPM 14 3 (0.089 %) ITIL Certification 14 3 (0.089 %) PMP 14 3 (0.089 %) PMI Certification 14 3 (0.089 %) MBCS 15 1 (0.030 %) CIPFA
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 827 (24.45 %) QA 2 26 (0.769 %) ISO9001 3 9 (0.266 %) TickIT 3 9 (0.266 %) ISO8583 4 7 (0.207 %) 21 CFR Part 11 5 4 (0.118 %) ISO9000 6 3 (0.089 %) MiFID 6 3 (0.089 %) SLA 7 1 (0.030 %) ISO9002	System Software 1 64 (1.892 %) Terminal Server 2 31 (0.917 %) Active Directory 3 7 (0.207 %) MetaFrame 3 7 (0.207 %) Tivoli Workload Scheduler 4 6 (0.177 %) Microsoft Virtual Server 4 6 (0.177 %) VMware Server 5 5 (0.148 %) MSMQ 6 2 (0.059 %) VMware Infrastructure 7 1 (0.030 %) VMware Workstation
Systems Management 1 12 (0.355 %) MOM 2 8 (0.237 %) Systems Management Server (SMS) 3 7 (0.207 %) Tivoli 4 1 (0.030 %) SCCM	Vendors 1 479 (14.16 %) Oracle 2 304 (8.989 %) Microsoft 3 111 (3.282 %) Citrix 4 86 (2.543 %) HP 5 69 (2.040 %) SAP 6 37 (1.094 %) IBM 7 29 (0.857 %) Sybase 7 29 (0.857 %) Compuware 8 20 (0.591 %) Sage 9 19 (0.562 %) Pegasus 10 18 (0.532 %) Progress 11 16 (0.473 %) Exchequer 11 16 (0.473 %) Infor 12 12 (0.355 %) VMware 13 11 (0.325 %) Symbian 14 10 (0.296 %) Adobe 14 10 (0.296 %) Retek 15 9 (0.266 %) Cisco 15 9 (0.266 %) Business Objects 15 9 (0.266 %) MKS