The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the England region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Tester
Rank 792 794 819
Rank change year-on-year
+2 +25
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Tester 44 66 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 0.044% 0.058% 0.043%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.061% 0.045%
Number of salaries quoted 38 65 47
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -22.72%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £34,400 £28,400
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £38,750 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-12.25% +21.09%
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
95030 107492 112528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.41% 94.80% 94.28%
Number of salaries quoted 79926 92829 95737
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Tester
UK

Technical Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Tester across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

England Technical Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Trend

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

England Technical Tester Salary Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Tester across the England region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

England Technical Tester Salary Histogram

Technical Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Tester within the England region over the 3 months to 23 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 +7 22 £55,000 -2.22%
Yorkshire - 13 £37,000 -
North East - 6 £27,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £52,500 -
North West -13 1 £35,000 +16.66%
Technical Tester
UK

Technical Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Technical Tester in their job title 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 with Technical Tester in their job title.

1 62 (69.66%) Java
2 41 (46.07%) SQL
3 38 (42.70%) Test Automation
4 37 (41.57%) Selenium
5 36 (40.45%) C#
6 34 (38.20%) Automated Testing
7 33 (37.08%) QuickTest Pro
8 31 (34.83%) QA
9 30 (33.71%) UNIX
10 29 (32.58%) Finance
11 26 (29.21%) LoadRunner
12 24 (26.97%) .NET
13 23 (25.84%) Python
13 23 (25.84%) Scrum
14 20 (22.47%) ISEB
15 19 (21.35%) Linux
16 18 (20.22%) Shell Script
17 16 (17.98%) Agile Software Development
17 16 (17.98%) User Acceptance Testing
17 16 (17.98%) Perl
18 15 (16.85%) JUnit
18 15 (16.85%) ISTQB
19 14 (15.73%) NUnit
19 14 (15.73%) WebDriver
20 13 (14.61%) Ruby
20 13 (14.61%) Oracle
20 13 (14.61%) Rational Robot
21 12 (13.48%) PL/SQL
21 12 (13.48%) XML
21 12 (13.48%) Degree

Technical Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited Technical Tester in their job title 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 with Technical Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 24 (26.97%) .NET
2 12 (13.48%) XML
3 5 (5.618%) J2EE
4 3 (3.371%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.371%) Spring
4 3 (3.371%) JSF
5 2 (2.247%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.247%) X-Windows
6 1 (1.124%) ICEfaces
6 1 (1.124%) Middleware
6 1 (1.124%) XML Messaging
6 1 (1.124%) COM
6 1 (1.124%) Web Services
6 1 (1.124%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.371%) WebLogic Portal
1 3 (3.371%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.124%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.494%) HTTP
1 4 (4.494%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.247%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.124%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.989%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.865%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.247%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.124%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.124%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 37 (41.57%) Selenium
2 33 (37.08%) QuickTest Pro
3 26 (29.21%) LoadRunner
4 15 (16.85%) JUnit
5 14 (15.73%) NUnit
5 14 (15.73%) WebDriver
6 13 (14.61%) Rational Robot
7 11 (12.36%) WebLOAD
8 10 (11.24%) TestComplete
9 8 (8.989%) JMeter
10 7 (7.865%) WinRunner
10 7 (7.865%) Cucumber
11 4 (4.494%) FitNesse
12 3 (3.371%) ClearQuest
12 3 (3.371%) Bugzilla
13 2 (2.247%) Visual Studio
13 2 (2.247%) Team Foundation Server
13 2 (2.247%) JBehave
13 2 (2.247%) SilkTest
13 2 (2.247%) Hudson
General
1 29 (32.58%) Finance
2 10 (11.24%) Banking
2 10 (11.24%) Investment Banking
3 7 (7.865%) Financial Institution
4 3 (3.371%) Front Office
5 1 (1.124%) Billing
5 1 (1.124%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Social Network
2 4 (4.494%) SaaS
3 3 (3.371%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.371%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.371%) Derivative
3 3 (3.371%) Equities
3 3 (3.371%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.371%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 2 (2.247%) iPad
4 2 (2.247%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.247%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.247%) New Media
5 1 (1.124%) Open Source
5 1 (1.124%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 30 (33.71%) UNIX
2 19 (21.35%) Linux
3 10 (11.24%) Windows
4 7 (7.865%) Solaris
5 6 (6.742%) OpenBSD
5 6 (6.742%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.371%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.124%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.124%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.124%) Windows XP
7 1 (1.124%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (42.70%) Test Automation
2 34 (38.20%) Automated Testing
3 23 (25.84%) Scrum
4 16 (17.98%) Agile Software Development
4 16 (17.98%) User Acceptance Testing
5 12 (13.48%) Continuous Integration
6 11 (12.36%) TDD
6 11 (12.36%) E-Commerce
6 11 (12.36%) Waterfall
7 8 (8.989%) Manual Testing
8 7 (7.865%) Performance Testing
8 7 (7.865%) Test Strategy
8 7 (7.865%) Automation Testing
9 5 (5.618%) Load Testing
9 5 (5.618%) Integration Testing
9 5 (5.618%) Migration
10 4 (4.494%) OO
10 4 (4.494%) Workflow
10 4 (4.494%) Configuration Management
10 4 (4.494%) Stress Testing
Programming Languages
1 62 (69.66%) Java
2 41 (46.07%) SQL
3 36 (40.45%) C#
4 23 (25.84%) Python
5 18 (20.22%) Shell Script
6 16 (17.98%) Perl
7 13 (14.61%) Ruby
8 12 (13.48%) PL/SQL
9 8 (8.989%) Bash shell
10 7 (7.865%) AWK
10 7 (7.865%) Korn
10 7 (7.865%) VBScript
10 7 (7.865%) sed
11 4 (4.494%) C++
12 3 (3.371%) Tcl
13 2 (2.247%) F#
Qualifications
1 20 (22.47%) ISEB
2 15 (16.85%) ISTQB
3 12 (13.48%) Degree
4 1 (1.124%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (34.83%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.371%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.124%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (14.61%) Oracle
2 3 (3.371%) VMware
2 3 (3.371%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.247%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (1.124%) HP
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My client is seeking a passionate tester to own and grow the testing function, working closely within the development team where a variety of technologies will be utilised...
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + pension, holiday
Posted: 22 May 2013
Bolton, North West
My client is seeking a passionate tester to own and grow the testing function, working closely within the development team where a variety of technologies will be utilised...
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + pension, holiday
Posted: 23 May 2013
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