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Tester Jobs in England
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills
Browse 157 Tester job vacancies in England

The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the England region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 256 190 182
Rank change year-on-year
-66 -8
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 1075 1645 1598
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 1.056% 1.451% 1.315%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.119% 1.527% 1.396%
Number of salaries quoted 906 1482 1409
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,850 £55,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
England
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 96088 107696 114482
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in England 94.37% 95.02% 94.23%
Number of salaries quoted 80815 93104 97727
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Tester
UK

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

England Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

England Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

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

England Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the England region over the 3 months to 19 June 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		 Find
Job
Vacancies
London -84 375 £45,000 +5.88% 58
South East -31 253 £31,000 -16.77% 30
Yorkshire -7 92 £35,000 +27.27% 20
East of England -43 92 £32,500 - 9
West Midlands -1 73 £37,000 +19.35% 11
North West -50 72 £33,000 +10.00% 13
South West -29 60 £34,000 +13.33% 3
East Midlands +10 52 £33,250 +2.30% 8
North East +7 16 £27,000 -12.90% 4
Midlands +19 1 - - 1
Tester
UK

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 1047 (43.99%) QA
2 730 (30.67%) SQL
3 650 (27.31%) Selenium
4 564 (23.70%) ISEB
5 562 (23.61%) Test Scripting
6 554 (23.28%) Java
7 529 (22.23%) Automated Testing
8 523 (21.97%) Finance
9 509 (21.39%) Agile Software Development
10 466 (19.58%) Software Testing
11 442 (18.57%) Degree
12 436 (18.32%) Test Automation
13 401 (16.85%) .NET
14 377 (15.84%) Windows
15 370 (15.55%) C#
16 330 (13.87%) Manual Testing
17 328 (13.78%) QuickTest Pro
18 307 (12.90%) ISTQB
19 287 (12.06%) Scrum
20 280 (11.76%) Regression Testing
21 262 (11.01%) UNIX
22 260 (10.92%) Performance Testing
23 257 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
24 240 (10.08%) Microsoft
25 230 (9.664%) Linux
26 229 (9.622%) Oracle
27 220 (9.244%) SQL Server
28 219 (9.202%) WebDriver
29 218 (9.160%) Cucumber
30 209 (8.782%) TDD

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the England region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 401 (16.85%) .NET
2 200 (8.403%) XML
3 170 (7.143%) HTML
4 107 (4.496%) Web Services
5 89 (3.739%) ASP.NET
6 64 (2.689%) SOAP
7 62 (2.605%) J2EE
8 61 (2.563%) CSS
9 55 (2.311%) soapUI
10 35 (1.471%) .NET Framework
11 30 (1.261%) WebSphere
12 25 (1.050%) Gherkin
13 22 (0.924%) Spring
14 20 (0.840%) JSON
14 20 (0.840%) Hibernate
15 19 (0.798%) RESTful
16 17 (0.714%) Middleware
17 15 (0.630%) XSLT
18 14 (0.588%) CGI
19 13 (0.546%) Ajax
Application Platforms
1 46 (1.933%) IIS
2 38 (1.597%) SharePoint
3 36 (1.513%) Tomcat
4 21 (0.882%) Apache
5 20 (0.840%) CMS
6 17 (0.714%) WebSphere Application Server
7 12 (0.504%) WebLogic
8 10 (0.420%) SharePoint 2010
8 10 (0.420%) Confluence
9 7 (0.294%) BizTalk Server
10 6 (0.252%) Drupal
10 6 (0.252%) MS Exchange
10 6 (0.252%) MQSeries
11 5 (0.210%) Tuxedo
11 5 (0.210%) WebLogic Portal
11 5 (0.210%) TIBCO EMS
12 4 (0.168%) Magento
12 4 (0.168%) Shopify
13 3 (0.126%) Windows Azure
14 2 (0.084%) GlassFish
Applications
1 157 (6.597%) MS Excel
2 70 (2.941%) MS Office
3 16 (0.672%) MS Project
4 13 (0.546%) MS PowerPoint
5 7 (0.294%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.210%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 12 (0.504%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (0.378%) Temenos T24
3 5 (0.210%) SAP FI
4 4 (0.168%) VisionPLUS
4 4 (0.168%) Dynamics AX
5 3 (0.126%) SAP CO
5 3 (0.126%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.084%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.084%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
6 2 (0.084%) SAP Retail
6 2 (0.084%) Dynamics CRM
6 2 (0.084%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.084%) BusinessWorks
7 1 (0.042%) Sophis RISQUE
7 1 (0.042%) Summit
7 1 (0.042%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.042%) LatentZero
7 1 (0.042%) Sentinel
7 1 (0.042%) Cognos Business Intelligence
7 1 (0.042%) SAP GTS
Communications & Networking
1 90 (3.782%) Internet
2 86 (3.613%) HTTP
3 55 (2.311%) Wireless
4 44 (1.849%) TCP/IP
5 40 (1.681%) Firewall
6 28 (1.176%) VPN
7 23 (0.966%) Network Security
8 19 (0.798%) HTTPS
9 16 (0.672%) LAN
9 16 (0.672%) WAN
10 15 (0.630%) Ethernet
11 13 (0.546%) Broadband
12 10 (0.420%) IGMP
13 5 (0.210%) SSL
13 5 (0.210%) VLAN
13 5 (0.210%) NAS
14 4 (0.168%) NGN
14 4 (0.168%) Wireshark
14 4 (0.168%) IPv6
14 4 (0.168%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 220 (9.244%) SQL Server
2 82 (3.445%) MySQL
3 41 (1.723%) RDBMS
3 41 (1.723%) DB2
4 33 (1.387%) Data Warehouse
5 22 (0.924%) Oracle Reports
6 20 (0.840%) SQL Server 2008
7 15 (0.630%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 14 (0.588%) SQL Server 2005
9 13 (0.546%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 13 (0.546%) Big Data
10 12 (0.504%) Oracle 11g
11 9 (0.378%) MS Access
11 9 (0.378%) OLTP
12 8 (0.336%) JasperReports
12 8 (0.336%) TOAD
12 8 (0.336%) Oracle 8/8i
13 6 (0.252%) DbVisualizer
13 6 (0.252%) Oracle 10g
13 6 (0.252%) Cognos Powerplay
Development Applications
1 650 (27.31%) Selenium
2 328 (13.78%) QuickTest Pro
3 219 (9.202%) WebDriver
4 218 (9.160%) Cucumber
5 168 (7.059%) JIRA
6 150 (6.303%) LoadRunner
7 108 (4.538%) Visual Studio
8 97 (4.076%) Team Foundation Server
9 83 (3.487%) JUnit
10 62 (2.605%) JMeter
11 59 (2.479%) FitNesse
12 45 (1.891%) Jenkins
13 43 (1.807%) SpecFlow
14 37 (1.555%) NUnit
15 32 (1.345%) Subversion
16 30 (1.261%) Git (software)
16 30 (1.261%) Rational Robot
17 28 (1.176%) WinRunner
17 28 (1.176%) TestDirector
18 27 (1.134%) Eclipse
General
1 523 (21.97%) Finance
2 133 (5.588%) Banking
3 97 (4.076%) Retail
4 66 (2.773%) Games
5 47 (1.975%) Telecoms
6 46 (1.933%) Publishing
7 43 (1.807%) Law
8 41 (1.723%) Investment Banking
9 36 (1.513%) Legal
10 26 (1.092%) Financial Institution
11 20 (0.840%) Manufacturing
12 19 (0.798%) Marketing
13 18 (0.756%) Pharmaceutical
14 17 (0.714%) Electronics
15 12 (0.504%) Advertising
16 10 (0.420%) Front Office
17 9 (0.378%) Back Office
18 6 (0.252%) Music Industry
19 4 (0.168%) Japanese Language
19 4 (0.168%) Military
Miscellaneous
1 177 (7.437%) Computer Science
2 83 (3.487%) Mobile App
3 79 (3.319%) Open Source
4 47 (1.975%) Mathematics
5 38 (1.597%) Management Information System
6 34 (1.429%) Client/Server
7 33 (1.387%) SaaS
8 29 (1.218%) Derivative
9 27 (1.134%) Smartcard
10 24 (1.008%) iPhone
10 24 (1.008%) Biometrics
11 22 (0.924%) Blog
11 22 (0.924%) Social Network
11 22 (0.924%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
12 21 (0.882%) CESG
13 20 (0.840%) Mainframe
14 18 (0.756%) Enterprise Software
14 18 (0.756%) Equities
15 17 (0.714%) Social Media
15 17 (0.714%) iPad
Operating Systems
1 377 (15.84%) Windows
2 262 (11.01%) UNIX
3 230 (9.664%) Linux
4 81 (3.403%) Android
5 54 (2.269%) Apple iOS
6 39 (1.639%) Windows Server 2003
7 37 (1.555%) Windows XP
8 35 (1.471%) Solaris
9 29 (1.218%) Windows Server 2008
10 27 (1.134%) Windows Vista
11 23 (0.966%) AIX
12 21 (0.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 19 (0.798%) Mac OS
14 15 (0.630%) Mac OS X
15 13 (0.546%) Ubuntu
16 12 (0.504%) Windows 2000
17 10 (0.420%) SUSE
18 9 (0.378%) Windows 7
19 6 (0.252%) Windows Phone
19 6 (0.252%) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies
1 562 (23.61%) Test Scripting
2 529 (22.23%) Automated Testing
3 509 (21.39%) Agile Software Development
4 466 (19.58%) Software Testing
5 436 (18.32%) Test Automation
6 330 (13.87%) Manual Testing
7 287 (12.06%) Scrum
8 280 (11.76%) Regression Testing
9 260 (10.92%) Performance Testing
10 257 (10.80%) User Acceptance Testing
11 209 (8.782%) TDD
12 208 (8.739%) Automation Testing
13 203 (8.529%) E-Commerce
14 176 (7.395%) Web Testing
15 170 (7.143%) BDD
16 148 (6.218%) Penetration Testing
17 133 (5.588%) Test Management
18 116 (4.874%) Test Strategy
19 115 (4.832%) System Testing
20 114 (4.790%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 730 (30.67%) SQL
2 554 (23.28%) Java
3 370 (15.55%) C#
4 178 (7.479%) JavaScript
5 169 (7.101%) Python
6 142 (5.966%) C++
7 141 (5.924%) Ruby
8 129 (5.420%) Perl
9 95 (3.992%) VB
10 85 (3.571%) C
11 69 (2.899%) PHP
12 61 (2.563%) PL/SQL
13 58 (2.437%) VB.NET
14 55 (2.311%) Shell Script
15 40 (1.681%) VBScript
16 35 (1.471%) VBA
17 33 (1.387%) Bash shell
18 23 (0.966%) PowerShell
19 14 (0.588%) Lua
19 14 (0.588%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 564 (23.70%) ISEB
2 442 (18.57%) Degree
3 307 (12.90%) ISTQB
4 70 (2.941%) Security Cleared
5 47 (1.975%) CISSP
6 45 (1.891%) CEH
7 35 (1.471%) SC Cleared
8 34 (1.429%) CISM
9 27 (1.134%) CISA
10 20 (0.840%) OSCP
10 20 (0.840%) OSCE
11 19 (0.798%) GWAPT
12 18 (0.756%) GPEN
12 18 (0.756%) GCIH
13 17 (0.714%) DV Cleared
14 13 (0.546%) HND
15 12 (0.504%) PhD
16 9 (0.378%) HNC
17 4 (0.168%) IRCA
17 4 (0.168%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1047 (43.99%) QA
2 19 (0.798%) HIPAA
3 12 (0.504%) PCI DSS
4 9 (0.378%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 6 (0.252%) WAI
5 6 (0.252%) GLP
6 5 (0.210%) COBIT
7 3 (0.126%) GxP
8 2 (0.084%) SLA
9 1 (0.042%) ISO/IEC 17799
9 1 (0.042%) 21 CFR Part 11
9 1 (0.042%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.042%) ISO 8583
9 1 (0.042%) COSO
System Software
1 14 (0.588%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (0.378%) Active Directory
3 6 (0.252%) Hyper-V
4 4 (0.168%) NFS
5 3 (0.126%) Microsoft App-V
6 2 (0.084%) Nmap
7 1 (0.042%) ISA Server
7 1 (0.042%) Citrix Presentation Server
Systems Management
1 192 (8.067%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (0.210%) Nessus
3 4 (0.168%) WebInspect
3 4 (0.168%) WMI
3 4 (0.168%) Legato
4 3 (0.126%) AppDetective
5 2 (0.084%) CORE IMPACT
6 1 (0.042%) Backup Exec
6 1 (0.042%) SCCM
6 1 (0.042%) SCOM
6 1 (0.042%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 240 (10.08%) Microsoft
2 229 (9.622%) Oracle
3 149 (6.261%) HP
4 38 (1.597%) IBM
5 33 (1.387%) Citrix
6 25 (1.050%) VMware
7 23 (0.966%) JBoss
8 21 (0.882%) SAP
9 16 (0.672%) Sun
10 14 (0.588%) Red Hat
11 12 (0.504%) hybris
11 12 (0.504%) Cognos
11 12 (0.504%) Informatica
12 11 (0.462%) RedPrairie
13 9 (0.378%) Symbian
13 9 (0.378%) TIBCO
14 8 (0.336%) Temenos
14 8 (0.336%) CODA
15 7 (0.294%) Progress
15 7 (0.294%) Empirix
Software Tester
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
The successful applicants will have the ability to review functional and design specifications, test SQL databases and identify requirements from specifications... Key Skills: List of key skills for...
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30k - 35k per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
QA Tester - Automated - Financial - London
City of London
QA Software Tester - Automated - Financial - £35,000 + Pension + Healthcare - London KEY SKILLS: QA, QUALITY ASSURANCE, TEST, TESTER, SELENIUM, MANUAL, AUTOMATION, AUTOMATEDAn opportunity has arisen in central London for...
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
Software Tester
Worksop, East Midlands
Write manual test scripts to verify the performance and specifications of the software... Maintain and create product knowledge documentation for use within the test teamThe ideal candidate will...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + Bonus
Posted: 4 June 2013
Automation Tester / Test Automation - Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Automation/Tester/Agile/QA/Harrogate/Selenium/QTP/Loadrunner/Cucumber... You will have an excellent knowledge of automated test tools ( Selenium, QTP, Loadrunner, Cucumber etc ) to work on their...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Software Tester
Stockport, Cheshire
Key Responsibilities: -Analysing the requirements to produce estimates, test plans and test scripts -Conducting functional test execution using manual and automated test scripts across the development lifecycle -Identifying...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: £18,000 - £25,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Software Tester
Stockport, Cheshire, North West
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: GBP18,000 - GBP25,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
QA tester - web - Automation - £25 - 40K
York, North Yorkshire
Testing Circle Ltd
Salary: From £25,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Software Tester / Escalation Engineer / QA / Agile / Test Cases
Northamptonshire
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £32000 per annum + Bens + Bonus
Posted: 18 June 2013
QA Tester / C# Test Automation - Web Testing
Central London / West End
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £35k + share options
Posted: 18 June 2013
Software Tester
Milton Keynes, Buckinghamshire
Stott & May
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Test Analyst / Software Tester
Solihull, West Midlands (County)
networx
Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Test Analyst / Software Tester
Solihull, West Midlands
Networx Recruitment
Salary: £20,000 - £30,000 per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
QA Engineer/Tester/Analyst
London
Prism Digital
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + bonus, pension, stock and more
Posted: 13 June 2013
Tester / QA - R&D
Loughborough, Leicestershire
Gonnadoo
Salary: From £30,000 to £45,000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
QA / Software Tester (QTP), Hungerford , £37k + 8% Bonus.
Hungerford, Berkshire
The People Network
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + 8% bonus, 7% pension plus others
Posted: 14 June 2013
Tester / QA Test Analyst - Hedge Fund
London
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Test Analyst, QA, Manual Tester Hungerford, Berkshire
Hungerford, Berkshire
Xperian Recruitment Limited
Salary: From £26,000 to £34,000 per annum + Bonus + Pension+ Medical + Life As
Posted: 18 June 2013
QA TESTER CONSUMER LENDING - RISK / CREDIT E-COMMERCE
City, London
JP Specialist Contracts
Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + + Contract Opportunities
Posted: 12 June 2013
Software Tester, Permanent, Unit Testing, Automated Testing, .net, C#
Leicester, Leicestershire
Executive Resource Group
Salary: Unspecified
Posted: 18 June 2013
Tester / QA Test Analyst - Hedge Fund
South West London
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £50k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
UAT / Software Tester
Cambridge, East Anglia
Networx Recruitment
Salary: £23,050 to £28,495
Posted: 5 June 2013
QA Tester, Web Driver, Java, Mobile - London to £45,000 URGENT
South West London
Oscar Associates (UK) Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 18 June 2013
Tester needed - Bristol - Hybrid role - Basic PHP/Javascript
Bristol, Avon
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £25000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Junior Software Tester
Newcastle upon Tyne, North East
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 21 May 2013
Tester
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Jet2.com
Salary: Excellent
Posted: 17 June 2013
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