England Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the England region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coalville Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochester Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	182	131
Rank change on same period last year	-51
Matching permanent IT job ads	1755	3270
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.024 %	1.402 %
As % of the category below	1.198 %	1.606 %
Salaries quoted	1516	2615
Average minimum salary	£31,414	£30,673
Average salary	£34,321	£33,376
% change on same period last year	+2.83 %
Average maximum salary	£37,228	£36,079
UK excluding London average salary	£32,035	£31,660
% change on same period last year	+1.18 %
Job Titles England
Matching permanent IT job ads	146529	203659
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	85.52 %	87.31 %
Salaries quoted	123055	164516
Average minimum salary	£39,032	£40,397
Average salary	£42,687	£44,180
% change on same period last year	-3.38 %
Average maximum salary	£46,342	£47,963
UK excluding London average salary	£38,201	£39,267
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the England region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the England region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 7 October 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	-27	682	£38,622	+4.11 %
South East	-71	312	£32,811	-1.54 %
North West	-15	205	£30,340	+2.56 %
East of England	-42	160	£33,026	+0.67 %
South West	-58	127	£33,395	+15.61 %
West Midlands	+10	124	£30,742	+0.05 %
East Midlands	-38	77	£30,519	+0.12 %
Yorkshire	-56	74	£27,070	-10.32 %
Midlands	+24	8	-	-
North East	-14	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 1359 (33.37 %) QA 2 1130 (27.74 %) ISEB 3 1034 (25.39 %) SQL 4 967 (23.74 %) Finance 5 834 (20.48 %) Test Scripting 6 794 (19.49 %) Software Testing 7 774 (19.00 %) Automated Testing 8 613 (15.05 %) Windows 9 549 (13.48 %) Degree 10 521 (12.79 %) QuickTest Pro 11 503 (12.35 %) TestDirector 12 477 (11.71 %) Java 13 442 (10.85 %) .NET 14 404 (9.919 %) SQL Server 15 396 (9.723 %) WinRunner

16 394 (9.673 %) Oracle 17 393 (9.649 %) UNIX 17 393 (9.649 %) Agile Software Development 18 392 (9.624 %) User Acceptance Testing 19 383 (9.403 %) Manual Testing 20 379 (9.305 %) LoadRunner 21 355 (8.716 %) Microsoft 22 324 (7.955 %) VB 23 321 (7.881 %) C# 24 296 (7.267 %) Pensions 25 276 (6.776 %) Performance Testing 25 276 (6.776 %) Regression Testing 26 268 (6.580 %) MS Excel 27 251 (6.163 %) Banking 28 247 (6.064 %) Perl

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 1 442 (10.85 %) .NET 2 192 (4.714 %) XML 3 145 (3.560 %) HTML 4 131 (3.216 %) ASP.NET 5 97 (2.382 %) CSS 6 86 (2.111 %) WebServices 7 82 (2.013 %) J2EE 8 39 (0.958 %) ASP 9 31 (0.761 %) AJAX 9 31 (0.761 %) Silverlight 10 29 (0.712 %) XHTML 11 25 (0.614 %) SOAP 11 25 (0.614 %) .NET Framework 12 23 (0.565 %) XSLT 13 17 (0.417 %) WPF 14 11 (0.270 %) Django 15 10 (0.246 %) JSP 16 9 (0.221 %) XSL 16 9 (0.221 %) .NET Remoting 17 8 (0.196 %) J2ME	Application Platforms 1 45 (1.105 %) IIS 2 31 (0.761 %) Apache 3 21 (0.516 %) WebLogic 4 12 (0.295 %) SharePoint 5 10 (0.246 %) CMS 5 10 (0.246 %) Oracle Workflow 5 10 (0.246 %) BizTalk Server 6 8 (0.196 %) SharePoint Server 2007 6 8 (0.196 %) Tomcat 7 4 (0.098 %) Content Management Server 8 3 (0.074 %) MQSeries 9 2 (0.049 %) JBoss 9 2 (0.049 %) SAS 9 2 (0.049 %) iPlanet 10 1 (0.025 %) Commerce Server 10 1 (0.025 %) Office Project Server 10 1 (0.025 %) ColdFusion 10 1 (0.025 %) MS Exchange 10 1 (0.025 %) Lotus Domino
Applications 1 268 (6.580 %) MS Excel 2 82 (2.013 %) MS Office 3 25 (0.614 %) MS Visio 4 9 (0.221 %) Spreadsheet 5 8 (0.196 %) MS Project 5 8 (0.196 %) MS PowerPoint 6 1 (0.025 %) NASTRAN 6 1 (0.025 %) RoboHelp 6 1 (0.025 %) S-PLUS	Business Applications 1 23 (0.565 %) Oracle Applications 2 10 (0.246 %) Metrica 3 6 (0.147 %) SAP HR 3 6 (0.147 %) Oracle EBS 4 5 (0.123 %) SoftGrid 5 4 (0.098 %) Oracle ERP 6 3 (0.074 %) Oracle Financials 7 2 (0.049 %) SAP FI/CO 7 2 (0.049 %) Summit 7 2 (0.049 %) SAP CO 7 2 (0.049 %) SAP SD 7 2 (0.049 %) SAP R/3 7 2 (0.049 %) SAP FI 7 2 (0.049 %) SAP MM 7 2 (0.049 %) LongView 8 1 (0.025 %) Oracle HRMS 8 1 (0.025 %) Beauchamp 8 1 (0.025 %) CODA Dream 8 1 (0.025 %) SAP CRM 8 1 (0.025 %) SAP Payroll
Communications & Networking 1 173 (4.247 %) Internet 2 68 (1.670 %) HTTP 3 63 (1.547 %) Wireless 4 59 (1.449 %) TCP/IP 5 38 (0.933 %) Network Security 6 37 (0.908 %) VoIP 7 32 (0.786 %) GPRS 8 31 (0.761 %) Firewall 9 26 (0.638 %) GSM 10 19 (0.466 %) H.323 11 16 (0.393 %) CDMA 12 13 (0.319 %) FTP 13 12 (0.295 %) CTI 13 12 (0.295 %) Broadband 14 11 (0.270 %) WAN 14 11 (0.270 %) VPN 14 11 (0.270 %) 3G 15 10 (0.246 %) UMTS 15 10 (0.246 %) Bluetooth 16 9 (0.221 %) LAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 404 (9.919 %) SQL Server 2 82 (2.013 %) SQL Server 2005 3 35 (0.859 %) MS Access 4 33 (0.810 %) Oracle 10g 5 28 (0.687 %) DB2 6 26 (0.638 %) SQL Server 2000 7 25 (0.614 %) MySQL 8 21 (0.516 %) Oracle Reports 9 19 (0.466 %) Oracle 9i 9 19 (0.466 %) Datawarehouse 10 17 (0.417 %) TOAD 11 13 (0.319 %) RDBMS 12 10 (0.246 %) Oracle 8/8i 13 9 (0.221 %) ETL 13 9 (0.221 %) Oracle 11g 14 8 (0.196 %) Crystal Reports 15 5 (0.123 %) Informix 15 5 (0.123 %) Data Mining 15 5 (0.123 %) BusinessObjects 15 5 (0.123 %) SAP BW
Development Applications 1 521 (12.79 %) QuickTest Pro 2 503 (12.35 %) TestDirector 3 396 (9.723 %) WinRunner 4 379 (9.305 %) LoadRunner 5 138 (3.388 %) Selenium 6 77 (1.890 %) FitNesse 6 77 (1.890 %) Visual Studio 7 52 (1.277 %) SilkTest 8 50 (1.228 %) JMeter 8 50 (1.228 %) WATIR 9 46 (1.129 %) Paros 10 40 (0.982 %) Rational Robot 10 40 (0.982 %) JUnit 11 38 (0.933 %) QALoad 12 37 (0.908 %) TestComplete 13 36 (0.884 %) NUnit 14 35 (0.859 %) Flash 14 35 (0.859 %) QARun 15 31 (0.761 %) TestPartner 16 27 (0.663 %) Bugzilla	General 1 967 (23.74 %) Finance 2 296 (7.267 %) Pensions 3 251 (6.163 %) Banking 4 223 (5.475 %) Insurance 5 174 (4.272 %) Health 6 145 (3.560 %) Telecoms 7 117 (2.873 %) Retail 8 106 (2.603 %) Games 9 99 (2.431 %) Government 10 59 (1.449 %) Financial Institution 11 53 (1.301 %) Retail Banking 12 52 (1.277 %) Pharmaceutical 13 51 (1.252 %) Education 14 50 (1.228 %) Investment Banking 14 50 (1.228 %) Publishing 14 50 (1.228 %) Online Games 15 42 (1.031 %) Front Office 16 37 (0.908 %) Electronics 17 35 (0.859 %) Marketing 18 33 (0.810 %) Back Office
Miscellaneous 1 112 (2.750 %) Client/Server 2 110 (2.701 %) Computer Science 3 70 (1.719 %) Mathematics 4 43 (1.056 %) Handset 5 42 (1.031 %) Derivative 6 38 (0.933 %) Mainframe 7 27 (0.663 %) Statistics 8 26 (0.638 %) Chemistry 9 25 (0.614 %) Biology 9 25 (0.614 %) Life Science 9 25 (0.614 %) AS400 10 24 (0.589 %) Equities 11 23 (0.565 %) Spread Betting 12 19 (0.466 %) French Language 13 17 (0.417 %) Physics 13 17 (0.417 %) IPTV 13 17 (0.417 %) Web 2.0 14 16 (0.393 %) Management Information System 15 15 (0.368 %) Social Network 16 14 (0.344 %) N-Tier	Operating Systems 1 613 (15.05 %) Windows 2 393 (9.649 %) UNIX 3 153 (3.756 %) Linux 4 57 (1.399 %) Windows Server 2003 5 48 (1.178 %) Windows XP 6 40 (0.982 %) Solaris 7 27 (0.663 %) Windows 2000 8 26 (0.638 %) Windows 2000 Server 9 14 (0.344 %) Windows NT 9 14 (0.344 %) Windows Vista 10 11 (0.270 %) AIX 11 9 (0.221 %) Windows Server 2008 12 8 (0.196 %) Red Hat Linux 13 5 (0.123 %) Windows Mobile 14 4 (0.098 %) zOS 15 2 (0.049 %) Embedded Linux 15 2 (0.049 %) Android 15 2 (0.049 %) Mac OS X 15 2 (0.049 %) Debian 16 1 (0.025 %) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies 1 834 (20.48 %) Test Scripting 2 794 (19.49 %) Software Testing 3 774 (19.00 %) Automated Testing 4 393 (9.649 %) Agile Software Development 5 392 (9.624 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 383 (9.403 %) Manual Testing 7 276 (6.776 %) Performance Testing 7 276 (6.776 %) Regression Testing 8 242 (5.942 %) System Testing 9 174 (4.272 %) Web Testing 10 142 (3.486 %) Security Cleared 11 134 (3.290 %) Penetration Testing 12 119 (2.922 %) E-Commerce 13 113 (2.774 %) Scrum 14 98 (2.406 %) Load Testing 15 97 (2.382 %) V-Model 16 90 (2.210 %) Test Management 17 89 (2.185 %) Security Testing 18 75 (1.841 %) Integration Testing 19 67 (1.645 %) Validation	Programming Languages 1 1034 (25.39 %) SQL 2 477 (11.71 %) Java 3 324 (7.955 %) VB 4 321 (7.881 %) C# 5 247 (6.064 %) Perl 6 220 (5.401 %) C++ 7 155 (3.806 %) C 8 143 (3.511 %) VBScript 9 132 (3.241 %) JavaScript 10 84 (2.062 %) Python 11 71 (1.743 %) Transact-SQL 12 51 (1.252 %) VB.NET 13 38 (0.933 %) PL/SQL 14 36 (0.884 %) VB6 15 35 (0.859 %) VBA 16 34 (0.835 %) Shell Script 17 31 (0.761 %) PHP 18 28 (0.687 %) Ruby 19 21 (0.516 %) Delphi 20 16 (0.393 %) DHTML
Qualifications 1 1130 (27.74 %) ISEB 2 549 (13.48 %) Degree 3 88 (2.161 %) ISTQB 4 75 (1.841 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 41 (1.007 %) HND 6 29 (0.712 %) CISSP 7 23 (0.565 %) PhD 8 18 (0.442 %) HNC 9 17 (0.417 %) Microsoft Certification 10 11 (0.270 %) Cisco Certification 11 8 (0.196 %) CCNA 11 8 (0.196 %) MCSE 12 7 (0.172 %) PRINCE2 Certification 12 7 (0.172 %) CISA 12 7 (0.172 %) CEH 13 4 (0.098 %) CHFI 13 4 (0.098 %) CISM 13 4 (0.098 %) Citrix Certification 14 3 (0.074 %) MCSD 15 2 (0.049 %) CCVP	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1359 (33.37 %) QA 2 39 (0.958 %) ISO8583 3 24 (0.589 %) ISO9001 4 23 (0.565 %) PCI DSS 5 19 (0.466 %) PCI QSA 6 9 (0.221 %) SLA 6 9 (0.221 %) TickIT 7 5 (0.123 %) ISO27001 8 3 (0.074 %) JTAG 8 3 (0.074 %) WAI 9 2 (0.049 %) ISO17799 10 1 (0.025 %) Sarbanes-Oxley 10 1 (0.025 %) WCAG 10 1 (0.025 %) HL7 10 1 (0.025 %) PABP
System Software 1 77 (1.890 %) Terminal Server 2 32 (0.786 %) Nmap 3 21 (0.516 %) Active Directory 4 14 (0.344 %) MetaFrame 5 11 (0.270 %) Terminal Services 6 8 (0.196 %) AquaLogic 7 6 (0.147 %) ISA Server 8 4 (0.098 %) VMware Infrastructure 9 3 (0.074 %) VMware Server 10 1 (0.025 %) NFS	Systems Management 1 32 (0.786 %) Nessus 2 6 (0.147 %) CA SiteMinder 3 4 (0.098 %) OpenView 4 2 (0.049 %) OpenView Configuration Management 5 1 (0.025 %) AutoSys
Vendors 1 394 (9.673 %) Oracle 2 355 (8.716 %) Microsoft 3 136 (3.339 %) Citrix 4 75 (1.841 %) HP 5 46 (1.129 %) SAP 6 31 (0.761 %) Compuware 7 22 (0.540 %) Borland 8 17 (0.417 %) Cisco 8 17 (0.417 %) IBM 9 13 (0.319 %) VMware 10 11 (0.270 %) BT 11 10 (0.246 %) Remedy 11 10 (0.246 %) Micromuse 11 10 (0.246 %) Siebel 11 10 (0.246 %) BEA 12 9 (0.221 %) Sun 13 8 (0.196 %) Sybase 13 8 (0.196 %) Adobe 13 8 (0.196 %) Red Hat 14 7 (0.172 %) Empirix