The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Essex region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Essex region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank - 103 93
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 0 1 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex - 0.073% 0.719%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.108% 0.987%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 9
Average salary - £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
711 927 912
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 70.68% 67.42% 72.84%
Number of salaries quoted 593 802 765
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £26,900 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
East of England

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Essex Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Top 4 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (100.00%) XML
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Analyst
1 1 (100.00%) Test Analyst
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL