Essex Software Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the Essex 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 Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Honiton Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Milton Keynes Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	106	121
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	2
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.210 %	0.092 %
Salaries quoted	2	2
Average minimum salary	£28,000	£30,000
Average salary	£31,500	£30,000
% change on same period last year	+5.00 %
Average maximum salary	£35,000	£30,000
UK excluding London average salary	£30,201	£29,444
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Job Titles Essex
Matching permanent IT job ads	1902	2184
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.004 %	0.894 %
Salaries quoted	1580	1915
Average minimum salary	£36,347	£36,012
Average salary	£38,540	£38,122
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Average maximum salary	£40,733	£40,232
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Tester East of England

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Essex 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 Software Tester across the Essex region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 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 Tester within the Essex region over the 3 months to 25 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
Chelmsford	-	2	£31,500	-

Software Tester East of England

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 4 (57.14 %) QA 1 4 (57.14 %) .NET 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 3 (42.86 %) FIXML 2 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 3 (42.86 %) Test Scripting 2 3 (42.86 %) Finance 3 2 (28.57 %) Automated Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Software Testing 3 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 3 2 (28.57 %) C# 3 2 (28.57 %) C++ 3 2 (28.57 %) ISEB 3 2 (28.57 %) TestDirector 4 1 (14.29 %) Borland

4 1 (14.29 %) Firmware 4 1 (14.29 %) C 4 1 (14.29 %) Embedded C 4 1 (14.29 %) Delphi 4 1 (14.29 %) Java 4 1 (14.29 %) OO 4 1 (14.29 %) VC++ 4 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (14.29 %) Yourdon 4 1 (14.29 %) Degree 4 1 (14.29 %) Validation

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Essex region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 4 (57.14 %) .NET 2 3 (42.86 %) FIXML	Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (42.86 %) SQL Server 2 1 (14.29 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) TestDirector	General 1 3 (42.86 %) Finance
Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Firmware	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) Test Scripting 2 2 (28.57 %) Automated Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) Software Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) OO 3 1 (14.29 %) Yourdon 3 1 (14.29 %) Validation
Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) C# 1 2 (28.57 %) C++ 2 1 (14.29 %) Delphi 2 1 (14.29 %) Java 2 1 (14.29 %) VC++ 2 1 (14.29 %) Embedded C 2 1 (14.29 %) C	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) ISEB 2 1 (14.29 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (57.14 %) QA	Vendors 1 4 (57.14 %) Microsoft 2 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 3 1 (14.29 %) Borland