The first table below looks at the demand for Software 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 Software Testing over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 74 104 87
Rank change year-on-year
+30 -17
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 13 5 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 1.299% 0.357% 1.126%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.839% 0.530% 1.542%
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 8
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% -12.50%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Essex
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
707 944 908
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Essex 70.63% 67.48% 73.05%
Number of salaries quoted 596 812 759
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £27,500 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
East of England

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Essex Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Essex Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Essex region over the 3 months to 22 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
Basildon -3 6 - -
Colchester +16 2 £25,000 -50.00%
Brentwood - 1 - -
Software Testing
East of England

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 14 (50.00%) ISEB
2 13 (46.43%) SQL
3 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
3 9 (32.14%) FINEOS
3 9 (32.14%) Test Scripting
3 9 (32.14%) Guidewire
4 8 (28.57%) Finance
5 6 (21.43%) Bugzilla
5 6 (21.43%) JIRA
6 5 (17.86%) QA
6 5 (17.86%) STB
6 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
6 5 (17.86%) HP Quality Center
6 5 (17.86%) Scrum
6 5 (17.86%) QuickTest Pro
6 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
6 5 (17.86%) Broadband
7 4 (14.29%) VoIP
7 4 (14.29%) C#
7 4 (14.29%) .NET
7 4 (14.29%) IIS
7 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio
7 4 (14.29%) UNIX
7 4 (14.29%) Windows
7 4 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 4 (14.29%) Publishing
7 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
7 4 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (14.29%) Automated Testing
7 4 (14.29%) WCF

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Essex region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (14.29%) .NET
1 4 (14.29%) WCF
1 4 (14.29%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 4 (14.29%) IIS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (17.86%) Broadband
2 4 (14.29%) VoIP
3 1 (3.571%) TELNET
3 1 (3.571%) Firewall
3 1 (3.571%) Wireless
3 1 (3.571%) FTP
3 1 (3.571%) HTTP
3 1 (3.571%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (32.14%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (21.43%) Bugzilla
1 6 (21.43%) JIRA
2 5 (17.86%) QuickTest Pro
3 4 (14.29%) Visual Studio
3 4 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (3.571%) JUnit
4 1 (3.571%) TestDirector
4 1 (3.571%) Redmine
4 1 (3.571%) Trac
4 1 (3.571%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 1 (3.571%) Selenium
General
1 8 (28.57%) Finance
2 4 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 10 (35.71%) Analyst
1 10 (35.71%) Test Analyst
2 9 (32.14%) Test Engineer
2 9 (32.14%) Senior Test Engineer
3 5 (17.86%) Agile Test Analyst
4 4 (14.29%) Developer
4 4 (14.29%) C# Developer
5 3 (10.71%) C# .NET Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Test Leader
6 2 (7.143%) Software Tester
6 2 (7.143%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) STB
2 1 (3.571%) Firmware
Operating Systems
1 4 (14.29%) UNIX
1 4 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (32.14%) Test Scripting
2 5 (17.86%) Scrum
3 4 (14.29%) Regression Testing
3 4 (14.29%) Risk Management
3 4 (14.29%) Automated Testing
3 4 (14.29%) MVVM
3 4 (14.29%) Stress Testing
4 1 (3.571%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (3.571%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (3.571%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 13 (46.43%) SQL
2 4 (14.29%) C#
Qualifications
1 14 (50.00%) ISEB
2 5 (17.86%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.86%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (17.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (32.14%) FINEOS
1 9 (32.14%) Guidewire
2 5 (17.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.571%) Telerik
Essex, South East
We are looking for a Test Lead to join PDD's Customer Technology division whose objective is to constantly improve, enhance and maintain the Set Top Box (STB)...
British Sky Broadcasting
Posted: 22 May 2013
Essex, South East
We are looking for a Test Lead to join PDD's Customer Technology division whose objective is to constantly improve, enhance and maintain the Set Top Box (STB)...
British Sky Broadcasting
Posted: 22 May 2013