The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Farnborough region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Farnborough region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 35 36 -
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 2 5 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 1.117% 2.110% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.342% 2.793% -
Number of salaries quoted 2 5 0
Average salary £25,000 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-28.57% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Farnborough
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
149 179 104
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Farnborough 83.24% 75.53% 85.25%
Number of salaries quoted 134 166 102
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £34,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,000 £51,000 £72,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Hampshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Farnborough 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 Farnborough region.

Farnborough Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 15 (93.75%) QA
2 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 8 (50.00%) MS Office
2 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 8 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 8 (50.00%) Automated Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Scrum
3 7 (43.75%) Extreme Programming
3 7 (43.75%) Information Security
3 7 (43.75%) UNIX
3 7 (43.75%) MySQL
3 7 (43.75%) CentOS
3 7 (43.75%) Performance Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
4 6 (37.50%) Perl
4 6 (37.50%) PHP
4 6 (37.50%) ISEB
5 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
5 1 (6.250%) Internet
5 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
5 1 (6.250%) VB
5 1 (6.250%) C#
5 1 (6.250%) C++
5 1 (6.250%) HTML
5 1 (6.250%) Java

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Farnborough 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 1 (6.250%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 8 (50.00%) MS Exchange
2 1 (6.250%) WebLogic
2 1 (6.250%) Apache
2 1 (6.250%) Tomcat
Applications
1 8 (50.00%) MS Office
1 8 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.250%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (43.75%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Tester
1 8 (50.00%) QA Tester
1 8 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 7 (43.75%) Software Tester
3 5 (31.25%) Administrator
3 5 (31.25%) Exchange Administrator
4 1 (6.250%) Manual Tester
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineer
4 1 (6.250%) Graduate
4 1 (6.250%) Graduate Software Engineer
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Linux
2 7 (43.75%) UNIX
2 7 (43.75%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 8 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Scrum
2 7 (43.75%) Extreme Programming
2 7 (43.75%) Information Security
2 7 (43.75%) Performance Testing
2 7 (43.75%) Test Scripting
3 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 8 (50.00%) SQL
2 6 (37.50%) Perl
2 6 (37.50%) PHP
3 1 (6.250%) PL/SQL
3 1 (6.250%) VB
3 1 (6.250%) C#
3 1 (6.250%) C++
3 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 6 (37.50%) ISEB
3 1 (6.250%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (93.75%) QA
System Software
1 8 (50.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (6.250%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) JBoss