Glasgow Software Testing Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Glasgow region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Testing
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Bristol Bromsgrove Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Anglia East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Haslemere Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Manchester Market Harborough Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rochester Romford Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Wells Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	57	91
Rank change on same period last year	+34
Matching permanent IT job ads	21	6
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	2.917 %	0.621 %
Salaries quoted	17	4
Average minimum salary	£27,412	£25,250
Average salary	£32,353	£26,500
% change on same period last year	+22.08 %
Average maximum salary	£37,294	£27,750
UK excluding London average salary	£34,304	£33,286
% change on same period last year	+3.05 %
Processes & Methodologies Glasgow
Matching permanent IT job ads	720	966
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.418 %	0.416 %
Salaries quoted	547	577
Average minimum salary	£39,416	£34,490
Average salary	£42,670	£37,544
% change on same period last year	+13.65 %
Average maximum salary	£45,924	£40,599
UK excluding London average salary	£42,657	£44,229
% change on same period last year	-3.55 %
Software Testing Scotland

Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 13 (40.63 %) Finance 1 13 (40.63 %) Pensions 2 12 (37.50 %) ISEB 3 10 (31.25 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 10 (31.25 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 6 (18.75 %) ISTQB 4 6 (18.75 %) MS Visio 4 6 (18.75 %) HTML 4 6 (18.75 %) VB 5 5 (15.63 %) .NET 5 5 (15.63 %) Test Management 5 5 (15.63 %) Test Scripting 6 4 (12.50 %) QA 6 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint 6 4 (12.50 %) Intranet

6 4 (12.50 %) Health 6 4 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 6 4 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 7 3 (9.375 %) Knowledge Management 7 3 (9.375 %) Systems Analysis 7 3 (9.375 %) ITIL 7 3 (9.375 %) UNIX 7 3 (9.375 %) SQL 7 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 8 2 (6.250 %) Oracle 8 2 (6.250 %) C 8 2 (6.250 %) C++ 8 2 (6.250 %) Java 8 2 (6.250 %) ODBC 8 2 (6.250 %) OO

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow 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 6 (18.75 %) HTML 2 5 (15.63 %) .NET 3 2 (6.250 %) ODBC 4 1 (3.125 %) AJAX 4 1 (3.125 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (3.125 %) CSS 4 1 (3.125 %) XML 4 1 (3.125 %) DOM 4 1 (3.125 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 4 (12.50 %) SharePoint 2 1 (3.125 %) SharePoint Server 2007
Applications 1 6 (18.75 %) MS Visio 2 4 (12.50 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (3.125 %) MS Project 3 1 (3.125 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 4 (12.50 %) Intranet 2 2 (6.250 %) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (9.375 %) SQL Server 2 2 (6.250 %) Oracle Reports 3 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (3.125 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 2 (6.250 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (3.125 %) WATIR 2 1 (3.125 %) Visual Studio
General 1 13 (40.63 %) Finance 1 13 (40.63 %) Pensions 2 4 (12.50 %) Health 3 1 (3.125 %) Legal 3 1 (3.125 %) Insurance	Job Titles 1 15 (46.88 %) Analyst 2 12 (37.50 %) Business Analyst 3 6 (18.75 %) Test Manager 4 4 (12.50 %) Author 4 4 (12.50 %) Technical Author 5 3 (9.375 %) Test Analyst 5 3 (9.375 %) Business Systems Analyst 5 3 (9.375 %) Systems Analyst 6 2 (6.250 %) Senior Analyst 6 2 (6.250 %) Senior Test Analyst 7 1 (3.125 %) Team Leader 7 1 (3.125 %) Test Specialist 7 1 (3.125 %) .NET Web Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Environment Manager 7 1 (3.125 %) Test Team Leader 7 1 (3.125 %) .NET Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Systems Tester 7 1 (3.125 %) Web Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Developer 7 1 (3.125 %) Tester
Miscellaneous 1 1 (3.125 %) Management Information System 1 1 (3.125 %) Web 2.0	Operating Systems 1 3 (9.375 %) UNIX 2 2 (6.250 %) Windows 3 1 (3.125 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (31.25 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 5 (15.63 %) Test Management 2 5 (15.63 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 4 3 (9.375 %) Systems Analysis 4 3 (9.375 %) Knowledge Management 4 3 (9.375 %) ITIL 5 2 (6.250 %) OO 5 2 (6.250 %) Quality Management 5 2 (6.250 %) System Testing 5 2 (6.250 %) Investment Management 5 2 (6.250 %) Performance Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) Integration Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) V-Model 6 1 (3.125 %) Stakeholder Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Asset Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Data Analysis 6 1 (3.125 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (3.125 %) Wealth Management 6 1 (3.125 %) Use Case	Programming Languages 1 6 (18.75 %) VB 2 3 (9.375 %) SQL 3 2 (6.250 %) C 3 2 (6.250 %) C++ 3 2 (6.250 %) Java 4 1 (3.125 %) JavaScript 4 1 (3.125 %) Perl 4 1 (3.125 %) PL/SQL
Qualifications 1 12 (37.50 %) ISEB 2 10 (31.25 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 6 (18.75 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (12.50 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (6.250 %) Oracle 1 2 (6.250 %) HP