The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System 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 Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 84 73 78
Rank change year-on-year
-11 +5
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 12 4 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.017% 0.470% 0.730%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.405% 0.683% 0.917%
Number of salaries quoted 3 0 5
Average salary £26,500 - £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,250 £33,000
% change year-on-year
-0.70% +6.81%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
854 586 763
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 72.37% 68.86% 79.56%
Number of salaries quoted 494 443 580
Average salary £41,500 £37,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+10.66% -11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Scotland

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 13 (61.90%) SQL
3 12 (57.14%) Oracle
4 11 (52.38%) Java
5 10 (47.62%) Banking
6 9 (42.86%) UNIX
6 9 (42.86%) OO
7 7 (33.33%) TIBCO
7 7 (33.33%) BusinessWorks
7 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
8 6 (28.57%) Investment Banking
9 5 (23.81%) .NET
9 5 (23.81%) Crystal Reports
9 5 (23.81%) Business Objects
9 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
9 5 (23.81%) MS Access
9 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
9 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
9 5 (23.81%) OpenLink
9 5 (23.81%) Endur
10 4 (19.05%) ETL
10 4 (19.05%) C#
10 4 (19.05%) Market Risk
10 4 (19.05%) Private Banking
10 4 (19.05%) Investment Management
10 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
11 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
11 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
11 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
11 3 (14.29%) ITIL

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 5 (23.81%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) Middleware
2 2 (9.524%) XML
2 2 (9.524%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (9.524%) MQSeries
Business Applications
1 7 (33.33%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (23.81%) Endur
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (33.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (23.81%) Crystal Reports
2 5 (23.81%) MS Access
3 2 (9.524%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (9.524%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (9.524%) Sybase IQ
3 2 (9.524%) Apache Cassandra
3 2 (9.524%) NoSQL
3 2 (9.524%) BigTable
General
1 15 (71.43%) Finance
2 10 (47.62%) Banking
3 6 (28.57%) Investment Banking
4 4 (19.05%) Private Banking
5 2 (9.524%) Front Office
5 2 (9.524%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 13 (61.90%) Analyst
2 9 (42.86%) Developer
3 7 (33.33%) Support Analyst
4 6 (28.57%) Applications Support
4 6 (28.57%) Applications Support Analyst
5 5 (23.81%) Analyst Developer
5 5 (23.81%) .NET Developer
6 4 (19.05%) Project Manager
7 2 (9.524%) IT Project Manager
7 2 (9.524%) Market Risk Developer
8 1 (4.762%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Market Risk
2 2 (9.524%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (9.524%) Fixed Income
2 2 (9.524%) Derivative
2 2 (9.524%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 9 (42.86%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) OO
2 4 (19.05%) ETL
2 4 (19.05%) Investment Management
2 4 (19.05%) Data Transformation
3 3 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Business Analysis
3 3 (14.29%) Business Continuity
3 3 (14.29%) ITIL
4 2 (9.524%) OOD
4 2 (9.524%) Asset Management
4 2 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (9.524%) TDD
4 2 (9.524%) Risk Management
4 2 (9.524%) Workflow
4 2 (9.524%) Scrum
4 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.524%) Complex Event Processing
5 1 (4.762%) Root Cause Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 13 (61.90%) SQL
2 11 (52.38%) Java
3 5 (23.81%) PL/SQL
3 5 (23.81%) Shell Script
4 4 (19.05%) C#
5 2 (9.524%) Python
5 2 (9.524%) C++
5 2 (9.524%) JavaScript
5 2 (9.524%) Perl
5 2 (9.524%) Ruby
5 2 (9.524%) XPath
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (4.762%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 12 (57.14%) Oracle
2 7 (33.33%) TIBCO
3 5 (23.81%) Business Objects
3 5 (23.81%) Microsoft
3 5 (23.81%) OpenLink
4 2 (9.524%) Sybase
5 1 (4.762%) Bloomberg