Glasgow Test Analyst Jobs

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

Test Analyst
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lymm M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	66	70
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	33
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.014 %
As % of the category below	2.025 %	1.639 %
Salaries quoted	19	16
Average minimum salary	£32,947	£26,688
Average salary	£35,816	£28,938
% change on same period last year	+23.76 %
Average maximum salary	£38,684	£31,188
UK excluding London average salary	£31,085	£31,134
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Job Titles Glasgow
Matching permanent IT job ads	1284	2014
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.678 %	0.825 %
Salaries quoted	861	1196
Average minimum salary	£32,759	£32,950
Average salary	£36,093	£35,290
% change on same period last year	+2.27 %
Average maximum salary	£39,427	£37,630
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Test Analyst Scotland

Test Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Test Analyst
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 27 (45.76 %) Finance 2 25 (42.37 %) ISEB 3 20 (33.90 %) Test Scripting 4 18 (30.51 %) Software Testing 5 14 (23.73 %) SQL 6 13 (22.03 %) QuickTest Pro 7 12 (20.34 %) Test Management 8 9 (15.25 %) QA 8 9 (15.25 %) WinRunner 9 8 (13.56 %) TestDirector 9 8 (13.56 %) Health 9 8 (13.56 %) Pensions 10 7 (11.86 %) Regression Testing 10 7 (11.86 %) .NET 10 7 (11.86 %) UNIX

11 6 (10.17 %) ISTQB 11 6 (10.17 %) Banking 11 6 (10.17 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 5 (8.475 %) OO 13 4 (6.780 %) IBM 13 4 (6.780 %) Sun 13 4 (6.780 %) HP 13 4 (6.780 %) Solaris 13 4 (6.780 %) Linux 13 4 (6.780 %) Mainframe 13 4 (6.780 %) Shell Script 13 4 (6.780 %) System Testing 13 4 (6.780 %) ISEB Practitioner 13 4 (6.780 %) Investment Banking 13 4 (6.780 %) Security Cleared

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 7 (11.86 %) .NET 2 3 (5.085 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.085 %) MQSeries
Development Applications 1 13 (22.03 %) QuickTest Pro 2 9 (15.25 %) WinRunner 3 8 (13.56 %) TestDirector 4 3 (5.085 %) LoadRunner 5 2 (3.390 %) QARun	General 1 27 (45.76 %) Finance 2 8 (13.56 %) Health 2 8 (13.56 %) Pensions 3 6 (10.17 %) Banking 4 4 (6.780 %) Investment Banking 5 1 (1.695 %) Insurance 5 1 (1.695 %) Financial Institution 5 1 (1.695 %) Manufacturing 5 1 (1.695 %) Construction
Miscellaneous 1 4 (6.780 %) Mainframe 2 3 (5.085 %) IBM Mainframe 3 2 (3.390 %) Management Information System 4 1 (1.695 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 7 (11.86 %) UNIX 2 4 (6.780 %) Solaris 2 4 (6.780 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (33.90 %) Test Scripting 2 18 (30.51 %) Software Testing 3 12 (20.34 %) Test Management 4 7 (11.86 %) Regression Testing 5 6 (10.17 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 5 (8.475 %) OO 7 4 (6.780 %) System Testing 7 4 (6.780 %) Security Cleared 8 3 (5.085 %) Asset Management 8 3 (5.085 %) Automated Testing 9 2 (3.390 %) Project Management 9 2 (3.390 %) Load Testing 9 2 (3.390 %) Web Testing 10 1 (1.695 %) Investment Management 10 1 (1.695 %) Manual Testing 10 1 (1.695 %) Service Management 10 1 (1.695 %) Change Management 10 1 (1.695 %) RAD 10 1 (1.695 %) Agile Software Development	Programming Languages 1 14 (23.73 %) SQL 2 4 (6.780 %) Shell Script 3 1 (1.695 %) Java
Qualifications 1 25 (42.37 %) ISEB 2 6 (10.17 %) ISTQB 3 4 (6.780 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 2 (3.390 %) Degree 4 2 (3.390 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (15.25 %) QA
Vendors 1 4 (6.780 %) IBM 1 4 (6.780 %) Sun 1 4 (6.780 %) HP 2 3 (5.085 %) Oracle 2 3 (5.085 %) Siebel 3 1 (1.695 %) SAP