The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 83 66 52
Rank change year-on-year
-17 -14
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 12 10 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 1.043% 1.190% 3.601%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.439% 1.730% 4.534%
Number of salaries quoted 5 5 32
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £31,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,000 £46,000 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
834 578 772
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 72.52% 68.81% 79.42%
Number of salaries quoted 473 439 589
Average salary £41,500 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.21% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £57,500 £53,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Scotland

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Glasgow region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Glasgow Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 8 (36.36%) Scrum
2 8 (36.36%) Degree
3 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
3 7 (31.82%) QA
4 6 (27.27%) Selenium
4 6 (27.27%) Web Testing
4 6 (27.27%) Finance
4 6 (27.27%) Ant
5 5 (22.73%) Internet
5 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
5 5 (22.73%) ISEB
5 5 (22.73%) SQL
5 5 (22.73%) PHP
5 5 (22.73%) Oracle
5 5 (22.73%) Games
5 5 (22.73%) TDD
5 5 (22.73%) Banking
5 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
5 5 (22.73%) Puppet
5 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
6 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (18.18%) Automated Testing
6 4 (18.18%) XML
6 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
6 4 (18.18%) C
6 4 (18.18%) .NET
6 4 (18.18%) Eclipse
6 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
6 4 (18.18%) Project Management

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (18.18%) XML
1 4 (18.18%) .NET
2 3 (13.64%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.545%) COM
3 1 (4.545%) EJB
3 1 (4.545%) JSP
3 1 (4.545%) Servlets
3 1 (4.545%) Struts
3 1 (4.545%) J2EE
3 1 (4.545%) HTML
3 1 (4.545%) JMS
3 1 (4.545%) Middleware
3 1 (4.545%) Hibernate
3 1 (4.545%) Spring
3 1 (4.545%) JSF
3 1 (4.545%) Tapestry
3 1 (4.545%) JSTL
Application Platforms
1 5 (22.73%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 3 (13.64%) IIS
3 1 (4.545%) Apache
3 1 (4.545%) Tomcat
3 1 (4.545%) MQSeries
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (4.545%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (4.545%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 5 (22.73%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (18.18%) RDBMS
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2005
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server
2 3 (13.64%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (13.64%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.545%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (4.545%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 6 (27.27%) Ant
1 6 (27.27%) Selenium
2 5 (22.73%) Jenkins
3 4 (18.18%) Eclipse
4 3 (13.64%) Visual Studio
5 2 (9.091%) FitNesse
5 2 (9.091%) Cucumber
6 1 (4.545%) PVCS
6 1 (4.545%) TestDirector
6 1 (4.545%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (4.545%) Subversion
6 1 (4.545%) Maven
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Games
2 5 (22.73%) Banking
3 2 (9.091%) Financial Institution
4 1 (4.545%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (4.545%) Investment Banking
4 1 (4.545%) Private Banking
Job Titles
1 10 (45.45%) Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Test Analyst
2 6 (27.27%) Tester
2 6 (27.27%) Senior Tester
3 5 (22.73%) Software Tester
3 5 (22.73%) Senior Software Tester
4 4 (18.18%) Developer
5 3 (13.64%) Business Analyst
5 3 (13.64%) Applications Developer
6 2 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (9.091%) Test Engineer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Test Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Java Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Java Developer
7 1 (4.545%) E-Business Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Oracle Support Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Developer
7 1 (4.545%) Support Analyst
7 1 (4.545%) Senior Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.091%) Computer Science
1 2 (9.091%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.545%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 3 (13.64%) UNIX
1 3 (13.64%) Windows
1 3 (13.64%) HPUX
1 3 (13.64%) Linux
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2003
1 3 (13.64%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (36.36%) Scrum
2 7 (31.82%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (27.27%) Web Testing
4 5 (22.73%) Business Intelligence
4 5 (22.73%) TDD
5 4 (18.18%) Automated Testing
5 4 (18.18%) Project Management
5 4 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (13.64%) Web Development
6 3 (13.64%) Test Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) Change Management
6 3 (13.64%) ITIL
6 3 (13.64%) OO
6 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
6 3 (13.64%) Configuration Management
6 3 (13.64%) Agile Software Development
7 2 (9.091%) Test Automation
7 2 (9.091%) Use Case
7 2 (9.091%) Stress Testing
7 2 (9.091%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (40.91%) Java
2 5 (22.73%) PHP
2 5 (22.73%) SQL
3 4 (18.18%) PL/SQL
3 4 (18.18%) C
4 3 (13.64%) C#
4 3 (13.64%) C++
4 3 (13.64%) COBOL
4 3 (13.64%) VB.NET
4 3 (13.64%) PL/1
5 2 (9.091%) VB
6 1 (4.545%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) ISEB
3 1 (4.545%) Sun Certification
3 1 (4.545%) ISTQB
3 1 (4.545%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.545%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Puppet
2 3 (13.64%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Oracle
2 1 (4.545%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.545%) Sun
2 1 (4.545%) Informatica
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