The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy 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 Strategy over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Strategy
Rank 84 55 64
Rank change year-on-year
-29 +9
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 11 19 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.939% 2.241% 2.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.306% 3.237% 2.577%
Number of salaries quoted 4 18 14
Average salary £40,000 £36,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+11.11% -37.39%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
842 587 776
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 71.90% 69.22% 79.67%
Number of salaries quoted 496 438 590
Average salary £41,000 £38,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.89% -10.58%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,500 £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%
Test Strategy
Scotland

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Glasgow Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Test Strategy Salary Trend

Test Strategy
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy.

1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 12 (60.00%) Java
2 12 (60.00%) Automated Testing
3 10 (50.00%) Perl
3 10 (50.00%) VBScript
4 8 (40.00%) SOA
4 8 (40.00%) soapUI
5 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
6 6 (30.00%) SOAP
7 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
7 5 (25.00%) Banking
7 5 (25.00%) Test Management
8 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
8 4 (20.00%) BDD
8 4 (20.00%) C#
8 4 (20.00%) SQL
8 4 (20.00%) Financial Institution
8 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 4 (20.00%) Scrum
9 3 (15.00%) IVR
9 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
9 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 3 (15.00%) Internet
9 3 (15.00%) Oracle
9 3 (15.00%) CRM
9 3 (15.00%) Siebel
9 3 (15.00%) ATM
9 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
9 3 (15.00%) Cognizant
9 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (40.00%) soapUI
2 6 (30.00%) SOAP
3 2 (10.00%) Web Services
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Internet
1 3 (15.00%) ATM
2 1 (5.000%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (15.00%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) FitNesse
1 2 (10.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (10.00%) JUnit
2 1 (5.000%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 15 (75.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Banking
3 4 (20.00%) Financial Institution
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
4 3 (15.00%) Retail Banking
5 1 (5.000%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 10 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 8 (40.00%) Tester
3 6 (30.00%) Automation Engineer
4 4 (20.00%) Automation Tester
5 3 (15.00%) Senior Tester
6 2 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (10.00%) Test Analyst
7 1 (5.000%) Functional Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) IVR
1 3 (15.00%) Online Banking
2 2 (10.00%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.000%) Equities
3 1 (5.000%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (60.00%) Automated Testing
2 8 (40.00%) SOA
3 7 (35.00%) Test Automation
4 5 (25.00%) Test Management
5 4 (20.00%) Unit Testing
5 4 (20.00%) BDD
5 4 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (20.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Programme Management
6 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (15.00%) CRM
6 3 (15.00%) Test Scripting
7 2 (10.00%) Use Case
7 2 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
7 2 (10.00%) Investment Management
7 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
7 2 (10.00%) ETL
7 2 (10.00%) Regression Testing
8 1 (5.000%) Project Management
8 1 (5.000%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 12 (60.00%) Java
2 10 (50.00%) Perl
2 10 (50.00%) VBScript
3 4 (20.00%) C#
3 4 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle
1 3 (15.00%) Siebel
1 3 (15.00%) Cognizant