The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Glasgow region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Job Titles advertised for the Glasgow region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 89 51 68
Rank change year-on-year
-38 +17
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 10 28 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 0.861% 3.337% 1.429%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.912% 3.581% 1.512%
Number of salaries quoted 1 27 12
Average salary £44,000 £36,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.22% -12.19%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Glasgow
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
1097 782 926
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Glasgow 94.41% 93.21% 94.49%
Number of salaries quoted 656 570 730
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £53,950
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Scotland

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Glasgow region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Glasgow Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Glasgow Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (37.50%) QA
3 6 (37.50%) Test Scripting
3 6 (37.50%) Scrum
3 6 (37.50%) Internet
4 5 (31.25%) Finance
4 5 (31.25%) Games
4 5 (31.25%) Perl
4 5 (31.25%) PHP
4 5 (31.25%) Ant
4 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (31.25%) Selenium
4 5 (31.25%) TDD
4 5 (31.25%) Automated Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
4 5 (31.25%) Web Testing
4 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
4 5 (31.25%) Puppet
5 4 (25.00%) C#
5 4 (25.00%) VBScript
6 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
6 3 (18.75%) Oracle
6 3 (18.75%) ISEB
6 3 (18.75%) Test Management
6 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (12.50%) Project Management
7 2 (12.50%) ETL

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Glasgow region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) .NET
1 1 (6.250%) .NET Framework
Application Platforms
1 5 (31.25%) Amazon EC2
Business Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (6.250%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Internet
2 1 (6.250%) ATM
2 1 (6.250%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (6.250%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Ant
1 5 (31.25%) Selenium
1 5 (31.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (6.250%) Mercurial
2 1 (6.250%) Subversion
General
1 5 (31.25%) Finance
1 5 (31.25%) Games
2 1 (6.250%) Manufacturing
2 1 (6.250%) Retail Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
2 1 (6.250%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Equities
1 1 (6.250%) IVR
1 1 (6.250%) Visualisation
1 1 (6.250%) Derivative
1 1 (6.250%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
1 1 (6.250%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 6 (37.50%) Test Scripting
2 6 (37.50%) Scrum
3 5 (31.25%) Continuous Integration
3 5 (31.25%) TDD
3 5 (31.25%) Automated Testing
3 5 (31.25%) Web Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Test Management
4 3 (18.75%) User Acceptance Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Project Management
5 2 (12.50%) ETL
6 1 (6.250%) Business Intelligence
6 1 (6.250%) CRM
6 1 (6.250%) Regression Testing
6 1 (6.250%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (6.250%) Agile Software Development
6 1 (6.250%) Programme Management
6 1 (6.250%) Test Automation
6 1 (6.250%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (62.50%) Java
2 5 (31.25%) Perl
2 5 (31.25%) PHP
3 4 (25.00%) C#
3 4 (25.00%) VBScript
4 2 (12.50%) SQL
5 1 (6.250%) C
5 1 (6.250%) Python
5 1 (6.250%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) Degree
2 3 (18.75%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Puppet
2 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Oracle
2 1 (6.250%) Siebel
2 1 (6.250%) Cognizant
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
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EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 17 May 2013
Glasgow, Glasgow, United Kingdom, Strathclyde,...
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Salary: Competitive
Posted: 20 May 2013
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
QTP EXPERT- Glasgow... The team will hit the ground running with QTP and will also have some exposure to QC. This an excellent chance to be working with...
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Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013