Gloucestershire TestDirector Jobs

This section looks at the demand for HP TestDirector for Quality Center skills within the Gloucestershire region with a comparison to our Development Applications category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited TestDirector over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

HP TestDirector for Quality Center
Location Amersham Aylesbury Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Cheshire Cirencester City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Docklands, London Dorking Dorset East Midlands East of England East Yorkshire Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harrow Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Kent Knutsford Leeds Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Reading Redhill Reigate Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Neots Stroud Surrey Swansea Swindon Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Wokingham Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	87	82
Rank change on same period last year	-5
Matching permanent IT job ads	38	14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.020 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	13.67 %	20.00 %
Salaries quoted	38	14
Average minimum salary	£28,667	£26,571
Average salary	£30,128	£28,964
% change on same period last year	+4.01 %
Average maximum salary	£31,590	£31,357
UK excluding London average salary	£35,627	£35,425
% change on same period last year	+0.57 %
Development Applications Gloucestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	278	70
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.147 %	0.029 %
Salaries quoted	243	65
Average minimum salary	£30,509	£26,011
Average salary	£33,451	£29,072
% change on same period last year	+15.06 %
Average maximum salary	£36,394	£32,133
UK excluding London average salary	£34,829	£35,862
% change on same period last year	-2.87 %
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TestDirector
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing TestDirector across the Gloucestershire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

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

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing TestDirector within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cirencester	-	5	£32,900	-
Cheltenham	-10	4	£26,500	-8.09 %
Gloucester	-12	2	£33,250	+27.88 %
Stroud	-	2	£32,000	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector.

1 72 (72.73 %) Finance 2 67 (67.68 %) WinRunner 3 62 (62.63 %) Manual Testing 4 49 (49.49 %) ISEB 5 32 (32.32 %) System Testing 6 29 (29.29 %) Automated Testing 7 28 (28.28 %) Test Scripting 8 24 (24.24 %) Pensions 9 14 (14.14 %) QuickTest Pro 9 14 (14.14 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 13 (13.13 %) Windows 11 12 (12.12 %) LoadRunner 11 12 (12.12 %) Wealth Management 12 7 (7.071 %) Security Cleared 12 7 (7.071 %) Integration Testing

12 7 (7.071 %) Health 12 7 (7.071 %) Microsoft 13 6 (6.061 %) Internet 13 6 (6.061 %) Client/Server 14 5 (5.051 %) MS Excel 15 4 (4.040 %) Regression Testing 15 4 (4.040 %) Software Testing 16 3 (3.030 %) QA 17 2 (2.020 %) TeamTrack 17 2 (2.020 %) XML 17 2 (2.020 %) C 17 2 (2.020 %) HTML 17 2 (2.020 %) SQL 18 1 (1.010 %) VB 18 1 (1.010 %) Oracle

TestDirector
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire region citing TestDirector 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 TestDirector. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (2.020 %) HTML 1 2 (2.020 %) XML	Applications 1 5 (5.051 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.010 %) MS Office
Communications & Networking 1 6 (6.061 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.010 %) SQL Server 1 1 (1.010 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 67 (67.68 %) WinRunner 2 14 (14.14 %) QuickTest Pro 3 12 (12.12 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (2.020 %) TeamTrack	General 1 72 (72.73 %) Finance 2 24 (24.24 %) Pensions 3 7 (7.071 %) Health
Job Titles 1 81 (81.82 %) Tester 2 53 (53.54 %) Systems Tester 3 46 (46.46 %) Analyst 3 46 (46.46 %) Test Analyst 4 19 (19.19 %) Systems Analyst 4 19 (19.19 %) Systems Test Analyst 5 6 (6.061 %) Team Leader 5 6 (6.061 %) Test Team Leader 6 5 (5.051 %) Junior 6 5 (5.051 %) Test Engineer 6 5 (5.051 %) Trainee Tester 6 5 (5.051 %) Trainee 6 5 (5.051 %) Junior Tester 7 4 (4.040 %) Senior Tester 8 2 (2.020 %) Senior Test Engineer 9 1 (1.010 %) Test Manager 9 1 (1.010 %) Software Tester	Miscellaneous 1 6 (6.061 %) Client/Server 2 1 (1.010 %) Chip and PIN 2 1 (1.010 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 13 (13.13 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 62 (62.63 %) Manual Testing 2 32 (32.32 %) System Testing 3 29 (29.29 %) Automated Testing 4 28 (28.28 %) Test Scripting 5 14 (14.14 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 12 (12.12 %) Wealth Management 7 7 (7.071 %) Integration Testing 7 7 (7.071 %) Security Cleared 8 4 (4.040 %) Regression Testing 8 4 (4.040 %) Software Testing
Programming Languages 1 2 (2.020 %) C 1 2 (2.020 %) SQL 2 1 (1.010 %) VB	Qualifications 1 49 (49.49 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (3.030 %) QA	Vendors 1 7 (7.071 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.010 %) Oracle 2 1 (1.010 %) Sybase