Gloucestershire Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Gloucestershire 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 24 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Barnet Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Enfield England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hove Huddersfield Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Thames Valley Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 24 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	69
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching permanent IT job ads	65	26
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.034 %	0.011 %
As % of the category below	3.303 %	1.721 %
Salaries quoted	56	26
Average minimum salary	£29,345	£26,630
Average salary	£31,190	£29,148
% change on same period last year	+7.00 %
Average maximum salary	£33,034	£31,667
UK excluding London average salary	£32,438	£32,215
% change on same period last year	+0.69 %
Job Titles Gloucestershire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1968	1511
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.036 %	0.620 %
Salaries quoted	1707	1321
Average minimum salary	£33,428	£30,359
Average salary	£36,206	£33,224
% change on same period last year	+8.97 %
Average maximum salary	£38,985	£36,088
UK excluding London average salary	£38,194	£39,492
% change on same period last year	-3.28 %
Tester South West

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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 Tester within the Gloucestershire region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheltenham	-10	18	£32,607	+11.00 %
Gloucester	0	11	£35,833	+54.12 %
Cirencester	-	2	£27,500	-
Stroud	-	2	£32,000	-
Tewkesbury	-	1	£32,500	-

Tester South West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 88 (53.01 %) Finance 2 81 (48.80 %) TestDirector 3 75 (45.18 %) ISEB 4 72 (43.37 %) Manual Testing 5 57 (34.34 %) WinRunner 6 42 (25.30 %) Automated Testing 7 36 (21.69 %) System Testing 8 34 (20.48 %) Pensions 9 31 (18.67 %) Software Testing 10 26 (15.66 %) Test Scripting 10 26 (15.66 %) Windows 11 23 (13.86 %) SQL 12 20 (12.05 %) User Acceptance Testing 13 19 (11.45 %) Wealth Management 13 19 (11.45 %) QuickTest Pro

14 16 (9.639 %) Microsoft 15 15 (9.036 %) Linux 16 12 (7.229 %) LoadRunner 17 10 (6.024 %) Client/Server 18 9 (5.422 %) QA 19 8 (4.819 %) Security Cleared 19 8 (4.819 %) JavaScript 19 8 (4.819 %) Perl 20 7 (4.217 %) MS Excel 20 7 (4.217 %) Regression Testing 20 7 (4.217 %) Integration Testing 20 7 (4.217 %) SilkTest 21 6 (3.614 %) VMware Server 21 6 (3.614 %) Data Management 21 6 (3.614 %) VMware

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 July 2008, IT jobs across the Gloucestershire 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 4 (2.410 %) ODBC 2 3 (1.807 %) MFC	Applications 1 7 (4.217 %) MS Excel 2 5 (3.012 %) MS Office 3 4 (2.410 %) Photoshop 3 4 (2.410 %) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications 1 5 (3.012 %) SoftGrid	Communications & Networking 1 6 (3.614 %) Internet 2 1 (0.602 %) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (3.614 %) SQL Server 2 4 (2.410 %) SQL Server 7 3 2 (1.205 %) MySQL	Development Applications 1 81 (48.80 %) TestDirector 2 57 (34.34 %) WinRunner 3 19 (11.45 %) QuickTest Pro 4 12 (7.229 %) LoadRunner 5 7 (4.217 %) SilkTest 6 3 (1.807 %) MSI 7 1 (0.602 %) TeamTrack
General 1 88 (53.01 %) Finance 2 34 (20.48 %) Pensions 3 5 (3.012 %) Health 4 4 (2.410 %) Games 4 4 (2.410 %) Electric 5 3 (1.807 %) Education 6 2 (1.205 %) Government 7 1 (0.602 %) Financial Institution 7 1 (0.602 %) Home Office	Miscellaneous 1 10 (6.024 %) Client/Server 2 1 (0.602 %) Management Information System 2 1 (0.602 %) CMDB
Operating Systems 1 26 (15.66 %) Windows 2 15 (9.036 %) Linux 3 6 (3.614 %) UNIX 4 5 (3.012 %) Solaris 4 5 (3.012 %) Windows 2000 5 1 (0.602 %) Windows XP 5 1 (0.602 %) Windows Vista	Processes & Methodologies 1 72 (43.37 %) Manual Testing 2 42 (25.30 %) Automated Testing 3 36 (21.69 %) System Testing 4 31 (18.67 %) Software Testing 5 26 (15.66 %) Test Scripting 6 20 (12.05 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 19 (11.45 %) Wealth Management 8 8 (4.819 %) Security Cleared 9 7 (4.217 %) Integration Testing 9 7 (4.217 %) Regression Testing 10 6 (3.614 %) Data Management 11 5 (3.012 %) Migration 11 5 (3.012 %) Service Management 11 5 (3.012 %) ITIL 11 5 (3.012 %) Data Migration 12 4 (2.410 %) Service Delivery 12 4 (2.410 %) Penetration Testing 13 3 (1.807 %) UML 13 3 (1.807 %) OO 14 2 (1.205 %) CRM
Programming Languages 1 23 (13.86 %) SQL 2 8 (4.819 %) JavaScript 2 8 (4.819 %) Perl 3 4 (2.410 %) Python 4 3 (1.807 %) VB 4 3 (1.807 %) VC++ 5 2 (1.205 %) C 6 1 (0.602 %) Java 6 1 (0.602 %) VBScript	Qualifications 1 75 (45.18 %) ISEB 2 4 (2.410 %) HNC 3 3 (1.807 %) Degree 4 2 (1.205 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 1 (0.602 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (5.422 %) QA	System Software 1 6 (3.614 %) VMware Server 2 1 (0.602 %) Nmap
Systems Management 1 1 (0.602 %) Nessus	Vendors 1 16 (9.639 %) Microsoft 2 6 (3.614 %) VMware 3 5 (3.012 %) Altiris 3 5 (3.012 %) Citrix 4 4 (2.410 %) Oracle 4 4 (2.410 %) Sybase 5 3 (1.807 %) Adobe 6 2 (1.205 %) Sage