The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all Qualifications for the Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 77 71 52
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -19
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 13 8 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 1.451% 1.182% 1.566%
As % of the Qualifications category 3.652% 2.867% 6.299%
Number of salaries quoted 9 8 8
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £34,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +23.18%
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £35,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.40% -4.05%
All Qualifications
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
356 279 127
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 39.73% 41.21% 24.85%
Number of salaries quoted 264 267 126
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +14.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £63,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISEB
Surrey

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Guildford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Guildford ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

Guildford ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing ISEB across the Guildford region over the 3 months to 20 June 2013.

Guildford ISEB Salary Histogram

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 29 (54.72%) Software Testing
2 26 (49.06%) QA
3 24 (45.28%) Automated Testing
4 22 (41.51%) ISTQB
5 17 (32.08%) Degree
5 17 (32.08%) Selenium
5 17 (32.08%) QuickTest Pro
5 17 (32.08%) XML
6 16 (30.19%) WinRunner
7 13 (24.53%) Test Scripting
7 13 (24.53%) Open Source
8 12 (22.64%) Business Analysis
8 12 (22.64%) Perl
8 12 (22.64%) UML
9 11 (20.75%) RDBMS
9 11 (20.75%) SQL
9 11 (20.75%) Games
10 10 (18.87%) Scrum
11 9 (16.98%) UNIX
11 9 (16.98%) Linux
11 9 (16.98%) Information Security
11 9 (16.98%) Waterfall
12 8 (15.09%) BPMN
12 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
13 7 (13.21%) Windows
13 7 (13.21%) PHP
13 7 (13.21%) MySQL
13 7 (13.21%) Firewall
13 7 (13.21%) CentOS
14 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (32.08%) XML
2 4 (7.547%) Spring
2 4 (7.547%) WebSphere
2 4 (7.547%) WebSphere MQ
2 4 (7.547%) Middleware
2 4 (7.547%) J2EE
2 4 (7.547%) ASP
2 4 (7.547%) EJB
2 4 (7.547%) Web Services
3 1 (1.887%) FreeSWITCH
3 1 (1.887%) .NET
Application Platforms
1 4 (7.547%) WebSphere Message Broker
1 4 (7.547%) WebSphere Application Server
2 2 (3.774%) MS Exchange
3 1 (1.887%) IIS
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
2 4 (7.547%) MS Project
3 2 (3.774%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 7 (13.21%) Firewall
2 2 (3.774%) DNS
3 1 (1.887%) Asterisk PBX
3 1 (1.887%) Wireshark
3 1 (1.887%) MPLS
3 1 (1.887%) RTP
3 1 (1.887%) VoIP
3 1 (1.887%) TCP/IP
3 1 (1.887%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.75%) RDBMS
2 7 (13.21%) MySQL
3 4 (7.547%) Adabas
4 1 (1.887%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (32.08%) Selenium
1 17 (32.08%) QuickTest Pro
2 16 (30.19%) WinRunner
3 4 (7.547%) RequisitePro
3 4 (7.547%) ClearCase
3 4 (7.547%) Ant
4 2 (3.774%) SilkTest
5 1 (1.887%) WebDriver
5 1 (1.887%) Trac
5 1 (1.887%) Subversion
General
1 11 (20.75%) Games
2 6 (11.32%) Finance
3 4 (7.547%) Retail
4 2 (3.774%) Electronics
4 2 (3.774%) Legal
Job Titles
1 23 (43.40%) Analyst
2 16 (30.19%) Test Manager
3 14 (26.42%) Business Analyst
4 8 (15.09%) Technical Analyst
4 8 (15.09%) Technical Business Analyst
5 7 (13.21%) Test Analyst
6 6 (11.32%) QA Engineer
7 5 (9.434%) Analyst Programmer
7 5 (9.434%) Programmer
8 4 (7.547%) Team Leader
8 4 (7.547%) Business Analyst Team Leader
8 4 (7.547%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (7.547%) Architect
9 2 (3.774%) Tester
9 2 (3.774%) Security Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) Lead Business Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) Information Security Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) Information Analyst
9 2 (3.774%) Software Tester
9 2 (3.774%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 13 (24.53%) Open Source
2 1 (1.887%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.98%) UNIX
1 9 (16.98%) Linux
2 7 (13.21%) Windows
2 7 (13.21%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (54.72%) Software Testing
2 24 (45.28%) Automated Testing
3 13 (24.53%) Test Scripting
4 12 (22.64%) Business Analysis
4 12 (22.64%) UML
5 10 (18.87%) Scrum
6 9 (16.98%) Information Security
6 9 (16.98%) Waterfall
7 8 (15.09%) BPMN
8 6 (11.32%) TDD
8 6 (11.32%) Extreme Programming
8 6 (11.32%) ERP
9 5 (9.434%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 4 (7.547%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (7.547%) Continuous Improvement
10 4 (7.547%) Resource Management
10 4 (7.547%) Project Planning
10 4 (7.547%) Enterprise Architecture
10 4 (7.547%) B2C
11 2 (3.774%) Information Security Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (22.64%) Perl
2 11 (20.75%) SQL
3 7 (13.21%) PHP
4 5 (9.434%) Python
4 5 (9.434%) Bash shell
5 4 (7.547%) VB6
5 4 (7.547%) NATURAL
5 4 (7.547%) PL/SQL
5 4 (7.547%) VB
6 1 (1.887%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.887%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (41.51%) ISTQB
2 17 (32.08%) Degree
3 6 (11.32%) Security Cleared
4 4 (7.547%) SC Cleared
4 4 (7.547%) SCJP
4 4 (7.547%) Sun Certification
5 2 (3.774%) CISSP
5 2 (3.774%) CISM
5 2 (3.774%) ISEB Practitioner
5 2 (3.774%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (49.06%) QA
2 2 (3.774%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 1 (1.887%) OpenSIPS
Systems Management
1 4 (7.547%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (7.547%) Microsoft
1 4 (7.547%) Sun
1 4 (7.547%) Oracle