The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the Guildford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB 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 Qualifications for the Guildford region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 80 81 53
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -28
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 5 1 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 0.557% 0.137% 0.431%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.330% 0.332% 1.600%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 2
Average salary £42,500 - £34,500
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,250
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.04%
All Qualifications
Guildford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
376 301 125
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Guildford 41.92% 41.35% 26.94%
Number of salaries quoted 266 288 123
Average salary £42,500 £39,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.97% +11.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
Surrey

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Guildford ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

Guildford ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Guildford region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 27 (100.00%) ISEB
1 27 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 27 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 22 (81.48%) QuickTest Pro
3 21 (77.78%) WinRunner
3 21 (77.78%) Selenium
4 17 (62.96%) Open Source
4 17 (62.96%) QA
5 10 (37.04%) Games
6 6 (22.22%) TDD
6 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 6 (22.22%) Degree
6 6 (22.22%) Perl
6 6 (22.22%) XML
6 6 (22.22%) Windows
6 6 (22.22%) Python
6 6 (22.22%) Bash shell
6 6 (22.22%) Waterfall
7 4 (14.81%) RDBMS

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 6 (22.22%) XML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (14.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 22 (81.48%) QuickTest Pro
2 21 (77.78%) WinRunner
2 21 (77.78%) Selenium
General
1 10 (37.04%) Games
Job Titles
1 21 (77.78%) Test Manager
2 6 (22.22%) Test Analyst
2 6 (22.22%) Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 17 (62.96%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 6 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 27 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (22.22%) TDD
2 6 (22.22%) Test Scripting
2 6 (22.22%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 6 (22.22%) Perl
1 6 (22.22%) Python
1 6 (22.22%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 27 (100.00%) ISEB
2 6 (22.22%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (62.96%) QA