Halifax Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Halifax 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coalville Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochester Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	47
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	0	4
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.003 %
Salaries quoted	0	3
Average minimum salary	-	£25,000
Average salary	-	£27,500
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£30,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,050	£31,630
% change on same period last year	+1.32 %
Job Titles Halifax
Matching permanent IT job ads	332	399
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.192 %	0.172 %
Salaries quoted	302	377
Average minimum salary	£29,655	£29,275
Average salary	£32,106	£32,332
% change on same period last year	-0.69 %
Average maximum salary	£34,557	£35,388
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Tester West Yorkshire

Tester
Demand Trend

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

Tester
Salary Trend

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

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Top 10 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Halifax 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 6 (75.00 %) QA 2 5 (62.50 %) Mathematics 2 5 (62.50 %) Insurance 2 5 (62.50 %) C 3 2 (25.00 %) Java 3 2 (25.00 %) CRM 4 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) TestPartner 4 1 (12.50 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) ISEB

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Halifax 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.

Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) TestPartner	General 1 5 (62.50 %) Insurance
Miscellaneous 1 5 (62.50 %) Mathematics	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (25.00 %) CRM 2 1 (12.50 %) Automated Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Manual Testing
Programming Languages 1 5 (62.50 %) C 2 2 (25.00 %) Java	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (75.00 %) QA