The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Hemel Hempstead region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Hemel Hempstead region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 34 - 30
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 4 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 1.802% - 0.575%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.564% - 0.752%
Number of salaries quoted 4 0 1
Average salary £29,000 - £38,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,125 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-3.11% +11.15%
All Processes & Methodologies
Hemel Hempstead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
156 171 133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hemel Hempstead 70.27% 78.08% 76.44%
Number of salaries quoted 151 165 121
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +1.35%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £28,400 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Hertfordshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing System Testing across the Hemel Hempstead region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Hemel Hempstead System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing System Testing across the Hemel Hempstead region.

Hemel Hempstead System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead region citing System Testing 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 System Testing.

1 10 (100.00%) SQL
1 10 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 10 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 10 (100.00%) QA
2 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 7 (70.00%) Load Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Automated Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Avaya
2 7 (70.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 7 (70.00%) JMeter
2 7 (70.00%) Cisco
2 7 (70.00%) Nortel
3 5 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (50.00%) Automation Testing
4 3 (30.00%) XML
4 3 (30.00%) Python
4 3 (30.00%) C
4 3 (30.00%) C++
4 3 (30.00%) HTML
4 3 (30.00%) Java
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (30.00%) PHP

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Hemel Hempstead region citing System Testing 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (30.00%) HTML
1 3 (30.00%) XML
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) QuickTest Pro
1 7 (70.00%) JMeter
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 10 (100.00%) Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Test Analyst
1 10 (100.00%) Test Engineer
1 10 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 10 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Load Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Automated Testing
3 5 (50.00%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (30.00%) Python
2 3 (30.00%) C
2 3 (30.00%) C++
2 3 (30.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (30.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
1 10 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (70.00%) Cisco
1 7 (70.00%) Nortel
1 7 (70.00%) Avaya