The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Hertfordshire region. 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 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the Hertfordshire region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 101 111 146
Rank change year-on-year
+10 +35
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 39 36 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 1.617% 1.417% 0.836%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.722% 1.474% 0.894%
Number of salaries quoted 14 32 24
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,050 £27,500 £30,750
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £65,000 £41,750
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Hertfordshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
2265 2442 3357
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Hertfordshire 93.91% 96.10% 93.51%
Number of salaries quoted 1791 1977 2724
Average salary £42,500 £42,000 £41,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.19% +1.20%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
East of England

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Hertfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Hertfordshire Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Hertfordshire Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013.

Hertfordshire Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 17 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Watford +26 18 £22,000 -34.81%
St Albans -3 7 - -
Welwyn Garden City -13 3 £35,000 -2.77%
Hertford - 3 £50,000 -
Stevenage -1 1 - -
Rickmansworth -3 1 £21,000 -50.58%
Tester
East of England

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 56 (69.14%) SQL
2 44 (54.32%) Java
2 44 (54.32%) Finance
3 34 (41.98%) E-Commerce
3 34 (41.98%) Retail
4 33 (40.74%) Oracle
5 25 (30.86%) QuickTest Pro
5 25 (30.86%) HP Quality Center
6 23 (28.40%) Performance Testing
6 23 (28.40%) IBM
7 21 (25.93%) DB2
7 21 (25.93%) J2EE
7 21 (25.93%) Manual Testing
7 21 (25.93%) Automated Testing
7 21 (25.93%) WebSphere
8 20 (24.69%) Regression Testing
9 19 (23.46%) V-Model
10 18 (22.22%) Software Testing
10 18 (22.22%) Manufacturing
11 17 (20.99%) HTTP
11 17 (20.99%) PL/SQL
12 16 (19.75%) UNIX
12 16 (19.75%) Windows
12 16 (19.75%) Linux
12 16 (19.75%) Internet
13 15 (18.52%) Sun
13 15 (18.52%) HP
13 15 (18.52%) ISEB
13 15 (18.52%) AIX
13 15 (18.52%) JBoss

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 21 (25.93%) J2EE
1 21 (25.93%) WebSphere
2 9 (11.11%) Servlets
3 8 (9.877%) XML
4 7 (8.642%) Web Services
5 6 (7.407%) Flash
5 6 (7.407%) HTML
6 5 (6.173%) Hibernate
6 5 (6.173%) Spring
7 3 (3.704%) .NET
8 2 (2.469%) SOAP
8 2 (2.469%) JMS
Application Platforms
1 15 (18.52%) Tomcat
1 15 (18.52%) WebSphere Application Server
2 6 (7.407%) MQSeries
3 3 (3.704%) WebLogic
4 2 (2.469%) BizTalk Server
4 2 (2.469%) TIBCO EMS
Applications
1 6 (7.407%) MS Excel
2 2 (2.469%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.469%) BusinessWorks
1 2 (2.469%) SAP FI
1 2 (2.469%) SAP MM
1 2 (2.469%) SAP Retail
1 2 (2.469%) TIBCO BusinessEvents
Communications & Networking
1 17 (20.99%) HTTP
2 16 (19.75%) Internet
3 15 (18.52%) HTTPS
4 8 (9.877%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (25.93%) DB2
2 6 (7.407%) DbVisualizer
3 5 (6.173%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 25 (30.86%) QuickTest Pro
2 12 (14.81%) Visual Studio
3 7 (8.642%) Team Foundation Server
4 6 (7.407%) LoadRunner
5 5 (6.173%) ClearQuest
5 5 (6.173%) Eclipse
5 5 (6.173%) JIRA
5 5 (6.173%) JUnit
6 4 (4.938%) Selenium
7 2 (2.469%) TestDirector
8 1 (1.235%) LabVIEW
General
1 44 (54.32%) Finance
2 34 (41.98%) Retail
3 18 (22.22%) Manufacturing
4 8 (9.877%) Marketing
5 6 (7.407%) Games
6 3 (3.704%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.173%) PKI
2 4 (4.938%) Computer Science
3 3 (3.704%) EPoS
4 1 (1.235%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 16 (19.75%) UNIX
1 16 (19.75%) Windows
1 16 (19.75%) Linux
2 15 (18.52%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (41.98%) E-Commerce
2 23 (28.40%) Performance Testing
3 21 (25.93%) Manual Testing
3 21 (25.93%) Automated Testing
4 20 (24.69%) Regression Testing
5 19 (23.46%) V-Model
6 18 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 15 (18.52%) Test Scripting
8 12 (14.81%) Scrum
9 11 (13.58%) Test Automation
9 11 (13.58%) Test Strategy
10 10 (12.35%) TDD
11 9 (11.11%) Data Analysis
12 8 (9.877%) Integration Testing
13 7 (8.642%) Web Testing
13 7 (8.642%) Agile Software Development
14 6 (7.407%) System Testing
14 6 (7.407%) Root Cause Analysis
14 6 (7.407%) Capacity Planning
15 5 (6.173%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (69.14%) SQL
2 44 (54.32%) Java
3 17 (20.99%) PL/SQL
4 9 (11.11%) Perl
5 6 (7.407%) JavaScript
6 5 (6.173%) C
7 3 (3.704%) C++
8 2 (2.469%) Python
9 1 (1.235%) Tcl
9 1 (1.235%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 15 (18.52%) ISEB
2 9 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 7 (8.642%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (13.58%) QA
Systems Management
1 25 (30.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 33 (40.74%) Oracle
2 23 (28.40%) IBM
3 15 (18.52%) Sun
3 15 (18.52%) HP
3 15 (18.52%) JBoss
4 8 (9.877%) Microsoft
5 4 (4.938%) SAP
6 2 (2.469%) JDA
6 2 (2.469%) TIBCO
6 2 (2.469%) hybris
6 2 (2.469%) RedPrairie