Hertfordshire Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Hertfordshire 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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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 Cheadle 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 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 Tewkesbury 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 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	71
Rank change on same period last year	-29
Matching permanent IT job ads	61	140
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.036 %	0.060 %
As % of the category below	1.671 %	3.067 %
Salaries quoted	44	108
Average minimum salary	£33,468	£32,195
Average salary	£37,064	£35,042
% change on same period last year	+5.76 %
Average maximum salary	£40,660	£37,889
UK excluding London average salary	£32,035	£31,660
% change on same period last year	+1.18 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3651	4564
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.131 %	1.957 %
Salaries quoted	3118	3907
Average minimum salary	£37,804	£36,289
Average salary	£41,362	£39,806
% change on same period last year	+3.90 %
Average maximum salary	£44,920	£43,323
UK excluding London average salary	£38,201	£39,267
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Tester East of England

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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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 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Watford	-35	10	£31,375	-9.49 %
Letchworth	+5	3	£37,500	+30.40 %
Rickmansworth	-	2	£36,250	-
St Albans	+7	2	£51,250	+23.49 %
Welwyn Garden City	-	2	£41,250	-
Royston	0	1	£25,000	-33.33 %
Hertford	-	1	£35,000	-

Tester East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 47 (42.73 %) SQL 2 40 (36.36 %) Finance 3 28 (25.45 %) ISEB 4 26 (23.64 %) VB 4 26 (23.64 %) QA 5 25 (22.73 %) Test Scripting 6 24 (21.82 %) Software Testing 7 23 (20.91 %) SQL Server 7 23 (20.91 %) UNIX 8 22 (20.00 %) Retail 9 20 (18.18 %) Automated Testing 10 19 (17.27 %) Windows 10 19 (17.27 %) LoadRunner 11 18 (16.36 %) Microsoft 12 17 (15.45 %) User Acceptance Testing

13 16 (14.55 %) TestDirector 13 16 (14.55 %) Degree 14 15 (13.64 %) Oracle 15 14 (12.73 %) C++ 15 14 (12.73 %) Electric 16 13 (11.82 %) Health 16 13 (11.82 %) Pharmaceutical 16 13 (11.82 %) MS Excel 17 12 (10.91 %) WinRunner 17 12 (10.91 %) C 17 12 (10.91 %) Performance Testing 18 11 (10.00 %) Load Testing 18 11 (10.00 %) .NET 18 11 (10.00 %) MS Access 19 10 (9.091 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, 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 11 (10.00 %) .NET 2 10 (9.091 %) WebServices 3 9 (8.182 %) HTML 4 6 (5.455 %) XML 5 5 (4.545 %) SOAP 5 5 (4.545 %) ASP.NET 6 4 (3.636 %) WinForms 7 2 (1.818 %) COM 8 1 (0.909 %) Spring 8 1 (0.909 %) Java RMI	Application Platforms 1 5 (4.545 %) WebLogic
Applications 1 13 (11.82 %) MS Excel 2 2 (1.818 %) MS Office 3 1 (0.909 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (0.909 %) SAP CRM 1 1 (0.909 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 8 (7.273 %) HTTP 2 3 (2.727 %) Internet 3 2 (1.818 %) ATM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 23 (20.91 %) SQL Server 2 11 (10.00 %) MS Access 3 4 (3.636 %) DB2 4 3 (2.727 %) SQL Server 2005 5 2 (1.818 %) Oracle 9i 5 2 (1.818 %) Oracle 10g 5 2 (1.818 %) SQL Server 2000 6 1 (0.909 %) Crystal Reports 6 1 (0.909 %) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications 1 19 (17.27 %) LoadRunner 2 16 (14.55 %) TestDirector 3 12 (10.91 %) WinRunner 4 8 (7.273 %) TestPartner 5 7 (6.364 %) QuickTest Pro 5 7 (6.364 %) Rational Robot 6 6 (5.455 %) Visual Studio 7 3 (2.727 %) ClearQuest 7 3 (2.727 %) InstallShield 7 3 (2.727 %) Bugzilla 8 2 (1.818 %) MSI 8 2 (1.818 %) VSS/SourceSafe 9 1 (0.909 %) Dreamweaver 9 1 (0.909 %) eCATT	General 1 40 (36.36 %) Finance 2 22 (20.00 %) Retail 3 14 (12.73 %) Electric 4 13 (11.82 %) Health 4 13 (11.82 %) Pharmaceutical 5 7 (6.364 %) Insurance 6 6 (5.455 %) Banking 7 5 (4.545 %) Telecoms 7 5 (4.545 %) Pensions 8 3 (2.727 %) Construction 9 2 (1.818 %) Manufacturing 9 2 (1.818 %) Aerospace
Miscellaneous 1 4 (3.636 %) AS400 2 3 (2.727 %) Computer Science 2 3 (2.727 %) EFT 2 3 (2.727 %) Management Information System 3 1 (0.909 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 23 (20.91 %) UNIX 2 19 (17.27 %) Windows 3 4 (3.636 %) zOS 4 1 (0.909 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 25 (22.73 %) Test Scripting 2 24 (21.82 %) Software Testing 3 20 (18.18 %) Automated Testing 4 17 (15.45 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 12 (10.91 %) Performance Testing 6 11 (10.00 %) Load Testing 7 7 (6.364 %) E-Commerce 8 5 (4.545 %) V-Model 9 4 (3.636 %) Web Testing 9 4 (3.636 %) Manual Testing 9 4 (3.636 %) Regression Testing 10 3 (2.727 %) CRM 11 2 (1.818 %) OO 11 2 (1.818 %) Information Management 11 2 (1.818 %) ERP 11 2 (1.818 %) Integration Testing 12 1 (0.909 %) Systems Analysis 12 1 (0.909 %) WFM 12 1 (0.909 %) Service Delivery 12 1 (0.909 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 47 (42.73 %) SQL 2 26 (23.64 %) VB 3 14 (12.73 %) C++ 4 12 (10.91 %) C 5 9 (8.182 %) Transact-SQL 6 8 (7.273 %) PL/SQL 7 6 (5.455 %) Java 8 5 (4.545 %) VBScript 9 4 (3.636 %) Shell Script 10 3 (2.727 %) VB.NET 10 3 (2.727 %) Perl 10 3 (2.727 %) C# 11 2 (1.818 %) JavaScript 12 1 (0.909 %) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications 1 28 (25.45 %) ISEB 2 16 (14.55 %) Degree 3 4 (3.636 %) ISTQB 4 1 (0.909 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (23.64 %) QA 2 2 (1.818 %) ISO8583
Vendors 1 18 (16.36 %) Microsoft 2 15 (13.64 %) Oracle 3 1 (0.909 %) Sybase 3 1 (0.909 %) SAP 3 1 (0.909 %) Sun 3 1 (0.909 %) VERITAS