The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 50 33 43
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +10
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 4 11 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 1.223% 4.264% 3.654%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.843% 5.213% 4.741%
Number of salaries quoted 4 11 11
Average salary £22,000 £27,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +10.00%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
217 211 232
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 66.36% 81.78% 77.08%
Number of salaries quoted 199 187 218
Average salary £40,000 £38,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +1.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Suffolk

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 27 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 7 (87.50%) Windows
2 6 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (62.50%) TortoiseSVN
3 5 (62.50%) Hudson
3 5 (62.50%) Atlassian
3 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
3 5 (62.50%) Software Deployment
3 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
3 5 (62.50%) Subversion
3 5 (62.50%) Data Analysis
4 3 (37.50%) ISEB
4 3 (37.50%) SQL
4 3 (37.50%) QA
5 2 (25.00%) Selenium
5 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle
5 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
6 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
6 1 (12.50%) HTTP
6 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
6 1 (12.50%) C#
6 1 (12.50%) VB
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Communications & Networking
1 1 (12.50%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) TortoiseSVN
1 5 (62.50%) Hudson
1 5 (62.50%) Eclipse
1 5 (62.50%) Subversion
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Test Engineer
1 5 (62.50%) Deployment Engineer
2 3 (37.50%) Analyst
2 3 (37.50%) Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
Operating Systems
1 7 (87.50%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 5 (62.50%) Functional Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (62.50%) Software Deployment
2 5 (62.50%) Data Analysis
3 2 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (25.00%) Automated Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
2 1 (12.50%) C#
2 1 (12.50%) VB
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) ISEB
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (62.50%) Atlassian
2 2 (25.00%) Oracle
3 1 (12.50%) Microsoft