The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Ipswich region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Job Titles advertised for the Ipswich region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 50 43 49
Rank change year-on-year
-7 +6
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 3 4 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 0.932% 1.538% 0.694%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.962% 1.550% 0.733%
Number of salaries quoted 3 4 2
Average salary £22,000 £26,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-16.98% +6.00%
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
All Job Titles
Ipswich
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
312 258 273
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Ipswich 96.89% 99.23% 94.79%
Number of salaries quoted 293 229 247
Average salary £40,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,200 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £54,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Test Engineer
Suffolk

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Ipswich Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Ipswich Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich region that cited Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Windows
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Atlassian
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 5 (100.00%) TortoiseSVN
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
1 5 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Software Deployment

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Ipswich region that cited Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Eclipse
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) TortoiseSVN
1 5 (100.00%) Hudson
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Data Analysis
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 5 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Software Deployment
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) Atlassian