The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kent region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 19 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Kent region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 78 61 83
Rank change year-on-year
-17 +22
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 12 9 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 1.125% 1.202% 2.137%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.594% 1.619% 2.902%
Number of salaries quoted 11 7 24
Average salary £30,000 £35,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.28% +22.80%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £35,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £40,500 £32,500
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kent
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
753 556 827
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kent 70.57% 74.23% 73.64%
Number of salaries quoted 646 503 738
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £25,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £50,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kent Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Kent Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Kent region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Kent Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Kent region over the 3 months to 19 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
Tunbridge Wells -5 4 £30,000 -14.28% 4
Maidstone -4 3 £37,500 -9.09% 1
Dartford +4 2 £27,500 -21.42%
Chatham - 2 £47,500 -
Test Scripting
South East

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 18 (60.00%) MySQL
2 16 (53.33%) PHP
2 16 (53.33%) Linux
3 15 (50.00%) SQL
4 12 (40.00%) Degree
5 11 (36.67%) QA
5 11 (36.67%) Selenium
6 10 (33.33%) Software Testing
7 9 (30.00%) PHPUnit
7 9 (30.00%) Apache
8 8 (26.67%) ISEB
9 7 (23.33%) WebDriver
9 7 (23.33%) Test Management
9 7 (23.33%) CentOS
9 7 (23.33%) Scrum
9 7 (23.33%) Extreme Programming
9 7 (23.33%) Information Security
9 7 (23.33%) Retail
10 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
10 6 (20.00%) E-Commerce
10 6 (20.00%) Perl
10 6 (20.00%) .NET
10 6 (20.00%) UNIX
11 5 (16.67%) Windows
11 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
11 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
11 5 (16.67%) VB
11 5 (16.67%) Citrix
11 5 (16.67%) VB6
11 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Kent region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (20.00%) .NET
2 5 (16.67%) ASP.NET
2 5 (16.67%) WinForms
3 1 (3.333%) Web Services
3 1 (3.333%) XML
3 1 (3.333%) LAMP
3 1 (3.333%) DAO
3 1 (3.333%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 9 (30.00%) Apache
Applications
1 4 (13.33%) MS Excel
1 4 (13.33%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (60.00%) MySQL
2 5 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (6.667%) SQL Server
4 1 (3.333%) MS Access
4 1 (3.333%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 11 (36.67%) Selenium
2 9 (30.00%) PHPUnit
3 7 (23.33%) WebDriver
4 2 (6.667%) SilkTest
5 1 (3.333%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (3.333%) JIRA
General
1 7 (23.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Analyst
2 9 (30.00%) Test Analyst
3 7 (23.33%) Tester
3 7 (23.33%) QA Engineer
4 5 (16.67%) Software Tester
5 4 (13.33%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.667%) Applications Support Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Applications Support
6 2 (6.667%) Graduate
6 2 (6.667%) Graduate Software Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Junior Software Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Automation Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Project Manager
7 1 (3.333%) Junior
7 1 (3.333%) Developer
7 1 (3.333%) VB.NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) .NET Developer
7 1 (3.333%) Junior Tester
7 1 (3.333%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 16 (53.33%) Linux
2 7 (23.33%) CentOS
3 6 (20.00%) UNIX
4 5 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 7 (23.33%) Test Management
2 7 (23.33%) Scrum
2 7 (23.33%) Extreme Programming
2 7 (23.33%) Information Security
3 6 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 6 (20.00%) E-Commerce
4 5 (16.67%) Workflow
5 4 (13.33%) Automated Testing
6 3 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 3 (10.00%) Manual Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Automation Testing
7 1 (3.333%) Migration
7 1 (3.333%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (3.333%) MVVM
7 1 (3.333%) Use Case
7 1 (3.333%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 16 (53.33%) PHP
2 15 (50.00%) SQL
3 6 (20.00%) Perl
4 5 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 5 (16.67%) VB
4 5 (16.67%) VB6
5 3 (10.00%) Java
6 1 (3.333%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 12 (40.00%) Degree
2 8 (26.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (36.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (16.67%) Citrix
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft
3 3 (10.00%) HP
4 2 (6.667%) Borland
5 1 (3.333%) Oracle
Tunbridge Wells, South East
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Salary: DOE
Posted: 4 June 2013
Tunbridge Wells, Kent
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Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Pension, Gym Membership, Health
Posted: 15 June 2013
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By specialising solely in placing candidates in the Microsoft technology market I have built relationships with most of the key employers in the UK and have an unrivalled...
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Salary: £35000 per annum + Package + Gym Membership
Posted: 14 June 2013
Maidstone, Kent
ISEB/ISTQ foundation certificate in Software Testing. - Experience with database technologies, especially T-SQL queries. - 1 years Software Testing experience in any of the following disciples- Web Applications (...
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Salary: £20,000-£30,000
Posted: 14 June 2013