The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Kingston Upon Thames region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Kingston Upon Thames region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 35 38 38
Rank change year-on-year
+3 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 2 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 0.599% 1.064% 2.907%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.735% 1.342% 3.425%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 5
Average salary £42,500 £35,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+21.42% +16.66%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Kingston Upon Thames
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
136 149 146
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Kingston Upon Thames 81.44% 79.26% 84.88%
Number of salaries quoted 123 148 146
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% -15.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,500 £27,500 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
London

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Kingston Upon Thames 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 Kingston Upon Thames region.

Kingston Upon Thames Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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 (100.00%) QA
2 5 (71.43%) C#
2 5 (71.43%) C++
3 3 (42.86%) .NET
3 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
3 3 (42.86%) UML
3 3 (42.86%) Progress
3 3 (42.86%) Firmware
3 3 (42.86%) Electronics
3 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
4 2 (28.57%) Big Data
4 2 (28.57%) Degree
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (28.57%) Social Network
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) UNIX
4 2 (28.57%) Linux
4 2 (28.57%) Java
5 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) PHP
5 1 (14.29%) SQL
5 1 (14.29%) CSS
5 1 (14.29%) HTML
5 1 (14.29%) ISEB
5 1 (14.29%) Selenium
5 1 (14.29%) jQuery
5 1 (14.29%) Firebug
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Kingston Upon Thames 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.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) jQuery
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Visual Studio
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 1 (14.29%) Selenium
3 1 (14.29%) Firebug
3 1 (14.29%) Git (software)
3 1 (14.29%) Behat
3 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (42.86%) Electronics
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
1 3 (42.86%) Software Engineer
1 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
2 2 (28.57%) QA Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Junior
3 1 (14.29%) Junior Tester
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Firmware
1 3 (42.86%) Computer Science
2 2 (28.57%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (28.57%) Social Network
3 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) UNIX
1 2 (28.57%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) UML
2 2 (28.57%) OO
3 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) C#
1 5 (71.43%) C++
2 2 (28.57%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) PHP
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) XPath
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Progress
Kingston Upon Thames, Surrey
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Salary: £20000.00 - £25000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013