The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Lancashire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Lancashire region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 53 51 45
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -6
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 8 13 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 1.653% 2.293% 2.933%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.723% 9.701% 13.25%
Number of salaries quoted 7 9 7
Average salary £26,500 £23,000 £23,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.21% -2.12%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,300 £21,300 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £28,100 £34,500 £30,800
UK excluding London average salary £36,000 £36,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
-1.36% -1.35%
All Qualifications
Lancashire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
119 134 83
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Lancashire 24.59% 23.63% 22.13%
Number of salaries quoted 104 118 66
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +25.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £21,500 £18,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £42,500 £51,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Lancashire ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

Lancashire ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Chorley +3 5 £26,500 +15.21%
Preston - 3 £27,500 -
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 12 (52.17%) Software Testing
2 9 (39.13%) ISTQB
3 8 (34.78%) Java
3 8 (34.78%) .NET
4 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
5 5 (21.74%) IBM
5 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
6 4 (17.39%) SQL
7 3 (13.04%) Finance
7 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
7 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
7 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
7 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
7 3 (13.04%) Spring
7 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
8 2 (8.696%) HP Quality Center
8 2 (8.696%) Selenium
8 2 (8.696%) Retail
8 2 (8.696%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
8 2 (8.696%) Oracle
8 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
8 2 (8.696%) UML
8 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
8 2 (8.696%) HP
8 2 (8.696%) Citrix
8 2 (8.696%) Project Management
9 1 (4.348%) CRM
9 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Lancashire region citing ISEB 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 ISEB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (34.78%) .NET
2 3 (13.04%) Hibernate
2 3 (13.04%) Spring
3 1 (4.348%) soapUI
3 1 (4.348%) SOAP
3 1 (4.348%) Web Services
Applications
1 2 (8.696%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.348%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) SQL Server
2 2 (8.696%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (8.696%) Selenium
2 1 (4.348%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 1 (4.348%) WebDriver
2 1 (4.348%) Cucumber
2 1 (4.348%) Jenkins
2 1 (4.348%) Eclipse
General
1 3 (13.04%) Finance
2 2 (8.696%) Retail
3 1 (4.348%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (60.87%) Analyst
2 12 (52.17%) Test Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Software Test Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Test Manager
4 2 (8.696%) Business Analyst
4 2 (8.696%) Tester
5 1 (4.348%) Developer
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Software Tester
5 1 (4.348%) Senior Test Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Functional Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Validation Tester
5 1 (4.348%) Functional Test Analyst
5 1 (4.348%) Validation Engineer
5 1 (4.348%) Automation Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.348%) Computer Science
1 1 (4.348%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (52.17%) Software Testing
2 7 (30.43%) Test Automation
3 3 (13.04%) Test Strategy
3 3 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (13.04%) Test Scripting
3 3 (13.04%) Manual Testing
4 2 (8.696%) PRINCE2
4 2 (8.696%) UML
4 2 (8.696%) Project Management
5 1 (4.348%) Regression Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Validation
5 1 (4.348%) Scrum
5 1 (4.348%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.348%) Automated Testing
5 1 (4.348%) Software Engineering
5 1 (4.348%) Business Analysis
5 1 (4.348%) CRM
5 1 (4.348%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.348%) ERP
5 1 (4.348%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) Java
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
3 1 (4.348%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 9 (39.13%) ISTQB
2 2 (8.696%) ISEB Practitioner
3 1 (4.348%) Degree
Systems Management
1 2 (8.696%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) IBM
1 5 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.696%) HP
2 2 (8.696%) Citrix
2 2 (8.696%) Oracle
Chorley, North West
Preston Software test analyst (ideally working on manually testing .NET or Java and SQL based applications) sought by this leading product based software development organisationWorking on testing server...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £23000 - £30000 per annum
Posted: 11 May 2013