Lancashire Software Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the Lancashire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lightwater Liverpool Livingston London Lutterworth Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Thame UK Warrington Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	82
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	17	7
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.010 %	0.003 %
As % of the category below	1.529 %	0.589 %
Salaries quoted	17	7
Average minimum salary	£25,941	£18,429
Average salary	£29,471	£20,286
% change on same period last year	+45.27 %
Average maximum salary	£33,000	£22,143
UK excluding London average salary	£29,806	£29,073
% change on same period last year	+2.51 %
Job Titles Lancashire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1112	1188
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.644 %	0.511 %
Salaries quoted	926	956
Average minimum salary	£27,868	£28,546
Average salary	£30,541	£30,643
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Average maximum salary	£33,215	£32,739
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
Software Tester North West

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Preston	-	10	£30,200	-
Lancaster	+10	5	£27,000	+8.00 %
Burnley	-	2	£32,000	-

Software Tester North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Software Tester 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 17 (77.27 %) QA 2 15 (68.18 %) Software Testing 3 11 (50.00 %) SQL 4 9 (40.91 %) System Testing 5 7 (31.82 %) C# 6 6 (27.27 %) .NET 7 5 (22.73 %) Validation 7 5 (22.73 %) Statistics 8 4 (18.18 %) Automated Testing 8 4 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 8 4 (18.18 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (13.64 %) Finance 10 2 (9.091 %) Regression Testing 10 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server 10 2 (9.091 %) Perl

10 2 (9.091 %) VBScript 10 2 (9.091 %) VB 10 2 (9.091 %) MCSD 10 2 (9.091 %) Windows 10 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft 10 2 (9.091 %) ISEB 10 2 (9.091 %) Citrix 10 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 10 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services 11 1 (4.545 %) Pensions 11 1 (4.545 %) Visual Studio Team System 11 1 (4.545 %) Degree 11 1 (4.545 %) Computer Science 11 1 (4.545 %) QARun 11 1 (4.545 %) User Acceptance Testing

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Lancashire region that cited Software Tester 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (27.27 %) .NET	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (9.091 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (4.545 %) Visual Studio 1 1 (4.545 %) WinRunner 1 1 (4.545 %) QARun 1 1 (4.545 %) Visual Studio Team System	General 1 3 (13.64 %) Finance 2 1 (4.545 %) Health 2 1 (4.545 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 5 (22.73 %) Statistics 2 1 (4.545 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 2 (9.091 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (68.18 %) Software Testing 2 9 (40.91 %) System Testing 3 5 (22.73 %) Validation 4 4 (18.18 %) Agile Software Development 4 4 (18.18 %) Automated Testing 4 4 (18.18 %) Test Scripting 5 2 (9.091 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (4.545 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (4.545 %) Test Management	Programming Languages 1 11 (50.00 %) SQL 2 7 (31.82 %) C# 3 2 (9.091 %) Perl 3 2 (9.091 %) VBScript 3 2 (9.091 %) VB
Qualifications 1 2 (9.091 %) MCSD 1 2 (9.091 %) ISEB 1 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.545 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (77.27 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (9.091 %) Terminal Services	Vendors 1 2 (9.091 %) Microsoft 1 2 (9.091 %) Citrix