The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Leamington Spa region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Leamington Spa region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 33 31 -
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 6 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leamington Spa 4.412% 4.196% -
As % of the Job Titles category 4.545% 4.225% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 5 0
Average salary £37,000 £32,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.62% -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Leamington Spa
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
132 142 81
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leamington Spa 97.06% 99.30% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 123 123 72
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £28,500 £20,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £42,500 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Warwickshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leamington Spa Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Leamington Spa Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 16 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leamington Spa region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
1 9 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Manual Testing
2 8 (88.89%) HTML
2 8 (88.89%) VB
2 8 (88.89%) Oracle
2 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
2 8 (88.89%) UNIX
2 8 (88.89%) Windows
2 8 (88.89%) Windows 2000
3 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Release Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leamington Spa region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (88.89%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (88.89%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 9 (100.00%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 8 (88.89%) UNIX
1 8 (88.89%) Windows
1 8 (88.89%) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Automated Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (11.11%) Release Management
3 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
2 8 (88.89%) VB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (88.89%) Oracle