The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Leatherhead 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 24 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 Leatherhead region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank - 53 27
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 0 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leatherhead - 0.348% 2.564%
As % of the Job Titles category - 0.365% 2.632%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 3
Average salary - - £33,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Leatherhead
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
207 274 114
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leatherhead 91.19% 95.47% 97.44%
Number of salaries quoted 167 263 103
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +38.46%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £32,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Surrey

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leatherhead 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 Leatherhead region.

Leatherhead Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leatherhead 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 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) QA
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) soapUI
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Bing Maps
2 1 (50.00%) WCF
2 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
2 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (50.00%) Google Maps API
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (50.00%) LTE
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Telerik
2 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (50.00%) SilkTest
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Perl
2 1 (50.00%) PHP

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leatherhead 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 1 (50.00%) soapUI
1 1 (50.00%) Bing Maps
1 1 (50.00%) WCF
1 1 (50.00%) Silverlight
1 1 (50.00%) Google Maps API
1 1 (50.00%) SOAP
1 1 (50.00%) LAMP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) LTE
1 1 (50.00%) UMTS
1 1 (50.00%) FTP
1 1 (50.00%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle 11g
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) SilkTest
General
1 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (50.00%) UNIX
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Management
2 1 (50.00%) Network Planning
2 1 (50.00%) OOD
2 1 (50.00%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Perl
1 1 (50.00%) PHP
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Atlassian
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Telerik
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft