The first table below looks at the demand for Stress Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leeds region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Stress Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Leeds region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 112 116 121
Rank change year-on-year
+4 +5
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 35 16 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 1.346% 0.758% 0.166%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.714% 0.960% 0.227%
Number of salaries quoted 33 12 3
Average salary £38,000 £50,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.00% -13.04%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leeds
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2042 1666 1324
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leeds 78.54% 78.88% 73.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1611 1428 1133
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £26,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Stress Testing
West Yorkshire

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leeds Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Trend

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

Leeds Stress Testing Salary Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Stress Testing across the Leeds region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Leeds Stress Testing Salary Histogram

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 29 (52.73%) Performance Testing
1 29 (52.73%) Load Testing
2 25 (45.45%) Oracle
3 24 (43.64%) Benchmarking
3 24 (43.64%) User Stories
4 19 (34.55%) WebLogic
5 17 (30.91%) Shell Script
6 16 (29.09%) SQL
7 14 (25.45%) Selenium
8 13 (23.64%) Finance
8 13 (23.64%) Subversion
8 13 (23.64%) Windows
8 13 (23.64%) Python
9 12 (21.82%) E-Commerce
9 12 (21.82%) SOA
9 12 (21.82%) Perl
9 12 (21.82%) Jython
9 12 (21.82%) Middleware
9 12 (21.82%) Unit Testing
9 12 (21.82%) Oracle Fusion
9 12 (21.82%) Oracle Service Bus
9 12 (21.82%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
10 11 (20.00%) GIS
11 9 (16.36%) PL/SQL
12 8 (14.55%) XML
12 8 (14.55%) JMeter
12 8 (14.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
13 7 (12.73%) hybris
13 7 (12.73%) Scrum
13 7 (12.73%) WebSphere

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leeds region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (21.82%) Middleware
1 12 (21.82%) Oracle Fusion
2 8 (14.55%) XML
3 7 (12.73%) HTML
3 7 (12.73%) J2EE
3 7 (12.73%) WebSphere
4 4 (7.273%) JMS
5 2 (3.636%) LAMP
6 1 (1.818%) Web Services
Application Platforms
1 19 (34.55%) WebLogic
2 12 (21.82%) Oracle Service Bus
3 8 (14.55%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 7 (12.73%) ATG Dynamo
4 7 (12.73%) Apache
4 7 (12.73%) Tomcat
4 7 (12.73%) iPlanet
5 4 (7.273%) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking
1 7 (12.73%) HTTP
2 1 (1.818%) Internet
2 1 (1.818%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (20.00%) GIS
2 7 (12.73%) MySQL
2 7 (12.73%) SQL Server
2 7 (12.73%) DB2
3 5 (9.091%) Oracle 9i
3 5 (9.091%) Oracle 10g
3 5 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 14 (25.45%) Selenium
2 13 (23.64%) Subversion
3 8 (14.55%) JMeter
4 7 (12.73%) JUnit
5 6 (10.91%) QuickTest Pro
6 5 (9.091%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.636%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.818%) OpenSTA
General
1 13 (23.64%) Finance
Job Titles
1 16 (29.09%) Tester
2 14 (25.45%) Analyst
2 14 (25.45%) Test Analyst
3 13 (23.64%) Performance Analyst
3 13 (23.64%) Performance Test Analyst
4 12 (21.82%) Technical Administrator
4 12 (21.82%) Developer
4 12 (21.82%) Administrator
4 12 (21.82%) Performance Tester
5 5 (9.091%) Oracle Developer
5 5 (9.091%) Senior Developer
6 4 (7.273%) Technical Tester
7 2 (3.636%) Java Developer
7 2 (3.636%) Java/J2EE Developer
8 1 (1.818%) Software Team Leader
8 1 (1.818%) Agile Test Analyst
8 1 (1.818%) QA Leader
8 1 (1.818%) Team Leader
8 1 (1.818%) Test Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.091%) N-Tier
1 5 (9.091%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 13 (23.64%) Windows
2 7 (12.73%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (52.73%) Performance Testing
1 29 (52.73%) Load Testing
2 24 (43.64%) User Stories
2 24 (43.64%) Benchmarking
3 12 (21.82%) E-Commerce
3 12 (21.82%) SOA
3 12 (21.82%) Unit Testing
4 7 (12.73%) Scrum
5 5 (9.091%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (7.273%) Automation Testing
7 2 (3.636%) Software Testing
8 1 (1.818%) RAD
8 1 (1.818%) Automated Testing
8 1 (1.818%) Regression Testing
8 1 (1.818%) Security Testing
8 1 (1.818%) Test Management
8 1 (1.818%) Manual Testing
8 1 (1.818%) V-Model
8 1 (1.818%) Waterfall
8 1 (1.818%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 17 (30.91%) Shell Script
2 16 (29.09%) SQL
3 13 (23.64%) Python
4 12 (21.82%) Jython
4 12 (21.82%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
4 12 (21.82%) Perl
5 9 (16.36%) PL/SQL
6 7 (12.73%) JavaScript
7 3 (5.455%) Java
8 2 (3.636%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (3.636%) ISEB
2 1 (1.818%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.91%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (9.091%) Tivoli
1 5 (9.091%) Control-M
2 1 (1.818%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 25 (45.45%) Oracle
2 7 (12.73%) JBoss
2 7 (12.73%) IBM
2 7 (12.73%) BEA
2 7 (12.73%) ATG
2 7 (12.73%) hybris