The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Leicester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Leicester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 55 51 41
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -10
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 11 5 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 2.799% 1.397% 1.060%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.754% 1.859% 1.531%
Number of salaries quoted 10 5 2
Average salary £34,250 £28,000 £26,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.32% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £27,700 £20,800
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £29,400 £31,200
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Leicester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
293 269 196
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Leicester 74.55% 75.14% 69.26%
Number of salaries quoted 250 239 173
Average salary £38,000 £35,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.57% -10.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Acceptance Testing
Leicestershire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Leicester User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Leicester User Acceptance Testing Salary Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Leicester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Leicester User Acceptance Testing Salary Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
3 10 (55.56%) MS Excel
3 10 (55.56%) .NET
4 9 (50.00%) C#
4 9 (50.00%) MS Office
4 9 (50.00%) Windows
5 8 (44.44%) T-SQL
5 8 (44.44%) VB
5 8 (44.44%) Windows Azure
5 8 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
6 7 (38.89%) WCF
6 7 (38.89%) Migration
6 7 (38.89%) CRM
6 7 (38.89%) WinForms
6 7 (38.89%) Data Transformation
7 5 (27.78%) QA
7 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
7 5 (27.78%) OWASP
8 4 (22.22%) N-Tier
8 4 (22.22%) MVC
8 4 (22.22%) Internet
8 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
8 4 (22.22%) Performance Management
9 3 (16.67%) Software Deployment
9 3 (16.67%) Change Management
10 2 (11.11%) ISEB
10 2 (11.11%) Finance
10 2 (11.11%) Software Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Leicester region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (55.56%) .NET
2 7 (38.89%) WCF
2 7 (38.89%) WinForms
3 1 (5.556%) ASP.NET
3 1 (5.556%) XML
Application Platforms
1 8 (44.44%) Windows Azure
Applications
1 10 (55.56%) MS Excel
2 9 (50.00%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.556%) Google Analytics
1 1 (5.556%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (61.11%) SQL Server
2 8 (44.44%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (5.556%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (5.556%) Crystal Reports
Development Applications
1 1 (5.556%) MorphX
1 1 (5.556%) JIRA
1 1 (5.556%) Selenium
1 1 (5.556%) NUnit
1 1 (5.556%) LoadRunner
1 1 (5.556%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 9 (50.00%) Applications Support
2 8 (44.44%) Support Engineer
3 7 (38.89%) Applications Support Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Software Engineer
4 6 (33.33%) Software Support Engineer
5 5 (27.78%) Analyst
6 3 (16.67%) Release Analyst
6 3 (16.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 2 (11.11%) Performance Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) Configuration Engineer
7 2 (11.11%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 1 (5.556%) Test Analyst
8 1 (5.556%) Business Analyst
8 1 (5.556%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) N-Tier
2 1 (5.556%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (50.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (38.89%) Migration
1 7 (38.89%) CRM
1 7 (38.89%) Data Transformation
2 5 (27.78%) E-Commerce
2 5 (27.78%) OWASP
3 4 (22.22%) MVC
3 4 (22.22%) Configuration Management
3 4 (22.22%) Performance Management
4 3 (16.67%) Software Deployment
4 3 (16.67%) Change Management
5 2 (11.11%) Software Testing
5 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
6 1 (5.556%) System Testing
6 1 (5.556%) V-Model
6 1 (5.556%) Performance Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Load Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Stress Testing
6 1 (5.556%) Test Scripting
6 1 (5.556%) Waterfall
6 1 (5.556%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) SQL
2 9 (50.00%) C#
3 8 (44.44%) T-SQL
3 8 (44.44%) VB
4 1 (5.556%) X++
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) ISEB
2 1 (5.556%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
Vendors
1 15 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.556%) Hitwise
2 1 (5.556%) Omniture
2 1 (5.556%) Google
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