The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Liverpool region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Liverpool region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 37 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 15 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 4.065% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.808% - -
Number of salaries quoted 14 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
312 386 219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 84.55% 76.74% 67.38%
Number of salaries quoted 269 332 173
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% -5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £52,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
Merseyside

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Liverpool Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the Liverpool region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Liverpool Manual Testing Salary Histogram

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 10 (58.82%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (52.94%) Software Testing
3 8 (47.06%) QA
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) Automated Testing
4 7 (41.18%) ISTQB
4 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
4 7 (41.18%) ISEB
5 6 (35.29%) Apache
5 6 (35.29%) Java
5 6 (35.29%) PHP
5 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 6 (35.29%) JMeter
5 6 (35.29%) Web Development
5 6 (35.29%) Selenium
5 6 (35.29%) FitNesse
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
5 6 (35.29%) Hudson
5 6 (35.29%) Behat
5 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
5 6 (35.29%) User Stories
5 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
5 6 (35.29%) WebDriver
5 6 (35.29%) Open Source
6 2 (11.76%) Python
6 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
6 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
6 2 (11.76%) SQL
6 2 (11.76%) Oracle

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (35.29%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (11.76%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (11.76%) SQL Server
1 2 (11.76%) DB2
Development Applications
1 6 (35.29%) JMeter
1 6 (35.29%) Selenium
1 6 (35.29%) FitNesse
1 6 (35.29%) Cucumber
1 6 (35.29%) Hudson
1 6 (35.29%) Behat
1 6 (35.29%) Jenkins
1 6 (35.29%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (11.76%) Games
1 2 (11.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (41.18%) Senior Tester
1 7 (41.18%) Tester
2 6 (35.29%) Software Engineer
2 6 (35.29%) Lead Tester
3 5 (29.41%) Test Leader
3 5 (29.41%) Test Team Leader
3 5 (29.41%) Team Leader
4 3 (17.65%) Analyst
4 3 (17.65%) Test Analyst
5 2 (11.76%) Software Tester
5 2 (11.76%) Senior Software Tester
6 1 (5.882%) QA Analyst
6 1 (5.882%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.882%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 6 (35.29%) Mobile App
1 6 (35.29%) Open Source
2 1 (5.882%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (52.94%) Software Testing
3 8 (47.06%) Test Automation
4 7 (41.18%) Automated Testing
4 7 (41.18%) Regression Testing
5 6 (35.29%) Scrum
5 6 (35.29%) Web Development
5 6 (35.29%) Continuous Integration
5 6 (35.29%) User Stories
6 2 (11.76%) Web Testing
7 1 (5.882%) System Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Automation Testing
7 1 (5.882%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.882%) GAP Analysis
7 1 (5.882%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (35.29%) Java
1 6 (35.29%) PHP
2 2 (11.76%) Python
2 2 (11.76%) PL/SQL
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
2 2 (11.76%) Perl
2 2 (11.76%) C#
2 2 (11.76%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (41.18%) ISTQB
1 7 (41.18%) ISEB
2 1 (5.882%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (47.06%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Oracle