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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 44 - 55
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 9 0 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 2.459% - 0.633%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.542% - 0.658%
Number of salaries quoted 9 0 2
Average salary £40,000 - £36,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Liverpool
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
354 491 304
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Liverpool 96.72% 97.04% 96.20%
Number of salaries quoted 303 430 247
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £37,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £26,500 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Merseyside

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Liverpool 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 Liverpool region.

Liverpool Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 8 (72.73%) Software Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Manual Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Firewall
4 2 (18.18%) ISEB
4 2 (18.18%) SQL
4 2 (18.18%) MySQL
4 2 (18.18%) Oracle
4 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
4 2 (18.18%) XML
4 2 (18.18%) UNIX
4 2 (18.18%) Windows
4 2 (18.18%) Solaris
4 2 (18.18%) Linux
4 2 (18.18%) Apache
4 2 (18.18%) Flash
4 2 (18.18%) Java
4 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
4 2 (18.18%) XHTML
4 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
4 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
4 2 (18.18%) JSON
5 1 (9.091%) JIRA
5 1 (9.091%) QA
5 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Test Management
5 1 (9.091%) Android
5 1 (9.091%) ISTQB

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Liverpool 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 2 (18.18%) XML
1 2 (18.18%) Flash
1 2 (18.18%) XHTML
1 2 (18.18%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Apache
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) Firewall
2 1 (9.091%) VoIP
2 1 (9.091%) SNMP
2 1 (9.091%) VPN
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
2 1 (9.091%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) MySQL
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (9.091%) JIRA
General
1 1 (9.091%) Finance
1 1 (9.091%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) UNIX
1 2 (18.18%) Windows
1 2 (18.18%) Solaris
1 2 (18.18%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) Android
2 1 (9.091%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Software Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Manual Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Information Security
4 2 (18.18%) Penetration Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Performance Testing
5 1 (9.091%) Test Management
5 1 (9.091%) Portfolio Management
5 1 (9.091%) Waterfall
5 1 (9.091%) Service Management
5 1 (9.091%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
1 2 (18.18%) Java
1 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
2 1 (9.091%) Perl
2 1 (9.091%) PHP
2 1 (9.091%) Python
2 1 (9.091%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
2 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.091%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
2 1 (9.091%) HP
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