The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Functional Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank 578 580 577
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -3
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 29 58 47
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.066% 0.108% 0.083%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.083% 0.140% 0.109%
Number of salaries quoted 14 41 36
Average salary £53,750 £57,500 £60,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.52% -4.16%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £33,500 £45,000
10% offered a salary of more than £85,000 £60,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.03% -17.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
34969 41533 43276
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 79.53% 77.10% 76.09%
Number of salaries quoted 29032 35702 36057
Average salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000
90% offered a salary of more than £36,000 £35,000 £35,000
10% offered a salary of more than £80,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

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

London Functional Testing Salary Trend

Functional Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Functional Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

London Functional Testing Salary Histogram

Functional Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London +5 9 £40,000 -30.43%
Croydon +14 1 £52,500 -
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing.

1 27 (50.94%) QA
2 26 (49.06%) Finance
3 24 (45.28%) Degree
4 17 (32.08%) Software Testing
5 16 (30.19%) Automated Testing
5 16 (30.19%) ISEB
6 14 (26.42%) Windows
6 14 (26.42%) SQL
7 13 (24.53%) SQL Server
8 12 (22.64%) QuickTest Pro
8 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
9 11 (20.75%) Test Management
10 9 (16.98%) HNC
10 9 (16.98%) UNIX
10 9 (16.98%) Java
10 9 (16.98%) Mathematics
10 9 (16.98%) Derivative
10 9 (16.98%) Non-Functional Testing
11 8 (15.09%) Cucumber
11 8 (15.09%) FIX Protocol
11 8 (15.09%) MS PowerPoint
11 8 (15.09%) Banking
11 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 8 (15.09%) MySQL
11 8 (15.09%) Oracle
11 8 (15.09%) MS Office
11 8 (15.09%) Linux
11 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
11 8 (15.09%) E-Commerce
11 8 (15.09%) Red Hat

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Functional 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (15.09%) FIX Protocol
2 7 (13.21%) Web Services
3 6 (11.32%) .NET
4 5 (9.434%) NHibernate
4 5 (9.434%) Gherkin
5 1 (1.887%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 5 (9.434%) IIS
1 5 (9.434%) Amazon AWS
Applications
1 8 (15.09%) MS PowerPoint
1 8 (15.09%) MS Office
1 8 (15.09%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.887%) Eagle PACE
1 1 (1.887%) LatentZero
1 1 (1.887%) Tesseract
1 1 (1.887%) Minerva
1 1 (1.887%) Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.547%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (24.53%) SQL Server
2 8 (15.09%) MySQL
3 5 (9.434%) SQL Server 2005
4 2 (3.774%) HBase
4 2 (3.774%) Apache Cassandra
4 2 (3.774%) NoSQL
5 1 (1.887%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (22.64%) QuickTest Pro
2 8 (15.09%) Cucumber
3 7 (13.21%) Selenium
4 6 (11.32%) MonkeyTalk
4 6 (11.32%) Robotium
4 6 (11.32%) QADirector
5 5 (9.434%) SpecFlow
6 4 (7.547%) FitNesse
7 2 (3.774%) Jenkins
7 2 (3.774%) Maven
7 2 (3.774%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.774%) Mockito
7 2 (3.774%) Rational Functional Tester
7 2 (3.774%) TestNG
7 2 (3.774%) JUnit
7 2 (3.774%) JMeter
8 1 (1.887%) Visual Studio
8 1 (1.887%) WATIR
8 1 (1.887%) Git (software)
8 1 (1.887%) JIRA
General
1 26 (49.06%) Finance
2 8 (15.09%) Banking
3 2 (3.774%) Retail
4 1 (1.887%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 13 (24.53%) Tester
2 12 (22.64%) Junior
3 11 (20.75%) Junior Tester
4 9 (16.98%) Analyst
5 6 (11.32%) Testing Specialist
6 5 (9.434%) .NET Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Senior .NET Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Developer
6 5 (9.434%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.547%) Test Consultant
7 4 (7.547%) QA Analyst
7 4 (7.547%) Consultant
8 3 (5.660%) Senior Manager
8 3 (5.660%) Quality Manager
8 3 (5.660%) QA Manager
8 3 (5.660%) Test Analyst
8 3 (5.660%) QA Engineer
8 3 (5.660%) Senior QA Manager
8 3 (5.660%) Senior Quality Manager
8 3 (5.660%) Head of Testing
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.98%) Mathematics
1 9 (16.98%) Derivative
2 7 (13.21%) iPhone
2 7 (13.21%) Statistics
2 7 (13.21%) Mobile App
3 6 (11.32%) Computer Science
4 4 (7.547%) Smartphone
5 3 (5.660%) Equities
6 2 (3.774%) EPoS
7 1 (1.887%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Operating Systems
1 14 (26.42%) Windows
2 9 (16.98%) UNIX
3 8 (15.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 8 (15.09%) Linux
4 7 (13.21%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (32.08%) Software Testing
2 16 (30.19%) Automated Testing
3 12 (22.64%) Test Automation
4 11 (20.75%) Test Management
5 9 (16.98%) Non-Functional Testing
6 8 (15.09%) E-Commerce
7 7 (13.21%) User Acceptance Testing
7 7 (13.21%) BDD
8 6 (11.32%) Test Strategy
8 6 (11.32%) Data Analysis
9 5 (9.434%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (9.434%) MVC
10 4 (7.547%) Integration Testing
10 4 (7.547%) Stakeholder Management
10 4 (7.547%) TDD
11 3 (5.660%) Test Scripting
11 3 (5.660%) Automation Testing
12 2 (3.774%) Waterfall
12 2 (3.774%) System Testing
12 2 (3.774%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 14 (26.42%) SQL
2 9 (16.98%) Java
3 7 (13.21%) C#
3 7 (13.21%) Ruby
4 6 (11.32%) Objective-C
5 5 (9.434%) VBA
6 3 (5.660%) C
7 1 (1.887%) C++
Qualifications
1 24 (45.28%) Degree
2 16 (30.19%) ISEB
3 9 (16.98%) HNC
4 1 (1.887%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (50.94%) QA
2 1 (1.887%) Solvency II
Systems Management
1 3 (5.660%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 8 (15.09%) Oracle
1 8 (15.09%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.547%) Google
3 2 (3.774%) IBM
4 1 (1.887%) Misys
4 1 (1.887%) HP
4 1 (1.887%) Reuters
4 1 (1.887%) Bloomberg
4 1 (1.887%) Cognizant
4 1 (1.887%) Informatica
4 1 (1.887%) thinkFolio
4 1 (1.887%) Cadis
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