The first table below looks at the demand for Load 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 Load Testing over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 507 542 477
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -65
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 85 99 166
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.190% 0.186% 0.277%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.239% 0.242% 0.362%
Number of salaries quoted 69 88 127
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +5.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £66,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+1.33% +7.14%
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
35526 40965 45814
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 79.25% 77.15% 76.34%
Number of salaries quoted 29488 35307 38310
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%
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England

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Salary Trend

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

London Load Testing Salary Trend

Load Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Load Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

London Load Testing Salary Histogram

Load Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Load Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
City of London -7 21 £50,000 -6.97% 2
Ealing - 9 £60,000 -
Chiswick - 1 £34,500 -
Docklands, London - 1 - -
Hounslow - 1 - - 1
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England

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 99 (52.94%) QA
2 61 (32.62%) Agile Software Development
3 58 (31.02%) Performance Testing
4 54 (28.88%) C#
5 51 (27.27%) Selenium
6 45 (24.06%) Java
6 45 (24.06%) SQL
7 44 (23.53%) .NET
7 44 (23.53%) Scrum
8 38 (20.32%) Test Automation
9 34 (18.18%) Test Scripting
9 34 (18.18%) Microsoft
10 33 (17.65%) SQL Server
11 32 (17.11%) Web Services
11 32 (17.11%) JMeter
11 32 (17.11%) Continuous Integration
11 32 (17.11%) WebDriver
12 29 (15.51%) Finance
12 29 (15.51%) TDD
12 29 (15.51%) Linux
13 26 (13.90%) Automated Testing
14 25 (13.37%) Configuration Management
15 24 (12.83%) HP
15 24 (12.83%) MySQL
16 23 (12.30%) JavaScript
17 22 (11.76%) PHP
17 22 (11.76%) Apache
17 22 (11.76%) E-Commerce
17 22 (11.76%) NUnit
17 22 (11.76%) Cucumber

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the London region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 44 (23.53%) .NET
2 32 (17.11%) Web Services
3 21 (11.23%) XML
3 21 (11.23%) HTML
4 18 (9.626%) J2EE
5 16 (8.556%) ASP.NET
5 16 (8.556%) Middleware
6 15 (8.021%) Spring
7 13 (6.952%) Ajax
8 11 (5.882%) WebSphere
8 11 (5.882%) .NET Framework
8 11 (5.882%) JSP
9 10 (5.348%) JSF
9 10 (5.348%) JPA
10 8 (4.278%) CSS
11 7 (3.743%) SOAP
11 7 (3.743%) soapUI
12 6 (3.209%) Gherkin
12 6 (3.209%) COM+
12 6 (3.209%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 22 (11.76%) Apache
2 11 (5.882%) WebLogic
3 10 (5.348%) Drupal
4 9 (4.813%) nginx
5 8 (4.278%) IIS
6 7 (3.743%) Amazon AWS
6 7 (3.743%) Confluence
7 6 (3.209%) Tomcat
8 4 (2.139%) Apache Solr
9 3 (1.604%) TIBCO EMS
10 2 (1.070%) Tuxedo
10 2 (1.070%) Apache Pig
10 2 (1.070%) ElasticSearch
11 1 (0.535%) Umbraco
11 1 (0.535%) Alfresco
11 1 (0.535%) WordPress
11 1 (0.535%) CMS
11 1 (0.535%) DotNetNuke
Applications
1 16 (8.556%) MS Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (0.535%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 9 (4.813%) Firewall
2 8 (4.278%) Internet
3 7 (3.743%) HTTP
3 7 (3.743%) Network Security
4 6 (3.209%) Cisco ASA
5 5 (2.674%) Wireshark
6 4 (2.139%) NetScaler
7 2 (1.070%) OpenVPN
7 2 (1.070%) Intranet
8 1 (0.535%) LAN
8 1 (0.535%) WAN
8 1 (0.535%) TCP/IP
8 1 (0.535%) DNS
8 1 (0.535%) SSL
8 1 (0.535%) Reverse Proxy
8 1 (0.535%) Cisco PIX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 33 (17.65%) SQL Server
2 24 (12.83%) MySQL
3 5 (2.674%) SQL Server 2012
4 4 (2.139%) SQL Server 2008
5 3 (1.604%) NoSQL
6 2 (1.070%) HBase
6 2 (1.070%) Redis
6 2 (1.070%) Neo4j
6 2 (1.070%) Hadoop
6 2 (1.070%) MongoDB
6 2 (1.070%) Apache Cassandra
6 2 (1.070%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 2 (1.070%) SQL Server 2005
7 1 (0.535%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.535%) Oracle 11g
7 1 (0.535%) Oracle 8/8i
7 1 (0.535%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.535%) RDBMS
7 1 (0.535%) CouchDB
7 1 (0.535%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 51 (27.27%) Selenium
2 32 (17.11%) WebDriver
2 32 (17.11%) JMeter
3 22 (11.76%) NUnit
3 22 (11.76%) Cucumber
4 20 (10.70%) SpecFlow
4 20 (10.70%) LoadRunner
5 17 (9.091%) Visual Studio
6 14 (7.487%) FitNesse
7 13 (6.952%) Hudson
7 13 (6.952%) Ant
7 13 (6.952%) QuickTest Pro
7 13 (6.952%) Maven
8 12 (6.417%) Jenkins
9 11 (5.882%) Git (software)
10 10 (5.348%) QALoad
11 9 (4.813%) JIRA
11 9 (4.813%) Mercurial
12 8 (4.278%) RSpec
13 7 (3.743%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 29 (15.51%) Finance
2 12 (6.417%) Marketing
3 7 (3.743%) Back Office
3 7 (3.743%) Advertising
3 7 (3.743%) Retail
4 6 (3.209%) French Language
4 6 (3.209%) German Language
5 3 (1.604%) Publishing
5 3 (1.604%) Games
6 2 (1.070%) Legal
7 1 (0.535%) Telecoms
7 1 (0.535%) Multimedia
7 1 (0.535%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 33 (17.65%) Tester
2 28 (14.97%) Developer
2 28 (14.97%) Analyst
3 25 (13.37%) Test Analyst
4 23 (12.30%) Consultant
5 18 (9.626%) DevOps Engineer
6 15 (8.021%) Test Engineer
7 12 (6.417%) QA Tester
8 11 (5.882%) Test Leader
9 10 (5.348%) Technical Consultant
10 9 (4.813%) Performance Tester
10 9 (4.813%) Performance Test Consultant
11 8 (4.278%) Linux Engineer
11 8 (4.278%) Test Consultant
12 7 (3.743%) QA Engineer
12 7 (3.743%) Performance Engineer
12 7 (3.743%) Performance Manager
12 7 (3.743%) Technical Support
13 6 (3.209%) Test Manager
13 6 (3.209%) Performance Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.487%) Management Information System
2 10 (5.348%) Computer Science
3 7 (3.743%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.674%) Statistics
4 5 (2.674%) NHS
5 4 (2.139%) Open Source
6 3 (1.604%) iPad
7 2 (1.070%) N-Tier
7 2 (1.070%) iDTV
7 2 (1.070%) Kindle
7 2 (1.070%) Digital Media
8 1 (0.535%) Client/Server
8 1 (0.535%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.535%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.535%) Spread Betting
8 1 (0.535%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.535%) Fixed Income
8 1 (0.535%) Equities
8 1 (0.535%) Social Gaming
8 1 (0.535%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 29 (15.51%) Linux
2 16 (8.556%) Windows
3 15 (8.021%) UNIX
4 11 (5.882%) VMS
4 11 (5.882%) Fedora
4 11 (5.882%) Ubuntu
4 11 (5.882%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 9 (4.813%) Android
5 9 (4.813%) Windows Server 2008
6 8 (4.278%) CentOS
7 6 (3.209%) Windows 7
7 6 (3.209%) Apple iOS
7 6 (3.209%) Windows XP
8 2 (1.070%) Windows Server 2003
9 1 (0.535%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.535%) Solaris
9 1 (0.535%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (32.62%) Agile Software Development
2 58 (31.02%) Performance Testing
3 44 (23.53%) Scrum
4 38 (20.32%) Test Automation
5 34 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 32 (17.11%) Continuous Integration
7 29 (15.51%) TDD
8 26 (13.90%) Automated Testing
9 25 (13.37%) Configuration Management
10 22 (11.76%) E-Commerce
11 20 (10.70%) BDD
12 19 (10.16%) Test Strategy
12 19 (10.16%) Unit Testing
13 18 (9.626%) MVC
14 15 (8.021%) Regression Testing
14 15 (8.021%) Security Testing
15 14 (7.487%) Integration Testing
15 14 (7.487%) OO
16 13 (6.952%) Business Development
16 13 (6.952%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 54 (28.88%) C#
2 45 (24.06%) Java
2 45 (24.06%) SQL
3 23 (12.30%) JavaScript
4 22 (11.76%) PHP
5 16 (8.556%) Python
6 15 (8.021%) Ruby
7 11 (5.882%) PowerShell
8 9 (4.813%) Bash shell
8 9 (4.813%) VB
9 6 (3.209%) Perl
10 5 (2.674%) C++
10 5 (2.674%) C
11 4 (2.139%) VB.NET
12 3 (1.604%) Shell Script
13 2 (1.070%) R
14 1 (0.535%) Objective-C
14 1 (0.535%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.535%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (9.626%) Degree
2 13 (6.952%) ISEB
3 9 (4.813%) ISTQB
4 4 (2.139%) MCPD
5 2 (1.070%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (1.070%) CCNA
6 1 (0.535%) CCNP
6 1 (0.535%) RHCE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (52.94%) QA
2 10 (5.348%) SLA
3 2 (1.070%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.535%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.535%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (1.070%) NFS
1 2 (1.070%) VMware Infrastructure
1 2 (1.070%) Postfix
1 2 (1.070%) Varnish
1 2 (1.070%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 21 (11.23%) Puppet
2 13 (6.952%) Vagrant
3 12 (6.417%) Nagios
4 11 (5.882%) ZABBIX
5 5 (2.674%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 34 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 24 (12.83%) HP
3 13 (6.952%) Oracle
4 11 (5.882%) IBM
5 10 (5.348%) Mercator
5 10 (5.348%) BEA
6 9 (4.813%) Red Hat
7 7 (3.743%) Citrix
8 6 (3.209%) CheckPoint
8 6 (3.209%) Cisco
8 6 (3.209%) Dell
9 4 (2.139%) TIBCO
9 4 (2.139%) Riverbed
10 3 (1.604%) VMware
10 3 (1.604%) Siebel
10 3 (1.604%) SAP
11 2 (1.070%) JBoss
11 2 (1.070%) Twitter
12 1 (0.535%) Rackspace
12 1 (0.535%) Atlassian
City of London
Non Functional testing-Performance testing - sufficient knowledge to ensure that the system is ready for load testing - use of browser plugins and standard performance monitoring software.-Security - sufficient...
Sand Resources
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 4 June 2013
London
Knowledge & Experience Essential - Working knowledge of .Net development - Understanding of agile principles - Experience of agile development: Scrum, TDD, XP etc - Experience of working closely with developers and Business...
thetrainline.com
Salary: Competitive Salary plus Benefits
Posted: 22 May 2013
London
Awareness of TDD and BDD is desirable. Knowledge of developing automation tests and harness using tools such as Cucumber, RSpec and Selenium-WebDriver is a plus... Working experience...
Computer Futures
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 4 June 2013
Central London / West End
We’re looking for someone to build the continuous integration processes (Hudson, Jenkins), build an automated test framework (Selenium or similar), develop test scripts within a Python, Java...
DeepMind Technologies
Salary: From £40,000 to £55,000 per annum Dependent on experience
Posted: 22 May 2013
Central London / West End
The Project Manager is responsible for managing the implementation life cycle including: solution business and technical requirements work sessions, scope change control, development and integration, QA planning and...
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: Up to £55,000 per annum
Posted: 13 June 2013
Feltham, South East
Computer Futures
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Hounslow, Middlesex
GE Capital
Posted: 6 June 2013
West London
Cineworld
Salary: £30k - 37k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
London
360 Resourcing Solutions
Salary: £30k - 37k per year + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 24 May 2013
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