The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 London region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Tester
Rank 555 573 525
Rank change year-on-year
+18 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Tester 42 68 93
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.097% 0.126% 0.164%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.103% 0.135% 0.175%
Number of salaries quoted 40 64 87
Average salary £40,000 £42,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.88% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £27,800 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £50,000 £44,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £29,000 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+3.44% -3.33%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
40625 50517 53034
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.40% 93.86% 93.57%
Number of salaries quoted 34197 43879 44601
Average salary £50,000 £50,000 £52,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £31,500 £31,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £80,000 £77,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Tester
England

Software Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Software Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Software Tester
Salary Trend

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

London Software Tester Salary Trend

Software Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the London region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

London Software Tester Salary Histogram

Software Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the London region over the 3 months to 20 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 +12 20 £42,500 -5.55%
Software Tester
England

Software Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 50 (51.02%) Software Testing
2 49 (50.00%) SQL
3 47 (47.96%) QA
4 44 (44.90%) Java
5 38 (38.78%) Degree
6 36 (36.73%) Scrum
7 35 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
8 31 (31.63%) Selenium
9 30 (30.61%) C#
10 29 (29.59%) ISTQB
10 29 (29.59%) Automated Testing
11 26 (26.53%) Test Automation
12 23 (23.47%) .NET
13 21 (21.43%) ISEB
14 20 (20.41%) Computer Science
15 18 (18.37%) TDD
15 18 (18.37%) Finance
15 18 (18.37%) Test Scripting
16 17 (17.35%) OO
17 16 (16.33%) Perl
17 16 (16.33%) Windows
17 16 (16.33%) Cucumber
17 16 (16.33%) BDD
18 15 (15.31%) HTTP
18 15 (15.31%) C
18 15 (15.31%) UNIX
18 15 (15.31%) Ruby
19 13 (13.27%) VB
19 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
19 13 (13.27%) Test Management

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 23 (23.47%) .NET
2 8 (8.163%) XML
3 7 (7.143%) Web Services
4 6 (6.122%) SOAP
4 6 (6.122%) HTML
5 5 (5.102%) JSON
5 5 (5.102%) RESTful
6 4 (4.082%) soapUI
6 4 (4.082%) Spring
6 4 (4.082%) .NET Framework
6 4 (4.082%) CSS
7 2 (2.041%) J2EE
7 2 (2.041%) CSS3
7 2 (2.041%) HTML5
7 2 (2.041%) Grails
8 1 (1.020%) WPF
8 1 (1.020%) COM
8 1 (1.020%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 4 (4.082%) IIS
2 2 (2.041%) Apache
2 2 (2.041%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.020%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.020%) BizTalk Server
Applications
1 6 (6.122%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.020%) MS PowerPoint
2 1 (1.020%) MS Project
2 1 (1.020%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.020%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.31%) HTTP
2 7 (7.143%) TCP/IP
3 4 (4.082%) Internet
4 1 (1.020%) Network Security
4 1 (1.020%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (12.24%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.041%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 2 (2.041%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.041%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 31 (31.63%) Selenium
2 16 (16.33%) Cucumber
3 10 (10.20%) WinRunner
3 10 (10.20%) TestDirector
4 7 (7.143%) Visual Studio
4 7 (7.143%) JIRA
5 6 (6.122%) FitNesse
5 6 (6.122%) RSpec
6 5 (5.102%) WebDriver
7 4 (4.082%) SpecFlow
7 4 (4.082%) Git (software)
7 4 (4.082%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (3.061%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (2.041%) JMeter
9 2 (2.041%) Bugzilla
9 2 (2.041%) Maven
9 2 (2.041%) JUnit
9 2 (2.041%) QUnit
9 2 (2.041%) Jasmine
9 2 (2.041%) Jenkins
General
1 18 (18.37%) Finance
2 12 (12.24%) Banking
3 10 (10.20%) Investment Banking
3 10 (10.20%) Games
4 3 (3.061%) Music
4 3 (3.061%) Marketing
5 2 (2.041%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.041%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.020%) Law
6 1 (1.020%) Publishing
6 1 (1.020%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 20 (20.41%) Computer Science
2 6 (6.122%) SaaS
3 4 (4.082%) Client/Server
4 3 (3.061%) Video on Demand
5 2 (2.041%) Informatics
5 2 (2.041%) Data Integration
5 2 (2.041%) Open Source
5 2 (2.041%) iPad
5 2 (2.041%) Hedge funds
5 2 (2.041%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.020%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.020%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 16 (16.33%) Windows
2 15 (15.31%) UNIX
3 8 (8.163%) Linux
4 5 (5.102%) Mac OS X
5 4 (4.082%) Apple iOS
5 4 (4.082%) Android
6 2 (2.041%) CentOS
6 2 (2.041%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (51.02%) Software Testing
2 36 (36.73%) Scrum
3 35 (35.71%) Agile Software Development
4 29 (29.59%) Automated Testing
5 26 (26.53%) Test Automation
6 18 (18.37%) Test Scripting
6 18 (18.37%) TDD
7 17 (17.35%) OO
8 16 (16.33%) BDD
9 13 (13.27%) Test Management
10 11 (11.22%) E-Commerce
11 9 (9.184%) Manual Testing
12 8 (8.163%) Stress Testing
13 7 (7.143%) Waterfall
14 6 (6.122%) Computer Architecture
14 6 (6.122%) User Acceptance Testing
15 5 (5.102%) PRINCE
15 5 (5.102%) Regression Testing
15 5 (5.102%) Automation Testing
16 4 (4.082%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 49 (50.00%) SQL
2 44 (44.90%) Java
3 30 (30.61%) C#
4 16 (16.33%) Perl
5 15 (15.31%) C
5 15 (15.31%) Ruby
6 13 (13.27%) VB
7 12 (12.24%) Python
8 9 (9.184%) C++
9 8 (8.163%) JavaScript
10 4 (4.082%) VB.NET
11 2 (2.041%) Groovy
12 1 (1.020%) Bash shell
12 1 (1.020%) Lua
Qualifications
1 38 (38.78%) Degree
2 29 (29.59%) ISTQB
3 21 (21.43%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (47.96%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.020%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (13.27%) Microsoft
2 4 (4.082%) ATG
3 2 (2.041%) HP
3 2 (2.041%) Oracle
4 1 (1.020%) SAP
Central London
Their product suite encompasses complex web-based, client-server and PDA-based modules... Keywords: software test, software test engineer, software QA, software testing, manual testing, SQL, Oracle, Windows,...
ECM Selection Ltd
Salary: to £35k dep. on experience
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
Central London £25,000 - £40,000 + benefits A market leading Financial Trading Software House requires a Junior Software Tester to help expand their team as a result of...
Informatiq Consulting
Salary: £25,000 - £40,000 + package
Posted: 16 May 2013
City of London
The successful Software Developer in Test / Technical Tester / Automation Tester will have a strong ability in OO Java Development... The successful The Software Developer in Test (SDET) / Technical...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £50000.00 - £65000.00 per annum
Posted: 4 May 2013
City of London
The successful Software Developer in Test / Technical Tester / Automation Tester will have a strong ability in OO Java Development... The successful The Software Developer in Test (SDET) / Technical...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £50000.00 - £70000.00 per annum + benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
London
Tester / Software Tester / QA Tester / QA Analyst GAIN SOFTWARE TESTING EXPERIENCE IN THE FINANCIAL SECTORTesters who have worked to test APIs / Web Services are urgently needed to work...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 11 May 2013
City, London
Company Profile: Nestled in the heart of Mayfair, our client is an established and exceptionally successful specialist commodity investment manager specialising in derivatives trading in crude oil and...
Give-A-Grad-A-Go Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bonus
Posted: 26 April 2013
London
Experience in testing Mobile native /web applications on iOS, Android, Blackberry & Windows platforms... Significant experience in using test automation tools (including Selenium Web driver, SoapUI Pro, eggPlant, JBehave).
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £40,000 to £45,000 per annum + Bonus+ Holidays+ Pension + Health
Posted: 18 May 2013