The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Tester
Rank 577 597 596
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -1
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Tester 24 52 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 0.055% 0.095% 0.060%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.058% 0.102% 0.064%
Number of salaries quoted 23 52 29
Average salary £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.66% +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,200 £35,000 £47,500
10% offered a salary of more than £69,500 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £38,750 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-12.25% +21.09%
All Job Titles
London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
41114 51159 53446
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in London 93.43% 93.93% 93.59%
Number of salaries quoted 34577 44402 45054
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%
Technical Tester
England

Technical Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

London Technical Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Trend

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

London Technical Tester Salary Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Technical Tester across the London region over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

London Technical Tester Salary Histogram

Technical Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Tester within the London region over the 3 months to 22 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 +11 10 £61,250 +11.36%
Docklands, London +8 3 £72,500 -3.33%
Technical Tester
England

Technical Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title.

1 40 (81.63%) SQL
2 33 (67.35%) Java
3 29 (59.18%) UNIX
4 22 (44.90%) Python
4 22 (44.90%) Test Automation
5 19 (38.78%) ISEB
5 19 (38.78%) C#
6 18 (36.73%) Shell Script
6 18 (36.73%) Linux
6 18 (36.73%) Finance
6 18 (36.73%) Selenium
7 16 (32.65%) QuickTest Pro
7 16 (32.65%) Perl
8 15 (30.61%) ISTQB
9 14 (28.57%) NUnit
9 14 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
10 13 (26.53%) Ruby
10 13 (26.53%) JUnit
10 13 (26.53%) Rational Robot
11 12 (24.49%) XML
11 12 (24.49%) Oracle
11 12 (24.49%) Degree
11 12 (24.49%) QA
11 12 (24.49%) Continuous Integration
11 12 (24.49%) WebDriver
12 11 (22.45%) Waterfall
12 11 (22.45%) WebLOAD
12 11 (22.45%) PL/SQL
12 11 (22.45%) LoadRunner
13 10 (20.41%) Windows

Technical Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the London region that cited Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (24.49%) XML
2 3 (6.122%) Spring
2 3 (6.122%) JSF
2 3 (6.122%) J2EE
2 3 (6.122%) Hibernate
3 2 (4.082%) X-Windows
3 2 (4.082%) .NET
4 1 (2.041%) ICEfaces
4 1 (2.041%) Middleware
4 1 (2.041%) HTML
4 1 (2.041%) COM
4 1 (2.041%) Web Services
4 1 (2.041%) XML Messaging
Application Platforms
1 3 (6.122%) WebLogic
1 3 (6.122%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (2.041%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.163%) HTTP
2 3 (6.122%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.082%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.29%) RDBMS
2 6 (12.24%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.041%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 18 (36.73%) Selenium
2 16 (32.65%) QuickTest Pro
3 14 (28.57%) NUnit
4 13 (26.53%) JUnit
4 13 (26.53%) Rational Robot
5 12 (24.49%) WebDriver
6 11 (22.45%) WebLOAD
6 11 (22.45%) LoadRunner
7 10 (20.41%) TestComplete
8 7 (14.29%) WinRunner
9 5 (10.20%) Cucumber
9 5 (10.20%) JMeter
10 3 (6.122%) ClearQuest
10 3 (6.122%) Bugzilla
11 2 (4.082%) SilkTest
11 2 (4.082%) FitNesse
11 2 (4.082%) JBehave
11 2 (4.082%) Hudson
11 2 (4.082%) Jenkins
12 1 (2.041%) Trac
General
1 18 (36.73%) Finance
2 10 (20.41%) Investment Banking
2 10 (20.41%) Banking
3 7 (14.29%) Financial Institution
4 3 (6.122%) Front Office
5 1 (2.041%) Billing
5 1 (2.041%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.163%) SaaS
2 3 (6.122%) Hedge funds
2 3 (6.122%) Computer Science
2 3 (6.122%) Derivative
2 3 (6.122%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (6.122%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.122%) Equities
3 2 (4.082%) Cloud Computing
3 2 (4.082%) iPad
3 2 (4.082%) New Media
4 1 (2.041%) Open Source
4 1 (2.041%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 29 (59.18%) UNIX
2 18 (36.73%) Linux
3 10 (20.41%) Windows
4 7 (14.29%) Solaris
5 6 (12.24%) OpenBSD
5 6 (12.24%) Ubuntu
6 3 (6.122%) Mac OS X
7 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (2.041%) Windows Vista
7 1 (2.041%) Windows XP
7 1 (2.041%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (44.90%) Test Automation
2 14 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 12 (24.49%) Continuous Integration
4 11 (22.45%) Waterfall
5 10 (20.41%) Scrum
6 8 (16.33%) Manual Testing
7 7 (14.29%) Test Strategy
7 7 (14.29%) TDD
8 5 (10.20%) Automated Testing
8 5 (10.20%) Integration Testing
9 4 (8.163%) Workflow
9 4 (8.163%) Configuration Management
9 4 (8.163%) OO
9 4 (8.163%) BDD
10 3 (6.122%) Data Migration
10 3 (6.122%) Performance Testing
10 3 (6.122%) Test Scripting
10 3 (6.122%) Migration
10 3 (6.122%) MVC
11 2 (4.082%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 40 (81.63%) SQL
2 33 (67.35%) Java
3 22 (44.90%) Python
4 19 (38.78%) C#
5 18 (36.73%) Shell Script
6 16 (32.65%) Perl
7 13 (26.53%) Ruby
8 11 (22.45%) PL/SQL
9 7 (14.29%) Bash shell
9 7 (14.29%) sed
9 7 (14.29%) Korn
9 7 (14.29%) AWK
9 7 (14.29%) VBScript
10 4 (8.163%) C++
11 3 (6.122%) Tcl
12 2 (4.082%) F#
Qualifications
1 19 (38.78%) ISEB
2 15 (30.61%) ISTQB
3 12 (24.49%) Degree
4 1 (2.041%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (24.49%) QA
System Software
1 3 (6.122%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 12 (24.49%) Oracle
2 3 (6.122%) VMware
3 2 (4.082%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (2.041%) Microsoft
East London
Ideally suited to a candidate with a strong knowledge programming experience with programming languages like Java, python, etc... - Strong of OO programming - Ideally Java - Managing test frameworks and...
Aston Carter
Salary: £60000 - £80000 per annum + annual bonus + benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
London
A fantastic opportunity has arisen at a global financial company for a talented Senior Desktop Tester-Please only apply if you have the following skills:- Excellent desktop testing...
OPUS
Salary: GBP40000 to GBP45000 per annum
Posted: 26 April 2013