The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 38 43 -
Rank change year-on-year
+5 -
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 12 6 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 3.166% 1.531% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.896% 2.609% -
Number of salaries quoted 12 5 0
Average salary £27,500 £45,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-38.88% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
308 230 207
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 81.27% 58.67% 89.61%
Number of salaries quoted 266 193 180
Average salary £47,500 £47,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+1.06% +6.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £68,500 £60,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Bedfordshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Luton Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 15 (75.00%) ISEB
2 13 (65.00%) ISTQB
3 11 (55.00%) Selenium
3 11 (55.00%) Test Scripting
4 9 (45.00%) Degree
5 8 (40.00%) Java
6 7 (35.00%) WebDriver
7 4 (20.00%) Test Management
7 4 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
7 4 (20.00%) Retail
8 3 (15.00%) QA
9 2 (10.00%) Web Development
9 2 (10.00%) WCF
9 2 (10.00%) Use Case
9 2 (10.00%) Web Testing
9 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
9 2 (10.00%) TDD
9 2 (10.00%) MVC
9 2 (10.00%) Scrum
9 2 (10.00%) Project Management
9 2 (10.00%) C#
9 2 (10.00%) HTML
9 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
9 2 (10.00%) .NET
9 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
9 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
9 2 (10.00%) CSS
9 2 (10.00%) Web Services
9 2 (10.00%) XML
9 2 (10.00%) XSLT

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Luton region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET
1 2 (10.00%) CSS
1 2 (10.00%) Web Services
1 2 (10.00%) XML
1 2 (10.00%) XSLT
1 2 (10.00%) WSDL
1 2 (10.00%) WCF
1 2 (10.00%) RESTful
1 2 (10.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 2 (10.00%) HTML
1 2 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (5.000%) ASP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (55.00%) Selenium
2 7 (35.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (20.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 11 (55.00%) Test Engineer
2 7 (35.00%) Analyst
2 7 (35.00%) Test Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Development Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) QA Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) .NET Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Web Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Manual Test Analyst
4 2 (10.00%) Web Development Team Leader
4 2 (10.00%) Agile Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Integration
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Test Scripting
2 4 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (10.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (10.00%) Project Management
3 2 (10.00%) MVC
3 2 (10.00%) Scrum
3 2 (10.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (10.00%) TDD
3 2 (10.00%) Web Development
3 2 (10.00%) Use Case
3 2 (10.00%) Web Testing
4 1 (5.000%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (40.00%) Java
2 2 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 15 (75.00%) ISEB
2 13 (65.00%) ISTQB
3 9 (45.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (20.00%) HP Quality Center
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