The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Luton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 19 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 Luton region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 38 45 36
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -9
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 9 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 2.594% 1.114% 1.413%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.297% 1.681% 1.575%
Number of salaries quoted 9 3 4
Average salary £27,500 £60,000 £38,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-54.16% +54.83%
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £35,000 £34,000
% change year-on-year
-4.28% +2.94%
All Processes & Methodologies
Luton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
273 238 254
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Luton 78.67% 66.30% 89.75%
Number of salaries quoted 242 208 220
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.27%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Bedfordshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Luton Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Luton Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Luton region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Luton Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 18 (85.71%) ISEB
1 18 (85.71%) ISTQB
2 12 (57.14%) Selenium
3 11 (52.38%) Software Testing
4 8 (38.10%) Java
4 8 (38.10%) Web Services
5 7 (33.33%) SQL
5 7 (33.33%) Bugzilla
5 7 (33.33%) WebDriver
5 7 (33.33%) FogBugz
6 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
7 4 (19.05%) Client/Server
7 4 (19.05%) ETL
7 4 (19.05%) Risk Analysis
7 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
8 3 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
9 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
9 2 (9.524%) .NET Framework
9 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
9 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
9 2 (9.524%) QA
9 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
9 2 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
9 2 (9.524%) Windows
9 2 (9.524%) .NET
9 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
9 2 (9.524%) C#
9 2 (9.524%) WinForms
9 2 (9.524%) TDD

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Luton region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 8 (38.10%) Web Services
2 2 (9.524%) .NET Framework
2 2 (9.524%) .NET
2 2 (9.524%) WinForms
3 1 (4.762%) HTML
3 1 (4.762%) ASP.NET
3 1 (4.762%) CSS
3 1 (4.762%) SOAP
3 1 (4.762%) XML
3 1 (4.762%) Castle Windsor
3 1 (4.762%) jQuery
3 1 (4.762%) WCF
3 1 (4.762%) JSON
Application Platforms
1 1 (4.762%) ColdFusion
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (23.81%) SQL Server
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (9.524%) SQL Server 2008
3 1 (4.762%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (57.14%) Selenium
2 7 (33.33%) Bugzilla
2 7 (33.33%) WebDriver
2 7 (33.33%) FogBugz
3 2 (9.524%) Team Foundation Server
3 2 (9.524%) Visual Studio
3 2 (9.524%) NUnit
4 1 (4.762%) TeamCity
4 1 (4.762%) ReSharper
Job Titles
1 11 (52.38%) Test Engineer
2 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 7 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 2 (9.524%) Tester
3 2 (9.524%) Developer
4 1 (4.762%) QA Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) .NET Developer
4 1 (4.762%) C# Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Software Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Test Manager
4 1 (4.762%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Test Leader
4 1 (4.762%) Agile .NET Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Agile C# Developer
4 1 (4.762%) Web Test Analyst
4 1 (4.762%) Web Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Client/Server
2 2 (9.524%) Mathematics
3 1 (4.762%) Inversion of Control
3 1 (4.762%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.524%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Software Testing
2 4 (19.05%) ETL
2 4 (19.05%) Risk Analysis
2 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
2 4 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (14.29%) Systems Analysis
4 2 (9.524%) Unit Testing
4 2 (9.524%) TDD
5 1 (4.762%) Agile Software Development
5 1 (4.762%) Scrum
5 1 (4.762%) MVC
5 1 (4.762%) E-Commerce
5 1 (4.762%) BDD
5 1 (4.762%) Regression Analysis
5 1 (4.762%) Functional Testing
5 1 (4.762%) Revenue Management
5 1 (4.762%) Web Testing
5 1 (4.762%) Manual Testing
Programming Languages
1 8 (38.10%) Java
2 7 (33.33%) SQL
3 2 (9.524%) C#
4 1 (4.762%) JavaScript
4 1 (4.762%) PHP
Qualifications
1 18 (85.71%) ISEB
1 18 (85.71%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.524%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (4.762%) Dundas