The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Macclesfield region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 Macclesfield region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 38 35 26
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -9
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 5 2 14
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 2.632% 1.333% 6.897%
As % of the Job Titles category 2.717% 1.379% 6.897%
Number of salaries quoted 5 2 14
Average salary £25,000 £25,750 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.91% -26.42%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Macclesfield
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
184 145 203
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Macclesfield 96.84% 96.67% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 166 116 154
Average salary £30,000 £31,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.76% -16.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,700 £23,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £47,500 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Cheshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Macclesfield Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Macclesfield Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 5 (50.00%) QA
1 5 (50.00%) soapUI
2 4 (40.00%) Degree
2 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
2 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (40.00%) C#
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
2 4 (40.00%) VB.NET
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle
2 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
2 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
2 4 (40.00%) Client/Server
2 4 (40.00%) OLTP
2 4 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
2 4 (40.00%) ISEB
2 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
3 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
3 1 (10.00%) Finance

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Macclesfield region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) soapUI
2 4 (40.00%) HTML
2 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 4 (40.00%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 11g
1 4 (40.00%) SQL Server
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 8/8i
1 4 (40.00%) OLTP
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle 10g
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 4 (40.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (40.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (10.00%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) C#
1 4 (40.00%) JavaScript
1 4 (40.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree
1 4 (40.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Oracle