Manchester Automated Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Automated Testing skills within the Manchester region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Automated Testing over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Borehamwood Bournemouth Brackley Bracknell Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh Elland England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Greenock Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Huntingdon Inverclyde Ipswich Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newmarket Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Royston Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Stowmarket Street Suffolk Surrey Swindon Tadworth Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Windsor Worthing York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	135	152
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	50	58
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.024 %
As % of the category below	1.691 %	1.411 %
Salaries quoted	36	48
Average minimum salary	£23,944	£26,323
Average salary	£26,097	£29,031
% change on same period last year	-10.10 %
Average maximum salary	£28,250	£31,740
UK excluding London average salary	£34,490	£34,145
% change on same period last year	+1.00 %
Processes & Methodologies Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	2957	4110
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.614 %	1.726 %
Salaries quoted	2503	3489
Average minimum salary	£36,243	£42,030
Average salary	£40,776	£46,737
% change on same period last year	-12.75 %
Average maximum salary	£45,309	£51,444
UK excluding London average salary	£42,478	£44,432
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Automated Testing North West

Automated Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Automated Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Manchester region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Automated Testing across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Automated Testing within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Stockport	-10	3	£31,000	+6.39 %
Wigan	+1	1	£32,500	+22.64 %
Altrincham	-	1	£27,500	-

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Automated Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing.

1 58 (55.77 %) ISEB 2 47 (45.19 %) Software Testing 3 33 (31.73 %) QA 4 26 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 5 24 (23.08 %) .NET 5 24 (23.08 %) Degree 6 22 (21.15 %) Manual Testing 7 21 (20.19 %) VB 8 20 (19.23 %) Test Scripting 9 19 (18.27 %) C# 9 19 (18.27 %) TestDirector 10 15 (14.42 %) SQL 11 14 (13.46 %) ASP 11 14 (13.46 %) Microsoft 12 13 (12.50 %) ASP.NET

12 13 (12.50 %) WebServices 12 13 (12.50 %) Windows 12 13 (12.50 %) MS Excel 12 13 (12.50 %) VB6 13 12 (11.54 %) .NET Remoting 13 12 (11.54 %) MS Access 13 12 (11.54 %) Finance 14 11 (10.58 %) Back Office 14 11 (10.58 %) E-Commerce 15 9 (8.654 %) SQL Server 15 9 (8.654 %) Insurance 16 7 (6.731 %) System Testing 16 7 (6.731 %) QuickTest Pro 17 6 (5.769 %) LoadRunner 18 5 (4.808 %) Pensions

Automated Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Automated 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 Automated Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (23.08 %) .NET 2 14 (13.46 %) ASP 3 13 (12.50 %) ASP.NET 3 13 (12.50 %) WebServices 4 12 (11.54 %) .NET Remoting 5 5 (4.808 %) J2EE	Applications 1 13 (12.50 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 4 (3.846 %) Internet 2 1 (0.962 %) LDAP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 12 (11.54 %) MS Access 2 9 (8.654 %) SQL Server 3 2 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.962 %) Oracle Reports 4 1 (0.962 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 19 (18.27 %) TestDirector 2 7 (6.731 %) QuickTest Pro 3 6 (5.769 %) LoadRunner 4 2 (1.923 %) LabVIEW 4 2 (1.923 %) Visual Studio 5 1 (0.962 %) WinRunner 5 1 (0.962 %) Selenium	General 1 12 (11.54 %) Finance 2 11 (10.58 %) Back Office 3 9 (8.654 %) Insurance 4 5 (4.808 %) Pensions 5 2 (1.923 %) Automotive 6 1 (0.962 %) Chemicals 6 1 (0.962 %) Banking 6 1 (0.962 %) Retail
Job Titles 1 65 (62.50 %) Analyst 2 63 (60.58 %) Test Analyst 2 63 (60.58 %) Tester 3 17 (16.35 %) Software Tester 4 8 (7.692 %) QA Analyst 5 6 (5.769 %) Software Test Analyst 5 6 (5.769 %) QA Test Analyst 5 6 (5.769 %) Junior 6 4 (3.846 %) Test Team Leader 6 4 (3.846 %) Junior Tester 6 4 (3.846 %) Team Leader 6 4 (3.846 %) QA Tester 7 3 (2.885 %) Junior Analyst 7 3 (2.885 %) Junior Test Analyst 7 3 (2.885 %) Developer 7 3 (2.885 %) C# Developer 8 2 (1.923 %) Senior Tester 8 2 (1.923 %) Graduate 8 2 (1.923 %) Systems Engineer 8 2 (1.923 %) Radio Access Network Engineer	Operating Systems 1 13 (12.50 %) Windows 2 1 (0.962 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 47 (45.19 %) Software Testing 2 26 (25.00 %) Regression Testing 3 22 (21.15 %) Manual Testing 4 20 (19.23 %) Test Scripting 5 11 (10.58 %) E-Commerce 6 7 (6.731 %) System Testing 7 5 (4.808 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 5 (4.808 %) Project Management 8 4 (3.846 %) Agile Software Development 9 2 (1.923 %) Problem Management 9 2 (1.923 %) Validation 10 1 (0.962 %) Unit Testing 10 1 (0.962 %) Integration Testing 10 1 (0.962 %) Business Analysis 10 1 (0.962 %) Identity Management	Programming Languages 1 21 (20.19 %) VB 2 19 (18.27 %) C# 3 15 (14.42 %) SQL 4 13 (12.50 %) VB6 5 5 (4.808 %) Java 6 3 (2.885 %) VBScript 7 2 (1.923 %) C 8 1 (0.962 %) VB.NET 8 1 (0.962 %) Perl 8 1 (0.962 %) PHP 8 1 (0.962 %) C++
Qualifications 1 58 (55.77 %) ISEB 2 24 (23.08 %) Degree 3 2 (1.923 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 33 (31.73 %) QA 2 1 (0.962 %) ISO9000 2 1 (0.962 %) ISO9001 2 1 (0.962 %) TickIT
System Software 1 3 (2.885 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (0.962 %) MetaFrame	Vendors 1 14 (13.46 %) Microsoft 2 4 (3.846 %) Compuware 2 4 (3.846 %) HP 2 4 (3.846 %) Citrix 3 1 (0.962 %) VMware 3 1 (0.962 %) Oracle