The first table below looks at the demand for ISEB in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISEB 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 Qualifications for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Information Systems Examinations Board (ISEB)
Rank 123 123 62
Rank change year-on-year
0 -61
Permanent jobs citing ISEB 66 53 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.570% 1.410% 3.226%
As % of the Qualifications category 6.414% 5.755% 12.43%
Number of salaries quoted 55 46 126
Average salary £32,500 £29,000 £33,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.06% -13.43%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,500 £22,500 £23,800
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £38,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £36,250 £35,500 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+2.11% -4.05%
All Qualifications
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
1029 921 1038
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 24.47% 24.51% 25.96%
Number of salaries quoted 882 761 922
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £59,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISEB across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Manchester ISEB Jobs Demand Trend

ISEB
Salary Trend

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

Manchester ISEB Salary Trend

ISEB
Salary Histogram

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

Manchester ISEB Salary Histogram

ISEB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISEB within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Altrincham - 7 £55,000 - 1
Cheadle -6 3 £32,500 +25.00%
Bolton -6 1 £16,500 -34.00%
ISEB
North West

ISEB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing ISEB 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 ISEB.

1 69 (50.74%) ISTQB
2 51 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 47 (34.56%) QA
4 39 (28.68%) Degree
4 39 (28.68%) Test Scripting
5 32 (23.53%) Finance
6 31 (22.79%) HP Quality Center
7 29 (21.32%) Selenium
7 29 (21.32%) SQL
7 29 (21.32%) .NET
8 28 (20.59%) SQL Server
8 28 (20.59%) HP
9 25 (18.38%) Automated Testing
10 23 (16.91%) Manual Testing
11 19 (13.97%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (13.97%) C#
12 17 (12.50%) Oracle
12 17 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
13 16 (11.76%) Java
13 16 (11.76%) QuickTest Pro
13 16 (11.76%) E-Commerce
14 15 (11.03%) LoadRunner
14 15 (11.03%) VB
15 14 (10.29%) TestPartner
15 14 (10.29%) JUnit
15 14 (10.29%) jMock
15 14 (10.29%) SilkPerformer
15 14 (10.29%) QALoad
15 14 (10.29%) EasyMock
16 13 (9.559%) SQL Server 2008

ISEB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 29 (21.32%) .NET
2 6 (4.412%) Web Services
2 6 (4.412%) J2EE
3 3 (2.206%) ASP
3 3 (2.206%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.471%) CSS
4 2 (1.471%) HTML
5 1 (0.735%) XML
5 1 (0.735%) .NET Framework
5 1 (0.735%) WCF
5 1 (0.735%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 5 (3.676%) WebLogic
1 5 (3.676%) Apache
1 5 (3.676%) Tomcat
1 5 (3.676%) WebLogic Integration
2 1 (0.735%) SAS
Applications
1 4 (2.941%) Open Workbench
2 2 (1.471%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.471%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.735%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.676%) FTP
2 3 (2.206%) HTTP
3 2 (1.471%) SIGTRAN
3 2 (1.471%) SS7
4 1 (0.735%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 28 (20.59%) SQL Server
2 13 (9.559%) SQL Server 2008
2 13 (9.559%) SQL Server 2005
3 8 (5.882%) RDBMS
4 5 (3.676%) MS Access
5 2 (1.471%) Oracle Reports
6 1 (0.735%) BusinessObjects
6 1 (0.735%) MySQL
6 1 (0.735%) Oracle 8/8i
6 1 (0.735%) QlikView
6 1 (0.735%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 29 (21.32%) Selenium
2 16 (11.76%) QuickTest Pro
3 15 (11.03%) LoadRunner
4 14 (10.29%) TestPartner
4 14 (10.29%) JUnit
4 14 (10.29%) jMock
4 14 (10.29%) SilkPerformer
4 14 (10.29%) QALoad
4 14 (10.29%) EasyMock
5 13 (9.559%) TestComplete
6 5 (3.676%) JIRA
7 1 (0.735%) TestDirector
7 1 (0.735%) Bugzilla
7 1 (0.735%) FitNesse
7 1 (0.735%) Concordion
7 1 (0.735%) SpecFlow
7 1 (0.735%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.735%) JBehave
7 1 (0.735%) Trac
General
1 32 (23.53%) Finance
2 13 (9.559%) Banking
3 8 (5.882%) Advertising
4 6 (4.412%) Telecoms
5 3 (2.206%) Legal
6 2 (1.471%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (0.735%) Marketing
7 1 (0.735%) Retail
7 1 (0.735%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 71 (52.21%) Analyst
2 61 (44.85%) Test Analyst
3 35 (25.74%) Tester
4 15 (11.03%) Test Manager
5 14 (10.29%) Junior
5 14 (10.29%) Junior Analyst
5 14 (10.29%) Junior Test Analyst
5 14 (10.29%) Software Test Analyst
6 12 (8.824%) Senior Analyst
6 12 (8.824%) Software Tester
6 12 (8.824%) Test Leader
7 10 (7.353%) Business Analyst
7 10 (7.353%) Senior Test Analyst
8 9 (6.618%) Senior Tester
8 9 (6.618%) Test Engineer
8 9 (6.618%) Junior Tester
8 9 (6.618%) QA Analyst
8 9 (6.618%) Consultant
9 8 (5.882%) Team Leader
9 8 (5.882%) Test Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 13 (9.559%) Enterprise Software
2 7 (5.147%) Client/Server
3 6 (4.412%) Open Source
3 6 (4.412%) Computer Science
4 5 (3.676%) N-Tier
5 3 (2.206%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.471%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 11 (8.088%) Windows
2 5 (3.676%) UNIX
2 5 (3.676%) HPUX
2 5 (3.676%) Linux
2 5 (3.676%) SUSE
3 2 (1.471%) Windows 7
3 2 (1.471%) Windows Vista
3 2 (1.471%) Windows 2000
3 2 (1.471%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (37.50%) Software Testing
2 39 (28.68%) Test Scripting
3 25 (18.38%) Automated Testing
4 23 (16.91%) Manual Testing
5 19 (13.97%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (12.50%) Agile Software Development
7 16 (11.76%) E-Commerce
8 13 (9.559%) Regression Testing
9 12 (8.824%) Performance Testing
10 11 (8.088%) Security Testing
10 11 (8.088%) Integration Testing
10 11 (8.088%) Change Management
11 10 (7.353%) Release Management
11 10 (7.353%) Time Management
12 9 (6.618%) Automation Testing
12 9 (6.618%) TDD
12 9 (6.618%) Business Analysis
12 9 (6.618%) Statistical Analysis
13 7 (5.147%) Scrum
13 7 (5.147%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 29 (21.32%) SQL
2 19 (13.97%) C#
3 16 (11.76%) Java
4 15 (11.03%) VB
5 6 (4.412%) C
6 5 (3.676%) FoxPro (VFP)
7 2 (1.471%) VB.NET
7 2 (1.471%) PHP
8 1 (0.735%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.735%) RPG
8 1 (0.735%) C++
8 1 (0.735%) COBOL
8 1 (0.735%) Python
8 1 (0.735%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 69 (50.74%) ISTQB
2 39 (28.68%) Degree
3 11 (8.088%) ISEB Practitioner
4 3 (2.206%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.735%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 47 (34.56%) QA
2 11 (8.088%) ISO 9001
3 1 (0.735%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (2.206%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 31 (22.79%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 28 (20.59%) HP
2 17 (12.50%) Oracle
3 5 (3.676%) TIBCO
4 4 (2.941%) Microsoft
5 3 (2.206%) VMware
6 1 (0.735%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (0.735%) Cognos
6 1 (0.735%) SAP
6 1 (0.735%) Business Objects
Altrincham, North West
The ideal candidate will have also obtained their ISEB... *You will also support product developers and testers to ensure software meeting product needs, is delivered within timescales *Working...
Salary: £27000 - £35000 per annum
Posted: 3 June 2013
Stockport, Cheshire, North West
Position: IT Software TesterLocation: Stockport, CheshireSalary: £18,000 - £25,000Main Purpose Of The Job:To conduct manual and automated functional testing on application software in system, integration and...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: GBP18,000 - GBP25,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Stockport, Cheshire
Key Responsibilities: -Analysing the requirements to produce estimates, test plans and test scripts -Conducting functional test execution using manual and automated test scripts across the development lifecycle -Identifying...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: £18,000 - £25,000
Posted: 17 June 2013
Greater Manchester
Job Description: SG Gaming are looking for a number of experienced QA test analysts to join our market leading gaming company, based in Manchester. The successful candidates will...
SG Gaming
Salary: From £20,000 to £30,000 per annum depending on experience + benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Test Analyst/ Software Tester/ QA Analyst/ Tester/Manual testing/Automation/Test scripts/Functional testing/ SQL/Oracle/Jira/UAT/Support/ ISEB/ ISTQB- Manchester / 30k plus benefits Unique challenge and...
Salary: £25000 - £30000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013
Manchester, North West
Salary: £25000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 5 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Laterooms Ltd
Salary: Competitive + bonus + benefits
Posted: 31 May 2013
Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside,...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: To c£60,000 + excellent bonus + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
TEKsystems
Salary: £26000 - £30000 per annum + package
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sale, Cheshire
Consulting Point
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Manchester, Lancashire
Actis Recruitment.
Salary: From £24,000 to £30,000 per annum + excellent bonus + bens
Posted: 14 June 2013
Manchester, Cheshire, Merseyside, Lancashire,...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: To £30,000 + excellent bonus + benefits
Posted: 19 June 2013