The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Senior Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 177 173 168
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 12 2 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 0.297% 0.055% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.311% 0.057% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 11 2 2
Average salary £30,000 £32,000 £34,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% -6.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,500 £29,600 £32,850
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £34,400 £35,650
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
3860 3519 3750
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 95.50% 96.52% 96.06%
Number of salaries quoted 3344 3138 3430
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £21,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £56,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Tester
North West

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manchester Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Senior Tester Salary Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Manchester Senior Tester Salary Histogram

Senior Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 20 May 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
Bolton - 1 - -
Bury - 1 - -
Oldham - 1 - -
Rochdale - 1 - -
Salford - 1 - -
Senior Tester
North West

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title.

1 9 (69.23%) ISEB
2 5 (38.46%) TDD
2 5 (38.46%) Selenium
3 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
3 4 (30.77%) Finance
4 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
4 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
4 3 (23.08%) Java
4 3 (23.08%) J2EE
4 3 (23.08%) Web Services
4 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
4 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
4 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (15.38%) C#
5 2 (15.38%) Banking
5 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
5 2 (15.38%) HP
5 2 (15.38%) .NET
5 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
5 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 2 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
5 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
5 2 (15.38%) Open Source
5 2 (15.38%) QA
5 2 (15.38%) Kanban
5 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
6 1 (7.692%) User Stories
6 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
6 1 (7.692%) System Testing

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (23.08%) J2EE
1 3 (23.08%) Web Services
2 2 (15.38%) .NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (23.08%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 5 (38.46%) Selenium
2 2 (15.38%) WebDriver
2 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 1 (7.692%) JMeter
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
2 2 (15.38%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Mainframe
1 2 (15.38%) Open Source
2 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) TDD
2 4 (30.77%) Software Testing
3 3 (23.08%) E-Commerce
3 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
3 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
3 3 (23.08%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
4 2 (15.38%) Kanban
4 2 (15.38%) Scrum
5 1 (7.692%) Automated Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Risk Analysis
5 1 (7.692%) Performance Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Load Testing
5 1 (7.692%) Manual Testing
5 1 (7.692%) System Testing
5 1 (7.692%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (23.08%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) C#
Qualifications
1 9 (69.23%) ISEB
2 2 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.692%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) HP
Manchester, North West
Working within an Agile Java/J2EE development team you will be responsible for testing customer facing high transactional websites from UI through to high transactional web services... Essential...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + Benefits + bonus
Posted: 6 May 2013
Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside,...
This successful and profitable Software House who specialise in the supply of large scale solutions to the Corporate & Public Sector markets is looking to recruit an experienced Test...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to c£60,000 + excellent bonus + bens
Posted: 29 April 2013