Manchester Software Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the Manchester region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Honiton Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Milton Keynes Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	174	157
Rank change on same period last year	-17
Matching permanent IT job ads	13	62
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.007 %	0.025 %
As % of the category below	0.256 %	0.946 %
Salaries quoted	12	49
Average minimum salary	£24,917	£24,633
Average salary	£26,708	£26,367
% change on same period last year	+1.29 %
Average maximum salary	£28,500	£28,102
UK excluding London average salary	£30,201	£29,444
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	5077	6551
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.680 %	2.683 %
Salaries quoted	4253	5618
Average minimum salary	£33,152	£35,795
Average salary	£38,079	£40,436
% change on same period last year	-5.82 %
Average maximum salary	£43,006	£45,076
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Tester North West

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 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 Software Tester within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Altrincham	-	3	£34,667	-
Cheadle	-	1	£17,000	-

Software Tester North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 24 (46.15 %) ISEB 2 20 (38.46 %) SQL 2 20 (38.46 %) Software Testing 3 19 (36.54 %) Degree 4 18 (34.62 %) Test Scripting 5 17 (32.69 %) QA 5 17 (32.69 %) Automated Testing 6 12 (23.08 %) Manual Testing 7 11 (21.15 %) Regression Testing 8 10 (19.23 %) SQL Server 8 10 (19.23 %) LoadRunner 9 9 (17.31 %) Windows 10 8 (15.38 %) .NET 11 7 (13.46 %) Internet 12 6 (11.54 %) Insurance

12 6 (11.54 %) Project Management 12 6 (11.54 %) J2EE 12 6 (11.54 %) ASP.NET 12 6 (11.54 %) System Testing 13 5 (9.615 %) Citrix 13 5 (9.615 %) Compuware 13 5 (9.615 %) Finance 13 5 (9.615 %) HP 14 4 (7.692 %) VBScript 14 4 (7.692 %) VB 15 3 (5.769 %) C# 15 3 (5.769 %) Perl 15 3 (5.769 %) IIS 15 3 (5.769 %) Windows NT 15 3 (5.769 %) Agile Software Development

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (15.38 %) .NET 2 6 (11.54 %) J2EE 2 6 (11.54 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (1.923 %) WebServices 3 1 (1.923 %) XML 3 1 (1.923 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 3 (5.769 %) IIS 2 1 (1.923 %) CMS
Communications & Networking 1 7 (13.46 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (19.23 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.923 %) DB2 2 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 8/8i 2 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 9i 2 1 (1.923 %) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications 1 10 (19.23 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (3.846 %) WinRunner 2 2 (3.846 %) TestDirector 3 1 (1.923 %) PVCS	General 1 6 (11.54 %) Insurance 2 5 (9.615 %) Finance 3 3 (5.769 %) Automotive 3 3 (5.769 %) Marketing 4 2 (3.846 %) Electronics 4 2 (3.846 %) Retail 4 2 (3.846 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 3 (5.769 %) Mainframe 2 1 (1.923 %) AS400 2 1 (1.923 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 9 (17.31 %) Windows 2 3 (5.769 %) Windows NT 3 1 (1.923 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 20 (38.46 %) Software Testing 2 18 (34.62 %) Test Scripting 3 17 (32.69 %) Automated Testing 4 12 (23.08 %) Manual Testing 5 11 (21.15 %) Regression Testing 6 6 (11.54 %) System Testing 6 6 (11.54 %) Project Management 7 3 (5.769 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 3 (5.769 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (3.846 %) Validation 8 2 (3.846 %) Performance Testing 8 2 (3.846 %) Problem Management 9 1 (1.923 %) TDD 9 1 (1.923 %) Business Analysis 9 1 (1.923 %) Supplier Management 9 1 (1.923 %) Web Development	Programming Languages 1 20 (38.46 %) SQL 2 4 (7.692 %) VBScript 2 4 (7.692 %) VB 3 3 (5.769 %) C# 3 3 (5.769 %) Perl 4 2 (3.846 %) COBOL 4 2 (3.846 %) Java 5 1 (1.923 %) C++ 5 1 (1.923 %) VB.NET
Qualifications 1 24 (46.15 %) ISEB 2 19 (36.54 %) Degree 3 1 (1.923 %) HND	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (32.69 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (3.846 %) Terminal Server 2 1 (1.923 %) Terminal Services 2 1 (1.923 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 5 (9.615 %) Compuware 1 5 (9.615 %) HP 1 5 (9.615 %) Citrix 2 1 (1.923 %) Oracle 2 1 (1.923 %) IBM 2 1 (1.923 %) Microsoft