The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 24 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 126 133 104
Rank change year-on-year
+7 -29
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 66 40 67
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 1.612% 1.104% 1.694%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.089% 1.510% 2.477%
Number of salaries quoted 44 30 57
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £20,000 £22,950 £22,300
10% offered a salary of more than £43,000 £50,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3160 2649 2705
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Manchester 77.17% 73.10% 68.41%
Number of salaries quoted 2717 2323 2441
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
North West

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Manchester Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Manchester Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 24 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
Sale - 10 £38,750 -
Cheadle -8 3 £32,500 +25.00%
Bolton +7 2 £19,000 -15.55%
Test Scripting
North West

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 40 (39.22%) ISEB
2 35 (34.31%) Oracle
3 27 (26.47%) ISTQB
4 23 (22.55%) Finance
5 19 (18.63%) Oracle EBS
5 19 (18.63%) Software Testing
5 19 (18.63%) User Acceptance Testing
6 18 (17.65%) Regression Testing
7 17 (16.67%) Java
8 16 (15.69%) Selenium
8 16 (15.69%) Integration Testing
8 16 (15.69%) Oracle EBS R12
9 15 (14.71%) Degree
10 14 (13.73%) HP Quality Center
10 14 (13.73%) C
10 14 (13.73%) Oracle 8/8i
11 13 (12.75%) Web Services
11 13 (12.75%) SQL
11 13 (12.75%) Microsoft
11 13 (12.75%) QA
12 12 (11.76%) HP
12 12 (11.76%) .NET
12 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
13 11 (10.78%) Oracle Applications
13 11 (10.78%) Performance Testing
14 10 (9.804%) Agile Software Development
14 10 (9.804%) WebLogic
14 10 (9.804%) J2EE
14 10 (9.804%) C#
14 10 (9.804%) E-Commerce

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Manchester region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 13 (12.75%) Web Services
2 12 (11.76%) .NET
3 10 (9.804%) J2EE
4 8 (7.843%) ASP.NET
5 4 (3.922%) jQuery
5 4 (3.922%) Spring
5 4 (3.922%) Struts
6 3 (2.941%) XML
6 3 (2.941%) JSP
6 3 (2.941%) SOAP
6 3 (2.941%) Ajax
6 3 (2.941%) Spring MVC
6 3 (2.941%) FreeMarker
6 3 (2.941%) WebSphere
6 3 (2.941%) .NET Framework
6 3 (2.941%) Struts2
6 3 (2.941%) Guice
6 3 (2.941%) Stripes Framework
7 1 (0.980%) jBPM
7 1 (0.980%) Hibernate
Application Platforms
1 10 (9.804%) WebLogic
2 7 (6.863%) Apache
3 5 (4.902%) Tomcat
3 5 (4.902%) WebLogic Integration
4 3 (2.941%) WebSphere Application Server
5 1 (0.980%) SAS
5 1 (0.980%) ESB
5 1 (0.980%) Mule
Applications
1 7 (6.863%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.980%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 19 (18.63%) Oracle EBS
2 16 (15.69%) Oracle EBS R12
3 11 (10.78%) Oracle Applications
4 6 (5.882%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.902%) FTP
2 2 (1.961%) Intranet
3 1 (0.980%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (13.73%) Oracle 8/8i
2 12 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 6 (5.882%) RDBMS
4 5 (4.902%) MS Access
5 3 (2.941%) DB2
6 2 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
7 1 (0.980%) BusinessObjects
7 1 (0.980%) QlikView
7 1 (0.980%) MongoDB
7 1 (0.980%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 16 (15.69%) Selenium
2 3 (2.941%) JUnit
3 1 (0.980%) Eclipse
3 1 (0.980%) QuickTest Pro
3 1 (0.980%) Xcode
3 1 (0.980%) JIRA
3 1 (0.980%) Cucumber
3 1 (0.980%) Hudson
General
1 23 (22.55%) Finance
2 8 (7.843%) Advertising
3 5 (4.902%) Banking
4 4 (3.922%) Pharmaceutical
5 2 (1.961%) Marketing
5 2 (1.961%) Telecoms
6 1 (0.980%) Investment Banking
6 1 (0.980%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 47 (46.08%) Analyst
2 31 (30.39%) Test Analyst
3 27 (26.47%) Tester
4 19 (18.63%) Consultant
4 19 (18.63%) Support Consultant
4 19 (18.63%) Oracle Consultant
5 17 (16.67%) Functional Consultant
5 17 (16.67%) Oracle Functional Consultant
6 16 (15.69%) Junior
7 14 (13.73%) Junior Tester
8 13 (12.75%) Junior Test Analyst
8 13 (12.75%) Junior Analyst
9 12 (11.76%) Test Leader
10 7 (6.863%) Test Manager
10 7 (6.863%) Software Test Analyst
11 6 (5.882%) Analyst Programmer
11 6 (5.882%) Programmer
11 6 (5.882%) Senior Analyst
11 6 (5.882%) Software Tester
12 5 (4.902%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (4.902%) N-Tier
1 5 (4.902%) Open Source
2 4 (3.922%) Mainframe
3 2 (1.961%) Social Media
3 2 (1.961%) LIMS
4 1 (0.980%) BBC
4 1 (0.980%) Market Risk
4 1 (0.980%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.980%) Computer Science
4 1 (0.980%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.980%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.980%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.863%) HPUX
1 7 (6.863%) SUSE
2 6 (5.882%) Windows
3 5 (4.902%) Linux
4 2 (1.961%) Windows 7
4 2 (1.961%) Windows Vista
4 2 (1.961%) Windows XP
4 2 (1.961%) UNIX
4 2 (1.961%) Windows 2000
5 1 (0.980%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.980%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (18.63%) Software Testing
1 19 (18.63%) User Acceptance Testing
2 18 (17.65%) Regression Testing
3 16 (15.69%) Integration Testing
4 11 (10.78%) Performance Testing
5 10 (9.804%) Agile Software Development
5 10 (9.804%) E-Commerce
6 9 (8.824%) ERP
6 9 (8.824%) Security Testing
6 9 (8.824%) Unit Testing
6 9 (8.824%) Release Management
7 8 (7.843%) TDD
7 8 (7.843%) Statistical Analysis
8 7 (6.863%) Scrum
9 6 (5.882%) Test Management
9 6 (5.882%) Automated Testing
10 5 (4.902%) SOA
11 3 (2.941%) Workflow
11 3 (2.941%) Dependency Injection
11 3 (2.941%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (16.67%) Java
2 14 (13.73%) C
3 13 (12.75%) SQL
4 10 (9.804%) C#
5 5 (4.902%) JavaScript
5 5 (4.902%) VB
5 5 (4.902%) FoxPro (VFP)
6 2 (1.961%) JCL
6 2 (1.961%) VB.NET
6 2 (1.961%) COBOL
7 1 (0.980%) Ruby
7 1 (0.980%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 40 (39.22%) ISEB
2 27 (26.47%) ISTQB
3 15 (14.71%) Degree
4 9 (8.824%) ISEB Practitioner
5 6 (5.882%) Security Cleared
5 6 (5.882%) SC Cleared
6 1 (0.980%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (12.75%) QA
System Software
1 3 (2.941%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (13.73%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 35 (34.31%) Oracle
2 13 (12.75%) Microsoft
3 12 (11.76%) HP
4 5 (4.902%) TIBCO
5 3 (2.941%) JBoss
5 3 (2.941%) VMware
6 2 (1.961%) Unisys
7 1 (0.980%) Cognos
7 1 (0.980%) Business Objects
7 1 (0.980%) SAP
7 1 (0.980%) MicroStrategy
Stockport, Cheshire
Main Purpose Of The Software Tester Job: To conduct manual and automated functional testing on application software in system, integration and regression testing... Key Responsibilities: -Analysing the requirements...
Net Recruit.co.uk Ltd
Salary: £18,000 - £25,000
Posted: 21 May 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: 15 May 2013
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, Lancashire
You will be working in a team of cross skilled Java/Objective-C developers across both platforms, with a view to helping introduce other teams to testing Android...
Laterooms Ltd
Salary: Competitive Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013
Manchester, North West
The two successful Agile Testers will be joining a highly proficient, successful and professional Scrum Team to work with the Product Owners, Developers and Scrum Masters on a...
Hudson
Salary: £25000 - £40000 per annum + benefits & flexi
Posted: 22 May 2013
Manchester, North West
Essential Skills (able to demonstrate or have knowledge of:)- Test team leading / test management (up to 5 people initially) - Test Driven Development within Agile Team - Automated Scripting (regression...
Applause IT Ltd
Salary: £38000 - £45000 per annum + bens
Posted: 11 May 2013