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

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 46 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 8 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 1.786% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 7.018% - -
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 0
Average salary £30,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
All Qualifications
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
114 220 124
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 25.45% 32.84% 27.02%
Number of salaries quoted 91 182 103
Average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,050 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
North West

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool - 8 £30,000 -
ISTQB
North West

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
2 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
2 8 (80.00%) QA
2 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
3 7 (70.00%) Manual Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Selenium
4 6 (60.00%) FitNesse
4 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
4 6 (60.00%) Automated Testing
4 6 (60.00%) Web Development
4 6 (60.00%) JMeter
4 6 (60.00%) Scrum
4 6 (60.00%) Apache
4 6 (60.00%) Java
4 6 (60.00%) PHP
4 6 (60.00%) WebDriver
4 6 (60.00%) Open Source
4 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
4 6 (60.00%) Hudson
4 6 (60.00%) Behat
4 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
4 6 (60.00%) User Stories
4 6 (60.00%) Mobile App
5 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
6 3 (30.00%) Games
6 3 (30.00%) Degree
7 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
7 2 (20.00%) SQL
7 2 (20.00%) Oracle
7 2 (20.00%) SQL Server

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (60.00%) Apache
Applications
1 2 (20.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (20.00%) DB2
1 2 (20.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 6 (60.00%) FitNesse
2 6 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 6 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (60.00%) Hudson
2 6 (60.00%) Behat
2 6 (60.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (60.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) JIRA
3 1 (10.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (30.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Software Engineer
2 2 (20.00%) Development Engineer
3 1 (10.00%) Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Test Analyst
3 1 (10.00%) Software Tester
3 1 (10.00%) Games Tester
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Open Source
1 6 (60.00%) Mobile App
2 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Agile Software Development
1 8 (80.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (70.00%) Manual Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Web Development
3 6 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 6 (60.00%) Automated Testing
3 6 (60.00%) Scrum
3 6 (60.00%) User Stories
4 4 (40.00%) Software Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) Regression Testing
6 1 (10.00%) GAP Analysis
6 1 (10.00%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (60.00%) Java
1 6 (60.00%) PHP
2 2 (20.00%) PL/SQL
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) Python
2 2 (20.00%) Perl
2 2 (20.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
2 3 (30.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (80.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Oracle