The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Merseyside region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 26 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 Merseyside region.

Location
3 months to
26 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 45 - 64
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 16 0 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 3.579% - 0.216%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.278% - 0.306%
Number of salaries quoted 15 0 1
Average salary £30,000 - £24,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-7.14% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Merseyside
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
374 501 327
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Merseyside 83.67% 74.44% 70.63%
Number of salaries quoted 312 442 268
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 £26,500 £29,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £53,250 £50,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
North West

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Merseyside Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Merseyside Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 26 May 2013.

Merseyside Manual Testing Salary Histogram

Manual Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 26 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Liverpool - 15 £35,000 -
Manual Testing
North West

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Manual Testing 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 Manual Testing.

1 11 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
1 11 (55.00%) QA
2 10 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (40.00%) Selenium
5 7 (35.00%) ISEB
5 7 (35.00%) Regression Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Automated Testing
5 7 (35.00%) ISTQB
6 6 (30.00%) Java
6 6 (30.00%) PHP
6 6 (30.00%) Apache
6 6 (30.00%) JMeter
6 6 (30.00%) Scrum
6 6 (30.00%) Web Development
6 6 (30.00%) FitNesse
6 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 6 (30.00%) WebDriver
6 6 (30.00%) Open Source
6 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
6 6 (30.00%) Hudson
6 6 (30.00%) Behat
6 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
6 6 (30.00%) User Stories
6 6 (30.00%) Mobile App
7 4 (20.00%) SQL
8 3 (15.00%) C#
8 3 (15.00%) C++
8 3 (15.00%) Perl
8 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 26 May 2013, IT jobs across the Merseyside region citing Manual Testing 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms
1 6 (30.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (15.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server
1 3 (15.00%) DB2
1 3 (15.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 8 (40.00%) Selenium
2 6 (30.00%) JMeter
2 6 (30.00%) Cucumber
2 6 (30.00%) Hudson
2 6 (30.00%) Behat
2 6 (30.00%) Jenkins
2 6 (30.00%) FitNesse
2 6 (30.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (5.000%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 3 (15.00%) Games
2 2 (10.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (35.00%) Senior Tester
1 7 (35.00%) Tester
2 6 (30.00%) Software Engineer
2 6 (30.00%) Lead Tester
3 5 (25.00%) Test Leader
3 5 (25.00%) Team Leader
3 5 (25.00%) Test Team Leader
4 4 (20.00%) Analyst
4 4 (20.00%) Test Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) QA Test Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) QA Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Software Tester
5 2 (10.00%) Senior Software Tester
6 1 (5.000%) Development Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) Test Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) QA Engineer
6 1 (5.000%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 6 (30.00%) Mobile App
1 6 (30.00%) Open Source
2 1 (5.000%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (55.00%) Agile Software Development
2 10 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 9 (45.00%) Test Automation
4 7 (35.00%) Automated Testing
4 7 (35.00%) Regression Testing
5 6 (30.00%) Scrum
5 6 (30.00%) User Stories
5 6 (30.00%) Web Development
5 6 (30.00%) Continuous Integration
6 2 (10.00%) Load Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Web Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Test Scripting
6 2 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (10.00%) Automation Testing
7 1 (5.000%) Root Cause Analysis
7 1 (5.000%) Performance Testing
7 1 (5.000%) System Testing
7 1 (5.000%) GAP Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (30.00%) PHP
1 6 (30.00%) Java
2 4 (20.00%) SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Python
3 3 (15.00%) PL/SQL
3 3 (15.00%) Perl
3 3 (15.00%) C#
3 3 (15.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 7 (35.00%) ISTQB
1 7 (35.00%) ISEB
2 1 (5.000%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (55.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Oracle