Merseyside Test Analyst Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Analyst role in IT jobs within the Merseyside 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 Test Analyst in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Coventry Crawley Croydon Cumbria Cwmbran Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastbourne Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Enfield England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Horsham Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Hull Ilford Ipswich Kendal Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lymm M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesbrough Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stockport Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swansea Swindon Telford Thames Valley Torfaen Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Windsor Woking Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	67	74
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	22	15
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.930 %	1.518 %
Salaries quoted	13	5
Average minimum salary	£23,231	£23,400
Average salary	£24,769	£25,100
% change on same period last year	-1.31 %
Average maximum salary	£26,308	£26,800
UK excluding London average salary	£31,085	£31,134
% change on same period last year	-0.15 %
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching permanent IT job ads	1140	988
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.602 %	0.405 %
Salaries quoted	974	817
Average minimum salary	£30,555	£31,086
Average salary	£32,917	£33,661
% change on same period last year	-2.20 %
Average maximum salary	£35,279	£36,235
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Test Analyst North West

Test Analyst
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Merseyside 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 Test Analyst across the Merseyside region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Analyst across the Merseyside 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 Test Analyst within the Merseyside 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
Liverpool	-10	7	£26,143	+3.02 %
St Helens	-	1	£25,000	-

Test Analyst North West

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Merseyside region that cited Test Analyst 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 Test Analyst in their job title.

1 27 (56.25 %) SQL 2 26 (54.17 %) Software Testing 3 21 (43.75 %) Windows 4 17 (35.42 %) Citrix 5 13 (27.08 %) Automated Testing 5 13 (27.08 %) Test Scripting 6 12 (25.00 %) Terminal Server 7 10 (20.83 %) ISEB 7 10 (20.83 %) Test Management 8 9 (18.75 %) VB 9 8 (16.67 %) TestDirector 10 7 (14.58 %) .NET 11 6 (12.50 %) Finance 11 6 (12.50 %) QA 12 5 (10.42 %) System Testing

12 5 (10.42 %) Regression Testing 12 5 (10.42 %) Oracle 12 5 (10.42 %) VB.NET 12 5 (10.42 %) C# 13 4 (8.333 %) WebServices 13 4 (8.333 %) Manual Testing 14 3 (6.250 %) MS Office 14 3 (6.250 %) Perl 14 3 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 14 3 (6.250 %) VBScript 14 3 (6.250 %) MS Excel 15 2 (4.167 %) C 15 2 (4.167 %) SQL Server 15 2 (4.167 %) QuickTest Pro 15 2 (4.167 %) Banking

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development 1 7 (14.58 %) .NET 2 4 (8.333 %) WebServices 3 1 (2.083 %) XML	Applications 1 3 (6.250 %) MS Office 1 3 (6.250 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.083 %) FTP 1 1 (2.083 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (4.167 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 8 (16.67 %) TestDirector 2 2 (4.167 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (2.083 %) ClearQuest	General 1 6 (12.50 %) Finance 2 2 (4.167 %) Banking 3 1 (2.083 %) Government
Miscellaneous 1 1 (2.083 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 21 (43.75 %) Windows 2 1 (2.083 %) Linux 2 1 (2.083 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 26 (54.17 %) Software Testing 2 13 (27.08 %) Automated Testing 2 13 (27.08 %) Test Scripting 3 10 (20.83 %) Test Management 4 5 (10.42 %) System Testing 4 5 (10.42 %) Regression Testing 5 4 (8.333 %) Manual Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) SC Cleared 6 1 (2.083 %) BC Cleared 6 1 (2.083 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (2.083 %) Validation 6 1 (2.083 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 1 (2.083 %) PRINCE2 6 1 (2.083 %) DSDM 6 1 (2.083 %) CRM 6 1 (2.083 %) E-Commerce 6 1 (2.083 %) B2B 6 1 (2.083 %) B2C	Programming Languages 1 27 (56.25 %) SQL 2 9 (18.75 %) VB 3 5 (10.42 %) VB.NET 3 5 (10.42 %) C# 4 3 (6.250 %) Perl 4 3 (6.250 %) PL/SQL 4 3 (6.250 %) VBScript 5 2 (4.167 %) C 6 1 (2.083 %) PowerHouse 6 1 (2.083 %) Transact-SQL
Qualifications 1 10 (20.83 %) ISEB 2 1 (2.083 %) ISTQB 2 1 (2.083 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 6 (12.50 %) QA
System Software 1 12 (25.00 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 17 (35.42 %) Citrix 2 5 (10.42 %) Oracle