Midlands Test Engineer Jobs

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

Test Engineer
Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bordon Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lingfield London Maidenhead Manchester March Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Royston Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Towcester Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	79	100
Rank change on same period last year	+21
Matching permanent IT job ads	2	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.174 %	0.051 %
Salaries quoted	2	0
Average minimum salary	£26,000	-
Average salary	£27,250	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£28,500	-
UK excluding London average salary	£31,636	£32,455
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	1149	1962
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.607 %	0.803 %
Salaries quoted	834	1507
Average minimum salary	£43,286	£42,737
Average salary	£49,210	£50,377
% change on same period last year	-2.31 %
Average maximum salary	£55,133	£58,017
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

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

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Top 12 Related IT Skills

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

1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Degree 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting 2 1 (33.33 %) Perl 2 1 (33.33 %) SQL 2 1 (33.33 %) UNIX 2 1 (33.33 %) GSM 2 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector 2 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) Publishing 2 1 (33.33 %) TETRA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Communications & Networking 1 1 (33.33 %) GSM 1 1 (33.33 %) TETRA	Development Applications 1 1 (33.33 %) TestDirector
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Publishing	Operating Systems 1 1 (33.33 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Scripting	Programming Languages 1 1 (33.33 %) Perl 1 1 (33.33 %) SQL 1 1 (33.33 %) Shell Script
Qualifications 1 1 (33.33 %) Degree