The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Milton Keynes region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Milton Keynes region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 101 73 83
Rank change year-on-year
-28 +10
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 2 13 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 0.155% 1.243% 0.637%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.198% 1.615% 0.875%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 5
Average salary £30,750 £34,629 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.20% -7.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £34,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £31,750 £37,500 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,250 £33,000
% change year-on-year
-0.70% +6.81%
All Processes & Methodologies
Milton Keynes
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1011 805 686
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Milton Keynes 78.19% 76.96% 72.82%
Number of salaries quoted 866 659 582
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Buckinghamshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Milton Keynes System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Milton Keynes System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 4 (57.14%) MVC
3 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
3 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Oracle
4 2 (28.57%) Web Services
4 2 (28.57%) XML
4 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
4 2 (28.57%) SOA
4 2 (28.57%) Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
4 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (28.57%) jQuery
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
5 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Retail
5 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Web Development
5 1 (14.29%) QA
5 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
5 1 (14.29%) soapUI
5 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
5 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
5 1 (14.29%) Finance
5 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (57.14%) .NET
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
2 2 (28.57%) XML
2 2 (28.57%) ASP.NET
2 2 (28.57%) jQuery
3 1 (14.29%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (14.29%) soapUI
3 1 (14.29%) Razor View Engine
3 1 (14.29%) SAML
3 1 (14.29%) CSS
3 1 (14.29%) XSL
3 1 (14.29%) ADO.NET
3 1 (14.29%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) MSMQ
1 1 (14.29%) SharePoint
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Developer
2 3 (42.86%) Analyst
2 3 (42.86%) Test Analyst
3 2 (28.57%) Web Developer
3 2 (28.57%) DBA
3 2 (28.57%) Database Developer
4 1 (14.29%) QA Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Software Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) Agile Test Analyst
4 1 (14.29%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
1 1 (14.29%) N-Tier
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) MVC
2 2 (28.57%) SOA
2 2 (28.57%) Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
2 2 (28.57%) Data Migration
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Load Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Web Development
3 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (85.71%) SQL
2 3 (42.86%) T-SQL
3 2 (28.57%) C#
3 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Oracle