Milton Keynes Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Milton Keynes 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Barnet Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Cirencester City of London Coalville Colchester Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland Enfield England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Grantham Greenock Guildford Gwent Halifax Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hove Hull Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redditch Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Royston Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Street Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Wimbledon Winchester Woking Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	83	75
Rank change on same period last year	-8
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	21
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.791 %	1.408 %
Salaries quoted	7	20
Average minimum salary	£32,714	£30,750
Average salary	£33,571	£31,975
% change on same period last year	+4.99 %
Average maximum salary	£34,429	£33,200
UK excluding London average salary	£32,018	£32,125
% change on same period last year	-0.33 %
Job Titles Milton Keynes
Matching permanent IT job ads	1264	1492
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.680 %	0.622 %
Salaries quoted	1130	1230
Average minimum salary	£34,484	£33,029
Average salary	£37,348	£36,004
% change on same period last year	+3.73 %
Average maximum salary	£40,212	£38,980
UK excluding London average salary	£38,055	£39,430
% change on same period last year	-3.48 %
Tester Buckinghamshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Milton Keynes 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 Tester across the Milton Keynes region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Milton Keynes region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 15 (68.18 %) QA 2 12 (54.55 %) C 2 12 (54.55 %) SQL 3 10 (45.45 %) Test Scripting 4 9 (40.91 %) Oracle 5 8 (36.36 %) Java 6 7 (31.82 %) Windows 6 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 7 6 (27.27 %) Eclipse 7 6 (27.27 %) RUP 7 6 (27.27 %) ClearCase 7 6 (27.27 %) ClearQuest 7 6 (27.27 %) Linux 7 6 (27.27 %) UML 7 6 (27.27 %) .NET

7 6 (27.27 %) C++ 7 6 (27.27 %) WebLogic 7 6 (27.27 %) MS Office 7 6 (27.27 %) CMMI 7 6 (27.27 %) JMeter 7 6 (27.27 %) Security Cleared 7 6 (27.27 %) V-Model 8 5 (22.73 %) Automated Testing 8 5 (22.73 %) ISEB 9 4 (18.18 %) WebServices 10 3 (13.64 %) Health 10 3 (13.64 %) Police 10 3 (13.64 %) Software Testing 10 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 10 3 (13.64 %) UNIX

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Milton Keynes region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 6 (27.27 %) .NET 2 4 (18.18 %) WebServices	Application Platforms 1 6 (27.27 %) WebLogic 2 1 (4.545 %) Apache
Applications 1 6 (27.27 %) MS Office 2 3 (13.64 %) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (4.545 %) TOAD 1 1 (4.545 %) Oracle 10g
Development Applications 1 6 (27.27 %) ClearCase 1 6 (27.27 %) Eclipse 1 6 (27.27 %) ClearQuest 1 6 (27.27 %) JMeter 2 2 (9.091 %) Selenium 2 2 (9.091 %) FitNesse 2 2 (9.091 %) TestDirector 3 1 (4.545 %) JIRA 3 1 (4.545 %) QARun 3 1 (4.545 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (4.545 %) WinRunner	General 1 3 (13.64 %) Health 1 3 (13.64 %) Police 1 3 (13.64 %) Pensions 2 1 (4.545 %) Finance 2 1 (4.545 %) Education 2 1 (4.545 %) Electric 2 1 (4.545 %) Retail 2 1 (4.545 %) Multimedia
Miscellaneous 1 2 (9.091 %) Smartcard	Operating Systems 1 7 (31.82 %) Windows 2 6 (27.27 %) Linux 3 3 (13.64 %) UNIX 4 1 (4.545 %) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (45.45 %) Test Scripting 2 6 (27.27 %) Security Cleared 2 6 (27.27 %) V-Model 2 6 (27.27 %) UML 2 6 (27.27 %) RUP 2 6 (27.27 %) CMMI 3 5 (22.73 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (13.64 %) Software Testing 4 3 (13.64 %) Project Management 5 2 (9.091 %) PRINCE2 5 2 (9.091 %) Integration Testing 5 2 (9.091 %) Data Management 6 1 (4.545 %) Manual Testing 6 1 (4.545 %) System Testing 6 1 (4.545 %) Regression Testing 6 1 (4.545 %) CRM	Programming Languages 1 12 (54.55 %) C 1 12 (54.55 %) SQL 2 8 (36.36 %) Java 3 6 (27.27 %) C++ 4 1 (4.545 %) Ruby 4 1 (4.545 %) Perl 4 1 (4.545 %) C#
Qualifications 1 5 (22.73 %) ISEB 2 2 (9.091 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 15 (68.18 %) QA
Vendors 1 9 (40.91 %) Oracle 2 7 (31.82 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.545 %) Empirix