The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the Newbury region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 17 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 Qualifications for the Newbury region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 49 64 48
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -16
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 8 2 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 2.469% 0.394% 0.888%
As % of the Qualifications category 7.339% 1.242% 2.778%
Number of salaries quoted 8 2 3
Average salary £32,500 £43,750 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-25.71% +45.83%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £40,750 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £37,250 £46,750 £34,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,250
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.04%
All Qualifications
Newbury
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
109 161 108
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Newbury 33.64% 31.76% 31.95%
Number of salaries quoted 105 149 99
Average salary £35,000 £40,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-12.50% -20.00%
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,500
% change year-on-year
- +3.89%
ISTQB
Berkshire

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISTQB across the Newbury region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

Newbury ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

Newbury ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 19 (100.00%) ISEB
2 17 (89.47%) QA
3 10 (52.63%) GSM
3 10 (52.63%) UMTS
3 10 (52.63%) Windows
3 10 (52.63%) Regression Testing
3 10 (52.63%) Telecoms
3 10 (52.63%) Scrum
3 10 (52.63%) Agile Software Development
4 9 (47.37%) Nokia
4 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
4 9 (47.37%) Manual Testing
5 7 (36.84%) SQL
6 6 (31.58%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (21.05%) Degree
7 4 (21.05%) Windows Vista
8 3 (15.79%) C#
8 3 (15.79%) VMware
8 3 (15.79%) .NET
8 3 (15.79%) Citrix
8 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
8 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
8 3 (15.79%) SaaS
8 3 (15.79%) Automation Testing
8 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
8 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
9 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
9 2 (10.53%) Web Testing
9 2 (10.53%) Test Scripting

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Newbury region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (15.79%) .NET
1 3 (15.79%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 2 (10.53%) Apache
1 2 (10.53%) Tomcat
Applications
1 1 (5.263%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (52.63%) GSM
1 10 (52.63%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) TOAD
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (10.53%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 10 (52.63%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) QA Engineer
2 4 (21.05%) QA Tester
2 4 (21.05%) Tester
3 2 (10.53%) Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Test Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Test Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Graduate
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.79%) Cloud Computing
1 3 (15.79%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 10 (52.63%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Regression Testing
1 10 (52.63%) Scrum
1 10 (52.63%) Agile Software Development
2 9 (47.37%) Manual Testing
3 3 (15.79%) Test Automation
3 3 (15.79%) Automation Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Change Control
4 2 (10.53%) Automated Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Software Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Incident Management
4 2 (10.53%) Integration Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Web Testing
4 2 (10.53%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (36.84%) SQL
2 3 (15.79%) C#
3 2 (10.53%) VB
Qualifications
1 19 (100.00%) ISEB
2 4 (21.05%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (89.47%) QA
System Software
1 3 (15.79%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (15.79%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (47.37%) Microsoft
1 9 (47.37%) Nokia
2 3 (15.79%) VMware
2 3 (15.79%) Citrix
3 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 2 (10.53%) HP