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This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Newcastle Upon Tyne region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSoftware Testing
Location
3 months to
29 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank3332
Rank change on same period last yearDown-1
Matching permanent IT job ads14
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.001 %0.002 %
As % of the category below0.794 %3.008 %
Salaries quoted14
Average minimum salary£30,000£25,000
Average salary£32,500£27,000
% change on same period last year+20.37 %
Average maximum salary£35,000£29,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,732£33,130
% change on same period last year+4.83 %
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Newcastle Upon Tyne
Matching permanent IT job ads126133
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.069 %0.056 %
Salaries quoted8897
Average minimum salary£30,518£34,313
Average salary£33,966£37,477
% change on same period last year-9.36 %
Average maximum salary£37,415£40,642
UK excluding London average salary£42,478£44,432
% change on same period last year-4.39 %
Software Testing Tyne and WearSoftware Testing
Tyne and Wear

Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Newcastle Upon Tyne Software Testing Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region.

Newcastle Upon Tyne Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

12 (100.00 %)Linux
12 (100.00 %)UML
12 (100.00 %)XML
21 (50.00 %)XSLT
21 (50.00 %)UNIX
21 (50.00 %)C
21 (50.00 %)C#
21 (50.00 %)C++
21 (50.00 %)Java
21 (50.00 %)JavaScript
21 (50.00 %)SQL
21 (50.00 %).NET
21 (50.00 %)J2EE
21 (50.00 %)MySQL
21 (50.00 %)Oracle
21 (50.00 %)ASP
21 (50.00 %)EJB
21 (50.00 %)JSP
21 (50.00 %)Servlets
21 (50.00 %)WebServices
21 (50.00 %)OO
21 (50.00 %)JBoss
21 (50.00 %)Apache
21 (50.00 %)Tomcat
21 (50.00 %)Datawarehouse
21 (50.00 %)OOD
21 (50.00 %)LAN
21 (50.00 %)WAN
21 (50.00 %)Business Intelligence
21 (50.00 %)RDBMS

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
12 (100.00 %)XML
21 (50.00 %)XSLT
21 (50.00 %)JSF
21 (50.00 %)AJAX
21 (50.00 %)JBoss Seam
21 (50.00 %)EJB 3.0
21 (50.00 %).NET
21 (50.00 %)J2EE
21 (50.00 %)ASP
21 (50.00 %)EJB
21 (50.00 %)JSP
21 (50.00 %)Servlets
21 (50.00 %)WebServices
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (50.00 %)JBoss
11 (50.00 %)Apache
11 (50.00 %)Tomcat
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Communications & NetworkingCommunications & Networking
11 (50.00 %)LAN
11 (50.00 %)WAN
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (50.00 %)MySQL
11 (50.00 %)Datawarehouse
11 (50.00 %)RDBMS
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
11 (50.00 %)NUnit
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
11 (50.00 %)Finance
11 (50.00 %)Health
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
11 (50.00 %)Software Engineer
11 (50.00 %)Development Manager
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
12 (100.00 %)Linux
21 (50.00 %)UNIX
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (100.00 %)UML
21 (50.00 %)OO
21 (50.00 %)OOD
21 (50.00 %)Business Intelligence
21 (50.00 %)Project Management
21 (50.00 %)Process Management
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (50.00 %)C
11 (50.00 %)C#
11 (50.00 %)C++
11 (50.00 %)Java
11 (50.00 %)JavaScript
11 (50.00 %)SQL
11 (50.00 %)Shell Script
11 (50.00 %)AWK
Newcastle Upon Tyne IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
11 (50.00 %)Oracle