Norfolk Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Norfolk 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 7 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Coalville Colchester Congleton Cornwall County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dudley East Anglia East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland England Epsom Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Folkestone Glasgow Glastonbury Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Greenock Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Huntingdon Ilford Inverclyde Ipswich Kenilworth Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Reigate Rickmansworth Rochester Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southwark St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Telford Tewkesbury Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 7 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	49	79
Rank change on same period last year	+30
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	2.041 %	0.396 %
Salaries quoted	7	3
Average minimum salary	£25,271	£27,333
Average salary	£29,107	£29,667
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Average maximum salary	£32,943	£32,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,035	£31,660
% change on same period last year	+1.18 %
Job Titles Norfolk
Matching permanent IT job ads	490	758
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.286 %	0.325 %
Salaries quoted	423	664
Average minimum salary	£33,357	£35,018
Average salary	£35,652	£38,350
% change on same period last year	-7.03 %
Average maximum salary	£37,947	£41,683
UK excluding London average salary	£38,201	£39,267
% change on same period last year	-2.71 %
Tester East of England

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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 Norfolk region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Tester
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Norfolk region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Norfolk region over the 3 months to 7 October 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Norwich	+20	7	£29,107	-1.88 %

Tester East of England

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 9 (42.86 %) ISEB 2 5 (23.81 %) Finance 2 5 (23.81 %) E-Commerce 3 4 (19.05 %) TestDirector 3 4 (19.05 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 4 (19.05 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (19.05 %) Security Cleared 4 3 (14.29 %) Test Management 4 3 (14.29 %) Manual Testing 4 3 (14.29 %) QA 4 3 (14.29 %) Project Planning 4 3 (14.29 %) Electronics 4 3 (14.29 %) W3C 4 3 (14.29 %) Firmware 4 3 (14.29 %) Project Management

4 3 (14.29 %) Flash 4 3 (14.29 %) HTML 5 2 (9.524 %) VB 5 2 (9.524 %) LoadRunner 5 2 (9.524 %) HP 5 2 (9.524 %) Service Management 5 2 (9.524 %) Government 5 2 (9.524 %) Insurance 5 2 (9.524 %) Software Testing 5 2 (9.524 %) Pensions 5 2 (9.524 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (9.524 %) Integration Testing 5 2 (9.524 %) System Testing 5 2 (9.524 %) Time Management 6 1 (4.762 %) Data Mapping

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 7 October 2008, IT jobs across the Norfolk 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 3 (14.29 %) HTML 2 1 (4.762 %) .NET 2 1 (4.762 %) WebSphere	Application Platforms 1 1 (4.762 %) IIS
Development Applications 1 4 (19.05 %) TestDirector 2 3 (14.29 %) Flash 3 2 (9.524 %) LoadRunner 4 1 (4.762 %) WinRunner 4 1 (4.762 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 5 (23.81 %) Finance 2 3 (14.29 %) Electronics 3 2 (9.524 %) Government 3 2 (9.524 %) Insurance 3 2 (9.524 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) W3C 1 3 (14.29 %) Firmware 2 1 (4.762 %) Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows 1 1 (4.762 %) AIX 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies 1 5 (23.81 %) E-Commerce 2 4 (19.05 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 4 (19.05 %) Test Scripting 2 4 (19.05 %) Security Cleared 3 3 (14.29 %) Test Management 3 3 (14.29 %) Manual Testing 3 3 (14.29 %) Project Planning 3 3 (14.29 %) Project Management 4 2 (9.524 %) Service Management 4 2 (9.524 %) Performance Testing 4 2 (9.524 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (9.524 %) System Testing 4 2 (9.524 %) Time Management 4 2 (9.524 %) Software Testing 5 1 (4.762 %) Data Mapping 5 1 (4.762 %) Web Development 5 1 (4.762 %) Business Analysis	Programming Languages 1 2 (9.524 %) VB 2 1 (4.762 %) VB.NET 2 1 (4.762 %) C 2 1 (4.762 %) C++ 2 1 (4.762 %) Java
Qualifications 1 9 (42.86 %) ISEB 2 1 (4.762 %) Microsoft Certification 2 1 (4.762 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (4.762 %) MCSE	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (14.29 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (9.524 %) HP