The first table below looks at the demand for Agile Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Agile Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 North West region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Agile Testing
Rank 242 244 222
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -22
Permanent jobs citing Agile Testing 4 7 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.055% 0.096% 0.114%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.128% 0.165%
Number of salaries quoted 4 4 7
Average salary £35,000 £26,250 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+33.33% +5.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £30,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+16.66% -10.44%
All Processes & Methodologies
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
5619 5451 4846
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 76.83% 74.47% 69.08%
Number of salaries quoted 4761 4795 4266
Average salary £37,500 £36,000 £39,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.16% -7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £57,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Agile Testing
England

Agile Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Agile Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Agile Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Agile Testing across the North West region.

North West Agile Testing Salary Trend

Agile Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Testing within the North West region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Manchester -14 3 £35,000 +55.55%
Cheshire +14 1 £35,000 -31.37%
Agile Testing
England

Agile Testing
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Agile 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 Agile Testing.

1 4 (100.00%) SQL
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) C#
2 3 (75.00%) .NET
2 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Gherkin

Agile Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the North West region citing Agile 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 Agile Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (75.00%) .NET Framework
1 3 (75.00%) .NET
1 3 (75.00%) ASP.NET
1 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) QA Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Agile Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile Software Development
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) SQL
2 3 (75.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
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