North West Software Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the North West 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 Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Honiton Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Milton Keynes Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	188	163
Rank change on same period last year	-25
Matching permanent IT job ads	86	132
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.045 %	0.054 %
As % of the category below	0.771 %	1.034 %
Salaries quoted	79	108
Average minimum salary	£29,511	£24,977
Average salary	£31,433	£26,555
% change on same period last year	+18.37 %
Average maximum salary	£33,356	£28,132
UK excluding London average salary	£30,201	£29,444
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Job Titles North West
Matching permanent IT job ads	11148	12772
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	5.885 %	5.230 %
Salaries quoted	9407	10740
Average minimum salary	£32,555	£34,146
Average salary	£36,431	£37,829
% change on same period last year	-3.69 %
Average maximum salary	£40,307	£41,512
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Tester England

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Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the North West region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
Cheshire	+13	67	£32,938	+12.44 %
Manchester	-17	13	£26,708	+1.29 %
Merseyside	+1	7	£29,857	-6.45 %
Lancashire	-28	5	£24,200	+27.36 %

Software Tester England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 106 (55.79 %) Windows 2 91 (47.89 %) SQL 3 71 (37.37 %) Software Testing 4 66 (34.74 %) VB 5 65 (34.21 %) Citrix 6 54 (28.42 %) Automated Testing 7 50 (26.32 %) Perl 8 46 (24.21 %) Degree 9 43 (22.63 %) ISEB 10 39 (20.53 %) Terminal Server 10 39 (20.53 %) SQL Server 11 35 (18.42 %) QA 12 33 (17.37 %) Manual Testing 13 30 (15.79 %) Test Scripting 14 29 (15.26 %) VBScript

15 28 (14.74 %) C# 15 28 (14.74 %) Microsoft 16 24 (12.63 %) MS Excel 16 24 (12.63 %) .NET 17 19 (10.00 %) Pensions 18 17 (8.947 %) Health 19 14 (7.368 %) Regression Testing 19 14 (7.368 %) Windows NT 19 14 (7.368 %) WebServices 20 13 (6.842 %) HND 20 13 (6.842 %) HP 20 13 (6.842 %) LoadRunner 20 13 (6.842 %) Finance 20 13 (6.842 %) Performance Testing 21 12 (6.316 %) System Testing

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 24 (12.63 %) .NET 2 14 (7.368 %) WebServices 3 8 (4.211 %) ASP.NET 4 6 (3.158 %) J2EE 5 1 (0.526 %) HTML 5 1 (0.526 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 3 (1.579 %) IIS 2 1 (0.526 %) CMS
Applications 1 24 (12.63 %) MS Excel 2 7 (3.684 %) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 7 (3.684 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 39 (20.53 %) SQL Server 2 5 (2.632 %) Crystal Reports 3 2 (1.053 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.526 %) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (0.526 %) Oracle 9i 4 1 (0.526 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 13 (6.842 %) LoadRunner 2 6 (3.158 %) PVCS 2 6 (3.158 %) WinRunner 3 3 (1.579 %) QuickTest Pro 4 2 (1.053 %) QARun 4 2 (1.053 %) TestDirector 5 1 (0.526 %) VSS/SourceSafe 5 1 (0.526 %) Visual Studio Team System 5 1 (0.526 %) Visual Studio
General 1 19 (10.00 %) Pensions 2 17 (8.947 %) Health 3 13 (6.842 %) Finance 4 11 (5.789 %) Insurance 5 5 (2.632 %) Legal 6 4 (2.105 %) Law 7 3 (1.579 %) Automotive 7 3 (1.579 %) Retail 7 3 (1.579 %) Marketing 8 2 (1.053 %) Electronics 8 2 (1.053 %) Education 9 1 (0.526 %) Games 9 1 (0.526 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.158 %) Client/Server 2 5 (2.632 %) Mainframe 3 1 (0.526 %) AS400 3 1 (0.526 %) Computer Science 3 1 (0.526 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 106 (55.79 %) Windows 2 14 (7.368 %) Windows NT 3 5 (2.632 %) Windows XP 4 3 (1.579 %) Linux 5 2 (1.053 %) UNIX 6 1 (0.526 %) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.526 %) Windows Server 2003	Processes & Methodologies 1 71 (37.37 %) Software Testing 2 54 (28.42 %) Automated Testing 3 33 (17.37 %) Manual Testing 4 30 (15.79 %) Test Scripting 5 14 (7.368 %) Regression Testing 6 13 (6.842 %) Performance Testing 7 12 (6.316 %) System Testing 8 7 (3.684 %) Scalability Testing 9 6 (3.158 %) Project Management 10 5 (2.632 %) User Acceptance Testing 11 4 (2.105 %) ERP 11 4 (2.105 %) Agile Software Development 12 3 (1.579 %) Business Analysis 13 2 (1.053 %) E-Commerce 13 2 (1.053 %) Validation 13 2 (1.053 %) Resource Management 13 2 (1.053 %) Problem Management 13 2 (1.053 %) Test Management 14 1 (0.526 %) Time Management 14 1 (0.526 %) Web Development
Programming Languages 1 91 (47.89 %) SQL 2 66 (34.74 %) VB 3 50 (26.32 %) Perl 4 29 (15.26 %) VBScript 5 28 (14.74 %) C# 6 12 (6.316 %) C 7 8 (4.211 %) C++ 7 8 (4.211 %) VB6 8 6 (3.158 %) VB.NET 8 6 (3.158 %) PL/SQL 9 4 (2.105 %) Java 10 3 (1.579 %) COBOL	Qualifications 1 46 (24.21 %) Degree 2 43 (22.63 %) ISEB 3 13 (6.842 %) HND 4 10 (5.263 %) ISTQB 5 1 (0.526 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 35 (18.42 %) QA 2 4 (2.105 %) ISO9001 3 1 (0.526 %) ISO9002	System Software 1 39 (20.53 %) Terminal Server 2 9 (4.737 %) MetaFrame 3 3 (1.579 %) VMware Infrastructure 4 2 (1.053 %) Active Directory 5 1 (0.526 %) Terminal Services
Vendors 1 65 (34.21 %) Citrix 2 28 (14.74 %) Microsoft 3 13 (6.842 %) HP 4 8 (4.211 %) BT 5 7 (3.684 %) Oracle 6 5 (2.632 %) Compuware 7 3 (1.579 %) VMware 8 1 (0.526 %) IBM