The first table below looks at the demand for the Technical Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the North West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Technical Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the North West region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Tester
Rank 247 250 237
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -13
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Tester 1 1 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.014% 0.014% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.015% 0.015% 0.061%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 4
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +6.19%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £38,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-12.25% +19.23%
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6808 6765 6558
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.48% 95.94% 95.56%
Number of salaries quoted 5756 5975 5797
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Technical Tester
England

Technical Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Technical Tester across the North West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

North West Technical Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Trend

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

North West Technical Tester Salary Trend

Technical Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Tester within the North West region over the 3 months to 17 May 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
Manchester -19 1 £35,000 +16.66%
Technical Tester
England

Technical Tester
Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title.

1 3 (100.00%) .NET
1 3 (100.00%) C#
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) TDD
2 2 (66.67%) Kanban
2 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Java
3 1 (33.33%) J2EE
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro

Technical Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (100.00%) .NET
2 1 (33.33%) J2EE
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) WebDriver
2 2 (66.67%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) FitNesse
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
3 1 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) TDD
1 2 (66.67%) Kanban
1 2 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 1 (33.33%) Load Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) C#
2 1 (33.33%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA
Warrington, Liverpool, Manchester, North West
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Salary: £30k - 40k per year + Bens
Posted: 7 May 2013