The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 24 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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 214 222 197
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -25
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 29 25 37
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 0.404% 0.352% 0.539%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.422% 0.367% 0.564%
Number of salaries quoted 17 9 37
Average salary £25,000 £32,500 £32,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-23.07% +1.56%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £22,300 £24,900
10% offered a salary of more than £31,600 £35,200 £32,900
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
All Job Titles
North West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
6864 6805 6559
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the North West 95.53% 95.87% 95.51%
Number of salaries quoted 5816 6001 5810
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £22,807 £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%
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North West Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

North West Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the North West region over the 3 months to 24 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
Cheshire +16 16 £22,500 -39.18%
Manchester -25 12 £25,000 +8.69%
Merseyside - 1 £25,500 -
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 19 (42.22%) ISEB
2 17 (37.78%) ISTQB
3 16 (35.56%) Selenium
4 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
4 14 (31.11%) Agile Software Development
5 13 (28.89%) Manual Testing
6 11 (24.44%) SQL
7 10 (22.22%) Software Testing
7 10 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (22.22%) JIRA
8 9 (20.00%) Degree
8 9 (20.00%) Test Scripting
8 9 (20.00%) Automated Testing
9 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
10 7 (15.56%) HP Quality Center
10 7 (15.56%) ETL
10 7 (15.56%) HTTP
10 7 (15.56%) .NET
10 7 (15.56%) HP
11 6 (13.33%) C#
11 6 (13.33%) SAS
12 5 (11.11%) Java
12 5 (11.11%) Multithreading
12 5 (11.11%) QA
12 5 (11.11%) Web Testing
13 4 (8.889%) System Testing
13 4 (8.889%) Automation Testing
13 4 (8.889%) Telecoms
14 3 (6.667%) BBC
14 3 (6.667%) Scrum

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North West region that cited Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (15.56%) .NET
2 1 (2.222%) Middleware
2 1 (2.222%) iOS SDK
Application Platforms
1 6 (13.33%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (4.444%) MS Office
2 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
2 1 (2.222%) Spreadsheet
Communications & Networking
1 7 (15.56%) HTTP
2 2 (4.444%) SIGTRAN
2 2 (4.444%) SS7
3 1 (2.222%) LAN
3 1 (2.222%) WAN
3 1 (2.222%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.222%) SQL Server
1 1 (2.222%) DB2
1 1 (2.222%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 16 (35.56%) Selenium
2 10 (22.22%) JIRA
3 3 (6.667%) NUnit
3 3 (6.667%) Visual Studio
3 3 (6.667%) Cucumber
4 2 (4.444%) WATIR
4 2 (4.444%) Capybara
5 1 (2.222%) Bugzilla
5 1 (2.222%) Xcode
5 1 (2.222%) TestPartner
5 1 (2.222%) Eclipse
5 1 (2.222%) WinRunner
5 1 (2.222%) QuickTest Pro
5 1 (2.222%) QARun
5 1 (2.222%) Hudson
5 1 (2.222%) Rational DOORS
General
1 4 (8.889%) Telecoms
2 2 (4.444%) Electronics
3 1 (2.222%) Finance
3 1 (2.222%) Advertising
3 1 (2.222%) Games
3 1 (2.222%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (17.78%) Computer Science
2 3 (6.667%) BBC
3 2 (4.444%) New Media
3 2 (4.444%) Interactive TV
4 1 (2.222%) Management Information System
4 1 (2.222%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.222%) SCADA
4 1 (2.222%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (6.667%) UNIX
1 3 (6.667%) Windows
2 1 (2.222%) Android
2 1 (2.222%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (31.11%) Test Automation
1 14 (31.11%) Agile Software Development
2 13 (28.89%) Manual Testing
3 10 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 10 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 9 (20.00%) Automated Testing
5 7 (15.56%) ETL
6 5 (11.11%) Multithreading
6 5 (11.11%) Web Testing
7 4 (8.889%) System Testing
7 4 (8.889%) Automation Testing
8 3 (6.667%) Scrum
8 3 (6.667%) TDD
8 3 (6.667%) E-Commerce
8 3 (6.667%) BDD
9 2 (4.444%) Kanban
9 2 (4.444%) Web Development
9 2 (4.444%) User Stories
9 2 (4.444%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 11 (24.44%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) C#
3 5 (11.11%) Java
4 3 (6.667%) Ruby
5 1 (2.222%) Objective-C
5 1 (2.222%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.222%) Perl
5 1 (2.222%) PHP
5 1 (2.222%) PL/SQL
5 1 (2.222%) Python
5 1 (2.222%) C++
Qualifications
1 19 (42.22%) ISEB
2 17 (37.78%) ISTQB
3 9 (20.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 2 (4.444%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (15.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (15.56%) HP
2 2 (4.444%) Microsoft
2 2 (4.444%) Oracle
2 2 (4.444%) VMware
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