The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the North Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the North Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 78 66 68
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +2
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 9 17 17
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 0.932% 2.086% 1.803%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.210% 2.881% 2.443%
Number of salaries quoted 9 17 16
Average salary £32,500 £32,500 £21,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +54.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £26,900 £16,666
10% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £37,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
North Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
744 590 696
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in North Yorkshire 77.02% 72.39% 73.81%
Number of salaries quoted 510 467 594
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £36,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,850 £24,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £67,250
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

North Yorkshire Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

North Yorkshire Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the North Yorkshire 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
York +2 5 £32,500 +18.18%
Harrogate - 3 £30,500 -
Knaresborough - 1 £30,000 -
Software Testing
Yorkshire

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 5 (41.67%) Waterfall
2 4 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (25.00%) ISEB
3 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
4 2 (16.67%) Embedded C
4 2 (16.67%) TDD
4 2 (16.67%) Subversion
4 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
4 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
4 2 (16.67%) Ajax
4 2 (16.67%) MVC
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (16.67%) Firmware
4 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 2 (16.67%) HTML
4 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 2 (16.67%) SQL
4 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (16.67%) .NET
4 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
4 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
4 2 (16.67%) CSS
4 2 (16.67%) XML
4 2 (16.67%) XSLT
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) OO

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the North Yorkshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (16.67%) Ajax
1 2 (16.67%) HTML
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
1 2 (16.67%) ASP.NET
1 2 (16.67%) CSS
1 2 (16.67%) XML
1 2 (16.67%) XSLT
1 2 (16.67%) LINQ
1 2 (16.67%) .NET Framework
1 2 (16.67%) JSON
1 2 (16.67%) jQuery
1 2 (16.67%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 2 (16.67%) CSS3
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Subversion
2 1 (8.333%) JIRA
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Coordinator
2 3 (25.00%) Tester
2 3 (25.00%) Test Coordinator
2 3 (25.00%) Software Tester
3 2 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Test Analyst
4 1 (8.333%) Web Developer
4 1 (8.333%) .NET Developer
4 1 (8.333%) C# Developer
4 1 (8.333%) ASP.NET Developer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Firmware
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) Waterfall
2 3 (25.00%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (16.67%) TDD
3 2 (16.67%) Automated Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
3 2 (16.67%) MVC
3 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (16.67%) Scrum
3 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
3 2 (16.67%) ITIL
3 2 (16.67%) OO
3 2 (16.67%) Problem Management
3 2 (16.67%) Web Development
3 2 (16.67%) Release Management
3 2 (16.67%) Fault Management
3 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Test Management
3 2 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 2 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 4 (33.33%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) Embedded C
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (16.67%) C
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) ISEB
1 3 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (16.67%) ITIL Certification
2 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft