North Yorkshire Software Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the North Yorkshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	95	106
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	16	10
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.497 %	0.982 %
Salaries quoted	16	9
Average minimum salary	£25,384	£24,667
Average salary	£28,103	£28,056
% change on same period last year	+0.16 %
Average maximum salary	£30,822	£31,444
UK excluding London average salary	£34,409	£33,204
% change on same period last year	+3.63 %
Processes & Methodologies North Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1069	1018
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.564 %	0.417 %
Salaries quoted	841	821
Average minimum salary	£36,281	£34,573
Average salary	£38,927	£36,916
% change on same period last year	+5.44 %
Average maximum salary	£41,573	£39,258
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Software Testing Yorkshire

Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the North Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the North Yorkshire 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 Testing within the North Yorkshire 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
York	0	15	£28,343	+6.95 %
Skipton	-	1	£24,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 29 (61.70 %) ISEB 2 19 (40.43 %) SQL 2 19 (40.43 %) Oracle 3 16 (34.04 %) Degree 4 15 (31.91 %) Finance 5 14 (29.79 %) QA 6 12 (25.53 %) MS Excel 7 11 (23.40 %) CSS 7 11 (23.40 %) JavaScript 7 11 (23.40 %) Microsoft 8 9 (19.15 %) HTML 8 9 (19.15 %) XML 8 9 (19.15 %) Unit Testing 9 8 (17.02 %) Automated Testing 9 8 (17.02 %) ASP

9 8 (17.02 %) SQL Server 9 8 (17.02 %) UNIX 9 8 (17.02 %) TOAD 10 7 (14.89 %) Regression Testing 10 7 (14.89 %) Project Management 10 7 (14.89 %) IIS 11 6 (12.77 %) .NET 11 6 (12.77 %) MCSE 11 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft Certification 11 6 (12.77 %) MS PowerPoint 12 5 (10.64 %) Windows 13 4 (8.511 %) PRINCE2 13 4 (8.511 %) Crystal Reports 13 4 (8.511 %) VBScript 13 4 (8.511 %) VB

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, 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 11 (23.40 %) CSS 2 9 (19.15 %) XML 2 9 (19.15 %) HTML 3 8 (17.02 %) ASP 4 6 (12.77 %) .NET 5 1 (2.128 %) AJAX	Application Platforms 1 7 (14.89 %) IIS 2 1 (2.128 %) MS Exchange 2 1 (2.128 %) Exchange Server 2000 2 1 (2.128 %) Exchange Server 2003
Applications 1 12 (25.53 %) MS Excel 2 6 (12.77 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (2.128 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (6.383 %) Oracle Financials 1 3 (6.383 %) Great Plains 1 3 (6.383 %) Axapta 1 3 (6.383 %) Navision 1 3 (6.383 %) Dynamics NAV 2 1 (2.128 %) Dynamics AX 2 1 (2.128 %) Dynamics GP
Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.128 %) GPRS 1 1 (2.128 %) LAN 1 1 (2.128 %) WAN	Database & Business Intelligence 1 8 (17.02 %) SQL Server 1 8 (17.02 %) TOAD 2 4 (8.511 %) Crystal Reports
Development Applications 1 4 (8.511 %) Rational Robot 2 1 (2.128 %) WATIR 2 1 (2.128 %) FitNesse 2 1 (2.128 %) LoadRunner	General 1 15 (31.91 %) Finance 2 3 (6.383 %) Pensions 3 1 (2.128 %) Construction 3 1 (2.128 %) Education 3 1 (2.128 %) Games
Job Titles 1 32 (68.09 %) Analyst 2 20 (42.55 %) Test Analyst 3 15 (31.91 %) Tester 4 14 (29.79 %) QA Analyst 5 8 (17.02 %) Software Tester 6 6 (12.77 %) Support Analyst 7 4 (8.511 %) Quality Analyst 8 3 (6.383 %) Software Consultant 8 3 (6.383 %) ERP Consultant 8 3 (6.383 %) Consultant 8 3 (6.383 %) Support Consultant 8 3 (6.383 %) Analyst Developer 8 3 (6.383 %) Developer 8 3 (6.383 %) Graduate 8 3 (6.383 %) Software Developer 8 3 (6.383 %) Test Manager 9 2 (4.255 %) QA Test Analyst 10 1 (2.128 %) Systems Test Analyst 10 1 (2.128 %) Software Test Analyst 10 1 (2.128 %) Systems Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 2 (4.255 %) Computer Science 2 1 (2.128 %) Management Information System 2 1 (2.128 %) Tandem 2 1 (2.128 %) PDA
Operating Systems 1 8 (17.02 %) UNIX 2 5 (10.64 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 9 (19.15 %) Unit Testing 2 8 (17.02 %) Automated Testing 3 7 (14.89 %) Project Management 3 7 (14.89 %) Regression Testing 4 4 (8.511 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (8.511 %) PRINCE 4 4 (8.511 %) Agile Software Development 5 3 (6.383 %) System Testing 5 3 (6.383 %) ERP 5 3 (6.383 %) Test Management 5 3 (6.383 %) Test Scripting 6 2 (4.255 %) Integration Testing 6 2 (4.255 %) Requirements Analysis 6 2 (4.255 %) Quality Management 6 2 (4.255 %) QMS 7 1 (2.128 %) Data Mapping 7 1 (2.128 %) Scrum 7 1 (2.128 %) ITIL 7 1 (2.128 %) Web Development 7 1 (2.128 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 19 (40.43 %) SQL 2 11 (23.40 %) JavaScript 3 4 (8.511 %) VBScript 3 4 (8.511 %) VB 3 4 (8.511 %) VB6 3 4 (8.511 %) Ruby 4 3 (6.383 %) C# 4 3 (6.383 %) VB.NET 5 1 (2.128 %) Java	Qualifications 1 29 (61.70 %) ISEB 2 16 (34.04 %) Degree 3 6 (12.77 %) Microsoft Certification 3 6 (12.77 %) MCSE 4 3 (6.383 %) MCP 4 3 (6.383 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 14 (29.79 %) QA	Vendors 1 19 (40.43 %) Oracle 2 11 (23.40 %) Microsoft 3 3 (6.383 %) Exchequer 3 3 (6.383 %) Pegasus 3 3 (6.383 %) Sage 3 3 (6.383 %) Infor