The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 21 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 39 30 56
Rank change year-on-year
-9 +26
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 18 25 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 4.569% 5.447% 1.279%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.980% 7.267% 1.840%
Number of salaries quoted 16 25 6
Average salary £32,500 £37,500 £28,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.33% +33.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £22,250
10% offered a salary of more than £34,500 £45,000 £40,006
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
301 344 326
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 76.40% 74.95% 69.51%
Number of salaries quoted 258 332 306
Average salary £38,500 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.66% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £54,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Northamptonshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Northampton region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Northampton Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Northampton Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 8 (34.78%) C#
2 7 (30.43%) Selenium
3 6 (26.09%) QA
3 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
3 6 (26.09%) Functional Testing
3 6 (26.09%) SQL
3 6 (26.09%) Project Management
3 6 (26.09%) Windows
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle Reports
4 5 (21.74%) Oracle
4 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
4 5 (21.74%) ISEB
4 5 (21.74%) Finance
4 5 (21.74%) CMS
4 5 (21.74%) FatWire
4 5 (21.74%) WebCenter
4 5 (21.74%) System Testing
4 5 (21.74%) HP Quality Center
4 5 (21.74%) Content Management
4 5 (21.74%) Software Testing
4 5 (21.74%) Wiki
4 5 (21.74%) Web Development
4 5 (21.74%) JIRA
5 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Automation Testing
6 3 (13.04%) WebDriver
6 3 (13.04%) SaaS
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Fault Management
6 3 (13.04%) CIPD

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (21.74%) WebCenter
2 2 (8.696%) .NET
3 1 (4.348%) .NET Framework
3 1 (4.348%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 5 (21.74%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (4.348%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle Reports
1 5 (21.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.348%) DTS
Development Applications
1 7 (30.43%) Selenium
2 5 (21.74%) JIRA
3 3 (13.04%) WebDriver
4 1 (4.348%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (4.348%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (21.74%) Finance
2 3 (13.04%) Retail
3 1 (4.348%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (52.17%) Analyst
2 10 (43.48%) Test Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Tester
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Analyst
3 5 (21.74%) Senior Test Analyst
4 3 (13.04%) Systems Manager
5 2 (8.696%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Test Specialist
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Systems Test Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Financial Business Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Financial Services Business Analyst
5 2 (8.696%) Test Automation Specialist
5 2 (8.696%) Automation Specialist
6 1 (4.348%) Software Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Software Test Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Service Analyst
6 1 (4.348%) Quality Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Software Engineer
6 1 (4.348%) Senior Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) Wiki
2 3 (13.04%) SaaS
2 3 (13.04%) Mainframe
3 2 (8.696%) Computer Science
3 2 (8.696%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 6 (26.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (26.09%) Agile Software Development
1 6 (26.09%) Functional Testing
1 6 (26.09%) Project Management
2 5 (21.74%) System Testing
2 5 (21.74%) Content Management
2 5 (21.74%) Software Testing
2 5 (21.74%) Web Development
3 4 (17.39%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (17.39%) Automation Testing
4 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
4 3 (13.04%) Fault Management
5 2 (8.696%) Workflow
5 2 (8.696%) Validation
5 2 (8.696%) Automated Testing
6 1 (4.348%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (4.348%) Unit Testing
6 1 (4.348%) Integration Testing
6 1 (4.348%) V-Model
Programming Languages
1 8 (34.78%) C#
2 6 (26.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (21.74%) ISEB
2 3 (13.04%) CIPD
3 2 (8.696%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (26.09%) QA
2 3 (13.04%) SLA
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (13.04%) Control-M
Vendors
1 5 (21.74%) Oracle
1 5 (21.74%) FatWire
2 3 (13.04%) Microsoft