The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance 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 Northampton region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 48 49 53
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 6 7 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 1.523% 1.528% 2.110%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.048% 2.006% 3.040%
Number of salaries quoted 4 7 10
Average salary £40,500 £38,000 £36,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.57% +4.82%
90% offered a salary of more than £33,250 £28,500 £25,850
10% offered a salary of more than £64,550 £42,000 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
293 349 329
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northampton 74.37% 76.20% 69.41%
Number of salaries quoted 252 338 309
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 £48,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Acceptance Testing
Northamptonshire

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northampton User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Northampton User Acceptance Testing Salary Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Northampton region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Northampton User Acceptance Testing Salary Histogram

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
1 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 3 (27.27%) CIPD
2 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Windows
3 2 (18.18%) AIX
3 2 (18.18%) HPUX
3 2 (18.18%) Solaris
3 2 (18.18%) Oracle
3 2 (18.18%) DB2
3 2 (18.18%) CICS
3 2 (18.18%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
3 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Monitoring
3 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
3 2 (18.18%) Middleware
3 2 (18.18%) IBM
3 2 (18.18%) UNIX
3 2 (18.18%) SSL
3 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
3 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
3 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
3 2 (18.18%) Tandem
3 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
3 2 (18.18%) System Testing
3 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
3 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Message Broker

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Northampton region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) Middleware
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) CICS
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere MQ
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Transformation Extender
1 2 (18.18%) WebSphere Message Broker
Communications & Networking
1 2 (18.18%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) DB2
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 1 (9.091%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Systems Manager
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Programme Test Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Middleware Architect
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) WebSphere Specialist
3 1 (9.091%) Programme Manager
3 1 (9.091%) Architect
3 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) SaaS
2 2 (18.18%) Mainframe
2 2 (18.18%) Tandem
3 1 (9.091%) Statistics
3 1 (9.091%) RIA
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Windows
2 2 (18.18%) AIX
2 2 (18.18%) HPUX
2 2 (18.18%) Solaris
2 2 (18.18%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (36.36%) Project Management
1 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 2 (18.18%) Programme Management
2 2 (18.18%) Test Strategy
2 2 (18.18%) System Testing
2 2 (18.18%) Business Continuity
3 1 (9.091%) Test Management
3 1 (9.091%) Analytics
3 1 (9.091%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (9.091%) Data Management
3 1 (9.091%) Information Management
3 1 (9.091%) Data Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Logistics
3 1 (9.091%) Resource Management
3 1 (9.091%) Service Management
3 1 (9.091%) Change Management
3 1 (9.091%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (9.091%) Validation
3 1 (9.091%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (9.091%) Mobile Commerce
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) CIPD
2 1 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) SLA
2 1 (9.091%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli
1 2 (18.18%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Oracle
1 2 (18.18%) IBM