The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Northamptonshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 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 Northamptonshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 64 37 74
Rank change year-on-year
-27 +37
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 4 26 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 0.573% 3.922% 0.856%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.783% 5.068% 1.213%
Number of salaries quoted 2 26 7
Average salary £26,000 £37,500 £33,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-30.66% +13.63%
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £36,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-6.84% +4.28%
All Processes & Methodologies
Northamptonshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
511 513 577
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Northamptonshire 73.21% 77.38% 70.54%
Number of salaries quoted 448 477 535
Average salary £39,000 £37,500 £35,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.00% +5.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,500 £23,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
East Midlands

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Northamptonshire System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Northamptonshire System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Northampton -14 4 £26,000 -30.66%
System Testing
East Midlands

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 7 (77.78%) SQL
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle
2 5 (55.56%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (55.56%) CMS
2 5 (55.56%) FatWire
2 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
2 5 (55.56%) Content Management
2 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Web Development
2 5 (55.56%) JIRA
2 5 (55.56%) QA
2 5 (55.56%) Wiki
2 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
2 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (55.56%) WebCenter
2 5 (55.56%) Functional Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Finance
4 2 (22.22%) Dynamics NAV
4 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) MFGPRO
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) BPCS
4 2 (22.22%) ERP
4 2 (22.22%) JD Edwards
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Northamptonshire region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) WebCenter
Application Platforms
1 5 (55.56%) CMS
Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics NAV
1 2 (22.22%) MFGPRO
1 2 (22.22%) BPCS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Tester
2 2 (22.22%) IT Business Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Programme Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Wiki
2 1 (11.11%) Statistics
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile Software Development
1 5 (55.56%) Content Management
1 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
1 5 (55.56%) Web Development
1 5 (55.56%) Test Scripting
1 5 (55.56%) Functional Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Business Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
2 2 (22.22%) GAP Analysis
2 2 (22.22%) ERP
2 2 (22.22%) Project Management
2 2 (22.22%) ITIL
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
2 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Test Management
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (77.78%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) Oracle
1 5 (55.56%) FatWire
2 2 (22.22%) JD Edwards