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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 87 79 95
Rank change year-on-year
-8 +16
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 4 6 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 0.422% 0.578% 0.417%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.536% 0.779% 0.524%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 5
Average salary £28,000 £32,500 £20,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-13.84% +62.50%
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £36,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Nottingham
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
746 770 955
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Nottingham 78.78% 74.18% 79.58%
Number of salaries quoted 652 633 737
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Nottinghamshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Nottingham 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 Nottingham region.

Nottingham System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (33.33%) TestDirector
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) QA
2 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 2 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
2 2 (33.33%) Magento
2 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Zend
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
3 1 (16.67%) C#
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Nottingham 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 3 (50.00%) CSS
1 3 (50.00%) HTML
2 2 (33.33%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (16.67%) ASP.NET
3 1 (16.67%) .NET
3 1 (16.67%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (33.33%) Magento
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (33.33%) MySQL
2 1 (16.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) TestDirector
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (33.33%) Finance
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Developer
2 2 (33.33%) Web Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Developer
2 2 (33.33%) PHP Web Developer
3 1 (16.67%) QA Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Test Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Systems Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Team Leader
3 1 (16.67%) Programme Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Software Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (33.33%) MVC
2 2 (33.33%) Web Development
2 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Automation Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Manual Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Resource Management
3 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Test Management
3 1 (16.67%) Business Development
3 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (16.67%) PRINCE2
3 1 (16.67%) OO
3 1 (16.67%) Content Management
3 1 (16.67%) Project Management
3 1 (16.67%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 2 (33.33%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) C#
2 1 (16.67%) SQL
2 1 (16.67%) Java
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISEB
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Zend
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft