The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 17 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 Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank - - -
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 0 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford - - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - - -
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 0
Average salary - - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% -
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
735 444 554
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 72.49% 69.16% 69.34%
Number of salaries quoted 620 394 502
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,750 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Testing
Oxfordshire

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Load Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Load Testing
Salary Trend

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

Oxford Load Testing Salary Trend

Load Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing Load 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 Load Testing.

1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
2 1 (50.00%) Android
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) RESTful
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (50.00%) REST
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
2 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
2 1 (50.00%) Web Services
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) HTTP
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing Load 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 Load Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET
1 1 (50.00%) Web Services
1 1 (50.00%) RESTful
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) ASP.NET MVC 3
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server 2012
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (50.00%) JUnit
2 1 (50.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Music
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Software Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
1 1 (50.00%) QA Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Handset
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) OOP
1 1 (50.00%) OO
1 1 (50.00%) Code Coverage
1 1 (50.00%) MVC
1 1 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft