The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Test Engineer in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Oxford region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Test Engineer
Rank 81 65 -
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 5 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.499% 0.296% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.521% 0.306% -
Number of salaries quoted 5 1 0
Average salary £30,000 £24,500 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+22.44% -
UK excluding London average salary £33,500 £32,500 £35,000
% change year-on-year
+3.07% -7.14%
All Job Titles
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
960 653 840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 95.71% 96.60% 96.89%
Number of salaries quoted 836 597 743
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £25,000 £24,400
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Software Test Engineer
Oxfordshire

Software Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Test Engineer across the Oxford region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Oxford Software Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Oxford Software Test Engineer Salary Trend

Software Test Engineer
Top 18 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Software Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Software Test Engineer in their job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 7 (100.00%) QA
2 6 (85.71%) .NET
2 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
2 6 (85.71%) ISEB
3 1 (14.29%) C#
3 1 (14.29%) Java
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
3 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
3 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
3 1 (14.29%) Concordion
3 1 (14.29%) FitNesse
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting

Software Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region that cited Software Test Engineer in their job title 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 with Software Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 6 (85.71%) .NET
1 6 (85.71%) ASP.NET
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (85.71%) SQL Server
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Cucumber
1 1 (14.29%) Concordion
1 1 (14.29%) FitNesse
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
2 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C#
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (85.71%) ISEB
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA