The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Oxford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting over the 3 months to 22 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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 77 55 69
Rank change year-on-year
-22 +14
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 6 10 6
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 0.587% 1.541% 0.762%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.810% 2.262% 1.105%
Number of salaries quoted 6 10 6
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +46.15%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
Oxford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
741 442 543
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Oxford 72.43% 68.10% 69.00%
Number of salaries quoted 626 392 491
Average salary £45,000 £40,000 £44,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+12.50% -9.09%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,000 £30,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Oxfordshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Oxford Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Oxford Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 7 (63.64%) HP Quality Center
1 7 (63.64%) Manual Testing
2 6 (54.55%) ISEB
3 5 (45.45%) HP
3 5 (45.45%) Automated Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Java
4 3 (27.27%) QA
5 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
5 2 (18.18%) FitNesse
5 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (18.18%) Degree
5 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
5 2 (18.18%) Concordion
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) SQL
5 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
6 1 (9.091%) Bugzilla
6 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
6 1 (9.091%) Music
6 1 (9.091%) Regression Testing
6 1 (9.091%) TestDirector
6 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
6 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
6 1 (9.091%) Oracle
6 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
6 1 (9.091%) CSS

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Oxford region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (9.091%) CSS
1 1 (9.091%) HTML
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 8/8i
2 1 (9.091%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) FitNesse
1 2 (18.18%) Cucumber
1 2 (18.18%) Concordion
2 1 (9.091%) Bugzilla
2 1 (9.091%) TestDirector
2 1 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
2 1 (9.091%) WebDriver
2 1 (9.091%) JIRA
2 1 (9.091%) Selenium
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 1 (9.091%) Music
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Test Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Team Leader
2 2 (18.18%) Team Leader
3 1 (9.091%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Test Analyst
3 1 (9.091%) Tester
3 1 (9.091%) Software Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Senior Software Test Engineer
3 1 (9.091%) Test Leader
3 1 (9.091%) QA Leader
3 1 (9.091%) Technical Business Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Mathematics
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Manual Testing
2 5 (45.45%) Automated Testing
3 2 (18.18%) Agile Software Development
3 2 (18.18%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (18.18%) Business Analysis
4 1 (9.091%) Regression Testing
4 1 (9.091%) E-Commerce
4 1 (9.091%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
3 1 (9.091%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (54.55%) ISEB
2 2 (18.18%) Degree
3 1 (9.091%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (27.27%) QA
Systems Management
1 7 (63.64%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) HP
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle