Oxfordshire Software Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Oxfordshire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	93	100
Rank change on same period last year	+7
Matching permanent IT job ads	52	45
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.027 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	3.511 %	3.061 %
Salaries quoted	47	39
Average minimum salary	£27,021	£29,857
Average salary	£29,660	£31,714
% change on same period last year	-6.47 %
Average maximum salary	£32,298	£33,571
UK excluding London average salary	£34,409	£33,204
% change on same period last year	+3.63 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1481	1470
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.782 %	0.602 %
Salaries quoted	1339	1220
Average minimum salary	£36,762	£36,052
Average salary	£40,599	£39,244
% change on same period last year	+3.45 %
Average maximum salary	£44,436	£42,436
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Oxfordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Oxford	0	19	£32,694	-1.78 %
Abingdon	-19	3	£29,000	-5.00 %
Wallingford	-	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 40 (54.05 %) UNIX 2 34 (45.95 %) Java 3 28 (37.84 %) QA 4 26 (35.14 %) Oracle 5 25 (33.78 %) SQL 6 21 (28.38 %) Perl 7 18 (24.32 %) Test Scripting 8 17 (22.97 %) C 8 17 (22.97 %) C++ 8 17 (22.97 %) UML 8 17 (22.97 %) J2EE 9 14 (18.92 %) Shell Script 10 13 (17.57 %) Manual Testing 10 13 (17.57 %) Degree 11 12 (16.22 %) Marketing

11 12 (16.22 %) Project Management 12 10 (13.51 %) SQL Server 12 10 (13.51 %) Internet Marketing 13 9 (12.16 %) Automated Testing 13 9 (12.16 %) Delphi 13 9 (12.16 %) ISEB 14 8 (10.81 %) Time Management 15 7 (9.459 %) LoadRunner 15 7 (9.459 %) Windows 16 6 (8.108 %) VBScript 16 6 (8.108 %) Python 16 6 (8.108 %) System Testing 16 6 (8.108 %) Computer Science 17 5 (6.757 %) Lua 17 5 (6.757 %) Client/Server

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (22.97 %) J2EE 2 5 (6.757 %) XML 3 4 (5.405 %) HTML 4 3 (4.054 %) .NET 4 3 (4.054 %) ASP.NET 4 3 (4.054 %) .NET Framework 5 2 (2.703 %) XSL 5 2 (2.703 %) JSP 5 2 (2.703 %) Servlets 5 2 (2.703 %) WebServices 6 1 (1.351 %) XHTML 6 1 (1.351 %) CSS	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.703 %) IIS 1 2 (2.703 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 2 (2.703 %) MS Excel 2 1 (1.351 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 10 (13.51 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.703 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 7 (9.459 %) LoadRunner 2 3 (4.054 %) QuickTest Pro 3 2 (2.703 %) TestDirector 3 2 (2.703 %) Visual Studio 4 1 (1.351 %) Eclipse 4 1 (1.351 %) WinRunner	General 1 12 (16.22 %) Marketing 2 4 (5.405 %) Retail 3 3 (4.054 %) Music 3 3 (4.054 %) Music Industry 4 2 (2.703 %) Pensions 4 2 (2.703 %) Education 5 1 (1.351 %) Publishing
Job Titles 1 27 (36.49 %) Developer 2 25 (33.78 %) Software Developer 3 24 (32.43 %) Analyst 4 21 (28.38 %) Test Analyst 5 11 (14.86 %) Tester 6 10 (13.51 %) Test Engineer 7 8 (10.81 %) Delphi Developer 8 6 (8.108 %) QA Engineer 9 4 (5.405 %) Implementation Manager 9 4 (5.405 %) Support Manager 9 4 (5.405 %) Graduate 10 3 (4.054 %) Software Engineer 10 3 (4.054 %) Consultant 10 3 (4.054 %) Test Consultant 10 3 (4.054 %) Senior Test Engineer 10 3 (4.054 %) Senior Tester 10 3 (4.054 %) Software Test Engineer 10 3 (4.054 %) Team Leader 10 3 (4.054 %) Test Team Leader 10 3 (4.054 %) Software Tester	Miscellaneous 1 6 (8.108 %) Computer Science 2 5 (6.757 %) Client/Server 3 3 (4.054 %) EPoS 4 2 (2.703 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 40 (54.05 %) UNIX 2 7 (9.459 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (24.32 %) Test Scripting 2 17 (22.97 %) UML 3 13 (17.57 %) Manual Testing 4 12 (16.22 %) Project Management 5 10 (13.51 %) Internet Marketing 6 9 (12.16 %) Automated Testing 7 8 (10.81 %) Time Management 8 6 (8.108 %) System Testing 9 5 (6.757 %) PRINCE2 10 4 (5.405 %) ITIL 10 4 (5.405 %) Marketing Intelligence 10 4 (5.405 %) Business Analysis 11 3 (4.054 %) Software Engineering 11 3 (4.054 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 2 (2.703 %) Agile Software Development 12 2 (2.703 %) OO 13 1 (1.351 %) PRINCE 13 1 (1.351 %) Quality Management 13 1 (1.351 %) QMS
Programming Languages 1 34 (45.95 %) Java 2 25 (33.78 %) SQL 3 21 (28.38 %) Perl 4 17 (22.97 %) C 4 17 (22.97 %) C++ 5 14 (18.92 %) Shell Script 6 9 (12.16 %) Delphi 7 6 (8.108 %) VBScript 7 6 (8.108 %) Python 8 5 (6.757 %) Lua 9 3 (4.054 %) JavaScript 10 2 (2.703 %) C# 11 1 (1.351 %) VB 11 1 (1.351 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 13 (17.57 %) Degree 2 9 (12.16 %) ISEB 3 1 (1.351 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 28 (37.84 %) QA 2 1 (1.351 %) TickIT	Vendors 1 26 (35.14 %) Oracle 2 3 (4.054 %) Microsoft 3 2 (2.703 %) HP 4 1 (1.351 %) Compuware