Oxfordshire Test Engineer Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT jobs within the Oxfordshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Aylesbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bordon Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorchester Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Ely England Essex Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hastings Havant Haywards Heath Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lingfield London Maidenhead Manchester March Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Osterley Oxford Oxfordshire Paisley Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Reading Redhill Renfrewshire Royston Rugby Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staines Stevenage Stockport Stroud Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Towcester Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcestershire Yeovil Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	105	96
Rank change on same period last year	-9
Matching permanent IT job ads	39	49
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.020 %
As % of the category below	1.399 %	1.610 %
Salaries quoted	38	40
Average minimum salary	£31,590	£29,500
Average salary	£34,423	£32,300
% change on same period last year	+6.57 %
Average maximum salary	£37,256	£35,100
UK excluding London average salary	£31,636	£32,455
% change on same period last year	-2.52 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2788	3044
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.472 %	1.246 %
Salaries quoted	2537	2597
Average minimum salary	£32,624	£32,596
Average salary	£36,083	£35,741
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Average maximum salary	£39,542	£38,885
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the Oxfordshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Engineer 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 Test Engineer 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	+4	29	£34,862	+5.57 %
Abingdon	-1	6	£34,250	+42.70 %
Wallingford	-1	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 38 (45.78 %) Test Scripting 2 26 (31.33 %) QA 3 23 (27.71 %) Perl 4 22 (26.51 %) Python 4 22 (26.51 %) Integration Testing 5 18 (21.69 %) SQL 6 17 (20.48 %) .NET 7 15 (18.07 %) VB.NET 7 15 (18.07 %) C# 8 14 (16.87 %) QuickTest Pro 8 14 (16.87 %) Tcl 8 14 (16.87 %) Use Case 9 13 (15.66 %) Manual Testing 9 13 (15.66 %) VB 10 12 (14.46 %) Automated Testing

11 10 (12.05 %) TestDirector 11 10 (12.05 %) Linux 11 10 (12.05 %) Software Testing 12 9 (10.84 %) System Testing 13 8 (9.639 %) UNIX 13 8 (9.639 %) Oracle 13 8 (9.639 %) WinRunner 14 7 (8.434 %) ISEB 14 7 (8.434 %) Finance 14 7 (8.434 %) VBScript 14 7 (8.434 %) Degree 14 7 (8.434 %) TeamTrack 15 6 (7.229 %) Lua 15 6 (7.229 %) VBA 15 6 (7.229 %) Sybase

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 17 (20.48 %) .NET 2 2 (2.410 %) ASP 2 2 (2.410 %) JSP 2 2 (2.410 %) Servlets 3 1 (1.205 %) XML 3 1 (1.205 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.205 %) ASP.NET 3 1 (1.205 %) HTML	Application Platforms 1 2 (2.410 %) Tomcat
Applications 1 3 (3.614 %) MS Office 1 3 (3.614 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.410 %) MS Project	Communications & Networking 1 2 (2.410 %) TCP/IP 2 1 (1.205 %) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.614 %) RDBMS 2 2 (2.410 %) MySQL 2 2 (2.410 %) SQL Server 2 2 (2.410 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 14 (16.87 %) QuickTest Pro 2 10 (12.05 %) TestDirector 3 8 (9.639 %) WinRunner 4 7 (8.434 %) TeamTrack 5 5 (6.024 %) Rational Robot 6 4 (4.819 %) LoadRunner 7 3 (3.614 %) SilkPerformer 8 1 (1.205 %) LabVIEW 8 1 (1.205 %) TestPartner
General 1 7 (8.434 %) Finance 2 5 (6.024 %) Education 2 5 (6.024 %) Government 3 4 (4.819 %) Music 3 4 (4.819 %) Music Industry 4 3 (3.614 %) Insurance 4 3 (3.614 %) Manufacturing 4 3 (3.614 %) Electronics 5 2 (2.410 %) Health 6 1 (1.205 %) Publishing 6 1 (1.205 %) Telecoms 6 1 (1.205 %) Electric 6 1 (1.205 %) Pharmaceutical	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.819 %) Client/Server 1 4 (4.819 %) Credit Risk 2 1 (1.205 %) Management Information System 2 1 (1.205 %) Physics
Operating Systems 1 10 (12.05 %) Linux 2 8 (9.639 %) UNIX 3 5 (6.024 %) Windows 4 4 (4.819 %) Solaris 4 4 (4.819 %) FreeBSD	Processes & Methodologies 1 38 (45.78 %) Test Scripting 2 22 (26.51 %) Integration Testing 3 14 (16.87 %) Use Case 4 13 (15.66 %) Manual Testing 5 12 (14.46 %) Automated Testing 6 10 (12.05 %) Software Testing 7 9 (10.84 %) System Testing 8 4 (4.819 %) Business Analysis 8 4 (4.819 %) UML 8 4 (4.819 %) OO 8 4 (4.819 %) Risk Management 9 3 (3.614 %) Project Management 9 3 (3.614 %) Resource Management 9 3 (3.614 %) User Acceptance Testing 9 3 (3.614 %) Performance Testing 10 2 (2.410 %) Workflow 10 2 (2.410 %) Disaster Recovery 10 2 (2.410 %) Penetration Testing 10 2 (2.410 %) Security Cleared 11 1 (1.205 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 23 (27.71 %) Perl 2 22 (26.51 %) Python 3 18 (21.69 %) SQL 4 15 (18.07 %) VB.NET 4 15 (18.07 %) C# 5 14 (16.87 %) Tcl 6 13 (15.66 %) VB 7 7 (8.434 %) VBScript 8 6 (7.229 %) VBA 8 6 (7.229 %) Lua 9 4 (4.819 %) Java 10 3 (3.614 %) C 11 2 (2.410 %) C++ 12 1 (1.205 %) Shell Script	Qualifications 1 7 (8.434 %) ISEB 1 7 (8.434 %) Degree 2 3 (3.614 %) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (31.33 %) QA 2 1 (1.205 %) TickIT	System Software 1 4 (4.819 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 8 (9.639 %) Oracle 2 6 (7.229 %) Sybase 3 5 (6.024 %) Microsoft 4 4 (4.819 %) Perforce 4 4 (4.819 %) VMware 4 4 (4.819 %) IBM 5 2 (2.410 %) Segue