The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Poole region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 Poole region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 17 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Poole 1.149% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.429% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £25,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% +2.73%
All Processes & Methodologies
Poole
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
70 49 70
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Poole 80.46% 49.49% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 56 49 66
Average salary £32,500 £28,685 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.29% -8.93%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,900 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £47,500 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Testing
Dorset

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Poole 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 Poole region.

Poole Load Testing Salary Trend

Load Testing
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Poole 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 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) AIX
1 9 (100.00%) Solaris
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
1 9 (100.00%) Shell Script
1 9 (100.00%) QA
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Poole 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 Platforms
1 9 (100.00%) SharePoint
Job Titles
1 9 (100.00%) Tester
1 9 (100.00%) QA Tester
2 3 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Systems Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Junior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Junior
Operating Systems
1 9 (100.00%) UNIX
1 9 (100.00%) Windows
1 9 (100.00%) AIX
1 9 (100.00%) Solaris
1 9 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 9 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 9 (100.00%) Perl
1 9 (100.00%) SQL
1 9 (100.00%) Python
1 9 (100.00%) Shell Script
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 9 (100.00%) Oracle