Poole Software Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the Poole 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 Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Dorking Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lightwater Liverpool Livingston London Lutterworth Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Rochester Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Suffolk Surrey Swadlincote Swindon Thame UK Warrington Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	44	-
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching permanent IT job ads	1	0
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.001 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	0.319 %	0.000 %
Salaries quoted	1	0
Average minimum salary	£23,000	-
Average salary	£24,500	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	£26,000	-
UK excluding London average salary	£29,806	£29,073
% change on same period last year	+2.51 %
Job Titles Poole
Matching permanent IT job ads	313	565
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.181 %	0.243 %
Salaries quoted	290	518
Average minimum salary	£29,015	£44,363
Average salary	£31,853	£46,014
% change on same period last year	-30.77 %
Average maximum salary	£34,692	£47,665
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Poole 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 Software Tester across the Poole region.

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Top 15 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Poole region that cited Software Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 8 (100.00 %) Degree 2 7 (87.50 %) Performance Testing 2 7 (87.50 %) Active Directory 2 7 (87.50 %) IIS 2 7 (87.50 %) UNIX 2 7 (87.50 %) Windows 2 7 (87.50 %) Linux 2 7 (87.50 %) FTP 2 7 (87.50 %) Microsoft 3 1 (12.50 %) Compuware 3 1 (12.50 %) Electronics 3 1 (12.50 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing 3 1 (12.50 %) ISEB 3 1 (12.50 %) Firmware

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Poole region that cited Software Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Platforms 1 7 (87.50 %) IIS	Communications & Networking 1 7 (87.50 %) FTP
General 1 1 (12.50 %) Electronics	Miscellaneous 1 1 (12.50 %) Firmware
Operating Systems 1 7 (87.50 %) UNIX 1 7 (87.50 %) Windows 1 7 (87.50 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (87.50 %) Performance Testing 2 1 (12.50 %) Software Testing
Qualifications 1 8 (100.00 %) Degree 2 1 (12.50 %) ISEB 2 1 (12.50 %) ISEB Practitioner	System Software 1 7 (87.50 %) Active Directory
Vendors 1 7 (87.50 %) Microsoft 2 1 (12.50 %) Compuware