The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 30 29 -
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 6 7 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 2.985% 3.553% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.871% 4.636% -
Number of salaries quoted 6 7 0
Average salary £29,750 £35,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
-15.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.94% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
155 151 140
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 77.11% 76.65% 67.31%
Number of salaries quoted 143 136 133
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% +23.07%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £52,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Hampshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Portsmouth Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 21 May 2013.

Portsmouth Software Testing Salary Histogram

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 9 (50.00%) C#
1 9 (50.00%) .NET
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 9 (50.00%) OO
2 7 (38.89%) Linux
3 6 (33.33%) HP
3 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 6 (33.33%) XML
3 6 (33.33%) HTML
3 6 (33.33%) T-SQL
3 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 6 (33.33%) WinForms
3 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 6 (33.33%) Ajax
4 5 (27.78%) QA
4 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
4 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
4 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (27.78%) VMware
4 5 (27.78%) Windows
5 4 (22.22%) Oracle
5 4 (22.22%) RHCE
5 4 (22.22%) Solaris
5 4 (22.22%) ITIL
5 4 (22.22%) UNIX
5 4 (22.22%) Security Management
5 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
5 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
5 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
5 4 (22.22%) CentOS

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 9 (50.00%) .NET
2 6 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 6 (33.33%) XML
2 6 (33.33%) HTML
2 6 (33.33%) WinForms
2 6 (33.33%) Ajax
3 3 (16.67%) NHibernate
Application Platforms
1 1 (5.556%) MS Exchange
Applications
1 3 (16.67%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.11%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.11%) HTTP
2 1 (5.556%) Network Security
2 1 (5.556%) Firewall
2 1 (5.556%) TCP/IP
2 1 (5.556%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (16.67%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 3 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 3 (16.67%) WebDriver
1 3 (16.67%) JIRA
1 3 (16.67%) ReSharper
1 3 (16.67%) Selenium
1 3 (16.67%) Bugzilla
1 3 (16.67%) Visual Studio
2 2 (11.11%) TestDirector
2 2 (11.11%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (11.11%) Law
2 1 (5.556%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Software Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Software Development Engineer
2 6 (33.33%) Development Engineer
3 4 (22.22%) Tester
3 4 (22.22%) Systems Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Administrator
3 4 (22.22%) Linux Systems Administrator
4 3 (16.67%) QA Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Test Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Software Tester
5 2 (11.11%) Systems Tester
6 1 (5.556%) QA Tester
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Infrastructure Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.556%) Senior Manager
6 1 (5.556%) Infrastructure Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 4 (22.22%) Derivative
1 4 (22.22%) Open Source
2 2 (11.11%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 7 (38.89%) Linux
2 5 (27.78%) Windows
3 4 (22.22%) Solaris
3 4 (22.22%) UNIX
3 4 (22.22%) CentOS
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle Linux
4 3 (16.67%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (50.00%) OO
2 6 (33.33%) Data Analysis
3 5 (27.78%) Test Scripting
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL
4 4 (22.22%) Security Management
4 4 (22.22%) ITIL V3
5 3 (16.67%) BDD
5 3 (16.67%) Refactoring
5 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 3 (16.67%) Test Management
5 3 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (16.67%) TDD
5 3 (16.67%) Pair Programming
5 3 (16.67%) MVC
5 3 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (11.11%) E-Commerce
6 2 (11.11%) Automated Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Manual Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Requirements Management
6 2 (11.11%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 9 (50.00%) C#
2 6 (33.33%) T-SQL
2 6 (33.33%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 3 (16.67%) Ruby
4 3 (16.67%) VB6
4 3 (16.67%) Perl
4 3 (16.67%) PHP
4 3 (16.67%) VB
4 3 (16.67%) VB.NET
4 3 (16.67%) Java
4 3 (16.67%) Python
5 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 4 (22.22%) RHCE
2 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) ISEB
3 2 (11.11%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (27.78%) QA
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.11%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) HP
2 5 (27.78%) VMware
3 4 (22.22%) Oracle
3 4 (22.22%) Red Hat
3 4 (22.22%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.556%) Citrix