The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. 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 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank - 34 -
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 0 2 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth - 0.995% -
As % of the Job Titles category - 1.042% -
Number of salaries quoted 0 2 0
Average salary - £41,000 -
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
All Job Titles
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
193 192 200
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 96.02% 95.52% 97.56%
Number of salaries quoted 181 176 192
Average salary £37,500 £32,500 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+15.38% -4.41%
90% offered a salary of more than £22,500 £23,500 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Test Engineer
Hampshire

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the Portsmouth region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Portsmouth Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

Portsmouth Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 10 (100.00%) C
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
1 10 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 6 (60.00%) Device Driver
2 6 (60.00%) Integration Testing
3 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
3 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
3 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (40.00%) Yield Management
3 4 (40.00%) NAS
3 4 (40.00%) Electronics
3 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
3 4 (40.00%) Korn
3 4 (40.00%) Degree
3 4 (40.00%) SAS
3 4 (40.00%) SAN
3 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
3 4 (40.00%) Benchmarking

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth 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 Platforms
1 4 (40.00%) SAS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) SAN
1 4 (40.00%) NAS
1 4 (40.00%) Fibre Channel
General
1 10 (100.00%) Manufacturing
2 4 (40.00%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Device Driver
Operating Systems
1 10 (100.00%) UNIX
1 10 (100.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 4 (40.00%) Yield Management
2 4 (40.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (40.00%) Benchmarking
2 4 (40.00%) Data Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (100.00%) C
2 4 (40.00%) Shell Script
2 4 (40.00%) Korn
2 4 (40.00%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) Degree