The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Portsmouth region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting 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 Portsmouth region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 34 35 39
Rank change year-on-year
+1 +4
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 2 1 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 0.952% 0.498% 1.402%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.274% 0.654% 2.128%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 2
Average salary £32,000 £37,500 £24,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-14.66% +53.06%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,000
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +4.54%
All Processes & Methodologies
Portsmouth
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
157 153 141
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Portsmouth 74.76% 76.12% 65.89%
Number of salaries quoted 146 138 134
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £31,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% +19.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Hampshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Portsmouth Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Portsmouth Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Portsmouth region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

Portsmouth Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) NHibernate
2 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
2 3 (60.00%) Open Source
2 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) Ruby
2 3 (60.00%) C#
2 3 (60.00%) Java
2 3 (60.00%) Perl
2 3 (60.00%) PHP
2 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
2 3 (60.00%) .NET
2 3 (60.00%) MySQL
2 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
2 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (60.00%) Linux
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) Python
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Bugzilla
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (60.00%) ReSharper
2 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (60.00%) QA
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Portsmouth region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (60.00%) NHibernate
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) MS Excel
1 2 (40.00%) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) MySQL
1 3 (60.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) WebDriver
1 3 (60.00%) Cucumber
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
1 3 (60.00%) Bugzilla
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
1 3 (60.00%) ReSharper
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 2 (40.00%) TestDirector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 2 (40.00%) Systems Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Tester
2 2 (40.00%) Software Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) OO
2 3 (60.00%) MVC
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (60.00%) Refactoring
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Management
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Integration
3 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 2 (40.00%) E-Commerce
3 2 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Requirements Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Ruby
1 3 (60.00%) C#
1 3 (60.00%) Java
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) PHP
1 3 (60.00%) VB.NET
1 3 (60.00%) Python
2 2 (40.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISEB
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (40.00%) HP