The first table below looks at the demand for Load Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Load Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Reading region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Load Testing
Rank 132 131 120
Rank change year-on-year
-1 -11
Permanent jobs citing Load Testing 1 1 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.046% 0.044% 0.053%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.070% 0.062% 0.082%
Number of salaries quoted 0 1 1
Average salary - £80,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +146.15%
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £37,500 £36,500
% change year-on-year
+1.33% +2.73%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1434 1618 1219
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 66.11% 71.47% 64.67%
Number of salaries quoted 1109 1364 958
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £63,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Load Testing
Berkshire

Load Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading 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 Reading region.

Reading Load Testing Salary Trend

Load Testing
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Fedora
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 5 (100.00%) Marketing
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (100.00%) ZABBIX
1 5 (100.00%) Mercurial
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
1 5 (100.00%) Rackspace

Load Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading 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.

Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Subversion
1 5 (100.00%) Mercurial
General
1 5 (100.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (100.00%) Systems Administrator
1 5 (100.00%) Administrator
1 5 (100.00%) Linux Systems Administrator
1 5 (100.00%) Linux Administrator
Operating Systems
1 5 (100.00%) UNIX
1 5 (100.00%) Linux
1 5 (100.00%) VMS
1 5 (100.00%) Fedora
1 5 (100.00%) Ubuntu
1 5 (100.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 5 (100.00%) Scrum
System Software
1 5 (100.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (100.00%) Nagios
1 5 (100.00%) ZABBIX
1 5 (100.00%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (100.00%) VMware
1 5 (100.00%) Rackspace