The first table below looks at the demand for Manual 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 Manual Testing over the 3 months to 17 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
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 128 122 102
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -20
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 4 11 12
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.190% 0.487% 0.644%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.288% 0.680% 1.001%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 12
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £32,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £39,000 £50,000 £44,300
UK excluding London average salary £32,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-8.57% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Reading
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
1389 1618 1199
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 65.95% 71.62% 64.39%
Number of salaries quoted 1082 1366 935
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £45,000
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,250 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £70,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
Berkshire

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Reading Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the Reading region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Reading Manual Testing Salary Histogram

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 7 (77.78%) Automated Testing
2 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 4 (44.44%) HP
4 3 (33.33%) ISEB
4 3 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (33.33%) Borland
4 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 3 (33.33%) SilkPerformer
4 3 (33.33%) QA
4 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Automation Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
5 2 (22.22%) System Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
6 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
6 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
6 1 (11.11%) MVC
6 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
6 1 (11.11%) Finance
6 1 (11.11%) IVR
6 1 (11.11%) C#
6 1 (11.11%) SQL
6 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
6 1 (11.11%) .NET
6 1 (11.11%) MySQL

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) WCF
1 1 (11.11%) LINQ
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) VoIP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) MySQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (33.33%) SilkPerformer
2 1 (11.11%) Selenium
2 1 (11.11%) WebDriver
2 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
General
1 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Job Titles
1 7 (77.78%) Analyst
1 7 (77.78%) Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Test Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) QA Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) QA Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Quality Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Software Test Analyst
2 1 (11.11%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) IVR
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Automated Testing
2 5 (55.56%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
3 4 (44.44%) Test Scripting
4 3 (33.33%) Automation Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) System Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
6 1 (11.11%) TDD
6 1 (11.11%) Data Management
6 1 (11.11%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) C#
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
1 1 (11.11%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISEB
1 3 (33.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (44.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) HP
2 3 (33.33%) Borland
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
Reading, Berkshire
This position will be mainly software testing with a small amount of hardware testing and it will be 50% manual testing and 50% automated testing... * Familiarity with JScript,...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: Up to £30,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013