The first table below looks at the demand for Test Strategy skills in IT jobs advertised for the Reading region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Strategy 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
Test Strategy
Rank 127 95 113
Rank change year-on-year
-32 +18
Permanent jobs citing Test Strategy 6 37 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Reading 0.277% 1.634% 0.424%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.418% 2.287% 0.656%
Number of salaries quoted 4 31 8
Average salary £52,000 £47,500 £43,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+9.47% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £40,000 £33,500 £42,500
10% offered a salary of more than £64,700 £55,000 £55,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £42,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+5.88% -
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%
Test Strategy
Berkshire

Test Strategy
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Reading Test Strategy Jobs Demand Trend

Test Strategy
Salary Trend

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

Reading Test Strategy Salary Trend

Test Strategy
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Strategy across the Reading region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Reading Test Strategy Salary Histogram

Test Strategy
Top 24 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy.

1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
1 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Management
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) C
3 1 (14.29%) Windows
3 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (14.29%) ATM
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) IBM
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
3 1 (14.29%) CMMI
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) QA
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting

Test Strategy
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Reading region citing Test Strategy 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 Strategy. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) Middleware
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Test Specialist
2 2 (28.57%) Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) Project Coordinator
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Specialist
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Disaster Recovery
1 3 (42.86%) Knowledge Management
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
2 2 (28.57%) Test Management
2 2 (28.57%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (28.57%) Project Management
3 1 (14.29%) Business Intelligence
3 1 (14.29%) Validation
3 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (14.29%) CMMI
3 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
3 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) C
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) IBM