The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Scotland region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 129 116 137
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +21
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 25 40 20
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 0.798% 1.154% 0.589%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.074% 1.652% 0.772%
Number of salaries quoted 9 33 13
Average salary £26,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-29.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,300 £24,000 £27,600
10% offered a salary of more than £39,800 £85,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,000 £33,000
% change year-on-year
-2.77% +9.09%
All Processes & Methodologies
Scotland
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2327 2422 2592
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 74.30% 69.90% 76.28%
Number of salaries quoted 1383 1733 1876
Average salary £41,500 £40,000 £42,125
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.75% -5.04%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,750 £27,500 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Scotland System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing System Testing across the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013.

Scotland System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Scotland region over the 3 months to 20 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Glasgow -10 12 £26,500 -
Edinburgh +6 7 £37,500 +38.88%
Dundee -8 2 £26,000 -28.76%
Aberdeen -12 1 £35,000 -22.22%
West Lothian - 1 - -
System Testing
UK

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 22 (45.83%) SQL
1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 19 (39.58%) .NET
3 16 (33.33%) Oracle
3 16 (33.33%) UNIX
4 15 (31.25%) SQL Server
5 14 (29.17%) Java
6 11 (22.92%) C#
7 10 (20.83%) Banking
8 9 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (18.75%) QA
8 9 (18.75%) OO
8 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
8 9 (18.75%) ISEB
9 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
9 7 (14.58%) TIBCO
9 7 (14.58%) BusinessWorks
9 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
10 6 (12.50%) Linux
10 6 (12.50%) MS Access
10 6 (12.50%) Degree
10 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
10 6 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (12.50%) Investment Management
11 5 (10.42%) Ruby
11 5 (10.42%) ETL
11 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
11 5 (10.42%) OpenLink
11 5 (10.42%) Endur
11 5 (10.42%) MS Excel

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 19 (39.58%) .NET
2 4 (8.333%) ASP.NET
3 2 (4.167%) XML
3 2 (4.167%) Middleware
3 2 (4.167%) WebSphere
4 1 (2.083%) LAMP
4 1 (2.083%) WinForms
Application Platforms
1 2 (4.167%) MQSeries
Applications
1 5 (10.42%) MS Excel
2 3 (6.250%) MS Visio
2 3 (6.250%) MS PowerPoint
2 3 (6.250%) MS Project
3 2 (4.167%) MS Office
3 2 (4.167%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (14.58%) BusinessWorks
2 5 (10.42%) Endur
3 2 (4.167%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (4.167%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (4.167%) Oracle 11i
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.167%) FTP
1 2 (4.167%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (31.25%) SQL Server
2 6 (12.50%) MS Access
3 5 (10.42%) Crystal Reports
4 3 (6.250%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (4.167%) SQL Server 2005
5 2 (4.167%) Apache Cassandra
5 2 (4.167%) NoSQL
5 2 (4.167%) BigTable
5 2 (4.167%) Oracle 10g
5 2 (4.167%) SQLPlus
5 2 (4.167%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (4.167%) Sybase IQ
5 2 (4.167%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (4.167%) Oracle 8/8i
5 2 (4.167%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (4.167%) TOAD
6 1 (2.083%) RDBMS
6 1 (2.083%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 2 (4.167%) Oracle Forms
1 2 (4.167%) Bugzilla
General
1 22 (45.83%) Finance
2 10 (20.83%) Banking
3 6 (12.50%) Investment Banking
4 4 (8.333%) Private Banking
5 2 (4.167%) Games
5 2 (4.167%) Front Office
5 2 (4.167%) Back Office
5 2 (4.167%) Electronics
Job Titles
1 22 (45.83%) Analyst
2 15 (31.25%) Developer
3 9 (18.75%) Applications Support
4 8 (16.67%) Analyst Developer
5 7 (14.58%) Tester
5 7 (14.58%) Support Analyst
6 6 (12.50%) .NET Developer
6 6 (12.50%) Applications Support Analyst
7 5 (10.42%) Software Tester
8 4 (8.333%) Project Manager
8 4 (8.333%) Test Analyst
9 3 (6.250%) Support Specialist
9 3 (6.250%) Applications Specialist
9 3 (6.250%) Applications Support Specialist
10 2 (4.167%) QA Tester
10 2 (4.167%) Oracle Consultant
10 2 (4.167%) IT Project Manager
10 2 (4.167%) Applications Consultant
10 2 (4.167%) Senior Analyst
10 2 (4.167%) Oracle Applications Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 4 (8.333%) Computer Science
1 4 (8.333%) Market Risk
2 2 (4.167%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 2 (4.167%) Fixed Income
2 2 (4.167%) Derivative
2 2 (4.167%) Equity Derivative
3 1 (2.083%) EPoS
3 1 (2.083%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 16 (33.33%) UNIX
2 6 (12.50%) Linux
3 5 (10.42%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (18.75%) OO
1 9 (18.75%) Agile Software Development
2 7 (14.58%) Software Testing
3 6 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (12.50%) Investment Management
4 5 (10.42%) ETL
5 4 (8.333%) Scrum
5 4 (8.333%) Quality Management
5 4 (8.333%) QMS
5 4 (8.333%) Unit Testing
5 4 (8.333%) Data Transformation
6 3 (6.250%) Test Strategy
6 3 (6.250%) Analytics
6 3 (6.250%) Risk Analysis
6 3 (6.250%) Automated Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Business Analysis
6 3 (6.250%) Regression Testing
6 3 (6.250%) Risk Management
6 3 (6.250%) ITIL
6 3 (6.250%) Business Continuity
Programming Languages
1 22 (45.83%) SQL
2 14 (29.17%) Java
3 11 (22.92%) C#
4 7 (14.58%) PL/SQL
5 5 (10.42%) Python
5 5 (10.42%) Shell Script
5 5 (10.42%) Ruby
6 4 (8.333%) Perl
6 4 (8.333%) C++
7 3 (6.250%) JavaScript
8 2 (4.167%) VB
8 2 (4.167%) VB.NET
8 2 (4.167%) VBA
8 2 (4.167%) XPath
Qualifications
1 9 (18.75%) ISEB
2 6 (12.50%) Degree
3 4 (8.333%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.167%) HND
5 1 (2.083%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) QA
2 3 (6.250%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.083%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (4.167%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
2 1 (2.083%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 16 (33.33%) Oracle
2 9 (18.75%) Microsoft
3 7 (14.58%) TIBCO
4 5 (10.42%) OpenLink
4 5 (10.42%) Business Objects
5 2 (4.167%) DevExpress
5 2 (4.167%) Sybase
6 1 (2.083%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.083%) VMware
Edinburgh, Midlothian
Essential ISEB/ISTQB Foundation Certificate... Experience of web testing within an agile environment... Experience of VMWare and/or Virtual PC... Desirable Experience of Linux. Experience of LAMP. Experience...
ReThink Recruitment
Salary: £35000 - £40000.00 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013