The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Scotland region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting 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
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 116 120 106
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -14
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 38 36 51
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Scotland 1.213% 1.039% 1.501%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.633% 1.486% 1.968%
Number of salaries quoted 17 17 43
Average salary £42,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+13.33% -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £29,850 £27,200 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £47,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +2.98%
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%
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Scotland 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 Scotland region.

Scotland Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

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

Scotland Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Scripting 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
Edinburgh +4 15 £30,000 -20.00%
Glasgow -12 14 £37,500 +15.38%
Renfrewshire +8 1 - -
Moray - 1 - -
Stirling - 1 - -
Test Scripting
UK

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 33 (44.59%) QA
2 31 (41.89%) Degree
3 24 (32.43%) Finance
4 23 (31.08%) Java
5 22 (29.73%) Scrum
5 22 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
6 19 (25.68%) Web Testing
6 19 (25.68%) Selenium
7 18 (24.32%) TDD
7 18 (24.32%) Ant
8 17 (22.97%) Puppet
8 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
9 16 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
9 16 (21.62%) PHP
9 16 (21.62%) Internet
9 16 (21.62%) Games
10 14 (18.92%) SQL
11 11 (14.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (14.86%) ISEB
11 11 (14.86%) User Acceptance Testing
12 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
13 9 (12.16%) ITIL
13 9 (12.16%) Oracle
13 9 (12.16%) Change Management
13 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (10.81%) Automated Testing
15 7 (9.459%) CISA
15 7 (9.459%) CISM
15 7 (9.459%) CISSP
15 7 (9.459%) Windows

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Scotland 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 6 (8.108%) .NET
2 4 (5.405%) ASP.NET
2 4 (5.405%) XML
3 2 (2.703%) HTML
4 1 (1.351%) J2EE
4 1 (1.351%) COM
4 1 (1.351%) EJB
4 1 (1.351%) JSP
4 1 (1.351%) Servlets
4 1 (1.351%) Struts
4 1 (1.351%) JMS
4 1 (1.351%) Middleware
4 1 (1.351%) Hibernate
4 1 (1.351%) Spring
4 1 (1.351%) JSF
4 1 (1.351%) Tapestry
4 1 (1.351%) JSTL
4 1 (1.351%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 16 (21.62%) Amazon EC2
2 3 (4.054%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.054%) Oracle Workflow
2 3 (4.054%) IIS
3 1 (1.351%) Apache
3 1 (1.351%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.351%) MQSeries
Applications
1 4 (5.405%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.351%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 6 (8.108%) SAP HR
2 3 (4.054%) Oracle EBS
2 3 (4.054%) Oracle Applications
3 2 (2.703%) Oracle EBS R12
Communications & Networking
1 16 (21.62%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.757%) RDBMS
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server 2005
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (4.054%) Oracle BI EE
3 3 (4.054%) SQL Server 2008
3 3 (4.054%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (4.054%) Oracle 8/8i
4 2 (2.703%) Data Mining
5 1 (1.351%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 19 (25.68%) Selenium
2 18 (24.32%) Ant
3 17 (22.97%) Jenkins
4 6 (8.108%) Eclipse
5 4 (5.405%) Visual Studio
6 3 (4.054%) QuickTest Pro
6 3 (4.054%) Cucumber
7 2 (2.703%) FitNesse
8 1 (1.351%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (1.351%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.351%) Concordion
8 1 (1.351%) MSBuild
8 1 (1.351%) TestDirector
8 1 (1.351%) LoadRunner
8 1 (1.351%) Rational Robot
8 1 (1.351%) Subversion
8 1 (1.351%) Maven
8 1 (1.351%) PVCS
8 1 (1.351%) JUnit
General
1 24 (32.43%) Finance
2 16 (21.62%) Games
3 6 (8.108%) Banking
4 3 (4.054%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.703%) Investment Banking
5 2 (2.703%) Advertising
6 1 (1.351%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.351%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.351%) Legal
Job Titles
1 31 (41.89%) Analyst
2 16 (21.62%) Test Analyst
3 13 (17.57%) Test Engineer
4 11 (14.86%) Tester
5 9 (12.16%) Software Tester
6 8 (10.81%) Senior Tester
6 8 (10.81%) Automated Test Engineer
7 7 (9.459%) Senior Software Tester
7 7 (9.459%) Business Analyst
8 6 (8.108%) Team Leader
8 6 (8.108%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (8.108%) Support Team Leader
8 6 (8.108%) SAP Support
8 6 (8.108%) SAP Team Leader
9 5 (6.757%) Support Analyst
9 5 (6.757%) Developer
10 4 (5.405%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (5.405%) Applications Developer
10 4 (5.405%) Governance Manager
10 4 (5.405%) Compliance Manager
Miscellaneous
1 2 (2.703%) Smartcard
1 2 (2.703%) PKI
1 2 (2.703%) Computer Science
1 2 (2.703%) Mobile App
2 1 (1.351%) Cloud Computing
2 1 (1.351%) Statistics
2 1 (1.351%) Informatics
2 1 (1.351%) AS400
Operating Systems
1 7 (9.459%) Windows
2 4 (5.405%) Linux
3 3 (4.054%) Windows Server 2003
3 3 (4.054%) Windows Server 2008
3 3 (4.054%) HPUX
3 3 (4.054%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (29.73%) Scrum
1 22 (29.73%) Continuous Integration
2 19 (25.68%) Web Testing
3 18 (24.32%) TDD
4 11 (14.86%) User Acceptance Testing
5 9 (12.16%) ITIL
5 9 (12.16%) Change Management
5 9 (12.16%) Continuous Improvement
6 8 (10.81%) Automated Testing
7 7 (9.459%) Business Intelligence
8 6 (8.108%) Software Testing
9 5 (6.757%) Business Analysis
9 5 (6.757%) Agile Software Development
9 5 (6.757%) Project Management
9 5 (6.757%) Test Strategy
9 5 (6.757%) Test Automation
10 4 (5.405%) Web Development
10 4 (5.405%) Configuration Management
10 4 (5.405%) OO
11 3 (4.054%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.08%) Java
2 16 (21.62%) PHP
3 14 (18.92%) SQL
4 6 (8.108%) PL/SQL
5 5 (6.757%) C
5 5 (6.757%) C#
6 4 (5.405%) C++
6 4 (5.405%) COBOL
6 4 (5.405%) VB.NET
6 4 (5.405%) PL/1
7 2 (2.703%) VB
8 1 (1.351%) Python
8 1 (1.351%) Ruby
8 1 (1.351%) Groovy
8 1 (1.351%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (41.89%) Degree
2 11 (14.86%) ISEB
3 7 (9.459%) CISSP
3 7 (9.459%) CISA
3 7 (9.459%) CISM
4 3 (4.054%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.054%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.054%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.351%) ISEB Practitioner
5 1 (1.351%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (44.59%) QA
2 11 (14.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 17 (22.97%) Puppet
2 7 (9.459%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (12.16%) Oracle
2 6 (8.108%) SAP
3 4 (5.405%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.054%) Informatica
5 1 (1.351%) Reuters
5 1 (1.351%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.351%) Fiserv
5 1 (1.351%) Cadis
5 1 (1.351%) Sun
5 1 (1.351%) HP
Edinburgh, Midlothian
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Salary: Unspecified £Negotiable on Experience
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: Competitive
Posted: 15 May 2013
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Salary: Up to £50,000 per annum Corporate Benefits incl. Health, Pension
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