The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Sevenoaks region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 22 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 Sevenoaks region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 6 - -
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 0 0
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 5.882% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.333% - -
Number of salaries quoted 1 0 0
Average salary £35,000 - -
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Sevenoaks
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
12 4 4
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Sevenoaks 70.59% 44.44% 100.00%
Number of salaries quoted 12 4 4
Average salary £35,000 £30,500 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+14.75% +1.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £27,500 £29,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £35,000 £37,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Kent

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Sevenoaks Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Sevenoaks Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
1 7 (100.00%) QA
1 7 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 7 (100.00%) CentOS
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) ISEB
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) PHP

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Sevenoaks region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (100.00%) MySQL
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Operating Systems
1 7 (100.00%) CentOS
1 7 (100.00%) Linux
2 6 (85.71%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Scrum
1 7 (100.00%) Extreme Programming
1 7 (100.00%) Information Security
1 7 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 7 (100.00%) SQL
2 6 (85.71%) Perl
2 6 (85.71%) PHP
Qualifications
1 7 (100.00%) Degree
2 6 (85.71%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (100.00%) QA