The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 53 40 44
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +4
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 12 16 11
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 1.884% 3.628% 2.306%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.954% 3.695% 2.331%
Number of salaries quoted 12 16 6
Average salary £35,000 £30,000 £28,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+16.66% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,750 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,000 £32,125 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
614 433 472
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 96.39% 98.19% 98.95%
Number of salaries quoted 553 418 441
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £35,000
90% offered a salary of more than £21,500 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £60,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
South West

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Somerset region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Somerset Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Somerset Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bath -15 9 £35,000 +16.66%
Street - 1 £35,000 -
Tester
South West

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region that cited Tester in their job title 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 with Tester in their job title.

1 25 (75.76%) User Acceptance Testing
2 21 (63.64%) Automated Testing
3 17 (51.52%) SQL
4 13 (39.39%) QA
5 11 (33.33%) .NET
6 10 (30.30%) Linux
6 10 (30.30%) Java
6 10 (30.30%) C
6 10 (30.30%) C++
6 10 (30.30%) Perl
6 10 (30.30%) Tcl
6 10 (30.30%) TCP/IP
6 10 (30.30%) VPN
6 10 (30.30%) RDBMS
6 10 (30.30%) IGMP
6 10 (30.30%) Regression Testing
6 10 (30.30%) Bash shell
6 10 (30.30%) Waterfall
6 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
7 9 (27.27%) Finance
7 9 (27.27%) MySQL
8 7 (21.21%) Test Management
8 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
9 5 (15.15%) Project Management
10 4 (12.12%) XML
10 4 (12.12%) ISEB
10 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
10 4 (12.12%) Selenium
10 4 (12.12%) Manual Testing
11 3 (9.091%) WebDriver

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region that cited Tester in their job title 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 with Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 11 (33.33%) .NET
2 4 (12.12%) ASP.NET
2 4 (12.12%) XML
3 3 (9.091%) CSS
4 1 (3.030%) WinForms
4 1 (3.030%) HTML
Applications
1 7 (21.21%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (30.30%) TCP/IP
1 10 (30.30%) VPN
1 10 (30.30%) IGMP
2 2 (6.061%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (30.30%) RDBMS
2 9 (27.27%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) Selenium
2 3 (9.091%) WebDriver
2 3 (9.091%) QuickTest Pro
3 2 (6.061%) Cucumber
General
1 9 (27.27%) Finance
2 1 (3.030%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (6.061%) EPoS
1 2 (6.061%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 10 (30.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (75.76%) User Acceptance Testing
2 21 (63.64%) Automated Testing
3 10 (30.30%) Regression Testing
3 10 (30.30%) Test Automation
3 10 (30.30%) Waterfall
4 7 (21.21%) Test Management
5 5 (15.15%) Project Management
6 4 (12.12%) Manual Testing
7 3 (9.091%) Software Testing
7 3 (9.091%) E-Commerce
8 2 (6.061%) Agile Software Development
8 2 (6.061%) Test Scripting
9 1 (3.030%) Release Management
9 1 (3.030%) ITIL
9 1 (3.030%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 17 (51.52%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) C
2 10 (30.30%) C++
2 10 (30.30%) Java
2 10 (30.30%) Tcl
2 10 (30.30%) Bash shell
2 10 (30.30%) Perl
3 3 (9.091%) JavaScript
3 3 (9.091%) C#
4 2 (6.061%) VB.NET
5 1 (3.030%) Embedded C
5 1 (3.030%) Embedded C++
5 1 (3.030%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 4 (12.12%) ISEB
2 1 (3.030%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (39.39%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (6.061%) Microsoft
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
Senior UI Automation Tester, QA, Testing, £30-42,000 plus great benefits, Bristol (City Centre)... - In depth experience of automated test tools suitable for testing web based products.-...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £30-42,000 + Great Benefits
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
Senior QA Automation Tester, Web Application Testing, £30-42,000 plus great benefits, Bristol (City Centre)... - In depth experience of automated test tools suitable for testing web based...
XIST4 Recruitment
Salary: £35-42,000 + Bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
Bath, Avon
My client’s test team predominately use automated testing, however would ideally like the successful Senior Tester / Software Test Engineer to have a background in both manual and...
Haybrook IT Resourcing Ltd
Salary: From £32,000 to £38,000 per annum + Excellent Corporate Benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013