The first table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Somerset region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing 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 Somerset region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Rank 52 54 49
Rank change year-on-year
+2 -5
Permanent jobs citing User Acceptance Testing 14 9 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 2.222% 1.965% 2.037%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.857% 2.586% 3.115%
Number of salaries quoted 14 9 7
Average salary £33,250 £27,500 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+20.90% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £25,000 £24,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,750 £39,160 £37,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £39,000
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -3.84%
All Processes & Methodologies
Somerset
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
490 348 321
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Somerset 77.78% 75.98% 65.38%
Number of salaries quoted 451 330 297
Average salary £38,000 £39,160 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.96% +4.42%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £62,500 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Somerset User Acceptance Testing Jobs Demand Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

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

Somerset User Acceptance Testing Salary Trend

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Somerset region over the 3 months to 24 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 +5 13 £34,000 +3.03%
User Acceptance Testing
South West

User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 18 (48.65%) Finance
3 16 (43.24%) Automated Testing
3 16 (43.24%) .NET
4 15 (40.54%) MS Excel
5 10 (27.03%) IGMP
5 10 (27.03%) Bash shell
5 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
5 10 (27.03%) Test Automation
5 10 (27.03%) TCP/IP
5 10 (27.03%) VPN
5 10 (27.03%) RDBMS
5 10 (27.03%) Linux
5 10 (27.03%) Tcl
5 10 (27.03%) Perl
5 10 (27.03%) C
5 10 (27.03%) C++
6 9 (24.32%) MySQL
7 8 (21.62%) Service Delivery
7 8 (21.62%) Business Analysis
7 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (21.62%) QA
7 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2008
7 8 (21.62%) Team Foundation Server
7 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2003
7 8 (21.62%) Project Management
7 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
7 8 (21.62%) IIS
7 8 (21.62%) Windows
7 8 (21.62%) C#

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Somerset region citing User Acceptance 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 16 (43.24%) .NET
2 1 (2.703%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (21.62%) IIS
Applications
1 15 (40.54%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 10 (27.03%) IGMP
1 10 (27.03%) TCP/IP
1 10 (27.03%) VPN
2 2 (5.405%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.03%) RDBMS
2 9 (24.32%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 8 (21.62%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 18 (48.65%) Finance
Job Titles
1 25 (67.57%) Tester
2 14 (37.84%) Analyst
3 11 (29.73%) Software Tester
4 10 (27.03%) Test Engineer
5 9 (24.32%) Software Engineer
5 9 (24.32%) Software Test Engineer
6 8 (21.62%) QA Tester
6 8 (21.62%) Release Engineer
6 8 (21.62%) Configuration Engineer
7 7 (18.92%) Test Analyst
7 7 (18.92%) Quality Analyst
7 7 (18.92%) Senior QA Analyst
7 7 (18.92%) Senior QA Tester
7 7 (18.92%) Senior Tester
7 7 (18.92%) Senior Analyst
7 7 (18.92%) QA Analyst
8 3 (8.108%) Applications Developer
8 3 (8.108%) Developer
9 1 (2.703%) AS400 Developer
9 1 (2.703%) Release Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.108%) AS400
1 3 (8.108%) iSeries
2 2 (5.405%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 10 (27.03%) Linux
2 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2008
2 8 (21.62%) Windows Server 2003
2 8 (21.62%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (43.24%) Automated Testing
2 10 (27.03%) Waterfall
2 10 (27.03%) Test Automation
3 8 (21.62%) Service Delivery
3 8 (21.62%) Business Analysis
3 8 (21.62%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (21.62%) Project Management
4 7 (18.92%) Test Management
4 7 (18.92%) Regression Testing
5 2 (5.405%) ITIL
5 2 (5.405%) Release Management
5 2 (5.405%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 20 (54.05%) SQL
2 10 (27.03%) Bash shell
2 10 (27.03%) Tcl
2 10 (27.03%) Perl
2 10 (27.03%) C
2 10 (27.03%) C++
3 8 (21.62%) C#
3 8 (21.62%) VB.NET
4 7 (18.92%) Java
5 3 (8.108%) RPG/400
5 3 (8.108%) RPG
6 2 (5.405%) RPG IV
7 1 (2.703%) Embedded C
7 1 (2.703%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 2 (5.405%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (21.62%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (21.62%) Microsoft
2 3 (8.108%) CODA