Manual Testing Jobs in the South East
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
20 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 342 310 291
Rank change year-on-year
-32 -19
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 84 130 133
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.383% 0.547% 0.592%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.524% 0.746% 0.833%
Number of salaries quoted 79 118 129
Average salary £30,000 £38,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-21.05% +16.92%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,000 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £31,750 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-9.28% +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16033 17428 15958
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 73.09% 73.34% 71.07%
Number of salaries quoted 13035 14941 13658
Average salary £45,000 £45,000 £43,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +4.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £29,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

South East Manual Testing Salary Trend

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

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

South East Manual Testing Salary Histogram

Manual Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the South East 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
Oxfordshire +4 30 £28,000 -30.00%
Surrey +10 16 £35,000 -12.50%
Hampshire -10 16 £27,500 -13.38%
Berkshire -5 11 £32,500 -23.52%
East Sussex -6 5 £34,000 -2.85%
West Sussex -5 4 £32,500 -
Middlesex -21 1 - -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 93 (51.67%) QA
2 82 (45.56%) Automated Testing
3 70 (38.89%) ISEB
4 61 (33.89%) Test Scripting
5 54 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
6 53 (29.44%) Software Testing
7 52 (28.89%) .NET
8 51 (28.33%) SQL
9 44 (24.44%) Selenium
10 41 (22.78%) Java
11 36 (20.00%) SQL Server
12 34 (18.89%) C#
13 33 (18.33%) ISTQB
14 31 (17.22%) Microsoft
15 29 (16.11%) Degree
16 24 (13.33%) MS Excel
17 23 (12.78%) Scrum
18 22 (12.22%) Regression Testing
19 21 (11.67%) Automation Testing
20 19 (10.56%) Software Engineering
20 19 (10.56%) QuickTest Pro
21 18 (10.00%) Windows
22 17 (9.444%) HP
22 17 (9.444%) ASP.NET
22 17 (9.444%) Test Automation
22 17 (9.444%) HP Quality Center
23 16 (8.889%) WebDriver
24 14 (7.778%) Web Testing
24 14 (7.778%) User Acceptance Testing
24 14 (7.778%) Finance

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 52 (28.89%) .NET
2 17 (9.444%) ASP.NET
3 11 (6.111%) Web Services
3 11 (6.111%) .NET Framework
4 9 (5.000%) HTML
5 8 (4.444%) XML
6 5 (2.778%) SOAP
6 5 (2.778%) WCF
7 4 (2.222%) jQuery
7 4 (2.222%) XSD
7 4 (2.222%) XSLT
7 4 (2.222%) CSS
7 4 (2.222%) ASP
8 3 (1.667%) HTML5
9 2 (1.111%) soapUI
9 2 (1.111%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
10 1 (0.556%) CSS3
10 1 (0.556%) Sphinx
10 1 (0.556%) LINQ
10 1 (0.556%) Django
Application Platforms
1 9 (5.000%) IIS
1 9 (5.000%) Drupal
2 8 (4.444%) MS Exchange
3 2 (1.111%) BizTalk Server
4 1 (0.556%) Apache
4 1 (0.556%) nginx
4 1 (0.556%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 24 (13.33%) MS Excel
2 12 (6.667%) MS Office
3 2 (1.111%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 9 (5.000%) GSM
1 9 (5.000%) UMTS
2 5 (2.778%) Internet
3 3 (1.667%) HTTP
4 1 (0.556%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.556%) VoIP
4 1 (0.556%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 36 (20.00%) SQL Server
2 9 (5.000%) MS Access
3 7 (3.889%) MySQL
4 4 (2.222%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.111%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.111%) SQL Server 2008
6 1 (0.556%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.556%) SQLite
6 1 (0.556%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 44 (24.44%) Selenium
2 19 (10.56%) QuickTest Pro
3 16 (8.889%) WebDriver
4 13 (7.222%) Team Foundation Server
5 11 (6.111%) Cucumber
6 10 (5.556%) Visual Studio
7 8 (4.444%) JIRA
8 6 (3.333%) SilkPerformer
8 6 (3.333%) FitNesse
9 5 (2.778%) Concordion
10 4 (2.222%) Git (software)
11 3 (1.667%) EasyMock
11 3 (1.667%) jMock
11 3 (1.667%) TestPartner
11 3 (1.667%) QALoad
11 3 (1.667%) JUnit
11 3 (1.667%) LoadRunner
12 2 (1.111%) JMeter
12 2 (1.111%) TestDirector
12 2 (1.111%) WATIR
General
1 14 (7.778%) Finance
2 10 (5.556%) Telecoms
3 3 (1.667%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 90 (50.00%) Tester
2 75 (41.67%) Test Analyst
2 75 (41.67%) Analyst
3 51 (28.33%) Software Tester
4 46 (25.56%) Test Engineer
5 36 (20.00%) QA Tester
6 28 (15.56%) QA Engineer
7 25 (13.89%) Software Test Engineer
7 25 (13.89%) Software Engineer
8 23 (12.78%) Software Test Analyst
9 21 (11.67%) Manual Tester
10 18 (10.00%) QA Analyst
11 13 (7.222%) Graduate
12 10 (5.556%) Test Team Leader
12 10 (5.556%) Team Leader
12 10 (5.556%) Automation Tester
13 9 (5.000%) Manual Test Analyst
13 9 (5.000%) Test Manager
14 8 (4.444%) Testing Analyst
14 8 (4.444%) Graduate Software Tester
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.222%) Computer Science
2 9 (5.000%) IVR
3 6 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.778%) Mathematics
5 4 (2.222%) Mobile Payment
6 2 (1.111%) Client/Server
6 2 (1.111%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.556%) Replication
7 1 (0.556%) NHS
7 1 (0.556%) W3C
7 1 (0.556%) Blog
7 1 (0.556%) SaaS
7 1 (0.556%) Social Media
7 1 (0.556%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.00%) Windows
2 9 (5.000%) Linux
3 4 (2.222%) Windows Vista
4 2 (1.111%) UNIX
4 2 (1.111%) SUSE
5 1 (0.556%) Debian
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (45.56%) Automated Testing
2 61 (33.89%) Test Scripting
3 54 (30.00%) Agile Software Development
4 53 (29.44%) Software Testing
5 23 (12.78%) Scrum
6 22 (12.22%) Regression Testing
7 21 (11.67%) Automation Testing
8 19 (10.56%) Software Engineering
9 17 (9.444%) Test Automation
10 14 (7.778%) User Acceptance Testing
10 14 (7.778%) Web Testing
11 13 (7.222%) Performance Testing
12 12 (6.667%) OO
13 11 (6.111%) Continuous Improvement
14 8 (4.444%) System Testing
14 8 (4.444%) TDD
15 7 (3.889%) Continuous Integration
16 6 (3.333%) Test Strategy
17 4 (2.222%) V-Model
17 4 (2.222%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (28.33%) SQL
2 41 (22.78%) Java
3 34 (18.89%) C#
4 10 (5.556%) VB.NET
5 7 (3.889%) C++
6 5 (2.778%) JavaScript
6 5 (2.778%) VB
7 3 (1.667%) Python
7 3 (1.667%) VBScript
8 2 (1.111%) Perl
8 2 (1.111%) C
9 1 (0.556%) Ruby
9 1 (0.556%) Scala
9 1 (0.556%) Bash shell
9 1 (0.556%) PHP
9 1 (0.556%) Delphi
Qualifications
1 70 (38.89%) ISEB
2 33 (18.33%) ISTQB
3 29 (16.11%) Degree
4 2 (1.111%) Security Cleared
5 1 (0.556%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 93 (51.67%) QA
2 1 (0.556%) 21 CFR Part 11
System Software
1 8 (4.444%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 17 (9.444%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 31 (17.22%) Microsoft
2 17 (9.444%) HP
3 9 (5.000%) Nokia
4 7 (3.889%) Oracle
5 3 (1.667%) Borland
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