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

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Test Engineer
Rank 425 407 400
Rank change year-on-year
-18 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Test Engineer 8 32 24
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.036% 0.135% 0.105%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.038% 0.141% 0.111%
Number of salaries quoted 8 30 18
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,700 £32,400 £36,000
10% offered a salary of more than £45,450 £58,250 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £42,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -11.76%
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20978 22652 21667
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.79% 95.25% 94.43%
Number of salaries quoted 17417 19544 18626
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £60,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Senior Test Engineer
England

Senior Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Senior Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South East Senior Test Engineer Salary Trend

Senior Test Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Test Engineer within the South East 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
Oxfordshire - 4 £45,000 -
Buckinghamshire -8 2 £36,000 +0.69%
Berkshire -1 1 £40,000 +15.94%
Senior Test Engineer
England

Senior Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Senior Test Engineer 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 Senior Test Engineer in their job title.

1 22 (56.41%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) C++
2 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
3 13 (33.33%) OO
3 13 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
4 12 (30.77%) Java
4 12 (30.77%) .NET
4 12 (30.77%) Software Testing
4 12 (30.77%) .NET Framework
4 12 (30.77%) Test Scripting
5 11 (28.21%) QA
6 10 (25.64%) Team Foundation Server
6 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
6 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
6 10 (25.64%) SQL
7 9 (23.08%) Scrum
8 8 (20.51%) Windows
9 7 (17.95%) HP
9 7 (17.95%) ISEB
9 7 (17.95%) Web Testing
9 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
9 7 (17.95%) HP Quality Center
9 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2005
9 7 (17.95%) WCF
9 7 (17.95%) WPF
10 6 (15.38%) ISTQB
10 6 (15.38%) Linux
10 6 (15.38%) Visual Studio
10 6 (15.38%) Automated Testing
11 5 (12.82%) TDD

Senior Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited Senior Test Engineer 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 Senior Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (30.77%) .NET
1 12 (30.77%) .NET Framework
2 7 (17.95%) WCF
2 7 (17.95%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 2 (5.128%) SharePoint
1 2 (5.128%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (5.128%) MS Office
2 1 (2.564%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.692%) FTP
1 3 (7.692%) HTTP
1 3 (7.692%) DNS
1 3 (7.692%) HTTPS
1 3 (7.692%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (25.64%) SQL Server
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2008
2 7 (17.95%) SQL Server 2005
3 2 (5.128%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 10 (25.64%) Team Foundation Server
2 6 (15.38%) Visual Studio
3 5 (12.82%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (10.26%) LabVIEW
5 2 (5.128%) Selenium
5 2 (5.128%) FitNesse
5 2 (5.128%) Cucumber
5 2 (5.128%) Concordion
6 1 (2.564%) MSTest
General
1 5 (12.82%) Advertising
1 5 (12.82%) Electronics
1 5 (12.82%) Finance
1 5 (12.82%) Pharmaceutical
2 3 (7.692%) Aerospace
3 2 (5.128%) Manufacturing
4 1 (2.564%) Multimedia
Miscellaneous
1 4 (10.26%) Computer Science
2 2 (5.128%) Mathematics
2 2 (5.128%) Replication
3 1 (2.564%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 8 (20.51%) Windows
2 6 (15.38%) Linux
3 2 (5.128%) Windows Server 2008
3 2 (5.128%) Windows 7
4 1 (2.564%) Embedded Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (33.33%) OO
1 13 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (30.77%) Software Testing
2 12 (30.77%) Test Scripting
3 10 (25.64%) Test Automation
4 9 (23.08%) Scrum
5 7 (17.95%) Web Testing
6 6 (15.38%) Automated Testing
7 5 (12.82%) TDD
7 5 (12.82%) Service Delivery
7 5 (12.82%) Regression Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Manual Testing
7 5 (12.82%) System Testing
7 5 (12.82%) Waterfall
7 5 (12.82%) BDD
7 5 (12.82%) Test Strategy
7 5 (12.82%) ATDD
7 5 (12.82%) Analytics
8 4 (10.26%) User Acceptance Testing
9 3 (7.692%) CAD
Programming Languages
1 22 (56.41%) C#
2 14 (35.90%) C++
3 12 (30.77%) Java
4 10 (25.64%) SQL
5 5 (12.82%) VBScript
5 5 (12.82%) VB
6 4 (10.26%) Python
6 4 (10.26%) Perl
7 3 (7.692%) Shell Script
8 2 (5.128%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (17.95%) ISEB
2 6 (15.38%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.26%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (28.21%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.128%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (17.95%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (35.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (17.95%) HP
3 2 (5.128%) VMware
4 1 (2.564%) IBM