The first table below looks at the demand for the Senior Tester 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 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 South East region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 415 415 392
Rank change year-on-year
0 -23
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 21 28 29
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.095% 0.118% 0.128%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.101% 0.124% 0.135%
Number of salaries quoted 13 28 29
Average salary £45,000 £50,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-10.00% +33.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £35,000 £33,300 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
20893 22619 21470
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.89% 95.19% 94.41%
Number of salaries quoted 17337 19571 18458
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,250 £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 Tester
England

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Trend

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

South East Senior Tester Salary Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Senior Tester across the South East region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South East Senior Tester Salary Histogram

Senior Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Tester within the South East 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
Surrey +14 9 £60,000 +41.17%
Berkshire +4 4 £46,500 -15.45%
Oxfordshire -12 4 £40,000 -8.04%
Hampshire +2 2 - -
Buckinghamshire -6 1 £40,000 -2.43%
Kent - 1 £35,000 -
Senior Tester
England

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 28 (54.90%) QA
2 27 (52.94%) Software Testing
3 17 (33.33%) ISEB
3 17 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
5 12 (23.53%) Selenium
5 12 (23.53%) C#
5 12 (23.53%) HP Quality Center
6 11 (21.57%) SQL
6 11 (21.57%) HP
6 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
7 10 (19.61%) Degree
7 10 (19.61%) User Acceptance Testing
7 10 (19.61%) Java
7 10 (19.61%) Windows
8 9 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
8 9 (17.65%) Scrum
8 9 (17.65%) Finance
9 8 (15.69%) Automated Testing
9 8 (15.69%) ISTQB
9 8 (15.69%) .NET
9 8 (15.69%) Team Foundation Server
9 8 (15.69%) Test Management
10 7 (13.73%) Manual Testing
10 7 (13.73%) Test Strategy
10 7 (13.73%) UNIX
10 7 (13.73%) Regression Testing
11 6 (11.76%) QuickTest Pro
11 6 (11.76%) Visual Studio
11 6 (11.76%) Automation Testing

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 8 (15.69%) .NET
2 2 (3.922%) ASP.NET
2 2 (3.922%) soapUI
2 2 (3.922%) Node.js
2 2 (3.922%) XML
2 2 (3.922%) SOAP
3 1 (1.961%) Web Services
3 1 (1.961%) HTML
3 1 (1.961%) WAP
3 1 (1.961%) Middleware
3 1 (1.961%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.961%) JSON
3 1 (1.961%) WCF
3 1 (1.961%) Silverlight
3 1 (1.961%) jQuery
3 1 (1.961%) Google Maps API
3 1 (1.961%) REST
3 1 (1.961%) Bing Maps
3 1 (1.961%) CSS
3 1 (1.961%) ASP
Application Platforms
1 2 (3.922%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (7.843%) MS Project
2 1 (1.961%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.843%) TCP/IP
1 4 (7.843%) IPv6
1 4 (7.843%) VLAN
1 4 (7.843%) NAS
2 1 (1.961%) LTE
2 1 (1.961%) CDMA
2 1 (1.961%) GSM
2 1 (1.961%) UMTS
2 1 (1.961%) FTP
2 1 (1.961%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (25.49%) SQL Server
2 3 (5.882%) Big Data
3 2 (3.922%) Data Mining
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.961%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 12 (23.53%) Selenium
2 8 (15.69%) Team Foundation Server
3 6 (11.76%) Visual Studio
3 6 (11.76%) QuickTest Pro
4 4 (7.843%) Visual Studio Team System
5 3 (5.882%) JMeter
6 2 (3.922%) Concordion
6 2 (3.922%) WebDriver
6 2 (3.922%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.961%) Hudson
7 1 (1.961%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.961%) JUnit
7 1 (1.961%) SilkTest
7 1 (1.961%) JIRA
7 1 (1.961%) TestDirector
7 1 (1.961%) FitNesse
General
1 9 (17.65%) Finance
2 5 (9.804%) Publishing
3 2 (3.922%) Billing
3 2 (3.922%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 5 (9.804%) Statistics
2 4 (7.843%) Mathematics
2 4 (7.843%) Replication
2 4 (7.843%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
2 4 (7.843%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (5.882%) SaaS
3 3 (5.882%) Computer Science
4 2 (3.922%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.922%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (3.922%) Open Source
5 1 (1.961%) Social Network
5 1 (1.961%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.961%) N-Tier
5 1 (1.961%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 10 (19.61%) Windows
2 7 (13.73%) UNIX
3 4 (7.843%) Linux
4 2 (3.922%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.961%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (52.94%) Software Testing
2 17 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 10 (19.61%) User Acceptance Testing
4 9 (17.65%) Scrum
4 9 (17.65%) Agile Software Development
5 8 (15.69%) Automated Testing
5 8 (15.69%) Test Management
6 7 (13.73%) Test Strategy
6 7 (13.73%) Regression Testing
6 7 (13.73%) Manual Testing
7 6 (11.76%) Test Automation
7 6 (11.76%) Automation Testing
8 5 (9.804%) Bug Management
8 5 (9.804%) Product Management
8 5 (9.804%) Use Case
9 4 (7.843%) Load Testing
9 4 (7.843%) Integration Testing
9 4 (7.843%) Software Architecture
9 4 (7.843%) System Testing
9 4 (7.843%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 12 (23.53%) C#
2 11 (21.57%) SQL
3 10 (19.61%) Java
4 3 (5.882%) JavaScript
4 3 (5.882%) C++
4 3 (5.882%) Python
4 3 (5.882%) PHP
4 3 (5.882%) Scala
5 2 (3.922%) Ruby
6 1 (1.961%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (33.33%) ISEB
2 10 (19.61%) Degree
3 8 (15.69%) ISTQB
4 3 (5.882%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.882%) Security Cleared
4 3 (5.882%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (54.90%) QA
System Software
1 4 (7.843%) NFS
2 1 (1.961%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.961%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 12 (23.53%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (7.843%) Legato
Vendors
1 11 (21.57%) Microsoft
1 11 (21.57%) HP
2 5 (9.804%) Progress
3 4 (7.843%) Hitachi
3 4 (7.843%) Veritas
4 1 (1.961%) VMware
4 1 (1.961%) Telerik
4 1 (1.961%) Google
4 1 (1.961%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.961%) Oracle
4 1 (1.961%) Citrix
Maidenhead, Thames Valley
E-Resourcing is recruiting for an experienced Tester to join our clients expanding development team.This is a green-field opportunity to create a new QA function to...
E-Resourcing
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Surrey, West Sussex, Crawley, Epsom, South East
This successful and profitable Software House who specialise in the supply of large scale solutions to the Corporate & Public Sector markets is looking to recruit an experienced Test...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to c£60,000 + generous bonus + bens
Posted: 29 April 2013