The first table below looks at the demand for the Software 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 Software Test Engineer 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
Software Test Engineer
Rank 409 403 396
Rank change year-on-year
-6 -7
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Test Engineer 27 40 25
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.123% 0.168% 0.110%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.129% 0.177% 0.116%
Number of salaries quoted 26 36 20
Average salary £31,000 £35,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.42% +7.69%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £44,500 £42,500 £42,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £33,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-1.51% -1.49%
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%
Software Test Engineer
England

Software Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Software Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Software Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South East Software Test Engineer Salary Trend

Software Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

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

South East Software Test Engineer Salary Histogram

Software Test Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Test Engineer 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 +15 8 £31,000 -22.50%
Oxfordshire -18 8 £30,000 +9.09%
West Sussex - 4 £44,000 -
Buckinghamshire -7 2 £28,500 -32.94%
Kent - 2 £32,500 -
Hampshire -5 1 £25,000 -41.17%
Middlesex - 1 £55,000 -
Software Test Engineer
England

Software Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 40 (57.14%) ISEB
2 33 (47.14%) Software Testing
2 33 (47.14%) QA
3 31 (44.29%) .NET
4 28 (40.00%) C#
4 28 (40.00%) Automated Testing
5 24 (34.29%) Manual Testing
5 24 (34.29%) Java
6 21 (30.00%) SQL Server
6 21 (30.00%) Selenium
7 20 (28.57%) Degree
8 19 (27.14%) Test Automation
9 18 (25.71%) ASP.NET
9 18 (25.71%) Windows
10 16 (22.86%) OO
10 16 (22.86%) ISTQB
11 15 (21.43%) Microsoft
12 13 (18.57%) Scrum
12 13 (18.57%) Linux
12 13 (18.57%) XML
13 12 (17.14%) JUnit
13 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 11 (15.71%) Agile Software Development
15 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
15 10 (14.29%) WebDriver
16 9 (12.86%) Performance Testing
16 9 (12.86%) Ant
16 9 (12.86%) J2EE
17 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
17 8 (11.43%) SQL

Software Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 31 (44.29%) .NET
2 18 (25.71%) ASP.NET
3 13 (18.57%) XML
4 9 (12.86%) J2EE
5 7 (10.00%) HTML
6 4 (5.714%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 4 (5.714%) ASP.NET MVC
7 3 (4.286%) Middleware
8 2 (2.857%) WCF
8 2 (2.857%) soapUI
8 2 (2.857%) SOAP
Application Platforms
1 8 (11.43%) Tomcat
2 2 (2.857%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.714%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.429%) MS Project
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.286%) ATM
1 3 (4.286%) Ethernet
2 2 (2.857%) HTTP
3 1 (1.429%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (30.00%) SQL Server
2 7 (10.00%) PostgreSQL
3 4 (5.714%) SQL Server 2012
4 2 (2.857%) MS Access
5 1 (1.429%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 21 (30.00%) Selenium
2 12 (17.14%) JUnit
3 10 (14.29%) WebDriver
4 9 (12.86%) Ant
5 7 (10.00%) TestNG
6 6 (8.571%) Team Foundation Server
7 4 (5.714%) NUnit
8 3 (4.286%) Visual Studio
9 2 (2.857%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (2.857%) Sahi
9 2 (2.857%) Cucumber
10 1 (1.429%) Concordion
10 1 (1.429%) Git (software)
10 1 (1.429%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.429%) JMeter
10 1 (1.429%) LabVIEW
10 1 (1.429%) Subversion
10 1 (1.429%) FitNesse
General
1 3 (4.286%) Aerospace
2 2 (2.857%) Manufacturing
2 2 (2.857%) Advertising
3 1 (1.429%) Avionics
3 1 (1.429%) Electronics
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.00%) Computer Science
2 6 (8.571%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (2.857%) Life Science
4 1 (1.429%) CCTV
4 1 (1.429%) SCADA
4 1 (1.429%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 18 (25.71%) Windows
2 13 (18.57%) Linux
3 7 (10.00%) Ubuntu
4 1 (1.429%) Embedded Linux
4 1 (1.429%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (47.14%) Software Testing
2 28 (40.00%) Automated Testing
3 24 (34.29%) Manual Testing
4 19 (27.14%) Test Automation
5 16 (22.86%) OO
6 13 (18.57%) Scrum
7 12 (17.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (15.71%) Agile Software Development
9 10 (14.29%) Software Engineering
10 9 (12.86%) Performance Testing
11 7 (10.00%) System Testing
12 6 (8.571%) Continuous Integration
12 6 (8.571%) Test Strategy
12 6 (8.571%) ATDD
12 6 (8.571%) Unit Testing
12 6 (8.571%) TDD
12 6 (8.571%) BDD
13 5 (7.143%) Risk Assessment
13 5 (7.143%) UML
13 5 (7.143%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 28 (40.00%) C#
2 24 (34.29%) Java
3 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
3 8 (11.43%) SQL
3 8 (11.43%) C++
4 4 (5.714%) VB.NET
5 3 (4.286%) Python
5 3 (4.286%) VB
6 2 (2.857%) Ruby
7 1 (1.429%) Tcl
7 1 (1.429%) C
7 1 (1.429%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (57.14%) ISEB
2 20 (28.57%) Degree
3 16 (22.86%) ISTQB
4 3 (4.286%) Security Cleared
5 1 (1.429%) HNC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (47.14%) QA
2 3 (4.286%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (2.857%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.429%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.143%) Oracle
3 2 (2.857%) VMware
3 2 (2.857%) Twitter
4 1 (1.429%) IBM
4 1 (1.429%) HP