The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Test Engineer in their job title over the 3 months to 18 June 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
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 318 234 302
Rank change year-on-year
-84 +68
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 124 234 129
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 0.555% 0.984% 0.542%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.584% 1.032% 0.573%
Number of salaries quoted 109 205 110
Average salary £33,000 £40,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-17.50% +8.10%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £52,500 £57,500 £46,500
UK excluding London average salary £33,750 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-3.57% -
All Job Titles
South East
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
21220 22674 22528
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South East 94.91% 95.34% 94.64%
Number of salaries quoted 17656 19407 19449
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £40,000
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £26,000 £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%
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Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South East Test Engineer Jobs Demand Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Trend

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

South East Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

South East Test Engineer Salary Histogram

Test Engineer
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Engineer within the South East region over the 3 months to 18 June 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
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Job
Vacancies
Surrey -16 37 £41,500 -17.00% 4
Hampshire -32 19 £28,500 -18.57% 5
Berkshire -66 19 £41,250 +17.85% 3
Buckinghamshire -7 13 £28,000 -30.00% 2
Oxfordshire -23 11 £25,000 -9.09% 1
West Sussex +1 9 £36,000 +18.03%
Middlesex - 9 £55,000 - 1
East Sussex - 3 £33,000 -
Kent - 3 £32,500 - 2
Thames Valley - 1 £35,000 -
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England

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title.

1 140 (40.35%) QA
2 133 (38.33%) Agile Software Development
3 126 (36.31%) ISEB
4 103 (29.68%) Test Automation
5 101 (29.11%) Scrum
6 100 (28.82%) Test Scripting
7 92 (26.51%) SQL
8 87 (25.07%) .NET
9 86 (24.78%) Degree
10 84 (24.21%) C#
11 79 (22.77%) Linux
12 78 (22.48%) Software Testing
13 66 (19.02%) UNIX
14 65 (18.73%) Java
15 63 (18.16%) Windows
16 62 (17.87%) QuickTest Pro
17 57 (16.43%) Regression Testing
18 54 (15.56%) Selenium
19 53 (15.27%) SQL Server
20 51 (14.70%) HP
21 50 (14.41%) Microsoft
22 47 (13.54%) Perl
22 47 (13.54%) ISTQB
22 47 (13.54%) Automated Testing
23 45 (12.97%) Manual Testing
24 42 (12.10%) C++
24 42 (12.10%) Finance
25 40 (11.53%) TDD
26 39 (11.24%) Waterfall
27 36 (10.37%) Automation Testing

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs across the South East region that cited 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 Test Engineer in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 87 (25.07%) .NET
2 29 (8.357%) XML
3 25 (7.205%) .NET Framework
4 15 (4.323%) ASP.NET
5 12 (3.458%) XSLT
6 10 (2.882%) J2EE
7 9 (2.594%) Middleware
8 8 (2.305%) WCF
8 8 (2.305%) WPF
9 7 (2.017%) HTML
10 5 (1.441%) SOAP
11 3 (0.865%) Web Services
11 3 (0.865%) soapUI
12 1 (0.288%) LAMP
12 1 (0.288%) WinForms
12 1 (0.288%) WebSphere
Application Platforms
1 7 (2.017%) Tomcat
2 4 (1.153%) IIS
2 4 (1.153%) Drupal
3 2 (0.576%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.288%) SAS
4 1 (0.288%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (3.746%) MS Excel
2 8 (2.305%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 13 (3.746%) Wireless
2 12 (3.458%) Wi-Fi
3 10 (2.882%) GSM
3 10 (2.882%) TCP/IP
4 9 (2.594%) ATM
5 8 (2.305%) Broadband
5 8 (2.305%) 3G
6 7 (2.017%) xDSL
7 6 (1.729%) NAS
7 6 (1.729%) HTTP
7 6 (1.729%) DNS
8 5 (1.441%) Bluetooth
8 5 (1.441%) ZigBee
8 5 (1.441%) HSPA
9 4 (1.153%) Cisco IOS
9 4 (1.153%) MPLS
9 4 (1.153%) BGP
9 4 (1.153%) Ethernet
10 3 (0.865%) FTP
10 3 (0.865%) HTTPS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 53 (15.27%) SQL Server
2 7 (2.017%) SQL Server 2005
2 7 (2.017%) SQL Server 2008
3 6 (1.729%) MySQL
3 6 (1.729%) PostgreSQL
3 6 (1.729%) MS Access
4 5 (1.441%) Hadoop
4 5 (1.441%) Big Data
5 3 (0.865%) DB2
5 3 (0.865%) Oracle 11g
6 2 (0.576%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 62 (17.87%) QuickTest Pro
2 54 (15.56%) Selenium
3 23 (6.628%) WebDriver
4 18 (5.187%) Visual Studio
5 15 (4.323%) Team Foundation Server
6 9 (2.594%) LabVIEW
7 8 (2.305%) JUnit
8 7 (2.017%) Ant
9 6 (1.729%) TestNG
10 5 (1.441%) JIRA
11 3 (0.865%) Sahi
11 3 (0.865%) TestDirector
11 3 (0.865%) MSTest
11 3 (0.865%) Cucumber
12 2 (0.576%) Concordion
12 2 (0.576%) JMeter
12 2 (0.576%) ClearCase
12 2 (0.576%) Git (software)
12 2 (0.576%) FitNesse
13 1 (0.288%) TestComplete
General
1 42 (12.10%) Finance
2 24 (6.916%) Electronics
3 20 (5.764%) Telecoms
4 13 (3.746%) Aerospace
4 13 (3.746%) Legal
5 12 (3.458%) Advertising
6 11 (3.170%) Manufacturing
7 10 (2.882%) Pharmaceutical
8 7 (2.017%) Automotive
9 2 (0.576%) Financial Institution
9 2 (0.576%) Games
9 2 (0.576%) Military
9 2 (0.576%) Marketing
9 2 (0.576%) Avionics
10 1 (0.288%) Multimedia
10 1 (0.288%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 33 (9.510%) Computer Science
2 17 (4.899%) Embedded Systems
3 8 (2.305%) Mathematics
4 6 (1.729%) Enterprise Software
4 6 (1.729%) Device Driver
5 5 (1.441%) Handset
5 5 (1.441%) Smartphone
6 4 (1.153%) DTV
6 4 (1.153%) Mainframe
6 4 (1.153%) Client/Server
7 3 (0.865%) MPEG
7 3 (0.865%) SaaS
7 3 (0.865%) Social Media
8 2 (0.576%) EFT
8 2 (0.576%) Replication
8 2 (0.576%) APACS
8 2 (0.576%) STB
8 2 (0.576%) Cryptography
8 2 (0.576%) Derivative
8 2 (0.576%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 79 (22.77%) Linux
2 66 (19.02%) UNIX
3 63 (18.16%) Windows
4 9 (2.594%) AIX
4 9 (2.594%) Solaris
5 6 (1.729%) Ubuntu
6 3 (0.865%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (0.576%) Windows 7
8 1 (0.288%) Embedded Linux
8 1 (0.288%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (38.33%) Agile Software Development
2 103 (29.68%) Test Automation
3 101 (29.11%) Scrum
4 100 (28.82%) Test Scripting
5 78 (22.48%) Software Testing
6 57 (16.43%) Regression Testing
7 47 (13.54%) Automated Testing
8 45 (12.97%) Manual Testing
9 40 (11.53%) TDD
10 39 (11.24%) Waterfall
11 36 (10.37%) Automation Testing
12 30 (8.646%) Performance Testing
13 29 (8.357%) Software Engineering
14 27 (7.781%) OO
15 26 (7.493%) Web Testing
16 24 (6.916%) BDD
16 24 (6.916%) ATDD
17 23 (6.628%) System Testing
18 21 (6.052%) Continuous Improvement
19 19 (5.476%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 92 (26.51%) SQL
2 84 (24.21%) C#
3 65 (18.73%) Java
4 47 (13.54%) Perl
5 42 (12.10%) C++
6 29 (8.357%) PHP
7 25 (7.205%) Python
8 23 (6.628%) VB
9 21 (6.052%) VBA
10 20 (5.764%) VBScript
11 19 (5.476%) C
12 12 (3.458%) VB.NET
13 8 (2.305%) JavaScript
14 6 (1.729%) Shell Script
15 5 (1.441%) Bash shell
15 5 (1.441%) Embedded C
15 5 (1.441%) Assembly Language
16 4 (1.153%) Ruby
17 3 (0.865%) PL/SQL
18 1 (0.288%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 126 (36.31%) ISEB
2 86 (24.78%) Degree
3 47 (13.54%) ISTQB
4 15 (4.323%) Security Cleared
5 8 (2.305%) SC Cleared
6 4 (1.153%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (1.153%) CCIE
6 4 (1.153%) CCNP
6 4 (1.153%) CCIP
7 3 (0.865%) HNC
7 3 (0.865%) HND
8 2 (0.576%) DV Cleared
9 1 (0.288%) CEH
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 140 (40.35%) QA
2 8 (2.305%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.576%) ISO 14001
4 1 (0.288%) SLA
4 1 (0.288%) JTAG
4 1 (0.288%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.288%) DO-254
System Software
1 5 (1.441%) NFS
1 5 (1.441%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 32 (9.222%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.153%) Legato
3 1 (0.288%) SCOM
Vendors
1 51 (14.70%) HP
2 50 (14.41%) Microsoft
3 21 (6.052%) Oracle
4 6 (1.729%) VMware
5 4 (1.153%) Cisco
5 4 (1.153%) IBM
5 4 (1.153%) Veritas
5 4 (1.153%) Remedy
6 3 (0.865%) Compuware
7 2 (0.576%) Twitter
8 1 (0.288%) NetHawk
8 1 (0.288%) Mentor Graphics
8 1 (0.288%) JBoss
Thame, Oxfordshire
You will need to be comfortable performing all aspects of testing (50/50 split of manual and automated testing). You will be writing system tests on a daily...
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 25,000 - 35,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Leatherhead, Surrey
On the automation side, the test environment focused on Selenium Webdriver in-depth knowledge of this, in addition to having worked in a C# / .Net environment is an...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £35000 Per Annum
Posted: 12 June 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
QA Test Engineer, Web Tester, ideally Selenium and SQL, Newbury, Berkshire, c £ 35000 + benefits... With experience of testing web front ends you will ideally have knowledge of Selenium...
The People Network
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Egham, Surrey
Hands-on experience of manual testing. ISEB/ISTQB qualification. Basic SQL. Hands-on commercial experience of automated testing (e.g... Selenium) Experience with MS Test Manager. Previous experience...
Canary Wharf and City
Salary: £35,000 per annum plus benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Kent
o Keyword driven testing o Design of regression test suites and smoke tests o Design and execution of performance, and load tests o Experienced in System testing - Functional...
Code IT Recruitment
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey
Alderbridge Network Recruitment
Salary: Up to £45,000 per annum Up to £45K depending on experience + benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Maidstone, Kent
Outset UK
Salary: From £26,000 to £30,000 per annum Plus Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
Reading, Thames Valley
E-Resourcing
Salary: £55000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 21 May 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Fleet, Hampshire
Anite Telecoms Limited
Salary: Competitive + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 28,000-35,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
Middlesex, South East
British Sky Broadcasting
Posted: 29 May 2013
Newbury, Berkshire
People Source Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hatfield, South East
People Source Consulting
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Aylesbury, Buckinghamshire
Evolution Recruitment Solutions
Salary: 28,000-40,000
Posted: 13 June 2013
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