The first table below looks at the demand for ISTQB in IT jobs advertised for the South Wales region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited ISTQB over the 3 months to 22 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 Qualifications for the South Wales region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
International Software Testing Qualification Board (ISTQB)
Rank 81 84 66
Rank change year-on-year
+3 -18
Permanent jobs citing ISTQB 5 3 15
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 0.472% 0.302% 1.697%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.825% 0.901% 6.024%
Number of salaries quoted 4 3 15
Average salary £31,750 £33,000 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.78% +32.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,800 £29,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £35,850 £33,000 £29,400
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -6.66%
All Qualifications
South Wales
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Qualifications category
274 333 249
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in South Wales 25.85% 33.50% 28.17%
Number of salaries quoted 250 293 225
Average salary £33,700 £35,000 £33,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-3.71% +5.26%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £54,000 £45,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £40,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
- +5.26%
ISTQB
Wales

ISTQB
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing ISTQB across the South Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Qualifications category.

South Wales ISTQB Jobs Demand Trend

ISTQB
Salary Trend

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

South Wales ISTQB Salary Trend

ISTQB
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ISTQB within the South Wales region over the 3 months to 22 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
Cardiff -15 5 £31,750 -3.78%
ISTQB
Wales

ISTQB
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB.

1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
2 8 (80.00%) Automated Testing
3 7 (70.00%) Selenium
3 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
3 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (60.00%) HP Quality Center
5 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
5 5 (50.00%) Finance
5 5 (50.00%) SOAP
5 5 (50.00%) XML
6 4 (40.00%) Windows
6 4 (40.00%) MS Office
6 4 (40.00%) Mainframe
6 4 (40.00%) Web Services
6 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (40.00%) VME
7 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
7 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
7 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
7 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
7 3 (30.00%) C#
7 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
7 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
8 2 (20.00%) QA
8 2 (20.00%) SQL
8 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
9 1 (10.00%) Degree
9 1 (10.00%) JSON
9 1 (10.00%) .NET
9 1 (10.00%) MS Excel

ISTQB
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the South Wales region citing ISTQB 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 ISTQB. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (50.00%) SOAP
1 5 (50.00%) XML
2 4 (40.00%) Web Services
3 1 (10.00%) JSON
3 1 (10.00%) .NET
Applications
1 4 (40.00%) MS Office
2 1 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) HTTP
Development Applications
1 7 (70.00%) Selenium
2 3 (30.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (30.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (10.00%) ClearQuest
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 5 (50.00%) Analyst
1 5 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 4 (40.00%) Tester
2 4 (40.00%) Systems Tester
2 4 (40.00%) Senior Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Senior Systems Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Systems Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (10.00%) Client/Server
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
1 4 (40.00%) VME
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Automated Testing
2 7 (70.00%) Test Scripting
2 7 (70.00%) Agile Software Development
3 5 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (30.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Load Testing
5 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (10.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (10.00%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) C#
2 2 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) ISEB
2 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
2 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
3 1 (10.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (60.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft
Cardiff, South Glamorgan
Code and script development (primarily using Java and Groovy) on a range of automated testing tools and frameworks, including Selenium, soapUI and JBehave... ISTQB/ISEB qualified to intermediate...
Epsilium Recruitment
Salary: From £35,000 to £40,000 per annum + Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013