The first table below looks at the demand for Functional Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the South West region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Functional Testing over the 3 months to 21 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the South West region.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Testing
Rank 212 207 204
Rank change year-on-year
-5 -3
Permanent jobs citing Functional Testing 4 8 1
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.076% 0.144% 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% 0.192% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 4 8 0
Average salary £40,000 £25,000 -
Average salary % change year-on-year
+60.00% -
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £33,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
+3.03% -17.50%
All Processes & Methodologies
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
3981 4176 3989
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 75.34% 75.37% 68.57%
Number of salaries quoted 3491 3556 3375
Average salary £37,500 £38,500 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.59% +2.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £27,500 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Functional Testing across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

South West Functional Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Testing
Salary Trend

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

South West Functional Testing Salary Trend

Functional Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Testing within the South West region over the 3 months to 21 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
Dorset - 3 £40,000 -
Functional Testing
England

Functional Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Functional Testing 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 Functional Testing.

1 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 4 (44.44%) Java
3 3 (33.33%) C#
3 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
3 3 (33.33%) .NET
3 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
3 3 (33.33%) MVC
3 3 (33.33%) UNIX
3 3 (33.33%) ISEB
3 3 (33.33%) Marketing
3 3 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (33.33%) CSS3
4 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
4 2 (22.22%) Mockito
4 2 (22.22%) Selenium
4 2 (22.22%) jMock
4 2 (22.22%) jQuery
4 2 (22.22%) GlassFish
4 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
4 2 (22.22%) Test Management
4 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
4 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
4 2 (22.22%) Degree
4 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (22.22%) Banking
4 2 (22.22%) Retail

Functional Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West region citing Functional Testing 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 Functional Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 5 (55.56%) CSS
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET
2 3 (33.33%) .NET
2 3 (33.33%) CSS3
3 2 (22.22%) jQuery
3 2 (22.22%) Spring
3 2 (22.22%) Hibernate
3 2 (22.22%) J2EE
3 2 (22.22%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 2 (22.22%) GlassFish
1 2 (22.22%) Tomcat
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
1 2 (22.22%) Mockito
1 2 (22.22%) Selenium
1 2 (22.22%) jMock
1 2 (22.22%) Git (software)
1 2 (22.22%) Subversion
1 2 (22.22%) Maven
1 2 (22.22%) JUnit
2 1 (11.11%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (22.22%) Banking
2 2 (22.22%) Retail
3 1 (11.11%) Finance
3 1 (11.11%) Advertising
3 1 (11.11%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Developer
2 3 (33.33%) ASP.NET Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Senior Java Developer
3 2 (22.22%) Test Manager
3 2 (22.22%) Java Developer
4 1 (11.11%) Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Java Team Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Consultant
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (33.33%) MVC
1 3 (33.33%) Project Planning
2 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
2 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Unit Testing
2 2 (22.22%) Test Management
2 2 (22.22%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE
2 2 (22.22%) OO
2 2 (22.22%) OOD
2 2 (22.22%) Scrum
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
3 1 (11.11%) Migration
3 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (11.11%) B2B
3 1 (11.11%) Test Automation
3 1 (11.11%) Performance Testing
3 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Java
2 3 (33.33%) C#
2 3 (33.33%) PHP
3 2 (22.22%) C
3 2 (22.22%) PL/SQL
3 2 (22.22%) SQL
3 2 (22.22%) VB
3 2 (22.22%) JavaScript
3 2 (22.22%) Perl
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) ISEB
2 2 (22.22%) Degree
2 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
Systems Management
1 3 (33.33%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) HP
1 2 (22.22%) Oracle