South West Manual Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills within the South West region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Amersham Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Cheltenham Cheshire Cirencester City of London Clapham Coventry Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Edinburgh Enfield England Essex Exeter Gloucester Gloucestershire Gosport Guildford Halifax Hampshire Harlow Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hull Huntingdon Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool London Lymm Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newton Aycliffe North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Reading Redhill Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Street Stroud Surrey Sussex UK Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wigston Wiltshire Worcestershire Worthing Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	208	219
Rank change on same period last year	+11
Matching permanent IT job ads	50	36
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.026 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.726 %	0.617 %
Salaries quoted	47	35
Average minimum salary	£29,510	£29,449
Average salary	£31,115	£31,090
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Average maximum salary	£32,719	£32,731
UK excluding London average salary	£32,736	£32,880
% change on same period last year	-0.43 %
Processes & Methodologies South West
Matching permanent IT job ads	6890	5830
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	3.637 %	2.387 %
Salaries quoted	5829	4891
Average minimum salary	£35,605	£35,014
Average salary	£39,091	£38,723
% change on same period last year	+0.94 %
Average maximum salary	£42,578	£42,433
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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Manual Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the South West region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the South West region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Gloucestershire	+2	39	£31,329	+8.49 %
Bristol	-16	6	£32,000	+27.99 %
Dorset	-2	2	£21,500	-49.14 %
Devon	-	1	£28,000	-
Wiltshire	-23	1	£29,000	+1.61 %
Somerset	-	1	£32,500	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 86 (57.33 %) Finance 2 68 (45.33 %) ISEB 3 64 (42.67 %) WinRunner 3 64 (42.67 %) TestDirector 4 55 (36.67 %) Automated Testing 5 36 (24.00 %) System Testing 6 29 (19.33 %) QA 7 28 (18.67 %) Software Testing 8 26 (17.33 %) Windows 9 25 (16.67 %) Pensions 10 17 (11.33 %) SQL 10 17 (11.33 %) Regression Testing 11 15 (10.00 %) Client/Server 11 15 (10.00 %) Test Scripting 12 14 (9.333 %) Wealth Management

13 12 (8.000 %) Microsoft 14 9 (6.000 %) Oracle 15 8 (5.333 %) QuickTest Pro 15 8 (5.333 %) Telecoms 15 8 (5.333 %) Aerospace 15 8 (5.333 %) Health 15 8 (5.333 %) Usability Testing 16 7 (4.667 %) Linux 17 6 (4.000 %) UNIX 17 6 (4.000 %) VMware 17 6 (4.000 %) Data Management 17 6 (4.000 %) Load Testing 17 6 (4.000 %) VMware Server 18 5 (3.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 18 5 (3.333 %) Internet

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the South West region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (1.333 %) WebServices 2 1 (0.667 %) XML 2 1 (0.667 %) XML Schema 2 1 (0.667 %) .NET	Applications 1 4 (2.667 %) MS Excel 2 1 (0.667 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 3 (2.000 %) Summit	Communications & Networking 1 5 (3.333 %) Internet 2 1 (0.667 %) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 5 (3.333 %) Oracle Reports 2 4 (2.667 %) SQL Server 3 2 (1.333 %) MySQL 3 2 (1.333 %) Oracle 10g 4 1 (0.667 %) SQL Server 2005	Development Applications 1 64 (42.67 %) WinRunner 1 64 (42.67 %) TestDirector 2 8 (5.333 %) QuickTest Pro 3 5 (3.333 %) Oracle Forms 4 2 (1.333 %) TeamTrack 4 2 (1.333 %) SilkTest
General 1 86 (57.33 %) Finance 2 25 (16.67 %) Pensions 3 8 (5.333 %) Telecoms 3 8 (5.333 %) Health 3 8 (5.333 %) Aerospace 4 4 (2.667 %) Insurance 5 3 (2.000 %) Automotive 6 2 (1.333 %) Education 6 2 (1.333 %) Government 6 2 (1.333 %) Local Government	Job Titles 1 88 (58.67 %) Tester 2 83 (55.33 %) Analyst 2 83 (55.33 %) Test Analyst 3 40 (26.67 %) Systems Tester 4 20 (13.33 %) Systems Analyst 4 20 (13.33 %) Systems Test Analyst 5 12 (8.000 %) Software Tester 6 11 (7.333 %) Software Test Analyst 7 8 (5.333 %) Team Leader 7 8 (5.333 %) QA Engineer 7 8 (5.333 %) Radio Access Network Engineer 7 8 (5.333 %) Quality Engineer 7 8 (5.333 %) Test Team Leader 8 7 (4.667 %) Test Engineer 9 2 (1.333 %) Consultant 9 2 (1.333 %) Senior Test Engineer 9 2 (1.333 %) Product Consultant 10 1 (0.667 %) Junior Tester 10 1 (0.667 %) QA Tester 10 1 (0.667 %) Business Test Analyst
Miscellaneous 1 15 (10.00 %) Client/Server	Operating Systems 1 26 (17.33 %) Windows 2 7 (4.667 %) Linux 3 6 (4.000 %) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 55 (36.67 %) Automated Testing 2 36 (24.00 %) System Testing 3 28 (18.67 %) Software Testing 4 17 (11.33 %) Regression Testing 5 15 (10.00 %) Test Scripting 6 14 (9.333 %) Wealth Management 7 8 (5.333 %) Usability Testing 8 6 (4.000 %) Data Management 8 6 (4.000 %) Load Testing 9 5 (3.333 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 2 (1.333 %) CRM 10 2 (1.333 %) Performance Testing 11 1 (0.667 %) Integration Testing 11 1 (0.667 %) E-Commerce 11 1 (0.667 %) B2B 11 1 (0.667 %) B2C	Programming Languages 1 17 (11.33 %) SQL 2 2 (1.333 %) C# 3 1 (0.667 %) Java
Qualifications 1 68 (45.33 %) ISEB 2 3 (2.000 %) Degree 3 2 (1.333 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 29 (19.33 %) QA
System Software 1 6 (4.000 %) VMware Server	Vendors 1 12 (8.000 %) Microsoft 2 9 (6.000 %) Oracle 3 6 (4.000 %) VMware 4 2 (1.333 %) Sage