Manual Testing Jobs in the South West

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the South West region over the 3 months to 18 June 2013.

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Job Locations

The table below 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 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	Find Job Vacancies
Bristol	+10	28	£34,000	+22.52%	3
Gloucestershire	+22	11	£28,000	-12.50%
Somerset	-5	3	£38,000	+16.92%	1
Wiltshire	+11	2	£26,250	-22.79%	3
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Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 47 (61.04%) QA 2 42 (54.55%) SQL 3 35 (45.45%) Test Scripting 4 34 (44.16%) Automated Testing 5 33 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing 6 30 (38.96%) Agile Software Development 7 26 (33.77%) Data Warehouse 8 25 (32.47%) ETL 8 25 (32.47%) Scrum 9 22 (28.57%) Legal 10 21 (27.27%) Marketing 11 20 (25.97%) Project Management 12 19 (24.68%) Management Information System 13 18 (23.38%) Kimball Methodology 14 17 (22.08%) XML

14 17 (22.08%) VBScript 14 17 (22.08%) C# 15 16 (20.78%) Software Testing 16 14 (18.18%) Test Automation 17 13 (16.88%) Windows 18 11 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro 19 10 (12.99%) ISEB 19 10 (12.99%) .NET 19 10 (12.99%) Finance 20 9 (11.69%) Oracle 20 9 (11.69%) VB 21 8 (10.39%) Java 21 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 21 8 (10.39%) PowerShell 21 8 (10.39%) Selenium

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, 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 17 (22.08%) XML 2 10 (12.99%) .NET 3 4 (5.195%) XSD 3 4 (5.195%) XSLT 4 3 (3.896%) ActiveMQ 4 3 (3.896%) RESTful 4 3 (3.896%) Web Services 5 2 (2.597%) soapUI 5 2 (2.597%) Ajax 5 2 (2.597%) .NET Framework 5 2 (2.597%) ASP.NET 5 2 (2.597%) CSS 6 1 (1.299%) SOAP	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.896%) Magento 1 3 (3.896%) Shopify
Applications 1 6 (7.792%) MS Office 1 6 (7.792%) MS Excel	Database & Business Intelligence 1 26 (33.77%) Data Warehouse 2 6 (7.792%) SQL Server 3 3 (3.896%) Hazelcast 4 1 (1.299%) Oracle Reports 4 1 (1.299%) Oracle 8/8i 4 1 (1.299%) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 11 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro 2 8 (10.39%) Selenium 3 5 (6.494%) WebDriver 3 5 (6.494%) Cucumber 4 4 (5.195%) Team Foundation Server 4 4 (5.195%) Visual Studio 5 3 (3.896%) FitNesse 5 3 (3.896%) NUnit 5 3 (3.896%) WATIR 6 1 (1.299%) GoogleTest 6 1 (1.299%) JIRA 6 1 (1.299%) CppUnit 6 1 (1.299%) JUnit 6 1 (1.299%) Bugzilla	General 1 22 (28.57%) Legal 2 21 (27.27%) Marketing 3 10 (12.99%) Finance 4 1 (1.299%) Telecoms 4 1 (1.299%) Games
Job Titles 1 28 (36.36%) QA Engineer 2 23 (29.87%) Senior QA Engineer 3 22 (28.57%) Tester 3 22 (28.57%) Analyst 4 18 (23.38%) Test Analyst 5 16 (20.78%) Test Engineer 6 15 (19.48%) Software Engineer 7 12 (15.58%) Software Tester 7 12 (15.58%) Software Test Engineer 8 6 (7.792%) Senior Tester 9 5 (6.494%) VB Developer 9 5 (6.494%) Developer 10 4 (5.195%) Systems Analyst 10 4 (5.195%) QA Tester 10 4 (5.195%) Senior Test Engineer 10 4 (5.195%) Systems Test Analyst 10 4 (5.195%) Quality Analyst 10 4 (5.195%) Automation Tester 11 3 (3.896%) Senior Software Test Engineer 11 3 (3.896%) QA Analyst	Miscellaneous 1 19 (24.68%) Management Information System 2 6 (7.792%) N-Tier 3 5 (6.494%) Computer Science 4 3 (3.896%) SWIFT 5 1 (1.299%) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 13 (16.88%) Windows 2 5 (6.494%) UNIX 3 3 (3.896%) Linux 4 2 (2.597%) Solaris	Processes & Methodologies 1 35 (45.45%) Test Scripting 2 34 (44.16%) Automated Testing 3 33 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing 4 30 (38.96%) Agile Software Development 5 25 (32.47%) Scrum 5 25 (32.47%) ETL 6 20 (25.97%) Project Management 7 18 (23.38%) Kimball Methodology 8 16 (20.78%) Software Testing 9 14 (18.18%) Test Automation 10 7 (9.091%) OO 11 6 (7.792%) E-Commerce 11 6 (7.792%) System Testing 12 5 (6.494%) V-Model 12 5 (6.494%) Continuous Integration 12 5 (6.494%) Unit Testing 13 4 (5.195%) TDD 13 4 (5.195%) Analytics 13 4 (5.195%) OOP 14 3 (3.896%) User Stories
Programming Languages 1 42 (54.55%) SQL 2 17 (22.08%) VBScript 2 17 (22.08%) C# 3 9 (11.69%) VB 4 8 (10.39%) Java 4 8 (10.39%) PowerShell 5 6 (7.792%) C++ 6 4 (5.195%) JavaScript 6 4 (5.195%) VB.NET 6 4 (5.195%) VBA 7 2 (2.597%) Python 7 2 (2.597%) C 8 1 (1.299%) COBOL	Qualifications 1 10 (12.99%) ISEB 2 4 (5.195%) Degree 3 1 (1.299%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 47 (61.04%) QA	Systems Management 1 5 (6.494%) WMI 2 1 (1.299%) HP Quality Center
Vendors 1 9 (11.69%) Oracle 2 8 (10.39%) Microsoft 3 5 (6.494%) HP 4 3 (3.896%) Zend 5 2 (2.597%) Sun