Test Engineer Jobs in the South West
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Engineer role in IT jobs advertised for the South West 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 17 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 Job Titles advertised for the South West region.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Engineer
Rank 158 146 155
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +9
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Engineer 52 70 50
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 0.991% 1.269% 0.853%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.026% 1.330% 0.897%
Number of salaries quoted 50 57 49
Average salary £33,250 £34,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.20% +4.61%
90% offered a salary of more than £28,400 £27,750 £26,900
10% offered a salary of more than £42,500 £40,000 £39,200
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £35,000 £35,000
% change year-on-year
-5.71% -
All Job Titles
South West
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 5066 5265 5574
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the South West 96.57% 95.45% 95.09%
Number of salaries quoted 4462 4544 4772
Average salary £35,500 £36,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.38% +2.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,500 £24,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

South West 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 West region.

South West Test Engineer Salary Trend

Test Engineer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Engineer across the South West region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

South West 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 West region over the 3 months to 17 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
Bristol +1 35 £37,500 +7.14%
Wiltshire +3 6 £32,875 -9.31%
Gloucestershire -6 5 £30,000 -11.76%
Somerset - 3 £38,000 -
Dorset - 2 £32,500 -
Test Engineer
England

Test Engineer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 49 (38.89%) QA
2 44 (34.92%) SQL
3 42 (33.33%) Automated Testing
4 40 (31.75%) Degree
5 39 (30.95%) C++
6 33 (26.19%) ISEB
6 33 (26.19%) ISTQB
7 28 (22.22%) Test Automation
8 27 (21.43%) Test Scripting
8 27 (21.43%) Software Testing
9 24 (19.05%) Windows
10 23 (18.25%) Web Services
10 23 (18.25%) Perl
11 20 (15.87%) C
11 20 (15.87%) C#
11 20 (15.87%) Computer Science
12 19 (15.08%) XML
12 19 (15.08%) Linux
13 18 (14.29%) HND
13 18 (14.29%) VPN
14 17 (13.49%) VBScript
15 16 (12.70%) HTTP
15 16 (12.70%) TCP/IP
15 16 (12.70%) Python
15 16 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
16 15 (11.90%) Waterfall
17 13 (10.32%) OO
17 13 (10.32%) Tcl
18 12 (9.524%) MySQL
18 12 (9.524%) MS Excel

Test Engineer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the South West 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 23 (18.25%) Web Services
2 19 (15.08%) XML
3 8 (6.349%) .NET
4 7 (5.556%) Middleware
5 6 (4.762%) WSH
6 4 (3.175%) SOAP
7 3 (2.381%) JSON
8 2 (1.587%) WPF
8 2 (1.587%) SGML
8 2 (1.587%) soapUI
9 1 (0.794%) HTML
9 1 (0.794%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 6 (4.762%) IIS
Applications
1 12 (9.524%) MS Excel
2 11 (8.730%) MS Office
3 1 (0.794%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (0.794%) SAP Business One
Communications & Networking
1 18 (14.29%) VPN
2 16 (12.70%) HTTP
2 16 (12.70%) TCP/IP
3 12 (9.524%) IGMP
4 6 (4.762%) Network Security
4 6 (4.762%) OSPF
4 6 (4.762%) BGP-4
4 6 (4.762%) Firewall
4 6 (4.762%) IPsec
4 6 (4.762%) DNS
4 6 (4.762%) SSL
4 6 (4.762%) IPv4
4 6 (4.762%) Internet
4 6 (4.762%) LAN
4 6 (4.762%) WAN
4 6 (4.762%) Ethernet
5 5 (3.968%) ATM
5 5 (3.968%) PSTN
5 5 (3.968%) SDH
5 5 (3.968%) 3G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.524%) MySQL
1 12 (9.524%) RDBMS
2 11 (8.730%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.794%) Crystal Reports
3 1 (0.794%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (5.556%) CppUnit
1 7 (5.556%) GoogleTest
2 6 (4.762%) Visual Studio
2 6 (4.762%) QuickTest Pro
3 5 (3.968%) Selenium
4 4 (3.175%) NUnit
4 4 (3.175%) WebDriver
4 4 (3.175%) MbUnit
5 3 (2.381%) SilkPerformer
5 3 (2.381%) LoadRunner
6 2 (1.587%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.794%) JBehave
7 1 (0.794%) FogBugz
7 1 (0.794%) Cucumber
7 1 (0.794%) MSBuild
7 1 (0.794%) LabVIEW
7 1 (0.794%) JUnit
General
1 7 (5.556%) Telecoms
1 7 (5.556%) Finance
2 5 (3.968%) Aerospace
2 5 (3.968%) Games
3 4 (3.175%) Manufacturing
3 4 (3.175%) Electronics
4 3 (2.381%) Marketing
5 2 (1.587%) Military
6 1 (0.794%) Banking
6 1 (0.794%) Retail
6 1 (0.794%) Financial Institution
Miscellaneous
1 20 (15.87%) Computer Science
2 6 (4.762%) Clustering
3 3 (2.381%) N-Tier
4 2 (1.587%) Firmware
4 2 (1.587%) SWIFT
5 1 (0.794%) Smartphone
5 1 (0.794%) Statistics
Operating Systems
1 24 (19.05%) Windows
2 19 (15.08%) Linux
3 6 (4.762%) Windows XP
3 6 (4.762%) Windows Server 2003
3 6 (4.762%) Windows Server 2008
3 6 (4.762%) Windows 7
4 3 (2.381%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (33.33%) Automated Testing
2 28 (22.22%) Test Automation
3 27 (21.43%) Test Scripting
3 27 (21.43%) Software Testing
4 16 (12.70%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (11.90%) Waterfall
6 13 (10.32%) OO
7 12 (9.524%) Agile Software Development
8 11 (8.730%) Manual Testing
9 10 (7.937%) Scrum
9 10 (7.937%) Requirements Analysis
9 10 (7.937%) OOP
10 6 (4.762%) Load Balancing
10 6 (4.762%) Multithreading
10 6 (4.762%) Software Engineering
11 5 (3.968%) Performance Testing
12 4 (3.175%) Continuous Integration
12 4 (3.175%) Time Management
12 4 (3.175%) UML
12 4 (3.175%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 44 (34.92%) SQL
2 39 (30.95%) C++
3 23 (18.25%) Perl
4 20 (15.87%) C
4 20 (15.87%) C#
5 17 (13.49%) VBScript
6 16 (12.70%) Python
7 13 (10.32%) Tcl
8 12 (9.524%) PowerShell
8 12 (9.524%) Bash shell
9 11 (8.730%) VB
10 6 (4.762%) Java
11 4 (3.175%) VBA
11 4 (3.175%) Ruby
12 2 (1.587%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.794%) JavaScript
13 1 (0.794%) VB.NET
13 1 (0.794%) Pascal
13 1 (0.794%) PHP
13 1 (0.794%) Fortran
Qualifications
1 40 (31.75%) Degree
2 33 (26.19%) ISEB
2 33 (26.19%) ISTQB
3 18 (14.29%) HND
4 12 (9.524%) Security Cleared
5 7 (5.556%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.175%) HNC
6 4 (3.175%) SC Cleared
7 3 (2.381%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (1.587%) BC Cleared
9 1 (0.794%) Sun Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (38.89%) QA
2 10 (7.937%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.587%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (5.556%) Active Directory
1 7 (5.556%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (4.762%) Hyper-V
2 6 (4.762%) Xen
3 2 (1.587%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (2.381%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.794%) WMI
Vendors
1 8 (6.349%) Cisco
1 8 (6.349%) VMware
2 6 (4.762%) Borland
2 6 (4.762%) Nortel
3 5 (3.968%) Juniper
3 5 (3.968%) Alcatel-Lucent
3 5 (3.968%) Siemens
3 5 (3.968%) Huawei
3 5 (3.968%) ZTE
3 5 (3.968%) Nokia Siemens Networks
4 3 (2.381%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.381%) HP
5 1 (0.794%) EMC
5 1 (0.794%) Intergraph
5 1 (0.794%) Oracle
5 1 (0.794%) SAP
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