South Yorkshire Software Testing Jobs

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

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bideford Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London County Antrim Coventry Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham Elland Ely England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Ferndown Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Harlow Harpenden Haywards Heath Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Honiton Hull Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Newton Abbot Newton-le-Willows Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Royston Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Skipton Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swindon Tamworth Torfaen Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Vale of Glamorgan Wales Wallingford Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	100	87
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	25
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.178 %	2.651 %
Salaries quoted	22	20
Average minimum salary	£42,000	£24,955
Average salary	£45,182	£26,474
% change on same period last year	+70.66 %
Average maximum salary	£48,364	£27,994
UK excluding London average salary	£34,409	£33,204
% change on same period last year	+3.63 %
Processes & Methodologies South Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1194	943
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.630 %	0.386 %
Salaries quoted	956	765
Average minimum salary	£31,988	£33,092
Average salary	£35,068	£35,458
% change on same period last year	-1.09 %
Average maximum salary	£38,149	£37,824
UK excluding London average salary	£42,567	£44,524
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
Software Testing Yorkshire

Software Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the South Yorkshire 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 Software Testing across the South Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the South Yorkshire 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 Software Testing within the South Yorkshire 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
Sheffield	-10	18	£46,118	+70.01 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 21 (41.18 %) ISEB 2 18 (35.29 %) Finance 3 17 (33.33 %) QA 4 14 (27.45 %) ISEB Practitioner 5 12 (23.53 %) Financial Institution 6 11 (21.57 %) Mainframe 7 9 (17.65 %) Internet 7 9 (17.65 %) MKS 8 7 (13.73 %) Test Scripting 9 6 (11.76 %) Project Management 9 6 (11.76 %) SQL 9 6 (11.76 %) VBScript 10 5 (9.804 %) ISO9001 10 5 (9.804 %) QuickTest Pro 10 5 (9.804 %) TickIT

10 5 (9.804 %) Health 11 4 (7.843 %) Test Management 12 3 (5.882 %) TestDirector 12 3 (5.882 %) Microsoft 12 3 (5.882 %) Windows 12 3 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 3 (5.882 %) Banking 12 3 (5.882 %) Automated Testing 13 2 (3.922 %) Windows Mobile 13 2 (3.922 %) Regression Testing 13 2 (3.922 %) Retail 13 2 (3.922 %) COBOL 13 2 (3.922 %) HP 13 2 (3.922 %) CICS 13 2 (3.922 %) WinRunner

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Platforms 1 2 (3.922 %) CICS 2 1 (1.961 %) IIS 2 1 (1.961 %) Apache	Applications 1 2 (3.922 %) MS Office 2 1 (1.961 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 9 (17.65 %) Internet 2 1 (1.961 %) TCP/IP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (3.922 %) SQL Server 1 2 (3.922 %) DB2 2 1 (1.961 %) SQL Server 2000 2 1 (1.961 %) MySQL
Development Applications 1 5 (9.804 %) QuickTest Pro 2 3 (5.882 %) TestDirector 3 2 (3.922 %) WinRunner	General 1 18 (35.29 %) Finance 2 12 (23.53 %) Financial Institution 3 5 (9.804 %) Health 4 3 (5.882 %) Banking 5 2 (3.922 %) Retail 6 1 (1.961 %) Pensions
Job Titles 1 26 (50.98 %) Test Manager 2 11 (21.57 %) Analyst 3 7 (13.73 %) Test Analyst 4 4 (7.843 %) Tester 4 4 (7.843 %) Programmer 5 3 (5.882 %) Test Specialist 6 2 (3.922 %) Senior Test Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) Support Analyst 6 2 (3.922 %) Junior 6 2 (3.922 %) Analyst Programmer 6 2 (3.922 %) Software Tester 6 2 (3.922 %) Test Engineer 6 2 (3.922 %) Trainee Programmer 6 2 (3.922 %) Junior Programmer 6 2 (3.922 %) Trainee 7 1 (1.961 %) Mainframe Analyst Programmer 7 1 (1.961 %) Mainframe Programmer 7 1 (1.961 %) IT Support Analyst 7 1 (1.961 %) Technical Engineer 7 1 (1.961 %) Technical Support Engineer	Miscellaneous 1 11 (21.57 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 3 (5.882 %) Windows 2 2 (3.922 %) MVS 2 2 (3.922 %) Windows Mobile 3 1 (1.961 %) Linux 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows 2000 3 1 (1.961 %) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (13.73 %) Test Scripting 2 6 (11.76 %) Project Management 3 4 (7.843 %) Test Management 4 3 (5.882 %) Automated Testing 4 3 (5.882 %) User Acceptance Testing 5 2 (3.922 %) Regression Testing
Programming Languages 1 6 (11.76 %) SQL 1 6 (11.76 %) VBScript 2 2 (3.922 %) COBOL 3 1 (1.961 %) Perl 3 1 (1.961 %) PHP	Qualifications 1 21 (41.18 %) ISEB 2 14 (27.45 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 17 (33.33 %) QA 2 5 (9.804 %) ISO9001 2 5 (9.804 %) TickIT	Vendors 1 9 (17.65 %) MKS 2 3 (5.882 %) Microsoft 3 2 (3.922 %) HP