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This section looks at the demand for System Testing skills within the Southampton region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

LinkSystem Testing
Location
3 months to
20 Aug 2008
Same period last year
Rank5679
Rank change on same period last yearUp+23
Matching permanent IT job ads42
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.002 %0.001 %
As % of the category below0.980 %0.328 %
Salaries quoted42
Average minimum salary£27,500£30,000
Average salary£32,500£35,000
% change on same period last year-7.14 %
Average maximum salary£37,500£40,000
UK excluding London average salary£34,815£36,008
% change on same period last year-3.31 %
Southampton IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
Southampton
Matching permanent IT job ads408609
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled0.220 %0.254 %
Salaries quoted338554
Average minimum salary£34,259£32,152
Average salary£37,491£35,828
% change on same period last year+4.64 %
Average maximum salary£40,723£39,505
UK excluding London average salary£42,487£44,463
% change on same period last year-4.44 %
System Testing HampshireSystem Testing
Hampshire

System Testing
Demand Trend

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

Southampton System Testing Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Southampton System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing System Testing across the Southampton region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

Southampton System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing System 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 System Testing.

17 (70.00 %)Finance
24 (40.00 %)Telecoms
24 (40.00 %)Oracle
24 (40.00 %)Windows
24 (40.00 %)TestDirector
32 (20.00 %)WinRunner
32 (20.00 %)Insurance
32 (20.00 %)Segue
32 (20.00 %)SilkTest
32 (20.00 %)Selenium
32 (20.00 %)Test Scripting
41 (10.00 %)Groovy
41 (10.00 %)Grails
41 (10.00 %)Web Development
41 (10.00 %)Pensions
41 (10.00 %)Hibernate
41 (10.00 %)Spring
41 (10.00 %)AS400
41 (10.00 %)Linux
41 (10.00 %)Tomcat
41 (10.00 %)Ant
41 (10.00 %)JUnit
41 (10.00 %)Java
41 (10.00 %)SQL
41 (10.00 %)MySQL

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Southampton region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Southampton IT Job Market, Application DevelopmentApplication Development
11 (10.00 %)Hibernate
11 (10.00 %)Spring
11 (10.00 %)Grails
Southampton IT Job Market, Application PlatformsApplication Platforms
11 (10.00 %)Tomcat
Southampton IT Job Market, Database & Business IntelligenceDatabase & Business Intelligence
11 (10.00 %)MySQL
Southampton IT Job Market, Development ApplicationsDevelopment Applications
14 (40.00 %)TestDirector
22 (20.00 %)SilkTest
22 (20.00 %)Selenium
22 (20.00 %)WinRunner
31 (10.00 %)Ant
31 (10.00 %)JUnit
Southampton IT Job Market, GeneralGeneral
17 (70.00 %)Finance
24 (40.00 %)Telecoms
32 (20.00 %)Insurance
41 (10.00 %)Pensions
Southampton IT Job Market, Job TitlesJob Titles
18 (80.00 %)Analyst
18 (80.00 %)Test Analyst
22 (20.00 %)Software Test Analyst
31 (10.00 %)Senior Developer
31 (10.00 %)Tester
31 (10.00 %)Developer
Southampton IT Job Market, MiscellaneousMiscellaneous
11 (10.00 %)AS400
Southampton IT Job Market, Operating SystemsOperating Systems
14 (40.00 %)Windows
21 (10.00 %)Linux
Southampton IT Job Market, Processes & MethodologiesProcesses & Methodologies
12 (20.00 %)Test Scripting
21 (10.00 %)Web Development
Southampton IT Job Market, Programming LanguagesProgramming Languages
11 (10.00 %)Java
11 (10.00 %)SQL
11 (10.00 %)Groovy
Southampton IT Job Market, VendorsVendors
14 (40.00 %)Oracle
22 (20.00 %)Segue