The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Southampton region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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 Southampton region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 80 77 61
Rank change year-on-year
-3 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 2 15 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 0.240% 1.606% 1.475%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.246% 1.647% 1.525%
Number of salaries quoted 0 15 9
Average salary - £27,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +10.00%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Southampton
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
814 911 590
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Southampton 97.84% 97.54% 96.72%
Number of salaries quoted 741 852 534
Average salary £37,500 £39,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.06% +12.85%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £23,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £60,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Hampshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Southampton Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Southampton Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title.

1 9 (81.82%) Software Testing
2 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 7 (63.64%) QA
3 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 6 (54.55%) VirtualBox
3 6 (54.55%) SMTP
3 6 (54.55%) ISO 9001
3 6 (54.55%) HTTP
3 6 (54.55%) VMware
3 6 (54.55%) Internet
3 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Firewall
4 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
5 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
5 2 (18.18%) WPF
5 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Inversion of Control
5 2 (18.18%) MVC
5 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 2 (18.18%) Scrum
5 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
5 2 (18.18%) C#
5 2 (18.18%) .NET
5 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
5 2 (18.18%) XML
6 1 (9.091%) UNIX

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Southampton region that cited Tester 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) XML
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) WPF
1 2 (18.18%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
Communications & Networking
1 6 (54.55%) SMTP
1 6 (54.55%) HTTP
1 6 (54.55%) Internet
1 6 (54.55%) Firewall
2 1 (9.091%) TCP/IP
2 1 (9.091%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
2 1 (9.091%) Oracle 11g
General
1 2 (18.18%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Computer Science
1 2 (18.18%) Inversion of Control
Operating Systems
1 7 (63.64%) Linux
2 1 (9.091%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Software Testing
2 6 (54.55%) Regression Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
4 2 (18.18%) MVC
4 2 (18.18%) Scrum
4 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 1 (9.091%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
2 1 (9.091%) PL/SQL
2 1 (9.091%) SQL
2 1 (9.091%) Python
2 1 (9.091%) Bash shell
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.091%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (63.64%) QA
2 6 (54.55%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (54.55%) VMware Infrastructure
1 6 (54.55%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 1 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (54.55%) VMware
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.091%) HP
3 1 (9.091%) Oracle