The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Stowmarket region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Stowmarket region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 12 13 5
Rank change year-on-year
+1 -8
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 2 3 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stowmarket 6.667% 7.895% 25.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 16.67% 11.54% 28.57%
Number of salaries quoted 2 3 2
Average salary £24,250 £24,500 £25,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.02% -2.00%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Stowmarket
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
12 26 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Stowmarket 40.00% 68.42% 87.50%
Number of salaries quoted 12 26 7
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% -16.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,550 £25,000 £22,500
10% offered a salary of more than £38,250 £45,000 £40,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Suffolk

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Stowmarket Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

Stowmarket Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 14 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stowmarket 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 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
1 2 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) .NET
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
2 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
2 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
2 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Stowmarket 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 Development
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) .NET Framework
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Analyst
1 2 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Software Test Analyst
2 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Client/Server
1 1 (50.00%) N-Tier
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) Asset Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle