The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Suffolk region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Suffolk region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 77 61 60
Rank change year-on-year
-16 -1
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 2 5 9
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 0.287% 0.898% 1.391%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.407% 1.199% 2.059%
Number of salaries quoted 1 5 8
Average salary £70,000 £33,000 £26,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+112.12% +23.36%
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £36,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Suffolk
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
491 417 437
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Suffolk 70.44% 74.87% 67.54%
Number of salaries quoted 464 372 385
Average salary £37,000 £40,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.50% +6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £54,000 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
East of England

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Suffolk System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Suffolk System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Suffolk region over the 3 months to 24 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
Ipswich -11 1 £70,000 +112.12%
System Testing
East of England

System Testing
Top 12 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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.

1 7 (87.50%) Project Management
2 3 (37.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
3 1 (12.50%) LANSA
3 1 (12.50%) Data Conversion
3 1 (12.50%) RPG/400
3 1 (12.50%) RPG
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
3 1 (12.50%) .NET
3 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
3 1 (12.50%) Synon
3 1 (12.50%) Retail

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Suffolk 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.

Application Development
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Synon
General
1 1 (12.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Software Manager
2 4 (50.00%) Development Manager
2 4 (50.00%) Software Development Manager
3 2 (25.00%) Senior Manager
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Programmer
4 1 (12.50%) Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Analyst
4 1 (12.50%) Software Architect
4 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Mathematics
2 1 (12.50%) Data Conversion
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) RPG/400
1 1 (12.50%) RPG
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) Degree
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) LANSA