The first table below looks at the demand for SilkTest skills in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SilkTest over the 3 months to 22 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 Development Applications category for the Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Borland SilkTest
Rank 214 222 195
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -27
Permanent jobs citing SilkTest 5 13 13
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.094% 0.214% 0.247%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.621% 1.425% 1.524%
Number of salaries quoted 2 12 13
Average salary £42,500 £55,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-22.72% +69.23%
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £52,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +40.00%
All Development Applications
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
805 912 853
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 15.14% 15.00% 16.22%
Number of salaries quoted 716 834 772
Average salary £41,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-8.88% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £35,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £57,500 £55,000 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%
SilkTest
South East

SilkTest
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing SilkTest across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

Surrey SilkTest Jobs Demand Trend

SilkTest
Salary Trend

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

Surrey SilkTest Salary Trend

SilkTest
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SilkTest within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 22 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
Leatherhead +4 2 £42,500 +30.76%
Guildford - 2 - -
Chertsey - 1 - -
SilkTest
South East

SilkTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region citing SilkTest 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 SilkTest.

1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (85.71%) QA
3 5 (71.43%) SQL
4 4 (57.14%) C#
4 4 (57.14%) ISEB
4 4 (57.14%) Selenium
5 3 (42.86%) WCF
5 3 (42.86%) Silverlight
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
5 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Google
5 3 (42.86%) JIRA
5 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
5 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
5 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
5 3 (42.86%) Telerik
5 3 (42.86%) Network Planning
5 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
5 3 (42.86%) Client/Server
5 3 (42.86%) N-Tier
5 3 (42.86%) SOA
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle
5 3 (42.86%) SOAP
5 3 (42.86%) Windows
5 3 (42.86%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (42.86%) Python
5 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
5 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
5 3 (42.86%) Product Management

SilkTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region citing SilkTest 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 SilkTest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (42.86%) WCF
1 3 (42.86%) Silverlight
1 3 (42.86%) SOAP
1 3 (42.86%) soapUI
2 2 (28.57%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
2 2 (28.57%) ADO
3 1 (14.29%) Google Maps API
3 1 (14.29%) ODBC
3 1 (14.29%) Bing Maps
Application Platforms
1 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) MS Excel
2 2 (28.57%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) UMTS
1 1 (14.29%) FTP
1 1 (14.29%) SNMP
1 1 (14.29%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle 11g
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (14.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) TestComplete
3 2 (28.57%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
4 1 (14.29%) Subversion
4 1 (14.29%) WinRunner
4 1 (14.29%) QuickTest Pro
4 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio
4 1 (14.29%) PVCS
4 1 (14.29%) VSS/SourceSafe
4 1 (14.29%) ClearCase
4 1 (14.29%) MSTest
General
1 3 (42.86%) Telecoms
2 2 (28.57%) Legal
3 1 (14.29%) Front Office
3 1 (14.29%) Back Office
3 1 (14.29%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Tester
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Senior QA Engineer
2 2 (28.57%) Software Tester
2 2 (28.57%) QA Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Tester
3 1 (14.29%) QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior QA Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Client/Server
1 3 (42.86%) N-Tier
2 1 (14.29%) Mathematics
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 3 (42.86%) Windows
1 3 (42.86%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (14.29%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Performance Testing
1 3 (42.86%) Agile Software Development
1 3 (42.86%) Network Planning
1 3 (42.86%) SOA
1 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
1 3 (42.86%) Product Management
2 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 1 (14.29%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (14.29%) Test Management
3 1 (14.29%) Performance Management
3 1 (14.29%) Scrum
3 1 (14.29%) Asset Management
3 1 (14.29%) Automated Testing
3 1 (14.29%) Workflow
3 1 (14.29%) OOD
3 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
3 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (14.29%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (71.43%) SQL
2 4 (57.14%) C#
3 3 (42.86%) Python
4 1 (14.29%) C++
4 1 (14.29%) Delphi
4 1 (14.29%) Java
4 1 (14.29%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISEB
2 2 (28.57%) ISTQB
3 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (85.71%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (42.86%) Google
2 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 3 (42.86%) Telerik
2 3 (42.86%) Oracle
3 1 (14.29%) VMware
3 1 (14.29%) MKS
3 1 (14.29%) SunGard