The first table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 23 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 Surrey region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Tester
Rank 193 228 180
Rank change year-on-year
+35 -48
Permanent jobs requiring a Software Tester 27 8 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 0.514% 0.134% 0.644%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.540% 0.140% 0.681%
Number of salaries quoted 23 6 26
Average salary £27,500 £45,250 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-39.22% +39.23%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £35,500 £26,750
10% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £52,500 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £30,000 £28,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
+5.26% -5.00%
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
5001 5729 5136
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.24% 95.93% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4038 5010 4499
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £65,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Software Tester
South East

Software Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Software Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Software Tester
Salary Trend

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

Surrey Software Tester Salary Trend

Software Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 23 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
Walton-on-Thames - 6 £26,000 -
Guildford - 3 £28,500 -
Reigate - 2 £30,250 -
Dorking - 1 £30,000 -
Software Tester
South East

Software Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 22 (66.67%) ISEB
2 18 (54.55%) Software Testing
2 18 (54.55%) Degree
3 15 (45.45%) Windows
4 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
4 14 (42.42%) Test Automation
5 13 (39.39%) Solaris
5 13 (39.39%) Linux
5 13 (39.39%) C++
5 13 (39.39%) SQL
5 13 (39.39%) Oracle
6 12 (36.36%) MySQL
6 12 (36.36%) Web Services
6 12 (36.36%) PhD
6 12 (36.36%) QuickTest Pro
6 12 (36.36%) Computer Science
6 12 (36.36%) Life Science
6 12 (36.36%) Selenium
6 12 (36.36%) Chemistry
7 10 (30.30%) C
8 9 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
9 8 (24.24%) Mathematics
10 7 (21.21%) QA
10 7 (21.21%) Perl
10 7 (21.21%) XML
10 7 (21.21%) Python
10 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (18.18%) V-Model
11 6 (18.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 6 (18.18%) HP Quality Center

Software Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (36.36%) Web Services
2 7 (21.21%) XML
3 6 (18.18%) J2EE
4 2 (6.061%) ASP.NET
4 2 (6.061%) .NET
5 1 (3.030%) Swing
Applications
1 2 (6.061%) MS Office
1 2 (6.061%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.030%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (36.36%) MySQL
2 3 (9.091%) SQL Server
3 1 (3.030%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 12 (36.36%) QuickTest Pro
1 12 (36.36%) Selenium
2 6 (18.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 6 (18.18%) JMeter
3 3 (9.091%) Visual Studio
3 3 (9.091%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (6.061%) SilkTest
5 1 (3.030%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 6 (18.18%) Pharmaceutical
2 2 (6.061%) Legal
3 1 (3.030%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 12 (36.36%) Computer Science
1 12 (36.36%) Life Science
1 12 (36.36%) Chemistry
2 8 (24.24%) Mathematics
3 6 (18.18%) Biotechnology
4 2 (6.061%) Smartcard
5 1 (3.030%) Social Network
5 1 (3.030%) Physics
5 1 (3.030%) Mobile App
5 1 (3.030%) Cloud Computing
Operating Systems
1 15 (45.45%) Windows
2 13 (39.39%) Solaris
2 13 (39.39%) Linux
3 7 (21.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 6 (18.18%) Mac OS X
5 5 (15.15%) UNIX
6 1 (3.030%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (54.55%) Software Testing
2 14 (42.42%) Test Automation
3 9 (27.27%) Agile Software Development
4 6 (18.18%) V-Model
4 6 (18.18%) Waterfall
4 6 (18.18%) Bioinformatics
5 5 (15.15%) Automated Testing
5 5 (15.15%) Test Scripting
6 4 (12.12%) Software Engineering
6 4 (12.12%) Scrum
7 2 (6.061%) Change Control
7 2 (6.061%) Test Strategy
7 2 (6.061%) TDD
7 2 (6.061%) Stress Testing
8 1 (3.030%) Integration Testing
8 1 (3.030%) Test Management
8 1 (3.030%) User Acceptance Testing
8 1 (3.030%) Performance Testing
8 1 (3.030%) Regression Testing
8 1 (3.030%) OO
Programming Languages
1 13 (39.39%) C++
1 13 (39.39%) SQL
2 10 (30.30%) C
3 7 (21.21%) Perl
3 7 (21.21%) Python
4 6 (18.18%) PL/SQL
4 6 (18.18%) Java
5 3 (9.091%) Embedded C++
5 3 (9.091%) C#
6 2 (6.061%) VB.NET
6 2 (6.061%) Embedded C
Qualifications
1 22 (66.67%) ISEB
2 18 (54.55%) Degree
3 12 (36.36%) PhD
4 3 (9.091%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (21.21%) QA
2 6 (18.18%) GLP
Systems Management
1 6 (18.18%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 14 (42.42%) Microsoft
2 13 (39.39%) Oracle
3 1 (3.030%) Twitter
Dorking, Surrey
You'll have a minimum of 3 years of software testing, with the ability demonstrate understanding of software design techniques. Experience with Agile (Scrum) methodologies using these to...
Hamlin Knight
Salary: From £30,000 to £35,000 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013
Walton-On-Thames, Surrey
Desktop Software Testing. on Windows with some Solaris 10, RHEL-5 UNIX Linux and Windows-7 basic administrative experience... Programming skills with Python, Perl and XML are desirable.
Go IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: From £24,000 to £28,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 20 May 2013