Surrey Software Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the Surrey region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. 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 4 September 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Software Tester
Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Banbury Basingstoke Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Crawley Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lichfield Liverpool Livingston London Lutterworth Macclesfield Manchester Merseyside Milton Keynes Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Rochester Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 4 Sep 2008	Same period last year
Rank	200	198
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching permanent IT job ads	39	67
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.028 %
As % of the category below	0.512 %	0.684 %
Salaries quoted	23	59
Average minimum salary	£28,957	£28,763
Average salary	£30,630	£30,619
% change on same period last year	+0.03 %
Average maximum salary	£32,304	£32,475
UK excluding London average salary	£29,965	£29,343
% change on same period last year	+2.11 %
Job Titles Surrey
Matching permanent IT job ads	7621	9794
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.197 %	4.152 %
Salaries quoted	5805	8181
Average minimum salary	£36,139	£38,192
Average salary	£39,449	£41,574
% change on same period last year	-5.11 %
Average maximum salary	£42,758	£44,956
UK excluding London average salary	£38,057	£39,474
% change on same period last year	-3.59 %
Software Tester South East

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 4 September 2008.

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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 4 September 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Woking	-8	7	£31,000	+3.33 %
Chertsey	+1	4	£32,500	+8.33 %
Guildford	+33	4	£28,500	+17.93 %
Weybridge	-	2	£27,500	-
Reigate	-	1	£30,000	-

Software Tester South East

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, 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 61 (70.11 %) Software Testing 2 42 (48.28 %) ISEB 3 37 (42.53 %) Test Scripting 4 30 (34.48 %) Pharmaceutical 5 28 (32.18 %) Chemistry 5 28 (32.18 %) Biology 5 28 (32.18 %) QA 6 26 (29.89 %) PhD 7 24 (27.59 %) SQL 8 23 (26.44 %) Windows 9 21 (24.14 %) Life Science 9 21 (24.14 %) Test Management 10 19 (21.84 %) Oracle 11 18 (20.69 %) Pensions 12 16 (18.39 %) Mathematics

13 14 (16.09 %) Physics 13 14 (16.09 %) Finance 14 13 (14.94 %) WinRunner 15 12 (13.79 %) Degree 16 11 (12.64 %) MS Excel 16 11 (12.64 %) VB 16 11 (12.64 %) C++ 17 10 (11.49 %) TestDirector 17 10 (11.49 %) Statistics 17 10 (11.49 %) Project Planning 17 10 (11.49 %) Manual Testing 18 9 (10.34 %) C# 18 9 (10.34 %) VBScript 18 9 (10.34 %) .NET 19 8 (9.195 %) HNC

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 September 2008, 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 9 (10.34 %) .NET	Applications 1 11 (12.64 %) MS Excel 2 7 (8.046 %) Spreadsheet 3 2 (2.299 %) MS Office
Database & Business Intelligence 1 7 (8.046 %) SQL Server	Development Applications 1 13 (14.94 %) WinRunner 2 10 (11.49 %) TestDirector 3 8 (9.195 %) SilkTest 3 8 (9.195 %) TestComplete 4 6 (6.897 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (1.149 %) Rational Robot 5 1 (1.149 %) Visual Studio
General 1 30 (34.48 %) Pharmaceutical 2 18 (20.69 %) Pensions 3 14 (16.09 %) Finance 4 8 (9.195 %) Construction 5 4 (4.598 %) Health 6 1 (1.149 %) Games 6 1 (1.149 %) Retail 6 1 (1.149 %) Automotive 6 1 (1.149 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 28 (32.18 %) Chemistry 1 28 (32.18 %) Biology 2 21 (24.14 %) Life Science 3 16 (18.39 %) Mathematics 4 14 (16.09 %) Physics 5 10 (11.49 %) Statistics 6 4 (4.598 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 23 (26.44 %) Windows 2 3 (3.448 %) Windows Server 2003 2 3 (3.448 %) Windows 2000 Server 3 2 (2.299 %) UNIX 4 1 (1.149 %) Linux	Processes & Methodologies 1 61 (70.11 %) Software Testing 2 37 (42.53 %) Test Scripting 3 21 (24.14 %) Test Management 4 10 (11.49 %) Manual Testing 4 10 (11.49 %) Project Planning 5 6 (6.897 %) Automated Testing 5 6 (6.897 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 3 (3.448 %) Data Management 6 3 (3.448 %) Regression Testing 7 2 (2.299 %) Agile Software Development 7 2 (2.299 %) Configuration Management 7 2 (2.299 %) Performance Testing 8 1 (1.149 %) Load Testing 8 1 (1.149 %) Integration Testing 8 1 (1.149 %) Security Cleared 8 1 (1.149 %) V-Model 8 1 (1.149 %) UML 8 1 (1.149 %) Resource Management
Programming Languages 1 24 (27.59 %) SQL 2 11 (12.64 %) VB 2 11 (12.64 %) C++ 3 9 (10.34 %) C# 3 9 (10.34 %) VBScript 4 8 (9.195 %) Delphi 5 3 (3.448 %) Perl 6 1 (1.149 %) Java 6 1 (1.149 %) C 6 1 (1.149 %) VBA	Qualifications 1 42 (48.28 %) ISEB 2 26 (29.89 %) PhD 3 12 (13.79 %) Degree 4 8 (9.195 %) HNC 5 2 (2.299 %) ISEB Practitioner 6 1 (1.149 %) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 28 (32.18 %) QA 2 3 (3.448 %) ISO9001 2 3 (3.448 %) TickIT	Vendors 1 19 (21.84 %) Oracle 2 2 (2.299 %) Microsoft 2 2 (2.299 %) Citrix 2 2 (2.299 %) VMware