Software Testing Jobs in Surrey
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 126 113 114
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +1
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 95 135 106
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 1.806% 2.253% 1.990%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.426% 3.028% 2.699%
Number of salaries quoted 90 123 89
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% +12.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £62,500 £47,100
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+2.93% +4.61%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 3916 4459 3928
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 74.46% 74.42% 73.75%
Number of salaries quoted 3045 3885 3422
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £33,500 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £65,000 £65,000 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey 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 Surrey region.

Surrey Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Surrey Software Testing Salary Histogram

Software Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 17 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
Guildford +7 17 £37,500 -40.00%
Epsom +23 14 £65,000 +18.18%
Walton-on-Thames +4 8 £26,000 +30.00%
Redhill +3 4 £57,500 +22.34%
Reigate -12 4 £36,250 -23.68%
Dorking -9 3 £30,000 -29.41%
Leatherhead +9 2 £42,500 +30.76%
Godalming - 2 £23,500 -
Staines +17 1 £45,000 +14.64%
Woking -7 1 £35,000 -6.66%
Thames Ditton - 1 £45,000 -
Software Testing
South East

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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.

1 125 (51.87%) QA
2 93 (38.59%) SQL
3 90 (37.34%) Degree
4 86 (35.68%) Agile Software Development
5 78 (32.37%) ISEB
6 73 (30.29%) Automated Testing
7 68 (28.22%) C#
8 66 (27.39%) C++
9 65 (26.97%) Java
9 65 (26.97%) Test Scripting
10 61 (25.31%) Test Automation
11 60 (24.90%) Linux
12 59 (24.48%) Finance
13 58 (24.07%) Computer Science
14 56 (23.24%) OO
15 51 (21.16%) Mathematics
16 50 (20.75%) Selenium
17 49 (20.33%) QuickTest Pro
18 46 (19.09%) Test Strategy
19 45 (18.67%) Perl
20 43 (17.84%) Scrum
21 42 (17.43%) .NET
22 41 (17.01%) UNIX
23 39 (16.18%) ISTQB
24 38 (15.77%) Windows
25 37 (15.35%) PHP
26 36 (14.94%) Oracle
27 29 (12.03%) Microsoft
28 27 (11.20%) XML
29 24 (9.959%) WinRunner

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey 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 42 (17.43%) .NET
2 27 (11.20%) XML
3 15 (6.224%) ASP.NET
4 11 (4.564%) Web Services
4 11 (4.564%) soapUI
5 7 (2.905%) SOAP
6 6 (2.490%) HTML
7 5 (2.075%) Middleware
8 4 (1.660%) ASP.NET MVC
9 3 (1.245%) OpenGL
9 3 (1.245%) LAMP
9 3 (1.245%) WCF
9 3 (1.245%) Silverlight
10 2 (0.830%) Ajax
10 2 (0.830%) COM
10 2 (0.830%) CSS
10 2 (0.830%) ADO
10 2 (0.830%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
11 1 (0.415%) REST
11 1 (0.415%) Bing Maps
Application Platforms
1 9 (3.734%) IIS
2 2 (0.830%) Oracle Workflow
2 2 (0.830%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (0.830%) SharePoint Server
3 1 (0.415%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (4.564%) MS Excel
2 2 (0.830%) RoboHelp
3 1 (0.415%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (1.660%) GoldMine
2 3 (1.245%) Oracle Financials
Communications & Networking
1 10 (4.149%) Internet
2 9 (3.734%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.075%) HTTP
4 1 (0.415%) SNMP
4 1 (0.415%) DVB
4 1 (0.415%) LTE
4 1 (0.415%) CDMA
4 1 (0.415%) GSM
4 1 (0.415%) UMTS
4 1 (0.415%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (6.639%) MySQL
2 14 (5.809%) SQL Server
3 6 (2.490%) Oracle 8/8i
3 6 (2.490%) TOAD
4 5 (2.075%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.660%) Big Data
5 4 (1.660%) RDBMS
6 3 (1.245%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 50 (20.75%) Selenium
2 49 (20.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 24 (9.959%) WinRunner
4 8 (3.320%) JIRA
5 7 (2.905%) Visual Studio
6 6 (2.490%) WebDriver
7 5 (2.075%) JUnit
8 4 (1.660%) Team Foundation Server
8 4 (1.660%) Oracle Forms
8 4 (1.660%) TestDirector
8 4 (1.660%) LoadRunner
8 4 (1.660%) Visual Studio Team System
9 3 (1.245%) jMock
9 3 (1.245%) QARun
9 3 (1.245%) QALoad
9 3 (1.245%) SilkPerformer
9 3 (1.245%) SilkTest
9 3 (1.245%) TestPartner
9 3 (1.245%) EasyMock
10 2 (0.830%) Jenkins
General
1 59 (24.48%) Finance
2 11 (4.564%) Games
3 5 (2.075%) Telecoms
3 5 (2.075%) Advertising
3 5 (2.075%) Publishing
4 4 (1.660%) Law
4 4 (1.660%) Electronics
5 3 (1.245%) Automotive
5 3 (1.245%) Marketing
6 2 (0.830%) Banking
7 1 (0.415%) Legal
Job Titles
1 54 (22.41%) Test Engineer
2 52 (21.58%) Analyst
3 51 (21.16%) QA Engineer
4 46 (19.09%) Test Analyst
5 40 (16.60%) Tester
6 32 (13.28%) Test Manager
7 27 (11.20%) Developer
8 21 (8.714%) Software Engineer
9 17 (7.054%) Software Tester
10 16 (6.639%) Consultant
11 13 (5.394%) Support Consultant
11 13 (5.394%) Software Test Engineer
12 11 (4.564%) Senior Tester
13 10 (4.149%) Software Consultant
13 10 (4.149%) Senior Analyst
13 10 (4.149%) Senior Test Analyst
13 10 (4.149%) Project Manager
14 9 (3.734%) QA Analyst
15 8 (3.320%) Systems Test Analyst
15 8 (3.320%) Applications Support Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 58 (24.07%) Computer Science
2 51 (21.16%) Mathematics
3 21 (8.714%) Open Source
4 10 (4.149%) Client/Server
5 6 (2.490%) Chemistry
5 6 (2.490%) Life Science
5 6 (2.490%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (2.075%) SaaS
6 5 (2.075%) Statistics
7 4 (1.660%) Social Network
7 4 (1.660%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (1.245%) Embedded Systems
8 3 (1.245%) N-Tier
8 3 (1.245%) Device Driver
8 3 (1.245%) 3D Graphics
9 2 (0.830%) iPhone
9 2 (0.830%) Cryptography
10 1 (0.415%) Streaming Video
10 1 (0.415%) STB
10 1 (0.415%) MPEG
Operating Systems
1 60 (24.90%) Linux
2 41 (17.01%) UNIX
3 38 (15.77%) Windows
4 9 (3.734%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 7 (2.905%) CentOS
6 6 (2.490%) Solaris
7 4 (1.660%) Android
8 2 (0.830%) Embedded Linux
9 1 (0.415%) Windows 7
9 1 (0.415%) VxWorks
Processes & Methodologies
1 86 (35.68%) Agile Software Development
2 73 (30.29%) Automated Testing
3 65 (26.97%) Test Scripting
4 61 (25.31%) Test Automation
5 56 (23.24%) OO
6 46 (19.09%) Test Strategy
7 43 (17.84%) Scrum
8 18 (7.469%) User Acceptance Testing
9 14 (5.809%) Manual Testing
9 14 (5.809%) Test Management
10 13 (5.394%) Continuous Improvement
10 13 (5.394%) Waterfall
11 12 (4.979%) Project Management
12 11 (4.564%) Web Testing
13 10 (4.149%) Quality Management
13 10 (4.149%) B2B
13 10 (4.149%) B2C
13 10 (4.149%) Information Security
13 10 (4.149%) Business Transformation
14 9 (3.734%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 93 (38.59%) SQL
2 68 (28.22%) C#
3 66 (27.39%) C++
4 65 (26.97%) Java
5 45 (18.67%) Perl
6 37 (15.35%) PHP
7 17 (7.054%) C
8 15 (6.224%) Python
9 6 (2.490%) VB
9 6 (2.490%) Bash shell
10 2 (0.830%) VBScript
10 2 (0.830%) JavaScript
11 1 (0.415%) GLSL
11 1 (0.415%) Embedded C
11 1 (0.415%) Embedded C++
Qualifications
1 90 (37.34%) Degree
2 78 (32.37%) ISEB
3 39 (16.18%) ISTQB
4 6 (2.490%) PhD
5 4 (1.660%) ACCA
5 4 (1.660%) CIMA
6 3 (1.245%) HND
7 2 (0.830%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (0.415%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (51.87%) QA
2 4 (1.660%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 15 (6.224%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.415%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 36 (14.94%) Oracle
2 29 (12.03%) Microsoft
3 12 (4.979%) HP
4 9 (3.734%) Business Objects
5 5 (2.075%) Progress
6 4 (1.660%) Pegasus
6 4 (1.660%) Sage
7 3 (1.245%) Telerik
7 3 (1.245%) Google
7 3 (1.245%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.415%) Red Gate
8 1 (0.415%) Twitter
Test Analyst, QTP
Reigate, Surrey
To £40k per annum + 10% OT Bonus + Benefits (Test Analyst, Systems Tester, QTP) Market Leading financial client are looking for a Test Analyst to work with a team...
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000 Per Annum plus 10% OT Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
Test Analyst / Software Tester/ QA - Surrey
Guildford, Surrey
Manual testing client-server based applications... About the Client and Role: Applications are developed with MS Windows technology including C++, C#, ASP.Net, HTTP, XML. Databases are mainly...
KV Recruitment
Salary: £28000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 16 May 2013
Test Analyst / Software Tester- Surrey
Guildford, South East
Depth and breadth) SQL Scripting experience ISEB /ISQTB qualifications would be beneficial About the Client and Role: Applications are developed with MS Windows technology including C++, C#, ASP...
KV Recruitment Limited
Salary: £28000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 29 April 2013
Test Manager, financial software - Surrey (build a team)
Redhill, Surrey
You will have to design and implement Software Quality assurance processes and procedures that allow the testing function to integrate with the Development (and the rest of the...
Think IT Recruitment
Salary: £60000 - £65000 per annum + bonus + benefits
Posted: 14 May 2013
Developer in Test - C# .Net Testing
Reigate, South East
Hugely profitable financial software house based in Surrey is seeking a skilled software developer with test automation experience to test complex Object Orientated C# .Net financial software products.
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £45k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Developer in Test - C# .Net Testing
Reigate, Surrey
Developer in Test C# .Net Surrey (RH) to £40k. Developer in Test / C# Test Developer (C# .Net Test Automation Agile)... Requirements for C# Tester: Strong software testing experience,...
Client Server
Salary: £30k to £45k + bonus + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
Test Team Lead / Test Manager, Surrey
Surrey
TEST TEAM LEAD / TEST MANAGER / QA TEAM LEAD / QA MANAGER / SENIOR TEST ANALYST / SENIOR QA ANALYST / SURREY / GUILDFORD / WOKING / FARNBOROUGH / ALDERSHOT / LEATHERHEAD / REDHILL / READING / BERKSHIRE / LONDON / SOFTWARE TESTING /...
Cloud Computing International
Salary: From £55,000 to £65,000 per annum plus bens
Posted: 13 May 2013
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