The first table below looks at the demand for the 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 Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 19 June 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
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 157 128 92
Rank change year-on-year
-29 -36
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 57 110 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 1.108% 1.835% 2.491%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.159% 1.913% 2.635%
Number of salaries quoted 54 94 114
Average salary £26,750 £46,250 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-42.16% +32.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £24,000 £30,300 £27,500
10% offered a salary of more than £40,250 £65,000 £47,500
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Surrey
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
4916 5750 5237
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Surrey 95.53% 95.93% 94.55%
Number of salaries quoted 4017 4990 4625
Average salary £42,500 £43,000 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.16% +4.87%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £28,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £57,500 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Tester
South East

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Surrey Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Surrey Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Tester across the Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Surrey Tester Salary Histogram

Tester
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Tester within the Surrey region over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
Walton-on-Thames +1 7 £26,000 -35.00%
Reigate +17 1 £54,000 -6.08%
Guildford -9 1 £30,000 +25.00% 1
Esher - 1 £25,000 -
Weybridge - 1 £42,500 -
Tester
South East

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 47 (38.84%) ISEB
2 39 (32.23%) Software Testing
3 38 (31.40%) Degree
4 37 (30.58%) Test Scripting
5 35 (28.93%) Test Automation
5 35 (28.93%) SQL
5 35 (28.93%) Windows
6 31 (25.62%) QA
6 31 (25.62%) .NET
7 30 (24.79%) Java
8 29 (23.97%) Linux
9 27 (22.31%) Microsoft
10 25 (20.66%) Agile Software Development
11 24 (19.83%) QuickTest Pro
12 23 (19.01%) UNIX
12 23 (19.01%) XML
12 23 (19.01%) Selenium
13 22 (18.18%) C++
14 21 (17.36%) C#
14 21 (17.36%) Perl
15 20 (16.53%) Computer Science
16 19 (15.70%) Scrum
17 17 (14.05%) Oracle
18 16 (13.22%) MS Excel
19 15 (12.40%) Mathematics
19 15 (12.40%) Automated Testing
20 14 (11.57%) PHP
20 14 (11.57%) Visual Studio
20 14 (11.57%) Solaris
20 14 (11.57%) Waterfall

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Surrey region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 31 (25.62%) .NET
2 23 (19.01%) XML
3 13 (10.74%) Web Services
4 6 (4.959%) J2EE
5 5 (4.132%) XSLT
5 5 (4.132%) ASP.NET
6 3 (2.479%) SOAP
7 2 (1.653%) soapUI
8 1 (0.826%) Google Maps API
8 1 (0.826%) REST
8 1 (0.826%) Bing Maps
8 1 (0.826%) ASP
8 1 (0.826%) Swing
8 1 (0.826%) WAP
8 1 (0.826%) Ajax
8 1 (0.826%) .NET Framework
8 1 (0.826%) JSON
8 1 (0.826%) jQuery
8 1 (0.826%) WCF
8 1 (0.826%) Silverlight
Application Platforms
1 10 (8.264%) SharePoint
1 10 (8.264%) SharePoint 2010
Applications
1 16 (13.22%) MS Excel
2 2 (1.653%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 12 (9.917%) TCP/IP
1 12 (9.917%) Internet
2 3 (2.479%) HTTP
3 1 (0.826%) LTE
3 1 (0.826%) SNMP
3 1 (0.826%) FTP
3 1 (0.826%) CDMA
3 1 (0.826%) GSM
3 1 (0.826%) UMTS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (9.917%) MySQL
2 4 (3.306%) Big Data
3 3 (2.479%) SQL Server
4 1 (0.826%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.826%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 24 (19.83%) QuickTest Pro
2 23 (19.01%) Selenium
3 14 (11.57%) Visual Studio
4 7 (5.785%) JMeter
5 6 (4.959%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 5 (4.132%) Team Foundation Server
7 3 (2.479%) SilkTest
7 3 (2.479%) JIRA
8 2 (1.653%) Visual Studio Team System
9 1 (0.826%) TestComplete
9 1 (0.826%) WatiN
9 1 (0.826%) WebDriver
9 1 (0.826%) Hudson
9 1 (0.826%) FogBugz
9 1 (0.826%) Jenkins
9 1 (0.826%) JUnit
General
1 12 (9.917%) Finance
1 12 (9.917%) Legal
2 6 (4.959%) Pharmaceutical
3 5 (4.132%) Publishing
4 2 (1.653%) Telecoms
4 2 (1.653%) Advertising
5 1 (0.826%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 20 (16.53%) Computer Science
2 15 (12.40%) Mathematics
3 12 (9.917%) Management Information System
3 12 (9.917%) Life Science
3 12 (9.917%) Chemistry
4 6 (4.959%) Biotechnology
4 6 (4.959%) Cloud Computing
5 5 (4.132%) Statistics
5 5 (4.132%) AS400
6 4 (3.306%) Social Network
7 3 (2.479%) SaaS
7 3 (2.479%) iSeries
8 2 (1.653%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.826%) Hedge funds
9 1 (0.826%) Client/Server
9 1 (0.826%) N-Tier
9 1 (0.826%) Physics
Operating Systems
1 35 (28.93%) Windows
2 29 (23.97%) Linux
3 23 (19.01%) UNIX
4 14 (11.57%) Solaris
5 9 (7.438%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 6 (4.959%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.826%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (32.23%) Software Testing
2 37 (30.58%) Test Scripting
3 35 (28.93%) Test Automation
4 25 (20.66%) Agile Software Development
5 19 (15.70%) Scrum
6 15 (12.40%) Automated Testing
7 14 (11.57%) Waterfall
8 13 (10.74%) User Acceptance Testing
9 12 (9.917%) Regression Testing
9 12 (9.917%) Ethical Hacking
9 12 (9.917%) Vulnerability Assessment
9 12 (9.917%) Penetration Testing
9 12 (9.917%) Security Testing
10 11 (9.091%) OO
11 10 (8.264%) Risk Management
11 10 (8.264%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.264%) Business Continuity
11 10 (8.264%) Test Strategy
12 8 (6.612%) Manual Testing
12 8 (6.612%) Automation Testing
Programming Languages
1 35 (28.93%) SQL
2 30 (24.79%) Java
3 22 (18.18%) C++
4 21 (17.36%) C#
4 21 (17.36%) Perl
5 14 (11.57%) PHP
6 12 (9.917%) VB
7 11 (9.091%) Python
8 9 (7.438%) C
9 8 (6.612%) VBA
10 7 (5.785%) VB.NET
11 6 (4.959%) PL/SQL
12 1 (0.826%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 47 (38.84%) ISEB
2 38 (31.40%) Degree
3 12 (9.917%) CEH
3 12 (9.917%) ISTQB
3 12 (9.917%) CISSP
3 12 (9.917%) PhD
3 12 (9.917%) CISM
4 3 (2.479%) HND
5 1 (0.826%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (25.62%) QA
2 6 (4.959%) GLP
Systems Management
1 11 (9.091%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 27 (22.31%) Microsoft
2 17 (14.05%) Oracle
3 13 (10.74%) HP
4 5 (4.132%) Progress
5 1 (0.826%) Sitecore
5 1 (0.826%) Twitter
5 1 (0.826%) Google
5 1 (0.826%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.826%) Telerik
Guildford, Surrey
existing and writing new test cases and test scripts... The key skills for this role are : Manual software testing methodologies, functional testing, integration testing and user acceptance... Automated...
Reflex Computer Recruitment
Salary: £30000 - £40000 per annum + Bens
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey
The right QA/Tester (Functional, UAT, Web) will have the following: Functional, UAT. Strong experience in web testing. Financial background (ideally FX,CFD, Investment Banking, Broker, financial software...
Harrington Starr
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus+Benefits+Package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Surrey, South East
The right QA/Tester (Functional, UAT, Web) will have the following: Functional, UAT. Strong experience in web testing. Financial background (ideally FX,CFD, Investment Banking, Broker, financial software...
harringtonstarr
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + Bonus+Benefits+Package
Posted: 18 June 2013
Surrey, Crawley, Epsom, Sussex, South East
This successful and profitable Software House who specialise in the supply of large scale solutions to the Corporate & Public Sector markets is looking to recruit an experienced Test...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: To c£60,000 + excellent bonus + benefits
Posted: 29 May 2013
Richmond, Surrey
Technical Skills: *Experience, preferably certification, of software and/or infrastructure testing *Experience of software and infrastructure testing tools *Strong experience of web platforms, .Net, databases, Microsoft technologies *Experience...
Claremont Consulting Ltd
Salary: £35000 - £45000 per annum
Posted: 12 June 2013