The first table below looks at the demand for System Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited System 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 Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank 41 41 51
Rank change year-on-year
0 +10
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 13 19 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 2.796% 3.711% 0.399%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.377% 4.657% 0.549%
Number of salaries quoted 13 19 2
Average salary £39,000 £28,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+36.84% -28.75%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £36,125 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-3.11% +11.15%
All Processes & Methodologies
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
385 408 364
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 82.80% 79.69% 72.65%
Number of salaries quoted 336 356 337
Average salary £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £25,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Wiltshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

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

Swindon System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Swindon System Testing Salary Histogram

System Testing
Top 25 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 10 (66.67%) Retail
1 10 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
1 10 (66.67%) UML
1 10 (66.67%) E-Commerce
2 4 (26.67%) HP
2 4 (26.67%) QuickTest Pro
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
2 4 (26.67%) OOP
2 4 (26.67%) OO
2 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
2 4 (26.67%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) VBScript
2 4 (26.67%) VB
2 4 (26.67%) VBA
2 4 (26.67%) MS Office
2 4 (26.67%) XML
2 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
2 4 (26.67%) QA
2 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (6.667%) Finance

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (26.67%) XML
Applications
1 4 (26.67%) MS Office
1 4 (26.67%) MS Excel
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 10 (66.67%) Retail
2 4 (26.67%) Legal
3 1 (6.667%) Finance
Job Titles
1 14 (93.33%) Analyst
2 10 (66.67%) Business Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Developer
3 4 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) VB Developer
4 3 (20.00%) VBA Developer
4 3 (20.00%) Developer Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Junior Test Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Junior Analyst
5 1 (6.667%) Junior
Miscellaneous
1 4 (26.67%) Computer Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) UML
1 10 (66.67%) E-Commerce
1 10 (66.67%) Requirements Analysis
2 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
2 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
2 4 (26.67%) Scrum
2 4 (26.67%) OOP
2 4 (26.67%) OO
3 1 (6.667%) Agile Software Development
3 1 (6.667%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) SQL
1 4 (26.67%) VBScript
1 4 (26.67%) VB
1 4 (26.67%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) HP