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

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Analyst
Rank 52 60 44
Rank change year-on-year
+8 -16
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Analyst 5 3 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 0.980% 0.522% 1.613%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.014% 0.559% 1.674%
Number of salaries quoted 3 3 4
Average salary £24,000 £26,000 £42,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.69% -38.09%
UK excluding London average salary £31,500 £32,500 £32,000
% change year-on-year
-3.07% +1.56%
All Job Titles
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
493 537 478
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 96.67% 93.39% 96.37%
Number of salaries quoted 430 470 454
Average salary £37,500 £38,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-1.31% +8.57%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £24,000 £24,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%
Test Analyst
Wiltshire

Test Analyst
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon Test Analyst Jobs Demand Trend

Test Analyst
Salary Trend

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

Swindon Test Analyst Salary Trend

Test Analyst
Top 30 Related IT Skills

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

1 7 (46.67%) HP
1 7 (46.67%) QA
2 6 (40.00%) SQL
3 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
4 4 (26.67%) System Testing
4 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
4 4 (26.67%) VB
4 4 (26.67%) ISEB
4 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 4 (26.67%) LoadRunner
4 4 (26.67%) Test Management
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 4 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
5 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 3 (20.00%) V-Model
5 3 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
5 3 (20.00%) Borland
5 3 (20.00%) Legal
5 3 (20.00%) Scrum
5 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
5 3 (20.00%) OOP
5 3 (20.00%) OO
5 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
5 3 (20.00%) MS Office
5 3 (20.00%) XML
5 3 (20.00%) VBA
5 3 (20.00%) VBScript

Test Analyst
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 3 (20.00%) XML
2 1 (6.667%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.667%) .NET
Applications
1 3 (20.00%) MS Excel
1 3 (20.00%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.667%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) LoadRunner
2 3 (20.00%) QuickTest Pro
2 3 (20.00%) SilkPerformer
3 1 (6.667%) Selenium
General
1 4 (26.67%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Legal
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
1 5 (33.33%) Software Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (26.67%) System Testing
2 4 (26.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Performance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Management
2 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
3 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
3 3 (20.00%) V-Model
3 3 (20.00%) Scrum
3 3 (20.00%) Business Continuity
3 3 (20.00%) OOP
3 3 (20.00%) OO
3 3 (20.00%) Usability Testing
3 3 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
4 2 (13.33%) Agile Software Development
4 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2
4 2 (13.33%) Project Management
4 2 (13.33%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 6 (40.00%) SQL
2 4 (26.67%) VB
3 3 (20.00%) VBA
3 3 (20.00%) VBScript
4 1 (6.667%) C
4 1 (6.667%) C#
4 1 (6.667%) Java
4 1 (6.667%) Perl
Qualifications
1 4 (26.67%) ISEB
2 3 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (13.33%) SC Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) Security Cleared
3 2 (13.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 4 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (46.67%) HP
2 3 (20.00%) Borland
3 1 (6.667%) Intergraph
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