The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Swindon 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 24 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 Job Titles advertised for the Swindon region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 53 38 51
Rank change year-on-year
-15 +13
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 2 20 5
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 0.416% 3.891% 1.044%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.429% 4.228% 1.073%
Number of salaries quoted 2 20 1
Average salary £31,500 £33,250 £22,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% +47.77%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Swindon
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
466 473 466
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Swindon 96.88% 92.02% 97.29%
Number of salaries quoted 410 409 435
Average salary £36,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-4.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £23,500 £23,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Wiltshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Swindon 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 Swindon region.

Swindon Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 6 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (55.56%) Usability Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Management
2 5 (55.56%) V-Model
2 5 (55.56%) SilkPerformer
2 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) QA
2 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
2 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (55.56%) HP
2 5 (55.56%) ISEB
2 5 (55.56%) LoadRunner
2 5 (55.56%) Borland
3 4 (44.44%) SQL
3 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
4 3 (33.33%) Linux
4 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 2 (22.22%) XML
5 2 (22.22%) UNIX
5 2 (22.22%) Windows
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) JSON
6 1 (11.11%) Silverlight
6 1 (11.11%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) IGMP

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Swindon 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 3 (33.33%) Web Services
2 2 (22.22%) XML
3 1 (11.11%) JSON
3 1 (11.11%) Silverlight
3 1 (11.11%) HTML5
3 1 (11.11%) HTML
Communications & Networking
1 1 (11.11%) IGMP
1 1 (11.11%) TCP/IP
1 1 (11.11%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (33.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (11.11%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) SilkPerformer
1 5 (55.56%) LoadRunner
General
1 1 (11.11%) Marketing
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
Operating Systems
1 3 (33.33%) Linux
2 2 (22.22%) UNIX
2 2 (22.22%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Waterfall
2 5 (55.56%) Usability Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Test Management
2 5 (55.56%) V-Model
2 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
2 5 (55.56%) Business Continuity
2 5 (55.56%) Disaster Recovery
3 4 (44.44%) Performance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Agile Software Development
5 2 (22.22%) User Acceptance Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Use Case
6 1 (11.11%) Automated Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Marketing Analytics
6 1 (11.11%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 1 (11.11%) Manual Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) E-Commerce
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) Bash shell
2 1 (11.11%) C
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) C++
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Perl
2 1 (11.11%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 5 (55.56%) ISEB
2 4 (44.44%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (55.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 5 (55.56%) HP
1 5 (55.56%) Borland
2 1 (11.11%) Intergraph
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