Tyne and Wear Software Testing Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Software Testing skills within the Tyne and Wear region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Barry Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Colchester County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Cwmbran Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dorset Dundee Ealing East Grinstead East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Elland Ely England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Farnham Fife Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Gosport Guildford Hampshire Harrow Haslemere Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Huntingdon Ipswich Keighley Kenilworth Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Lincolnshire Liverpool London Maidenhead Manchester March Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Romford Royston Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stevenage Stirling Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Stroud Suffolk Sunderland Surrey Swadlincote Swansea Swindon Tamworth Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Vale of Glamorgan Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Wales West Yorkshire Wetherby Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Worcester Worcestershire Worthing Yeovil York Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	59	45
Rank change on same period last year	-14
Matching permanent IT job ads	8	28
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	1.688 %	5.000 %
Salaries quoted	7	23
Average minimum salary	£31,000	£28,069
Average salary	£33,500	£29,086
% change on same period last year	+15.17 %
Average maximum salary	£36,000	£30,103
UK excluding London average salary	£34,720	£33,025
% change on same period last year	+5.13 %
Processes & Methodologies Tyne and Wear
Matching permanent IT job ads	474	560
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.255 %	0.233 %
Salaries quoted	376	440
Average minimum salary	£33,310	£34,001
Average salary	£37,895	£37,303
% change on same period last year	+1.58 %
Average maximum salary	£42,479	£40,606
UK excluding London average salary	£42,487	£44,463
% change on same period last year	-4.44 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Tyne and Wear region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Tyne and Wear region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Tyne and Wear region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Newcastle	-2	5	£35,750	+20.54 %
Sunderland	-3	1	£32,500	+13.37 %
Newcastle Upon Tyne	-5	1	£32,500	+20.37 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 6 (54.55 %) Linux 2 5 (45.45 %) LAN 2 5 (45.45 %) WAN 2 5 (45.45 %) UNIX 3 4 (36.36 %) Project Management 3 4 (36.36 %) QA 4 3 (27.27 %) Degree 4 3 (27.27 %) Firewall 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 Server 4 3 (27.27 %) Citrix 4 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 4 3 (27.27 %) Windows 4 3 (27.27 %) MCP 4 3 (27.27 %) HND

4 3 (27.27 %) VoIP 4 3 (27.27 %) UML 4 3 (27.27 %) C 4 3 (27.27 %) XML 5 2 (18.18 %) EJB 5 2 (18.18 %) JSP 5 2 (18.18 %) Servlets 5 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 5 2 (18.18 %) Java 5 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 5 2 (18.18 %) SQL 5 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 5 2 (18.18 %) MySQL 5 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 5 2 (18.18 %) Business Intelligence

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT jobs across the Tyne and Wear 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 3 (27.27 %) XML 2 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 2 2 (18.18 %) EJB 2 2 (18.18 %) JSP 2 2 (18.18 %) Servlets 2 2 (18.18 %) WebServices 2 2 (18.18 %) JSF 2 2 (18.18 %) AJAX 2 2 (18.18 %) JBoss Seam 2 2 (18.18 %) EJB 3.0 3 1 (9.091 %) .NET 3 1 (9.091 %) ASP 3 1 (9.091 %) XSLT	Application Platforms 1 2 (18.18 %) JBoss 1 2 (18.18 %) Apache 1 2 (18.18 %) Tomcat
Communications & Networking 1 5 (45.45 %) LAN 1 5 (45.45 %) WAN 2 3 (27.27 %) Firewall 2 3 (27.27 %) VoIP	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (18.18 %) MySQL 1 2 (18.18 %) Datawarehouse 1 2 (18.18 %) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) NUnit	General 1 2 (18.18 %) Finance 2 1 (9.091 %) Health 2 1 (9.091 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 2 (18.18 %) Project Manager 1 2 (18.18 %) Analyst 1 2 (18.18 %) Test Manager 1 2 (18.18 %) Development Manager 2 1 (9.091 %) QA Manager 2 1 (9.091 %) Network Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Security Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) QA Tester 2 1 (9.091 %) Systems Analyst 2 1 (9.091 %) Tester 2 1 (9.091 %) Software Engineer	Operating Systems 1 6 (54.55 %) Linux 2 5 (45.45 %) UNIX 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows Server 2003 3 3 (27.27 %) Windows 2000 Server
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (36.36 %) Project Management 2 3 (27.27 %) UML 3 2 (18.18 %) OOD 3 2 (18.18 %) Business Intelligence 3 2 (18.18 %) Process Management 4 1 (9.091 %) OO	Programming Languages 1 3 (27.27 %) C 2 2 (18.18 %) Java 2 2 (18.18 %) JavaScript 2 2 (18.18 %) SQL 3 1 (9.091 %) Shell Script 3 1 (9.091 %) AWK 3 1 (9.091 %) C# 3 1 (9.091 %) C++
Qualifications 1 3 (27.27 %) MCP 1 3 (27.27 %) HND 1 3 (27.27 %) Microsoft Certification 1 3 (27.27 %) Degree 2 2 (18.18 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (36.36 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (27.27 %) Citrix 2 2 (18.18 %) Oracle