The first table below looks at the demand for the Applications Tester role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Applications Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 21 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Application Tester
Rank 840 856 837
Rank change year-on-year
+16 -19
Permanent jobs requiring an Applications Tester 20 31 34
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.018% 0.026% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.027% 0.030%
Number of salaries quoted 17 31 31
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £34,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +2.94%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,300 £22,000 £28,000
10% offered a salary of more than £56,000 £45,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £33,000 £32,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
+3.12% -1.53%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,500 £26,500
10% offered a salary of more than £67,500 £72,500 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Applications Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Applications Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Applications Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Applications Tester within the UK.

Applications Tester Salary Trend

Applications Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Applications Tester over the 3 months to 21 May 2013 within the UK.

Applications Tester Salary Histogram

Applications Tester
Top 20 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Applications Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 21 May 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
England -3 19 £35,000 -
South East -4 9 £32,500 -5.10%
London +25 5 £42,500 +6.25%
City of London +9 4 £43,750 +53.50%
West Sussex -11 3 £32,500 +80.55%
Surrey +12 2 £31,750 -13.60%
East of England - 2 £30,250 -
Thames Valley - 2 £60,000 -
Hertfordshire - 2 £30,250 -
Nottingham +2 1 £65,000 +182.60%
Nottinghamshire 0 1 £65,000 +182.60%
East Midlands 0 1 £65,000 +182.60%
North West -10 1 - -
West Midlands -25 1 £50,000 +56.25%
Staffordshire - 1 £50,000 -
Hampshire - 1 - -
East Sussex - 1 £30,500 -
Hertford - 1 £35,000 -
Brighton - 1 £30,500 -
Basingstoke - 1 - -

Applications Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Applications 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 Applications Tester in their job title.

1 15 (40.54%) QA
2 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 12 (32.43%) Windows
3 10 (27.03%) .NET
3 10 (27.03%) Selenium
3 10 (27.03%) HP Quality Center
4 9 (24.32%) Test Scripting
5 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
5 8 (21.62%) JIRA
5 8 (21.62%) ISEB
5 8 (21.62%) Regression Testing
5 8 (21.62%) Mobile App
6 7 (18.92%) Apple iOS
6 7 (18.92%) Java
6 7 (18.92%) Android
7 6 (16.22%) ISTQB
7 6 (16.22%) Automated Testing
7 6 (16.22%) C#
7 6 (16.22%) ASP
7 6 (16.22%) Scrum
7 6 (16.22%) Test Management
7 6 (16.22%) Web Application Development
8 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
8 5 (13.51%) VB
8 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
8 5 (13.51%) HP
8 5 (13.51%) Performance Testing
9 4 (10.81%) Security Testing
9 4 (10.81%) iPhone
9 4 (10.81%) WebDriver

Applications Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Applications 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 Applications Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 10 (27.03%) .NET
2 6 (16.22%) ASP
3 4 (10.81%) ASP.NET
3 4 (10.81%) SOAP
4 3 (8.108%) Web Services
4 3 (8.108%) soapUI
4 3 (8.108%) REST
5 2 (5.405%) XML
5 2 (5.405%) HTML
6 1 (2.703%) Cocoa
6 1 (2.703%) XSL
6 1 (2.703%) J2ME
6 1 (2.703%) Ajax
6 1 (2.703%) jQuery
Application Platforms
1 5 (13.51%) SharePoint
2 3 (8.108%) IIS
3 2 (5.405%) Apache
3 2 (5.405%) WebLogic
Applications
1 3 (8.108%) MS Excel
1 3 (8.108%) S-PLUS
2 2 (5.405%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (2.703%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.703%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.703%) Oracle Applications
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.108%) 3G
1 3 (8.108%) 2G
1 3 (8.108%) 4G
2 1 (2.703%) DMZ
2 1 (2.703%) ADSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) SQL Server
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (8.108%) SQL Server 2008
2 3 (8.108%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) Selenium
2 8 (21.62%) JIRA
3 4 (10.81%) WebDriver
4 3 (8.108%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (5.405%) Cucumber
6 1 (2.703%) TestDirector
6 1 (2.703%) QuickTest Pro
6 1 (2.703%) JMeter
6 1 (2.703%) Xcode
6 1 (2.703%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.703%) Maven
6 1 (2.703%) Git (software)
6 1 (2.703%) Robotium
General
1 2 (5.405%) Marketing
1 2 (5.405%) Finance
2 1 (2.703%) Law
2 1 (2.703%) Games
2 1 (2.703%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 8 (21.62%) Mobile App
2 4 (10.81%) iPhone
2 4 (10.81%) iPad
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science
2 4 (10.81%) Blackberry
3 2 (5.405%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.405%) Fat Client
3 2 (5.405%) Client/Server
3 2 (5.405%) Thin Client
4 1 (2.703%) EPoS
4 1 (2.703%) N-Tier
4 1 (2.703%) Social Media
4 1 (2.703%) SaaS
4 1 (2.703%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (2.703%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 12 (32.43%) Windows
2 7 (18.92%) Apple iOS
2 7 (18.92%) Android
3 3 (8.108%) Windows Mobile
4 2 (5.405%) UNIX
5 1 (2.703%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (24.32%) Test Scripting
2 8 (21.62%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (21.62%) Regression Testing
3 6 (16.22%) Automated Testing
3 6 (16.22%) Scrum
3 6 (16.22%) Test Management
3 6 (16.22%) Web Application Development
4 5 (13.51%) Performance Testing
5 4 (10.81%) Security Testing
5 4 (10.81%) Software Testing
5 4 (10.81%) Agile Software Development
5 4 (10.81%) Penetration Testing
6 3 (8.108%) Risk Management
6 3 (8.108%) E-Commerce
6 3 (8.108%) TDD
6 3 (8.108%) Continuous Integration
6 3 (8.108%) Manual Testing
6 3 (8.108%) System Testing
6 3 (8.108%) Load Testing
7 2 (5.405%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (32.43%) SQL
2 7 (18.92%) Java
3 6 (16.22%) C#
4 5 (13.51%) VB
5 4 (10.81%) VB6
5 4 (10.81%) C++
5 4 (10.81%) MATLAB
6 3 (8.108%) R
7 2 (5.405%) Objective-C
7 2 (5.405%) JavaScript
7 2 (5.405%) VB.NET
8 1 (2.703%) VBA
8 1 (2.703%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) ISEB
2 6 (16.22%) ISTQB
3 4 (10.81%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (40.54%) QA
2 1 (2.703%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (2.703%) Hyper-V
1 1 (2.703%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (27.03%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (5.405%) AppDetective
Vendors
1 5 (13.51%) HP
2 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
2 4 (10.81%) Oracle
3 3 (8.108%) Citrix
3 3 (8.108%) Hyperion
3 3 (8.108%) Cadis
4 2 (5.405%) IBM
5 1 (2.703%) Apple
5 1 (2.703%) Interwoven
5 1 (2.703%) Cognizant
5 1 (2.703%) Open Text
5 1 (2.703%) Symbian
5 1 (2.703%) VMware
5 1 (2.703%) Google
5 1 (2.703%) Pega