The first table below looks at the demand for Compatibility Testing skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Compatibility Testing 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category.

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Compatibility Testing
Rank 820 819 853
Rank change year-on-year
-1 +34
Permanent jobs citing Compatibility Testing 40 68 18
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.037% 0.056% 0.015%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.048% 0.075% 0.020%
Number of salaries quoted 27 24 12
Average salary £30,000 £37,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-20.00% +7.14%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £30,250 £25,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £57,500 £67,500
UK excluding London average salary £27,500 £37,500 £30,000
% change year-on-year
-26.66% +25.00%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
82967 90341 89879
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 76.38% 74.55% 73.65%
Number of salaries quoted 68059 76794 75193
Average salary £45,000 £47,500 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.26% -
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £70,000 £75,000 £75,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%

Compatibility Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Compatibility Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Compatibility Testing
Salary Trend

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

Compatibility Testing Salary Trend

Compatibility Testing
Salary Histogram

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

Compatibility Testing Salary Histogram

Compatibility Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Compatibility Testing 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 -21 38 £30,000 -20.00%
London +5 21 £40,000 +14.28%
East of England - 8 £25,500 -
Hemel Hempstead - 6 £25,500 -
Hertfordshire - 6 £25,500 -
Yorkshire -19 4 £35,000 -6.66%
South West +1 3 £30,000 -14.28%
York -14 3 £35,000 -6.66%
North Yorkshire -17 3 £35,000 -6.66%
Wiltshire - 3 £30,000 -
North West -8 2 £57,500 +90.08%
Cheshire - 2 £57,500 -
Cambridgeshire - 2 £27,500 -
Edinburgh - 2 - -
Chester - 2 £57,500 -
Scotland - 2 - -
City of London +3 1 £30,000 -12.08%

Compatibility Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Compatibility 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 Compatibility Testing.

1 37 (51.39%) JavaScript
2 33 (45.83%) CSS
3 31 (43.06%) HTML
4 29 (40.28%) BDD
5 27 (37.50%) QA
6 24 (33.33%) Cucumber
7 23 (31.94%) Automated Testing
8 22 (30.56%) Agile Software Development
9 21 (29.17%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (29.17%) Test Scripting
10 20 (27.78%) Selenium
11 19 (26.39%) Windows
12 18 (25.00%) Ajax
13 17 (23.61%) Mobile App
13 17 (23.61%) HTML5
13 17 (23.61%) XML
13 17 (23.61%) Ruby
14 16 (22.22%) SQL
15 14 (19.44%) Subversion
15 14 (19.44%) E-Commerce
15 14 (19.44%) jQuery
15 14 (19.44%) Firebug
15 14 (19.44%) Fiddler
15 14 (19.44%) Performance Testing
16 13 (18.06%) Load Testing
16 13 (18.06%) JSON
16 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
16 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
16 13 (18.06%) B2C
16 13 (18.06%) Java

Compatibility Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing Compatibility 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 Compatibility Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 33 (45.83%) CSS
2 31 (43.06%) HTML
3 18 (25.00%) Ajax
4 17 (23.61%) HTML5
4 17 (23.61%) XML
5 14 (19.44%) jQuery
6 13 (18.06%) JSON
7 12 (16.67%) .NET
7 12 (16.67%) CSS3
8 10 (13.89%) Web Services
8 10 (13.89%) Gherkin
9 7 (9.722%) Flash
10 4 (5.556%) DOM
10 4 (5.556%) XHTML
10 4 (5.556%) Application Packaging
11 3 (4.167%) WPF
11 3 (4.167%) soapUI
11 3 (4.167%) Sencha Touch
11 3 (4.167%) JSP
11 3 (4.167%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 6 (8.333%) CMS
2 5 (6.944%) SharePoint
3 4 (5.556%) Apache
4 3 (4.167%) WordPress
4 3 (4.167%) Tomcat
5 2 (2.778%) Sitecore CMS
6 1 (1.389%) TIBCO EMS
6 1 (1.389%) SharePoint 2013
6 1 (1.389%) IIS
6 1 (1.389%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 12 (16.67%) Photoshop
2 9 (12.50%) Adobe Illustrator
3 6 (8.333%) MS Excel
3 6 (8.333%) Fireworks
4 3 (4.167%) GIMP
5 1 (1.389%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.556%) SAP Business One
2 3 (4.167%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.389%) Oracle EBS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.167%) Intranet
2 2 (2.778%) Broadband
2 2 (2.778%) Internet
2 2 (2.778%) Extranet
3 1 (1.389%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.944%) MySQL
2 1 (1.389%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.389%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 24 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 20 (27.78%) Selenium
3 14 (19.44%) Subversion
3 14 (19.44%) Firebug
3 14 (19.44%) Fiddler
4 11 (15.28%) Git (software)
5 10 (13.89%) RSpec
5 10 (13.89%) Jenkins
6 8 (11.11%) JIRA
7 7 (9.722%) FitNesse
7 7 (9.722%) WebDriver
7 7 (9.722%) SpecFlow
7 7 (9.722%) Visual Studio
8 6 (8.333%) Dreamweaver
9 4 (5.556%) MSI
9 4 (5.556%) InstallShield
9 4 (5.556%) AdminStudio
9 4 (5.556%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (4.167%) TeamCity
10 3 (4.167%) PhoneGap
General
1 6 (8.333%) Publishing
2 4 (5.556%) Marketing
3 3 (4.167%) Finance
4 2 (2.778%) Banking
4 2 (2.778%) Retail
4 2 (2.778%) Retail Banking
5 1 (1.389%) Telecoms
5 1 (1.389%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 28 (38.89%) Analyst
2 23 (31.94%) Test Analyst
3 15 (20.83%) Developer
4 11 (15.28%) QA Analyst
5 9 (12.50%) Tester
6 8 (11.11%) Web Developer
7 7 (9.722%) Test Engineer
7 7 (9.722%) Senior Test Engineer
8 6 (8.333%) QA Test Analyst
8 6 (8.333%) Lead Test Analyst
8 6 (8.333%) Mobile Developer
9 5 (6.944%) Designer
9 5 (6.944%) Photoshop Designer
9 5 (6.944%) Web Designer
10 4 (5.556%) Applications Packager
10 4 (5.556%) Front-End Developer
10 4 (5.556%) Web Tester
11 3 (4.167%) Automation Test Analyst
11 3 (4.167%) Front-End Web Developer
11 3 (4.167%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 21 (29.17%) Enterprise Software
2 17 (23.61%) Mobile App
3 6 (8.333%) Client/Server
3 6 (8.333%) Graphic Design
4 4 (5.556%) Open Source
5 3 (4.167%) W3C
6 2 (2.778%) iPad
6 2 (2.778%) Wiki
6 2 (2.778%) Mathematics
6 2 (2.778%) Computer Science
7 1 (1.389%) Fat Client
7 1 (1.389%) Social Media
7 1 (1.389%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 19 (26.39%) Windows
2 13 (18.06%) Linux
3 9 (12.50%) Apple iOS
4 8 (11.11%) Windows 7
5 7 (9.722%) Android
5 7 (9.722%) Windows 8
5 7 (9.722%) UNIX
6 4 (5.556%) Solaris
6 4 (5.556%) OpenVMS
6 4 (5.556%) Windows Server 2008
7 2 (2.778%) Mac OS
8 1 (1.389%) Windows Vista
8 1 (1.389%) Mac OS X
8 1 (1.389%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) BDD
2 23 (31.94%) Automated Testing
3 22 (30.56%) Agile Software Development
4 21 (29.17%) Test Scripting
5 14 (19.44%) E-Commerce
5 14 (19.44%) Performance Testing
6 13 (18.06%) Load Testing
6 13 (18.06%) Continuous Integration
6 13 (18.06%) Test Automation
6 13 (18.06%) B2C
7 10 (13.89%) OOP
7 10 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (13.89%) User Stories
8 8 (11.11%) Unit Testing
9 7 (9.722%) Test Strategy
10 6 (8.333%) Scrum
11 5 (6.944%) Security Testing
11 5 (6.944%) Migration
12 4 (5.556%) Regression Testing
12 4 (5.556%) Software Distribution
Programming Languages
1 37 (51.39%) JavaScript
2 17 (23.61%) Ruby
3 16 (22.22%) SQL
4 13 (18.06%) Java
5 9 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 9 (12.50%) C#
6 8 (11.11%) VBScript
6 8 (11.11%) PHP
7 6 (8.333%) VB
7 6 (8.333%) ActionScript
8 2 (2.778%) Python
9 1 (1.389%) Shell Script
9 1 (1.389%) C++
9 1 (1.389%) C
Qualifications
1 12 (16.67%) Degree
2 4 (5.556%) ISEB
2 4 (5.556%) SC Cleared
2 4 (5.556%) Security Cleared
3 2 (2.778%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (37.50%) QA
2 3 (4.167%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.778%) WAI
4 1 (1.389%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 5 (6.944%) XenApp
2 4 (5.556%) Microsoft App-V
2 4 (5.556%) Active Directory
3 1 (1.389%) XenDesktop
3 1 (1.389%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (11.11%) SCCM
2 4 (5.556%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (5.556%) WSUS
3 1 (1.389%) McAfee ePO
3 1 (1.389%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 8 (11.11%) Citrix
2 7 (9.722%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.556%) SAP
4 3 (4.167%) Xamarin
4 3 (4.167%) Sencha
4 3 (4.167%) Oracle
4 3 (4.167%) Google
5 2 (2.778%) RedDot
5 2 (2.778%) EPiServer
5 2 (2.778%) Sitecore
6 1 (1.389%) Facebook
6 1 (1.389%) Twitter
6 1 (1.389%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.389%) McAfee
6 1 (1.389%) Sophos
6 1 (1.389%) Adobe
6 1 (1.389%) VMware
London
Key requirements Proven working knowledge of HTML, HTML5, CSS, CSS Positioning, CSS3, RSS feeds, JavaScript. Strong Adobe Creative Suite skills (or equivalent) with a web design and development...
Fidessa
Salary: Competitive salary
Posted: 20 May 2013
Chester, Cheshire
The role will involve co-ordinating Compatibility Testing; including test planning and ensuring defects are properly tracked, managed and reported on... Define a test approach which: Ensures automation...
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 6 May 2013