The first table below looks at the demand for the Functional Tester role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Functional Tester 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 currently tracked.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Functional Tester
Rank 861 857 852
Rank change year-on-year
-4 -5
Permanent jobs requiring a Functional Tester 7 28 30
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.006% 0.023% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.024% 0.025%
Number of salaries quoted 7 28 30
Average salary £44,000 £35,750 £47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+23.07% -24.73%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £33,500 £47,500
% change year-on-year
-2.98% -29.47%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
102828 114458 120840
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.40% 94.97% 94.13%
Number of salaries quoted 85533 98230 102542
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 £38,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-1.29% +2.66%

Functional Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Functional Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Functional Tester
Salary Trend

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

Functional Tester Salary Trend

Functional Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Functional Tester over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 within the UK.

Functional Tester Salary Histogram

Functional Tester
Top 10 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Functional Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 19 June 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
Find
Job
Vacancies
England +4 6 £47,500 +35.71%
London +30 4 £57,500 +29.21%
City of London +2 3 £57,500 -4.16%
Scotland +8 1 £44,000 -2.22%
East of England +3 1 £32,500 -13.33%
Glasgow -8 1 £44,000 -2.22%
Cambridge - 1 £32,500 -
Manchester - 1 £23,000 -
Cambridgeshire - 1 £32,500 -
North West - 1 £23,000 -

Functional Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Functional 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 Functional Tester in their job title.

1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 9 (52.94%) QA
3 8 (47.06%) Derivative
3 8 (47.06%) QuickTest Pro
3 8 (47.06%) SQL
4 7 (41.18%) .NET
4 7 (41.18%) Business Analysis
5 6 (35.29%) Contract for Difference
5 6 (35.29%) Spread Betting
5 6 (35.29%) Open Source
5 6 (35.29%) VBA
5 6 (35.29%) C#
6 4 (23.53%) ISTQB
6 4 (23.53%) HP Quality Center
7 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
7 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (17.65%) ISEB
8 2 (11.76%) Electronics
8 2 (11.76%) Military
8 2 (11.76%) Information Management
8 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 2 (11.76%) Murex
8 2 (11.76%) MS Office
8 2 (11.76%) JIRA
8 2 (11.76%) Communications Security
9 1 (5.882%) Product Management
9 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
9 1 (5.882%) Test Strategy
9 1 (5.882%) Agile Testing

Functional Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Functional 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 Functional Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 7 (41.18%) .NET
2 1 (5.882%) CSS
2 1 (5.882%) Flash
2 1 (5.882%) HTML
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) MS Excel
2 2 (11.76%) MS Office
3 1 (5.882%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.882%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.882%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (47.06%) QuickTest Pro
2 2 (11.76%) JIRA
General
1 11 (64.71%) Finance
2 2 (11.76%) Electronics
2 2 (11.76%) Military
3 1 (5.882%) Investment Banking
3 1 (5.882%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 8 (47.06%) Derivative
2 6 (35.29%) Contract for Difference
2 6 (35.29%) Spread Betting
2 6 (35.29%) Open Source
3 3 (17.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (5.882%) Statistics
4 1 (5.882%) Equities
4 1 (5.882%) Fixed Income
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.882%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (41.18%) Business Analysis
2 3 (17.65%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (11.76%) Information Management
3 2 (11.76%) Communications Security
4 1 (5.882%) Product Management
4 1 (5.882%) Waterfall
4 1 (5.882%) Test Strategy
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Test Scripting
4 1 (5.882%) Manual Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Automated Testing
4 1 (5.882%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 8 (47.06%) SQL
2 6 (35.29%) VBA
2 6 (35.29%) C#
3 1 (5.882%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (23.53%) ISTQB
2 3 (17.65%) ISEB
3 1 (5.882%) CIPD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (52.94%) QA
2 1 (5.882%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 4 (23.53%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (11.76%) Microsoft
1 2 (11.76%) Murex