The first table below looks at the demand for the Lead Tester role in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Lead Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 20 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
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Lead Tester
Rank 826 830 809
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -21
Permanent jobs requiring a Lead Tester 33 66 80
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.030% 0.056% 0.062%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.059% 0.066%
Number of salaries quoted 28 59 77
Average salary £42,500 £40,000 £45,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,400 £31,000 £36,500
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £57,000 £82,500
UK excluding London average salary £41,000 £39,500 £40,003
% change year-on-year
+3.79% -1.25%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
104260 112424 121400
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.39% 94.97% 94.14%
Number of salaries quoted 86734 96496 103078
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%

Lead Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Lead Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Lead Tester
Salary Trend

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

Lead Tester Salary Trend

Lead Tester
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Lead Tester over the 3 months to 20 June 2013 within the UK.

Lead Tester Salary Histogram

Lead Tester
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Lead Tester within the UK over the 3 months to 20 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 -18 30 £45,000 +12.50% 3
London +9 9 £47,500 +4.39%
North West +8 8 £42,000 +6.32%
South East +12 6 £45,000 +12.50%
Merseyside - 5 £42,000 -
Liverpool - 5 £42,000 -
Yorkshire +2 3 £38,500 -3.75%
Hampshire - 3 £45,000 -
Manchester - 3 £38,750 -
Scotland -3 2 £24,000 -
West Yorkshire -11 2 - -
West Midlands -28 2 £22,000 -31.25% 2
Worcestershire - 2 £22,000 - 2
Worcester - 2 £22,000 - 2
Basingstoke - 2 £43,750 -
Surrey +7 1 £54,000 +13.68%
South West -3 1 £36,500 +7.35%
East Midlands -4 1 £42,500 +37.09%
Nottinghamshire -4 1 £42,500 +16.43%
Nottingham -6 1 £42,500 +16.43%
Leeds -11 1 - -
Glasgow -18 1 - -
Aldershot - 1 £45,000 -
Bath - 1 £36,500 -
Dundee - 1 £24,000 -
Fareham - 1 £45,000 -
Reading - 1 - -
Reigate - 1 £54,000 -
Sheffield - 1 £38,500 -
Berkshire - 1 - -

Lead Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Lead 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 Lead Tester in their job title.

1 37 (47.44%) QA
2 26 (33.33%) .NET
3 24 (30.77%) Regression Testing
4 20 (25.64%) Finance
4 20 (25.64%) Automated Testing
4 20 (25.64%) ISEB
5 17 (21.79%) Java
6 16 (20.51%) SQL
7 15 (19.23%) QuickTest Pro
7 15 (19.23%) Scrum
7 15 (19.23%) Selenium
8 14 (17.95%) Test Strategy
8 14 (17.95%) HP
8 14 (17.95%) Agile Software Development
8 14 (17.95%) Software Testing
9 13 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 13 (16.67%) Manual Testing
10 12 (15.38%) Automation Testing
10 12 (15.38%) Degree
11 11 (14.10%) Waterfall
12 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
12 10 (12.82%) C#
12 10 (12.82%) VBA
13 9 (11.54%) Performance Testing
14 8 (10.26%) Test Scripting
14 8 (10.26%) Integration Testing
15 7 (8.974%) Penetration Testing
15 7 (8.974%) TDD
15 7 (8.974%) ISTQB
15 7 (8.974%) XML

Lead Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

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

Application Development
1 26 (33.33%) .NET
2 7 (8.974%) XML
3 5 (6.410%) XSLT
4 4 (5.128%) HTML
5 2 (2.564%) J2ME
5 2 (2.564%) XSL
5 2 (2.564%) CSS
6 1 (1.282%) WebSphere
6 1 (1.282%) Ruby on Rails
6 1 (1.282%) Flash
6 1 (1.282%) J2EE
6 1 (1.282%) Middleware
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.846%) BizTalk Server
2 2 (2.564%) Apache
2 2 (2.564%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.282%) CMS
3 1 (1.282%) Tuxedo
3 1 (1.282%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.282%) WebLogic Integration
Applications
1 5 (6.410%) MS Excel
2 1 (1.282%) MS Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.282%) SAP Retail
1 1 (1.282%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.282%) Oracle 11i
1 1 (1.282%) SAP FI
1 1 (1.282%) SAP MM
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.564%) Internet
2 1 (1.282%) FTP
2 1 (1.282%) HTTP
2 1 (1.282%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.128%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.282%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.282%) MS Access
2 1 (1.282%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 15 (19.23%) QuickTest Pro
1 15 (19.23%) Selenium
2 7 (8.974%) Visual Studio
2 7 (8.974%) Cucumber
3 5 (6.410%) JIRA
4 4 (5.128%) WebDriver
5 2 (2.564%) Git (software)
5 2 (2.564%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.564%) Maven
6 1 (1.282%) Subversion
6 1 (1.282%) NUnit
6 1 (1.282%) JMeter
6 1 (1.282%) JUnit
6 1 (1.282%) TestDirector
6 1 (1.282%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.282%) Team Foundation Server
6 1 (1.282%) Redmine
6 1 (1.282%) RSpec
General
1 20 (25.64%) Finance
2 6 (7.692%) Games
3 4 (5.128%) Retail
4 3 (3.846%) Banking
4 3 (3.846%) Publishing
4 3 (3.846%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 3 (3.846%) EPoS
1 3 (3.846%) Open Source
2 2 (2.564%) Mobile App
2 2 (2.564%) Computer Science
2 2 (2.564%) Blackberry
3 1 (1.282%) N-Tier
3 1 (1.282%) Blog
Operating Systems
1 6 (7.692%) Windows
2 5 (6.410%) UNIX
3 4 (5.128%) Linux
4 2 (2.564%) Apple iOS
4 2 (2.564%) Android
4 2 (2.564%) Windows Mobile
5 1 (1.282%) Ubuntu
5 1 (1.282%) SUSE
5 1 (1.282%) HPUX
5 1 (1.282%) Mac OS X
5 1 (1.282%) CentOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.77%) Regression Testing
2 20 (25.64%) Automated Testing
3 15 (19.23%) Scrum
4 14 (17.95%) Test Strategy
4 14 (17.95%) Agile Software Development
4 14 (17.95%) Software Testing
5 13 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 13 (16.67%) Manual Testing
6 12 (15.38%) Automation Testing
7 11 (14.10%) Waterfall
8 10 (12.82%) Test Automation
9 9 (11.54%) Performance Testing
10 8 (10.26%) Test Scripting
10 8 (10.26%) Integration Testing
11 7 (8.974%) Penetration Testing
11 7 (8.974%) TDD
12 6 (7.692%) Security Testing
12 6 (7.692%) E-Commerce
12 6 (7.692%) Ethical Hacking
12 6 (7.692%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (21.79%) Java
2 16 (20.51%) SQL
3 10 (12.82%) C#
3 10 (12.82%) VBA
4 5 (6.410%) VB.NET
4 5 (6.410%) Ruby
5 4 (5.128%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.282%) Python
6 1 (1.282%) PHP
6 1 (1.282%) C++
6 1 (1.282%) VB
6 1 (1.282%) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications
1 20 (25.64%) ISEB
2 12 (15.38%) Degree
3 7 (8.974%) ISTQB
4 1 (1.282%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (47.44%) QA
2 4 (5.128%) PCI DSS
2 4 (5.128%) COBIT
System Software
1 1 (1.282%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.410%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.564%) WebInspect
3 1 (1.282%) CA Wily
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) HP
2 6 (7.692%) Microsoft
3 4 (5.128%) Oracle
4 3 (3.846%) JDA
4 3 (3.846%) hybris
4 3 (3.846%) RedPrairie
5 2 (2.564%) Symbian
6 1 (1.282%) VMware
6 1 (1.282%) SAP
6 1 (1.282%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.282%) Informatica
Worcester, West Midlands
We recruit across a wide range of roles from graduates to Directors including Developers, Testers, Project Managers, Programme Managers, Business Analysts, Support and Infrastructure, Management Consultancy, Business Intelligence...
People Source Consulting
Salary: £25000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Worcester, Worcestershire
Sectors include Retail, FMCG, Consulting, Digital Media, iPTV, DotCom, Telecoms, Banking and Finance, Marketing, Public Sector & NHS... People Source specialise in niche technology markets including Information Technology, Digital...
People Source Consulting
Salary: £25000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
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