The first part of the table below looks at the demand for LoadRunner skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited LoadRunner over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second part of the table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Development Applications category.

HP LoadRunner
Location
3 months to
22 May 2012
Same period 2011Same period 2010
Rank438393423
Rank change year-on-year
Down-45Up+30
Matching permanent IT job ads546622375
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK0.453 %0.507 %0.393 %
As % of the Development Applications category3.187 %3.956 %3.646 %
Number of salaries quoted453470265
Average salary£45,000£45,000£47,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
--5.26 %
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£34,000£32,500£31,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£75,000£67,500£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£42,500£42,000£45,000
% change year-on-year
+1.19 %-6.66 %
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryAll Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
171321572210284
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK14.21 %12.82 %10.77 %
Number of salaries quoted15031138058624
Average salary£42,500£40,000£40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+6.25 %-
90% of jobs offered a salary of more than£30,000£30,000£28,500
10% of jobs offered a salary of more than£62,500£65,000£65,000
UK excluding London average salary£38,000£37,449£35,500
% change year-on-year
+1.47 %+5.49 %

LoadRunner
Demand Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK as a proportion of the total demand within the Development Applications category.

LoadRunner Demand Trend

LoadRunner
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK.

LoadRunner Salary Trend

LoadRunner
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing LoadRunner over the 3 months to 22 May 2012 within the UK.

LoadRunner Salary Histogram

LoadRunner
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing LoadRunner within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2012. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

LocationRank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Average Salary
Last 3 Months
Average Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
EnglandDown-22516£45,000-
LondonDown-20223£55,000-
South EastDown-2490£44,000-2.22 %
City of LondonUp+1865£60,000+9.09 %
YorkshireUp+1663£40,500+15.71 %
West YorkshireUp+1756£39,250+12.14 %
LeedsUp+949£38,500+18.46 %
East of EnglandDown-1548£31,000-27.05 %
South WestUp+439£40,000+23.07 %
BerkshireDown-1339£40,000-11.11 %
North WestDown-4332£45,000-18.18 %
CheshireUp+531£45,000+12.50 %
HertfordshireUp+3429£33,000-5.71 %
WarringtonDown-1423£45,000+12.50 %
SurreyDown-1523£45,000-
ReadingDown-1221£37,500-6.25 %
ScotlandDown-519£62,500+50.60 %
BristolDown-115£43,397+33.52 %
SwindonUp+814£35,000-
WiltshireUp+814£35,000-
WatfordUp+1013--
BracknellNew entry-10£40,000-
CambridgeshireDown-339£31,000-27.48 %
EdinburghUp+198£71,250-
HampshireDown-218£50,000+21.95 %
CambridgeDown-238£30,500-29.06 %
Docklands, LondonUp+317£69,000-4.82 %
NottinghamshireUp+187£28,500-
NottinghamUp+127£28,500-
East MidlandsNo change07£28,500+9.61 %

LoadRunner
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner.

1520 (45.69 %)Performance Testing
2435 (38.22 %)ISEB
3418 (36.73 %)QuickTest Pro
4365 (32.07 %)HP Quality Center
5358 (31.46 %)HP
6357 (31.37 %)QA
7317 (27.86 %)Finance
8252 (22.14 %)Java
9231 (20.30 %)Oracle
10199 (17.49 %)SQL
10199 (17.49 %)Selenium
11198 (17.40 %)Test Management
11198 (17.40 %)Software Testing
12189 (16.61 %)ISTQB
13181 (15.91 %)Automated Testing
14169 (14.85 %)Test Scripting
15167 (14.67 %)Test Automation
16166 (14.59 %)Linux
17162 (14.24 %)Test Strategy
18155 (13.62 %)Windows
19150 (13.18 %)WinRunner
20143 (12.57 %)UNIX
21140 (12.30 %)Waterfall
22135 (11.86 %)Agile Software Development
23129 (11.34 %).NET
24125 (10.98 %)Banking
25113 (9.930 %)Degree
26109 (9.578 %)Scrum
27106 (9.315 %)C#
2897 (8.524 %)TestDirector

LoadRunner
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2012, IT jobs within the UK citing LoadRunner 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 LoadRunner. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

IT Job Market, Application Development CategoryApplication Development
1129 (11.34 %).NET
283 (7.293 %)Web Services
377 (6.766 %)J2EE
462 (5.448 %)XML
547 (4.130 %)HTML
643 (3.779 %)SOAP
741 (3.603 %)WebSphere
821 (1.845 %)ASP.NET
917 (1.494 %)soapUI
1014 (1.230 %)ODBC
1113 (1.142 %)REST
1113 (1.142 %)Middleware
1211 (0.967 %)WAP
1211 (0.967 %)Ajax
1211 (0.967 %)ASP
139 (0.791 %)CSS
148 (0.703 %)JSON
157 (0.615 %)JMX
157 (0.615 %)DCOM
157 (0.615 %)EJB
IT Job Market, Application Platforms CategoryApplication Platforms
133 (2.900 %)WebSphere Application Server
229 (2.548 %)Tomcat
325 (2.197 %)WebLogic
421 (1.845 %)Apache
513 (1.142 %)MSMQ
513 (1.142 %)MQSeries
610 (0.879 %)CMS
79 (0.791 %)Documentum
87 (0.615 %)IIS
94 (0.351 %)FileNet
103 (0.264 %)IBM HTTP Server
103 (0.264 %)WebSphere Portal
103 (0.264 %)SAS
111 (0.088 %)SharePoint
111 (0.088 %)Oracle SOA Suite
111 (0.088 %)Oracle Coherence
IT Job Market, Applications CategoryApplications
171 (6.239 %)MS Excel
238 (3.339 %)MS Office
333 (2.900 %)MS Visio
411 (0.967 %)Mingle
54 (0.351 %)MS Project
IT Job Market, Business Applications CategoryBusiness Applications
114 (1.230 %)Oracle EBS
27 (0.615 %)SAP FI
27 (0.615 %)SAP FI/CO
27 (0.615 %)SAP CO
35 (0.439 %)Dynamics AX
35 (0.439 %)SAP ERP
35 (0.439 %)SAP IS-U
35 (0.439 %)Oracle EBS R12
35 (0.439 %)SAP CRM
35 (0.439 %)SAP MM
35 (0.439 %)SAP SD
43 (0.264 %)Oracle 11i
43 (0.264 %)Oracle Applications
52 (0.176 %)Oracle ERP
61 (0.088 %)Oracle CRM
IT Job Market, Communications & Networking CategoryCommunications & Networking
187 (7.645 %)HTTP
258 (5.097 %)HTTPS
352 (4.569 %)Internet
414 (1.230 %)LAN
414 (1.230 %)WAN
511 (0.967 %)3G
511 (0.967 %)2.5G
610 (0.879 %)Firewall
78 (0.703 %)SAN
87 (0.615 %)Broadband
87 (0.615 %)SMTP
96 (0.527 %)BIG-IP
105 (0.439 %)Wireshark
105 (0.439 %)NAS
114 (0.351 %)TCP/IP
123 (0.264 %)LDAP
123 (0.264 %)ATM
123 (0.264 %)SSL
123 (0.264 %)VLAN
132 (0.176 %)Cisco Nexus
IT Job Market, Database & Business Intelligence CategoryDatabase & Business Intelligence
153 (4.657 %)SQL Server
237 (3.251 %)DB2
318 (1.582 %)Oracle 10g
414 (1.230 %)RDBMS
513 (1.142 %)Data Warehouse
611 (0.967 %)TOAD
79 (0.791 %)MySQL
79 (0.791 %)ETL
88 (0.703 %)GIS
93 (0.264 %)Siebel EIM
93 (0.264 %)DataStage
93 (0.264 %)Oracle BI EE
102 (0.176 %)Oracle Reports
111 (0.088 %)Oracle 8/8i
111 (0.088 %)Oracle 9i
111 (0.088 %)SQL Server 2008
111 (0.088 %)PostgreSQL
IT Job Market, Development Applications CategoryDevelopment Applications
1418 (36.73 %)QuickTest Pro
2199 (17.49 %)Selenium
3150 (13.18 %)WinRunner
497 (8.524 %)TestDirector
588 (7.733 %)JMeter
680 (7.030 %)Visual Studio
755 (4.833 %)SilkPerformer
755 (4.833 %)Team Foundation Server
854 (4.745 %)FitNesse
949 (4.306 %)Cucumber
1042 (3.691 %)Rational Robot
1133 (2.900 %)Rational Performance Tester
1225 (2.197 %)SilkTest
1324 (2.109 %)JUnit
1423 (2.021 %)TestComplete
1423 (2.021 %)SpecFlow
1522 (1.933 %)WebDriver
1522 (1.933 %)TestPartner
1621 (1.845 %)QALoad
1621 (1.845 %)JIRA
IT Job Market, General CategoryGeneral
1317 (27.86 %)Finance
2125 (10.98 %)Banking
377 (6.766 %)Retail
443 (3.779 %)Investment Banking
443 (3.779 %)Telecoms
528 (2.460 %)Back Office
622 (1.933 %)Legal
713 (1.142 %)Pharmaceutical
811 (0.967 %)Law
811 (0.967 %)Publishing
811 (0.967 %)Games
910 (0.879 %)General Ledger
910 (0.879 %)Manufacturing
107 (0.615 %)Front Office
107 (0.615 %)Billing
116 (0.527 %)Marketing
116 (0.527 %)Electronics
124 (0.351 %)Advertising
124 (0.351 %)Multimedia
133 (0.264 %)Retail Banking
IT Job Market, Job Titles CategoryJob Titles
1342 (30.05 %)Analyst
2334 (29.35 %)Tester
3286 (25.13 %)Test Analyst
4178 (15.64 %)Performance Tester
5177 (15.55 %)Test Manager
6109 (9.578 %)Performance Analyst
790 (7.909 %)Test Leader
887 (7.645 %)Performance Test Analyst
982 (7.206 %)Consultant
1065 (5.712 %)Senior Analyst
1065 (5.712 %)Test Consultant
1158 (5.097 %)Performance Engineer
1257 (5.009 %)Senior Test Analyst
1353 (4.657 %)Senior Tester
1353 (4.657 %)Test Engineer
1443 (3.779 %)Performance Test Leader
1540 (3.515 %)QA Tester
1637 (3.251 %)Performance Test Consultant
1637 (3.251 %)QA Analyst
1735 (3.076 %)Software Engineer
IT Job Market, Miscellaneous CategoryMiscellaneous
141 (3.603 %)Open Source
233 (2.900 %)Client/Server
331 (2.724 %)Foreign Exchange (FX)
427 (2.373 %)Computer Science
522 (1.933 %)Mainframe
616 (1.406 %)Mathematics
715 (1.318 %)Derivative
814 (1.230 %)N-Tier
913 (1.142 %)Handset
1012 (1.054 %)Fixed Income
1012 (1.054 %)Equities
1111 (0.967 %)PDA
129 (0.791 %)Thin Client
129 (0.791 %)Fat Client
138 (0.703 %)W3C
147 (0.615 %)DTV
147 (0.615 %)Online Games
147 (0.615 %)CMDB
147 (0.615 %)New Media
156 (0.527 %)Applied Mathematics
IT Job Market, Operating Systems CategoryOperating Systems
1166 (14.59 %)Linux
2155 (13.62 %)Windows
3143 (12.57 %)UNIX
441 (3.603 %)AIX
538 (3.339 %)Solaris
624 (2.109 %)Android
719 (1.670 %)Mac OS
719 (1.670 %)Apple iOS
814 (1.230 %)Windows Server 2008
93 (0.264 %)Red Hat Enterprise Linux
93 (0.264 %)Windows Server 2003
101 (0.088 %)Windows XP
101 (0.088 %)Mac OS X
IT Job Market, Processes & Methodologies CategoryProcesses & Methodologies
1520 (45.69 %)Performance Testing
2198 (17.40 %)Test Management
2198 (17.40 %)Software Testing
3181 (15.91 %)Automated Testing
4169 (14.85 %)Test Scripting
5167 (14.67 %)Test Automation
6162 (14.24 %)Test Strategy
7140 (12.30 %)Waterfall
8135 (11.86 %)Agile Software Development
9109 (9.578 %)Scrum
1090 (7.909 %)Stakeholder Management
1186 (7.557 %)User Acceptance Testing
1284 (7.381 %)Load Testing
1377 (6.766 %)E-Commerce
1474 (6.503 %)Project Management
1544 (3.866 %)Manual Testing
1643 (3.779 %)System Testing
1741 (3.603 %)Release Management
1840 (3.515 %)V-Model
1840 (3.515 %)Penetration Testing
IT Job Market, Programming Languages CategoryProgramming Languages
1252 (22.14 %)Java
2199 (17.49 %)SQL
3106 (9.315 %)C#
491 (7.996 %)VBScript
590 (7.909 %)C
679 (6.942 %)Shell Script
778 (6.854 %)Perl
871 (6.239 %)VB
960 (5.272 %)C++
1055 (4.833 %)Ruby
1138 (3.339 %)JavaScript
1230 (2.636 %)Bash shell
1329 (2.548 %)Python
1416 (1.406 %)VBA
1416 (1.406 %)AWK
1514 (1.230 %)PL/SQL
167 (0.615 %)XPath
176 (0.527 %)VB6
176 (0.527 %)Korn
176 (0.527 %)PHP
IT Job Market, Qualifications CategoryQualifications
1435 (38.22 %)ISEB
2189 (16.61 %)ISTQB
3113 (9.930 %)Degree
470 (6.151 %)Security Cleared
549 (4.306 %)DV Cleared
642 (3.691 %)ISEB Practitioner
736 (3.163 %)SC Cleared
87 (0.615 %)IBM Certification
87 (0.615 %)SAP Certification
95 (0.439 %)PMI Certification
104 (0.351 %)ITIL Certification
113 (0.264 %)PRINCE2 Certification
113 (0.264 %)CSQA
122 (0.176 %)HP ASE
131 (0.088 %)HP AIS
131 (0.088 %)BC Cleared
131 (0.088 %)CTC Cleared
131 (0.088 %)PMP
IT Job Market, Quality Assurance & Compliance CategoryQuality Assurance & Compliance
1357 (31.37 %)QA
231 (2.724 %)ISO 9000
31 (0.088 %)Solvency II
IT Job Market, System Software CategorySystem Software
13 (0.264 %)VMware Infrastructure
13 (0.264 %)Tivoli Directory Server
22 (0.176 %)Veritas Cluster Server
31 (0.088 %)Xen
IT Job Market, Systems Management CategorySystems Management
1365 (32.07 %)HP Quality Center
218 (1.582 %)OpenView
316 (1.406 %)WebInspect
44 (0.351 %)BMC PATROL
53 (0.264 %)Tivoli
61 (0.088 %)Ganglia
61 (0.088 %)CA Wily
IT Job Market, Vendors CategoryVendors
1358 (31.46 %)HP
2231 (20.30 %)Oracle
392 (8.084 %)IBM
479 (6.942 %)Microsoft
559 (5.185 %)Sun
654 (4.745 %)SAP
740 (3.515 %)Citrix
835 (3.076 %)Siebel
927 (2.373 %)JBoss
1015 (1.318 %)Sybase
1113 (1.142 %)Veritas
1113 (1.142 %)TIBCO
1211 (0.967 %)Borland
1211 (0.967 %)Northgate
1211 (0.967 %)T-Plan
1310 (0.879 %)Micro Focus
1310 (0.879 %)BMC
147 (0.615 %)ION Trading
156 (0.527 %)F5
156 (0.527 %)Hitachi