The first table below looks at the demand for QuickTest Pro skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 18 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 of the Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
18 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
HP QuickTest Professional (QTP)
Rank 373 310 319
Rank change year-on-year
-63 +9
Permanent jobs citing QuickTest Pro 688 912 958
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.624% 0.759% 0.744%
As % of the Development Applications category 4.236% 5.429% 5.813%
Number of salaries quoted 592 808 833
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £43,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -2.29%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £31,000
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £65,000 £70,000
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-7.89% +1.33%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
16243 16798 16479
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 13.98% 12.80%
Number of salaries quoted 13896 14653 14519
Average salary £44,000 £42,500 £41,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+3.52% +3.65%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,000 £30,000 £30,000
10% offered a salary of more than £62,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,500 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+2.66% -

QuickTest Pro
Jobs Demand Trend

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

QuickTest Pro Jobs Demand Trend

QuickTest Pro
Salary Trend

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

QuickTest Pro Salary Trend

QuickTest Pro
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro over the 3 months to 18 June 2013 within the UK.

QuickTest Pro Salary Histogram

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing QuickTest Pro within the UK over the 3 months to 18 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 -50 617 £42,500 +3.65% 58
London -38 289 £50,000 +7.52% 31
South East -45 116 £35,000 -12.50% 13
City of London +6 93 £50,000 -13.04% 14
Yorkshire +39 57 £34,000 +9.67% 4
Leeds +43 56 £34,000 +1.49% 3
West Yorkshire +38 56 £34,000 -10.52% 3
Surrey +35 49 £40,000 -5.88% 1
Scotland +14 47 £44,000 -2.22% 2
East of England -26 34 £42,500 +25.00% 1
South West -21 32 £42,500 +18.67% 7
Glasgow +2 31 £50,000 +11.11% 2
East Midlands -15 28 £32,500 +1.56% 2
West Midlands -24 27 £36,500 +13.61% 2
Berkshire -27 26 £35,000 -12.50% 10
North West +15 20 £41,861 -11.87% 2
Nottinghamshire +3 20 £32,500 +4.00% 2
Bristol -22 19 £40,000 +7.93% 2
Nottingham -5 18 £32,500 +4.00% 2
Birmingham -12 16 £37,500 +19.04% 2
South Wales +12 15 £38,750 +40.90%
Wales +11 15 £38,750 +40.90%
Manchester -3 15 £52,500 +110.00% 2
Reading -14 15 £50,000 +11.11% 1
North Yorkshire +9 13 £35,000 +25.00% 2
Cardiff -4 12 £37,500 +36.36%
Harrogate - 12 £35,000 - 1
Hertfordshire +5 11 £40,000 -9.09%
Bromley - 11 £55,000 -
Cambridgeshire +4 10 £45,000 +45.16% 1

QuickTest Pro
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro.

1 682 (49.60%) Selenium
2 679 (49.38%) QA
3 507 (36.87%) Finance
4 481 (34.98%) SQL
5 464 (33.75%) ISEB
6 450 (32.73%) Test Automation
7 411 (29.89%) HP Quality Center
8 404 (29.38%) Automated Testing
9 368 (26.76%) Test Scripting
10 358 (26.04%) Java
11 330 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
12 318 (23.13%) HP
13 312 (22.69%) LoadRunner
14 305 (22.18%) Software Testing
15 280 (20.36%) C#
16 247 (17.96%) .NET
17 244 (17.75%) ISTQB
18 221 (16.07%) Degree
19 218 (15.85%) Manual Testing
20 216 (15.71%) Scrum
21 196 (14.25%) Regression Testing
22 185 (13.45%) Banking
23 184 (13.38%) Automation Testing
24 176 (12.80%) XML
25 172 (12.51%) Test Management
26 169 (12.29%) Oracle
27 161 (11.71%) VBScript
28 160 (11.64%) TDD
29 153 (11.13%) Cucumber
30 136 (9.891%) Waterfall

QuickTest Pro
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 June 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing QuickTest Pro 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 QuickTest Pro. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 247 (17.96%) .NET
2 176 (12.80%) XML
3 77 (5.600%) Web Services
4 58 (4.218%) soapUI
5 50 (3.636%) J2EE
6 45 (3.273%) ASP.NET
7 42 (3.055%) SOAP
8 41 (2.982%) HTML
9 36 (2.618%) Gherkin
10 34 (2.473%) .NET Framework
11 29 (2.109%) WPF
12 25 (1.818%) Qt
12 25 (1.818%) Hibernate
13 23 (1.673%) OSGi
13 23 (1.673%) JFace
14 22 (1.600%) JavaFX
14 22 (1.600%) GWT
14 22 (1.600%) Vaadin
14 22 (1.600%) Middleware
15 20 (1.455%) XSLT
Application Platforms
1 19 (1.382%) SharePoint
2 18 (1.309%) MQSeries
3 13 (0.945%) IIS
4 11 (0.800%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.364%) Documentum
5 5 (0.364%) SharePoint Server
5 5 (0.364%) ESB
6 4 (0.291%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.291%) WebLogic
7 3 (0.218%) SAS
7 3 (0.218%) Confluence
8 2 (0.145%) Exchange Server 2010
8 2 (0.145%) CMS
8 2 (0.145%) MS Exchange
9 1 (0.073%) ColdFusion
9 1 (0.073%) TIBCO EMS
9 1 (0.073%) SharePoint 2013
9 1 (0.073%) Magento
Applications
1 70 (5.091%) MS Excel
2 32 (2.327%) MS Office
3 7 (0.509%) MS Project
4 5 (0.364%) Pro/ENGINEER
5 4 (0.291%) MS PowerPoint
5 4 (0.291%) Mingle
6 3 (0.218%) MS Visio
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe Illustrator
7 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
7 1 (0.073%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 26 (1.891%) SAP FI
2 25 (1.818%) SAP FI/CO
2 25 (1.818%) SAP CO
3 19 (1.382%) SAP MM
3 19 (1.382%) SAP SD
3 19 (1.382%) SAP CRM
3 19 (1.382%) SAP IS-U
4 6 (0.436%) SAP FI-GL
5 5 (0.364%) Dynamics AX
5 5 (0.364%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.073%) LatentZero
6 1 (0.073%) Global One
6 1 (0.073%) Summit
6 1 (0.073%) AWD
Communications & Networking
1 41 (2.982%) Internet
2 34 (2.473%) HTTP
3 9 (0.655%) FTP
4 7 (0.509%) TCP/IP
5 5 (0.364%) LAN
5 5 (0.364%) WAN
6 3 (0.218%) Broadband
6 3 (0.218%) HTTPS
7 2 (0.145%) Intranet
7 2 (0.145%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 113 (8.218%) SQL Server
2 31 (2.255%) MySQL
3 17 (1.236%) TOAD
3 17 (1.236%) RDBMS
3 17 (1.236%) Big Data
4 16 (1.164%) Data Warehouse
5 14 (1.018%) SAP HANA
5 14 (1.018%) DB2
6 13 (0.945%) Oracle ODI
7 12 (0.873%) Oracle 8/8i
7 12 (0.873%) Oracle BI EE
8 8 (0.582%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.509%) SQL Server 2005
9 7 (0.509%) Oracle 11g
10 6 (0.436%) DbVisualizer
11 5 (0.364%) SQL Server 2008
12 4 (0.291%) Oracle 9i
12 4 (0.291%) Oracle 10g
12 4 (0.291%) Oracle Exadata
13 2 (0.145%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 682 (49.60%) Selenium
2 312 (22.69%) LoadRunner
3 153 (11.13%) Cucumber
4 123 (8.945%) JIRA
5 122 (8.873%) FitNesse
6 99 (7.200%) WinRunner
7 97 (7.055%) WebDriver
8 86 (6.255%) JUnit
9 76 (5.527%) Visual Studio
10 69 (5.018%) TestDirector
11 55 (4.000%) TestComplete
12 53 (3.855%) JMeter
12 53 (3.855%) Team Foundation Server
13 41 (2.982%) SpecFlow
14 39 (2.836%) Subversion
15 31 (2.255%) TestPartner
15 31 (2.255%) Rational Robot
16 30 (2.182%) WATIR
17 28 (2.036%) Eclipse
18 25 (1.818%) SilkPerformer
General
1 507 (36.87%) Finance
2 185 (13.45%) Banking
3 81 (5.891%) Investment Banking
4 53 (3.855%) Telecoms
5 52 (3.782%) Retail
6 35 (2.545%) Legal
7 29 (2.109%) Law
7 29 (2.109%) Front Office
8 27 (1.964%) Games
9 20 (1.455%) Publishing
10 15 (1.091%) Financial Institution
11 9 (0.655%) Pharmaceutical
11 9 (0.655%) Wholesale Banking
11 9 (0.655%) Retail Banking
12 8 (0.582%) Back Office
12 8 (0.582%) Marketing
13 6 (0.436%) Manufacturing
14 5 (0.364%) Advertising
14 5 (0.364%) Automotive
15 2 (0.145%) Billing
Job Titles
1 499 (36.29%) Analyst
2 417 (30.33%) Test Analyst
3 350 (25.45%) Tester
4 143 (10.40%) Test Manager
5 130 (9.455%) Test Engineer
6 117 (8.509%) QA Analyst
7 104 (7.564%) Automation Tester
8 89 (6.473%) QA Engineer
9 86 (6.255%) Developer
10 75 (5.455%) Consultant
11 73 (5.309%) Test Leader
12 62 (4.509%) Test Consultant
13 61 (4.436%) Senior Analyst
14 51 (3.709%) Software Tester
15 50 (3.636%) Senior Tester
16 48 (3.491%) QA Tester
16 48 (3.491%) Web Tester
17 47 (3.418%) Senior Test Analyst
18 46 (3.345%) Automation Analyst
19 35 (2.545%) Automation Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 96 (6.982%) Open Source
2 66 (4.800%) Derivative
3 53 (3.855%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 45 (3.273%) Computer Science
5 44 (3.200%) Mobile App
6 38 (2.764%) Equities
7 28 (2.036%) Enterprise Software
8 24 (1.745%) Cloud Computing
9 23 (1.673%) Client/Server
10 20 (1.455%) Digital Media
11 15 (1.091%) AS400
11 15 (1.091%) Chemistry
11 15 (1.091%) Mathematics
12 14 (1.018%) Statistics
13 12 (0.873%) Life Science
13 12 (0.873%) Social Network
14 11 (0.800%) SaaS
14 11 (0.800%) Mainframe
15 10 (0.727%) Fixed Income
16 9 (0.655%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 126 (9.164%) UNIX
2 86 (6.255%) Windows
3 82 (5.964%) Linux
4 18 (1.309%) Solaris
5 17 (1.236%) Android
6 14 (1.018%) Windows Server 2003
7 13 (0.945%) Windows XP
8 11 (0.800%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.655%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.436%) Mac OS X
11 5 (0.364%) Windows Server 2008
12 4 (0.291%) Windows Vista
12 4 (0.291%) Windows 2000
13 3 (0.218%) AIX
14 2 (0.145%) zOS
14 2 (0.145%) OpenVMS
14 2 (0.145%) Windows Phone
15 1 (0.073%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.073%) SUSE
15 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (32.73%) Test Automation
2 404 (29.38%) Automated Testing
3 368 (26.76%) Test Scripting
4 330 (24.00%) Agile Software Development
5 305 (22.18%) Software Testing
6 218 (15.85%) Manual Testing
7 216 (15.71%) Scrum
8 196 (14.25%) Regression Testing
9 184 (13.38%) Automation Testing
10 172 (12.51%) Test Management
11 160 (11.64%) TDD
12 136 (9.891%) Waterfall
13 124 (9.018%) BDD
14 122 (8.873%) E-Commerce
15 114 (8.291%) Test Strategy
16 113 (8.218%) Performance Testing
17 100 (7.273%) V-Model
18 99 (7.200%) User Acceptance Testing
19 87 (6.327%) Web Testing
20 70 (5.091%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 481 (34.98%) SQL
2 358 (26.04%) Java
3 280 (20.36%) C#
4 161 (11.71%) VBScript
5 113 (8.218%) VB
6 99 (7.200%) VBA
7 75 (5.455%) Python
7 75 (5.455%) C++
8 59 (4.291%) Perl
9 44 (3.200%) JavaScript
10 42 (3.055%) PL/SQL
11 37 (2.691%) Ruby
12 31 (2.255%) C
13 30 (2.182%) VB.NET
14 23 (1.673%) T-SQL
15 17 (1.236%) Shell Script
16 12 (0.873%) XAML
17 8 (0.582%) Korn
17 8 (0.582%) Groovy
18 7 (0.509%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 464 (33.75%) ISEB
2 244 (17.75%) ISTQB
3 221 (16.07%) Degree
4 42 (3.055%) Security Cleared
5 31 (2.255%) SC Cleared
6 23 (1.673%) SAP Certification
7 15 (1.091%) PhD
8 10 (0.727%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 8 (0.582%) HNC
10 6 (0.436%) CSQA
11 5 (0.364%) HND
12 2 (0.145%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.145%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 679 (49.38%) QA
2 12 (0.873%) ISO 9001
3 6 (0.436%) GLP
4 2 (0.145%) GxP
4 2 (0.145%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.073%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.073%) ISO 9000
System Software
1 11 (0.800%) Active Directory
2 10 (0.727%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (0.364%) VMware ESX
3 5 (0.364%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 411 (29.89%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (0.364%) Netcool
2 5 (0.364%) OpenView Configuration Management
3 1 (0.073%) Puppet
3 1 (0.073%) OpenView
Vendors
1 318 (23.13%) HP
2 169 (12.29%) Oracle
3 121 (8.800%) Microsoft
4 61 (4.436%) SAP
5 21 (1.527%) Informatica
6 19 (1.382%) IBM
7 16 (1.164%) Siebel
8 13 (0.945%) Compuware
9 11 (0.800%) Fujitsu
10 10 (0.727%) VMware
11 8 (0.582%) CA
11 8 (0.582%) Sybase
12 7 (0.509%) ATG
13 5 (0.364%) Telerik
13 5 (0.364%) Cisco
13 5 (0.364%) Nortel
13 5 (0.364%) Avaya
14 4 (0.291%) Citrix
14 4 (0.291%) Borland
15 3 (0.218%) Sun
Newbury, Thames Valley
The position requires good HP Quality Centre/ QTP and reasonable Visual Basic experience... We are looking for knowledge of SQL, Toad (or any Oracle database query tool) and...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £40000.00 per annum + Excellent
Posted: 11 June 2013
London
An exciting new position has arisen for a talented tester to join a global Health care Software provider based in Central London-The ideal candidate will have the...
OPUS
Salary: GBP35000 per annum
Posted: 29 May 2013
Harrogate, North Yorkshire
Automation/Tester/Agile/QA/Harrogate/Selenium/QTP/Loadrunner/Cucumber... You will have an excellent knowledge of automated test tools ( Selenium, QTP, Loadrunner, Cucumber etc ) to work on their...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hampshire, South East
HAMPSHIRE £25K - £35KThis is a unique opportunity for a highly motivated and driven Test Analyst / QA Engineer to join a truly pioneering company and market leader in its...
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 25 May 2013
City of London
QA Software Tester - Automated - Financial - £35,000 + Pension + Healthcare - London KEY SKILLS: QA, QUALITY ASSURANCE, TEST, TESTER, SELENIUM, MANUAL, AUTOMATION, AUTOMATEDAn opportunity has arisen in central London for...
Salary: £30000 - £35000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 10 June 2013
Bournemouth, Dorset
McGregor Boyall
Salary: £45000 - £50000 per annum + B
Posted: 13 June 2013
Bristol, Avon
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £30000 - £42000 per annum + Good Benefits Package
Posted: 17 June 2013
Surrey
ARC IT Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £40000 Per Annum plus 10% OT Bonus + Benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Hungerford, Thames Valley
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £30000.00 - £37000.00 per annum
Posted: 17 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Cribbs Causeway, Bristol, South West
Brightside Group
Posted: 6 May 2013
Glasgow, Scotland
Hays Specialist Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £ Highly Competitive Plus Excellent Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Chiswick, West London, United Kingdom
OpenBet
Salary: Competitive + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
Hungerford, Berkshire
The People Network
Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + 8% bonus, 7% pension plus others
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
E-Resourcing
Salary: £25000 - £35000 per annum + Package
Posted: 12 June 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: up to £37,000 + Bonus + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 17 May 2013
City, London
Aston Carter
Salary: £40000 - £55000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 12 June 2013
Cambridge, Cambridgeshire
Cooper Lomaz Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £30k - 35k per year
Posted: 14 June 2013
City, London
Explore Recruitment Solutions
Salary: £65000 per annum + Shares
Posted: 17 June 2013
West London
OpenBet Technology
Salary: Competitive
Posted: 10 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 7 June 2013
Berkshire Wilts Oxon Newbury Swindon, Thames...
Questor Resourcing
Salary: to £30,000 Bonus: Up to 8% + VG Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
City, London
Vertical IT
Salary: £50000 - £67500 per annum + excellent benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
London
NFP Group Ltd
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
London
FIRST POINT IT RESOURCING
Salary: £50000 - £65000 per annum + Excellent Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
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