Senior Tester Jobs
 
Demand Trend Salary Trend Salary Histogram Job Locations Related Skills

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

Location
 3 months to
21 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Senior Tester
Rank 676 679 686
Rank change year-on-year
+3 +7
Permanent jobs requiring a Senior Tester 185 213 187
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.170% 0.176% 0.153%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.180% 0.185% 0.163%
Number of salaries quoted 147 179 173
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,800 £31,502 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £37,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
+6.66% -
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category		 102582 114838 114977
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.43% 94.76% 94.22%
Number of salaries quoted 85352 98508 97090
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 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%

Senior Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Senior Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Trend

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

Senior Tester Salary Trend

Senior Tester
Salary Histogram

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

Senior Tester Salary Histogram

Senior 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 Senior Tester 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 -12 172 £42,500 -
London +10 67 £46,000 -3.15%
North West +12 23 £33,250 +3.90%
Yorkshire -7 22 £40,000 +14.28%
West Yorkshire -6 21 £40,000 +14.28%
South East -7 21 £42,500 -15.00%
South West -1 14 £36,750 +2.08%
Manchester -3 12 £30,000 -6.25%
East of England -8 12 £45,000 +12.50%
Hertfordshire +6 10 £45,000 +5.88%
Surrey +11 9 £60,000 +37.14%
Leeds -20 9 £40,000 +14.28%
Scotland -2 8 £50,750 +26.87%
Somerset 0 7 £35,000 +11.10%
City of London -4 7 £57,500 +15.00%
Liverpool - 7 £42,000 -
Bath - 7 £35,000 -
Merseyside - 7 £42,000 -
East Midlands -4 6 £40,000 +2.56%
Bristol -6 6 £37,250 -1.97%
West Midlands -24 5 £30,000 -6.25%
Glasgow - 5 £44,000 -
Berkshire +7 4 £43,250 -21.36%
Rickmansworth -8 4 £45,000 +5.88%
Oxfordshire -20 4 £40,000 -8.04%
Cheshire - 4 £33,000 -
Nottingham -2 3 £40,000 +2.56%
Nottinghamshire -4 3 £40,000 +2.56%
Aberdeen +6 2 £57,500 +91.66%
Cambridgeshire -1 2 £34,000 +9.67%

Senior Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title.

1 168 (47.19%) QA
2 102 (28.65%) Finance
3 99 (27.81%) Software Testing
4 97 (27.25%) Selenium
4 97 (27.25%) Test Scripting
5 90 (25.28%) Java
6 87 (24.44%) Automated Testing
7 86 (24.16%) SQL
8 67 (18.82%) Agile Software Development
9 61 (17.13%) ISEB
10 60 (16.85%) Manual Testing
11 56 (15.73%) .NET
12 55 (15.45%) C#
13 54 (15.17%) Windows
14 48 (13.48%) Scrum
14 48 (13.48%) Degree
15 47 (13.20%) QuickTest Pro
16 46 (12.92%) UNIX
16 46 (12.92%) Test Automation
16 46 (12.92%) HP Quality Center
17 40 (11.24%) TDD
18 38 (10.67%) Cucumber
19 37 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
20 36 (10.11%) Regression Testing
20 36 (10.11%) E-Commerce
21 35 (9.831%) Microsoft
21 35 (9.831%) ISTQB
22 31 (8.708%) Security Testing
23 30 (8.427%) SQL Server
23 30 (8.427%) Web Testing

Senior Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Senior 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 Senior Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 56 (15.73%) .NET
2 28 (7.865%) Web Services
3 16 (4.494%) XML
4 14 (3.933%) soapUI
5 13 (3.652%) SOAP
6 12 (3.371%) ASP.NET
6 12 (3.371%) HTML
6 12 (3.371%) J2EE
7 7 (1.966%) REST
8 6 (1.685%) RESTful
8 6 (1.685%) Middleware
8 6 (1.685%) JSON
8 6 (1.685%) Silverlight
9 5 (1.404%) Hibernate
9 5 (1.404%) Spring
9 5 (1.404%) CSS
9 5 (1.404%) HTML5
10 4 (1.124%) WAP
10 4 (1.124%) Ruby on Rails
11 2 (0.562%) Node.js
Application Platforms
1 7 (1.966%) Amazon EC2
2 5 (1.404%) Confluence
3 3 (0.843%) BizTalk Server
3 3 (0.843%) WebLogic
4 2 (0.562%) IIS
4 2 (0.562%) Apache
4 2 (0.562%) Tomcat
4 2 (0.562%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.281%) ESB
5 1 (0.281%) CMS
5 1 (0.281%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.281%) LiveSite
Applications
1 16 (4.494%) MS Excel
2 5 (1.404%) MS Project
3 3 (0.843%) MS Office
4 1 (0.281%) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking
1 14 (3.933%) Internet
2 12 (3.371%) Network Security
3 11 (3.090%) HTTP
4 5 (1.404%) TCP/IP
5 4 (1.124%) NAS
5 4 (1.124%) IPv6
5 4 (1.124%) VLAN
6 2 (0.562%) VoIP
6 2 (0.562%) Broadband
6 2 (0.562%) Wireshark
7 1 (0.281%) Wireless
7 1 (0.281%) LDAP
7 1 (0.281%) FTP
7 1 (0.281%) SMTP
7 1 (0.281%) SNMP
7 1 (0.281%) VPN
7 1 (0.281%) CDMA
7 1 (0.281%) GSM
7 1 (0.281%) UMTS
7 1 (0.281%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 30 (8.427%) SQL Server
2 18 (5.056%) Data Warehouse
3 7 (1.966%) RDBMS
4 6 (1.685%) Oracle Reports
5 4 (1.124%) OLTP
6 3 (0.843%) Big Data
7 2 (0.562%) MySQL
7 2 (0.562%) Data Mining
7 2 (0.562%) TOAD
7 2 (0.562%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.281%) Oracle 11g
8 1 (0.281%) Microsoft Analysis Services
8 1 (0.281%) PostgreSQL
8 1 (0.281%) SQL Server Analysis Services
Development Applications
1 97 (27.25%) Selenium
2 47 (13.20%) QuickTest Pro
3 38 (10.67%) Cucumber
4 29 (8.146%) WebDriver
5 23 (6.461%) JIRA
6 21 (5.899%) Team Foundation Server
7 14 (3.933%) JUnit
7 14 (3.933%) Visual Studio
7 14 (3.933%) Jenkins
8 11 (3.090%) LoadRunner
8 11 (3.090%) FitNesse
9 10 (2.809%) JMeter
9 10 (2.809%) ClearQuest
10 7 (1.966%) Ant
10 7 (1.966%) RSpec
11 5 (1.404%) Bugzilla
11 5 (1.404%) Eclipse
11 5 (1.404%) JBehave
12 4 (1.124%) Hudson
12 4 (1.124%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 102 (28.65%) Finance
2 19 (5.337%) Games
3 12 (3.371%) Banking
4 11 (3.090%) Telecoms
5 10 (2.809%) Retail
6 7 (1.966%) Publishing
7 6 (1.685%) Music
7 6 (1.685%) Music Industry
8 5 (1.404%) Law
8 5 (1.404%) Legal
9 3 (0.843%) Marketing
9 3 (0.843%) Financial Institution
10 2 (0.562%) Back Office
10 2 (0.562%) Billing
10 2 (0.562%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.281%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.281%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.056%) Computer Science
2 12 (3.371%) Open Source
3 11 (3.090%) Blog
4 8 (2.247%) Mainframe
5 7 (1.966%) Derivative
6 6 (1.685%) Blackberry
6 6 (1.685%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.685%) Streaming Music
7 5 (1.404%) Statistics
7 5 (1.404%) PKI
7 5 (1.404%) EPoS
7 5 (1.404%) SaaS
7 5 (1.404%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.124%) Replication
8 4 (1.124%) Field-Programmable Gate Array
8 4 (1.124%) Mathematics
9 3 (0.843%) Equities
9 3 (0.843%) Social Media
9 3 (0.843%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.562%) SWIFT
Operating Systems
1 54 (15.17%) Windows
2 46 (12.92%) UNIX
3 21 (5.899%) Linux
4 10 (2.809%) Android
5 7 (1.966%) Apple iOS
6 6 (1.685%) Windows Phone
7 5 (1.404%) Windows Server 2003
8 4 (1.124%) VME
9 2 (0.562%) CentOS
9 2 (0.562%) Mac OS X
9 2 (0.562%) Windows Vista
9 2 (0.562%) Ubuntu
10 1 (0.281%) Windows XP
10 1 (0.281%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 1 (0.281%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 99 (27.81%) Software Testing
2 97 (27.25%) Test Scripting
3 87 (24.44%) Automated Testing
4 67 (18.82%) Agile Software Development
5 60 (16.85%) Manual Testing
6 48 (13.48%) Scrum
7 46 (12.92%) Test Automation
8 40 (11.24%) TDD
9 37 (10.39%) User Acceptance Testing
10 36 (10.11%) Regression Testing
10 36 (10.11%) E-Commerce
11 31 (8.708%) Security Testing
12 30 (8.427%) Web Testing
13 28 (7.865%) Penetration Testing
14 27 (7.584%) BDD
15 25 (7.022%) Performance Testing
15 25 (7.022%) V-Model
16 24 (6.742%) Test Strategy
17 22 (6.180%) Integration Testing
17 22 (6.180%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 90 (25.28%) Java
2 86 (24.16%) SQL
3 55 (15.45%) C#
4 25 (7.022%) Python
5 21 (5.899%) PL/SQL
6 20 (5.618%) JavaScript
6 20 (5.618%) Ruby
7 14 (3.933%) PHP
8 9 (2.528%) C++
8 9 (2.528%) Perl
9 7 (1.966%) C
9 7 (1.966%) VB
10 6 (1.685%) VB.NET
10 6 (1.685%) VBScript
11 3 (0.843%) T-SQL
11 3 (0.843%) Scala
12 2 (0.562%) VBA
12 2 (0.562%) Smalltalk
13 1 (0.281%) Lua
13 1 (0.281%) Objective-C
Qualifications
1 61 (17.13%) ISEB
2 48 (13.48%) Degree
3 35 (9.831%) ISTQB
4 24 (6.742%) Security Cleared
5 21 (5.899%) SC Cleared
6 10 (2.809%) CISSP
7 5 (1.404%) CEH
8 3 (0.843%) HND
9 2 (0.562%) CISA
10 1 (0.281%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (47.19%) QA
2 2 (0.562%) ISO/IEC 17799
2 2 (0.562%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.281%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (1.124%) NFS
2 3 (0.843%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.281%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.281%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 46 (12.92%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (1.966%) Puppet
3 4 (1.124%) Legato
Vendors
1 35 (9.831%) Microsoft
2 27 (7.584%) Oracle
3 23 (6.461%) HP
4 5 (1.404%) VMware
4 5 (1.404%) Progress
5 4 (1.124%) Hitachi
5 4 (1.124%) Veritas
6 3 (0.843%) JDA
6 3 (0.843%) SAP
6 3 (0.843%) hybris
6 3 (0.843%) RedPrairie
7 2 (0.562%) Cognos
7 2 (0.562%) Fidessa
7 2 (0.562%) ATG
8 1 (0.281%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.281%) Google
8 1 (0.281%) Telerik
8 1 (0.281%) Citrix
8 1 (0.281%) Twitter
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Salary: £30000.00 - £33000.00 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
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Senior QA Tester
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Senior Tester / Test Lead - to set up new test environment!
London
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Salary: £50000 per annum + Good benefits
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Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
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Bristol, Chippenham, Gloucester, Bath, Swindon,...
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Leeds, Yorkshire
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Senior Tester / Test Analyst - web/automation - Manchester
Manchester, North West
Working within an Agile Java/J2EE development team you will be responsible for testing customer facing high transactional websites from UI through to high transactional web services... Essential...
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Salary: £30000 - £37000 per annum + Benefits + bonus
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Senior Tester, Glasgow
Glasgow, Lanarkshire
The Portfolio is comprised by a number of established and emerging platforms, which would be a highly interesting and challenging opportunity for this "Senior Tester" This Senior tester...
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Salary: excellent package on offer
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Test Lead / Senior Tester
Cambridge, East Anglia
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Salary: £40k to £55k + benefits
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Senior Automation Tester, Selenium2, Webdriver
London
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Test Lead/Senior Tester - London
London
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City, London
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Salary: £45k to £55k + benefits
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Tester, Senior Tester, Software Tester, Test Engineer, SWIFT, XML
Bath, Avon
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Test Manager / Senior Tester
Surrey, West Sussex, Crawley, Epsom, South East
This successful and profitable Software House who specialise in the supply of large scale solutions to the Corporate & Public Sector markets is looking to recruit an experienced Test...
Actis Recruitment Ltd
Salary: to c£60,000 + generous bonus + bens
Posted: 29 April 2013
Test Manager / Senior Tester
Manchester, Cheshire, Lancashire, Merseyside,...
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