The first table below looks at the demand for SilkPerformer skills in IT jobs advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited SilkPerformer over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Development Applications category.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Borland SilkPerformer
Rank 840 852 838
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -14
Permanent jobs citing SilkPerformer 18 44 33
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.017% 0.036% 0.027%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.113% 0.255% 0.210%
Number of salaries quoted 15 33 29
Average salary £55,000 £42,500 £38,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+29.41% +11.84%
90% offered a salary of more than £31,200 £34,100 £28,700
10% offered a salary of more than £59,000 £54,500 £52,300
UK excluding London average salary £55,000 £35,000 £38,000
% change year-on-year
+57.14% -7.89%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15950 17226 15715
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.80% 14.24% 12.73%
Number of salaries quoted 13613 15130 13800
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £40,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- +6.25%
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 £38,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year
+1.31% +2.70%

SilkPerformer
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SilkPerformer Jobs Demand Trend

SilkPerformer
Salary Trend

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

SilkPerformer Salary Trend

SilkPerformer
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing SilkPerformer over the 3 months to 17 May 2013 within the UK.

SilkPerformer Salary Histogram

SilkPerformer
Top 16 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SilkPerformer within the UK over the 3 months to 17 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 +7 18 £55,000 +29.41%
London +20 6 £40,000 -11.11%
South East +2 5 £57,500 -8.00%
North West +5 4 £55,000 +2.80%
Manchester - 4 £55,000 -
Altrincham - 4 £55,000 -
Surrey - 4 £57,500 -
Redhill - 3 £57,500 -
Wiltshire -1 2 £33,000 -5.71%
Swindon -4 2 £33,000 -5.71%
South West -5 2 £33,000 -5.71%
Berkshire +3 1 £40,000 -23.80%
Reading -4 1 £40,000 -23.80%
Yorkshire - 1 - -
West Yorkshire - 1 - -
Leeds - 1 - -

SilkPerformer
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SilkPerformer 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 SilkPerformer.

1 34 (75.56%) LoadRunner
2 23 (51.11%) Automated Testing
3 20 (44.44%) Web Services
4 17 (37.78%) ISEB
5 16 (35.56%) SOAP
5 16 (35.56%) Linux
5 16 (35.56%) Performance Testing
6 15 (33.33%) QA
6 15 (33.33%) Software Testing
6 15 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
6 15 (33.33%) Windows
7 14 (31.11%) HP
8 13 (28.89%) HPUX
8 13 (28.89%) Solaris
8 13 (28.89%) Network Management
9 12 (26.67%) Automation Testing
9 12 (26.67%) Selenium
10 11 (24.44%) HP Quality Center
11 10 (22.22%) Manual Testing
11 10 (22.22%) QALoad
11 10 (22.22%) Borland
12 9 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
12 9 (20.00%) SQL
12 9 (20.00%) ISTQB
13 8 (17.78%) TestPartner
13 8 (17.78%) jMock
13 8 (17.78%) QMS
13 8 (17.78%) EasyMock
13 8 (17.78%) JUnit
14 7 (15.56%) Oracle

SilkPerformer
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SilkPerformer 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 SilkPerformer. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 20 (44.44%) Web Services
2 16 (35.56%) SOAP
3 7 (15.56%) XML
4 6 (13.33%) .NET
5 5 (11.11%) ASP.NET
5 5 (11.11%) CSS
6 3 (6.667%) jQuery
6 3 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC
6 3 (6.667%) HTML5
6 3 (6.667%) REST
6 3 (6.667%) ASP.NET MVC 3
6 3 (6.667%) XSL
6 3 (6.667%) XHTML
6 3 (6.667%) Ajax
6 3 (6.667%) JSON
6 3 (6.667%) DHTML
7 2 (4.444%) WCF
7 2 (4.444%) WPF
7 2 (4.444%) ASP
Applications
1 1 (2.222%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (11.11%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.444%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 34 (75.56%) LoadRunner
2 15 (33.33%) QuickTest Pro
3 12 (26.67%) Selenium
4 10 (22.22%) QALoad
5 8 (17.78%) EasyMock
5 8 (17.78%) JUnit
5 8 (17.78%) TestPartner
5 8 (17.78%) jMock
6 5 (11.11%) JMeter
7 4 (8.889%) Visual Studio
8 3 (6.667%) NUnit
8 3 (6.667%) Subversion
8 3 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
8 3 (6.667%) MSTest
8 3 (6.667%) Rational Performance Tester
9 2 (4.444%) FitNesse
10 1 (2.222%) JProfiler
10 1 (2.222%) AppScan
10 1 (2.222%) JProbe
10 1 (2.222%) Introscope
General
1 5 (11.11%) Finance
1 5 (11.11%) Banking
2 4 (8.889%) Telecoms
3 2 (4.444%) Investment Banking
4 1 (2.222%) Law
Job Titles
1 16 (35.56%) Developer
2 12 (26.67%) Analyst
2 12 (26.67%) Test Analyst
3 8 (17.78%) Tester
4 7 (15.56%) Senior Developer
4 7 (15.56%) Head of Testing
5 6 (13.33%) Performance Engineer
5 6 (13.33%) Performance Analyst
5 6 (13.33%) Performance Test Analyst
6 5 (11.11%) Test Engineer
6 5 (11.11%) Performance Tester
6 5 (11.11%) Non-Functional Tester
6 5 (11.11%) Performance Test Engineer
7 3 (6.667%) Non-Functional Test Analyst
7 3 (6.667%) Systems Tester
7 3 (6.667%) QA Tester
7 3 (6.667%) QA Engineer
8 1 (2.222%) Test Consultant
8 1 (2.222%) Automation Test Analyst
8 1 (2.222%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.667%) iPad
2 2 (4.444%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 16 (35.56%) Linux
2 15 (33.33%) Windows
3 13 (28.89%) HPUX
3 13 (28.89%) Solaris
4 3 (6.667%) Apple iOS
4 3 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (51.11%) Automated Testing
2 16 (35.56%) Performance Testing
3 15 (33.33%) Software Testing
4 13 (28.89%) Network Management
5 12 (26.67%) Automation Testing
6 10 (22.22%) Manual Testing
7 9 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
8 8 (17.78%) QMS
9 5 (11.11%) V-Model
9 5 (11.11%) Test Management
9 5 (11.11%) Waterfall
9 5 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
9 5 (11.11%) Usability Testing
9 5 (11.11%) Regression Testing
9 5 (11.11%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (11.11%) Business Continuity
10 4 (8.889%) Test Automation
11 3 (6.667%) System Testing
11 3 (6.667%) OOA/OOD
11 3 (6.667%) MVC
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.00%) SQL
2 7 (15.56%) C
2 7 (15.56%) JavaScript
3 6 (13.33%) C#
3 6 (13.33%) Java
4 4 (8.889%) C++
5 3 (6.667%) PL/SQL
6 1 (2.222%) Python
6 1 (2.222%) Shell Script
6 1 (2.222%) Perl
Qualifications
1 17 (37.78%) ISEB
2 9 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 2 (4.444%) Degree
4 1 (2.222%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (2.222%) ISO 9001
Systems Management
1 11 (24.44%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (2.222%) CA Wily
2 1 (2.222%) Tivoli
2 1 (2.222%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 14 (31.11%) HP
2 10 (22.22%) Borland
3 7 (15.56%) Oracle
4 5 (11.11%) IBM
5 2 (4.444%) Sybase
5 2 (4.444%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.222%) OPNET
6 1 (2.222%) Cognizant
6 1 (2.222%) Microsoft
6 1 (2.222%) Compuware
Altrincham, Cheshire
You should ideally have experience in some of the following; commercial test tools QACenter, LoadRunner, QALoad, SilkPerformer, TestPartner, Selenium, QTP (and similar), and unit test frameworks such as...
Circle Recruitment
Salary: £50000 - £60000 per annum + Benefits + Bonus
Posted: 13 May 2013
South East
Strong Test Automation experience with tools like QTP, Selenium (Primary Skill) - Strong experience in Performance testing using tools like loadrunner, Jmeter, silkperformer etc... ISEB/ISTQB qualification is essential.
Sopra Group Ltd
Salary: Attractive, plus flexible benefits
Posted: 6 May 2013