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

Location
3 months to
21 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Borland SilkTest
Rank 846 844 836
Rank change year-on-year
-2 -8
Permanent jobs citing SilkTest 14 43 35
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.013% 0.035% 0.029%
As % of the Development Applications category 0.088% 0.249% 0.224%
Number of salaries quoted 9 26 34
Average salary £42,500 £45,000 £38,250
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.55% +17.64%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £45,500 £65,000 £62,500
UK excluding London average salary £45,000 £52,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-14.28% +40.00%
All Development Applications
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Development Applications category
15992 17239 15612
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 14.72% 14.23% 12.79%
Number of salaries quoted 13641 15127 13714
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%

SilkTest
Jobs Demand Trend

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

SilkTest Jobs Demand Trend

SilkTest
Salary Trend

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

SilkTest Salary Trend

SilkTest
Salary Histogram

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

SilkTest Salary Histogram

SilkTest
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing SilkTest 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 -20 14 £42,500 -5.55%
South East -7 9 £45,000 -7.69%
London +12 5 £30,000 -29.41%
Surrey +5 5 £42,500 -5.55%
Berkshire +11 2 £45,000 -14.28%
City of London +5 2 £37,500 -29.90%
Leatherhead +5 2 £42,500 +30.76%
Kent - 2 £46,250 -
Bracknell - 2 £45,000 -
Guildford - 2 - -
Chertsey - 1 - -
Chatham - 1 £47,500 -

SilkTest
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SilkTest 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 SilkTest.

1 19 (63.33%) QA
2 17 (56.67%) Selenium
2 17 (56.67%) Agile Software Development
3 15 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
4 14 (46.67%) ISEB
5 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
5 13 (43.33%) SQL
5 13 (43.33%) SQL Server
5 13 (43.33%) Windows
6 12 (40.00%) Automated Testing
6 12 (40.00%) Test Automation
7 11 (36.67%) Finance
8 9 (30.00%) C#
8 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
8 9 (30.00%) Windows 7
9 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
9 8 (26.67%) Automation Testing
9 8 (26.67%) Oracle
9 8 (26.67%) IIS
10 7 (23.33%) Java
10 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
10 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
10 7 (23.33%) Test Scripting
11 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
11 6 (20.00%) Performance Testing
11 6 (20.00%) Scrum
11 6 (20.00%) VMware
11 6 (20.00%) HP
11 6 (20.00%) C++
11 6 (20.00%) MS Office

SilkTest
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK citing SilkTest 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 SilkTest. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (13.33%) .NET
2 3 (10.00%) soapUI
2 3 (10.00%) SOAP
2 3 (10.00%) WCF
2 3 (10.00%) Silverlight
3 2 (6.667%) Web Services
3 2 (6.667%) ADO
3 2 (6.667%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (3.333%) Bing Maps
4 1 (3.333%) J2EE
4 1 (3.333%) COM
4 1 (3.333%) ODBC
4 1 (3.333%) Google Maps API
Application Platforms
1 8 (26.67%) IIS
2 4 (13.33%) Tomcat
3 2 (6.667%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 6 (20.00%) MS Office
2 3 (10.00%) MS Excel
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) LAN
1 5 (16.67%) WAN
2 3 (10.00%) HTTP
2 3 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (3.333%) SNMP
3 1 (3.333%) FTP
3 1 (3.333%) UMTS
3 1 (3.333%) LTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (43.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (16.67%) Oracle 8/8i
3 4 (13.33%) SQL Server 2000
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (10.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 17 (56.67%) Selenium
2 15 (50.00%) QuickTest Pro
3 6 (20.00%) Cucumber
4 5 (16.67%) LoadRunner
4 5 (16.67%) Rational Robot
4 5 (16.67%) JIRA
4 5 (16.67%) TestComplete
5 3 (10.00%) Subversion
6 2 (6.667%) Bugzilla
6 2 (6.667%) NUnit
6 2 (6.667%) Robotium
6 2 (6.667%) Git (software)
6 2 (6.667%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (3.333%) Hudson
7 1 (3.333%) MSTest
7 1 (3.333%) Jenkins
7 1 (3.333%) JUnit
7 1 (3.333%) Visual Studio
7 1 (3.333%) PVCS
7 1 (3.333%) VSS/SourceSafe
General
1 11 (36.67%) Finance
2 7 (23.33%) Telecoms
3 4 (13.33%) Retail
4 2 (6.667%) Law
4 2 (6.667%) Legal
5 1 (3.333%) Front Office
5 1 (3.333%) Back Office
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Tester
2 7 (23.33%) QA Engineer
2 7 (23.33%) QA Tester
3 5 (16.67%) Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Test Consultant
3 5 (16.67%) Performance Test Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Test Specialist
4 4 (13.33%) Security Consultant
4 4 (13.33%) Automation Specialist
4 4 (13.33%) Test Automation Specialist
5 3 (10.00%) Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (6.667%) Software Tester
6 2 (6.667%) Technical Tester
6 2 (6.667%) Test Manager
6 2 (6.667%) Test Analyst
6 2 (6.667%) Test Leader
7 1 (3.333%) QA Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) Automation Engineer
7 1 (3.333%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (13.33%) Derivative
1 4 (13.33%) Equities
1 4 (13.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (10.00%) N-Tier
2 3 (10.00%) Client/Server
3 2 (6.667%) Computer Science
4 1 (3.333%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (3.333%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 13 (43.33%) Windows
2 9 (30.00%) Windows 7
3 5 (16.67%) Windows XP
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2003
3 5 (16.67%) Windows Server 2008
4 3 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (6.667%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (56.67%) Agile Software Development
2 12 (40.00%) Automated Testing
2 12 (40.00%) Test Automation
3 9 (30.00%) Software Testing
4 8 (26.67%) Automation Testing
5 7 (23.33%) Software Engineering
5 7 (23.33%) Test Scripting
6 6 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 6 (20.00%) Scrum
7 5 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Regression Testing
7 5 (16.67%) Validation
7 5 (16.67%) Migration
7 5 (16.67%) Manual Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Unit Testing
8 4 (13.33%) Software Architecture
9 3 (10.00%) Product Management
9 3 (10.00%) SOA
9 3 (10.00%) Network Planning
9 3 (10.00%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (43.33%) SQL
2 9 (30.00%) C#
3 7 (23.33%) Java
4 6 (20.00%) C++
4 6 (20.00%) Python
5 5 (16.67%) Ruby
6 4 (13.33%) VB6
6 4 (13.33%) VB
6 4 (13.33%) VB.NET
7 3 (10.00%) F#
8 2 (6.667%) C
9 1 (3.333%) Delphi
9 1 (3.333%) Perl
Qualifications
1 14 (46.67%) ISEB
2 5 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 5 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 4 (13.33%) Degree
4 2 (6.667%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (63.33%) QA
System Software
1 6 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 5 (16.67%) VMware ESX
2 5 (16.67%) VMware Workstation
Systems Management
1 8 (26.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (43.33%) Microsoft
2 8 (26.67%) Oracle
3 6 (20.00%) VMware
3 6 (20.00%) HP
4 4 (13.33%) Fujitsu
5 3 (10.00%) Telerik
5 3 (10.00%) Google
5 3 (10.00%) Atlassian
6 2 (6.667%) Borland
7 1 (3.333%) SunGard
7 1 (3.333%) MKS
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Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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As a QA Test Analyst / Technical Tester you will test newly developed software, existing software upgrades and deployments to ensure quality is maintained; including manual testing (exploratory, negative...
Client Server
Salary: £35k to £40k + bonus (c15%) + benefits
Posted: 15 May 2013
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This is a position of high responsibility in which you will have responsibility for the full cycle of testing. Essential Skills/Experience*Insurance or Financial background.*Test lead...
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Salary: £40000 - £50000 per annum + generous benefits
Posted: 27 April 2013