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

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Technical Tester
Rank 811 826 809
Rank change year-on-year
+15 -17
Permanent jobs requiring a Technical Tester 47 70 62
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 0.044% 0.058% 0.050%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.046% 0.061% 0.053%
Number of salaries quoted 40 67 54
Average salary £40,000 £45,000 £50,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-11.11% -10.00%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,500 £32,500 £28,650
10% offered a salary of more than £65,250 £65,000 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £34,000 £38,750 £32,500
% change year-on-year
-12.25% +19.23%
All Job Titles
UK
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
101791 114576 116360
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the UK 94.44% 94.74% 94.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84727 98303 98213
Average salary £42,500 £42,500 £42,500
90% offered a salary of more than £26,500 £27,000 £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%

Technical Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Technical Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Trend

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

Technical Tester Salary Trend

Technical Tester
Salary Histogram

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

Technical Tester Salary Histogram

Technical Tester
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Tester 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 +15 47 £40,000 -11.11%
London +3 23 £51,250 -6.81%
Leeds - 14 £40,000 -
Yorkshire - 14 £40,000 -
West Yorkshire - 14 £40,000 -
City of London +3 10 £61,250 +8.88%
Tyne and Wear - 7 £27,500 -
North East - 7 £27,500 -
Newcastle upon Tyne - 7 £27,500 -
Docklands, London +13 2 £76,250 +1.66%
Northamptonshire - 2 £52,500 -
East Midlands - 2 £52,500 -
North West +3 1 £35,000 +16.66%
Manchester -19 1 £35,000 +16.66%

Technical Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title.

1 64 (70.33%) Java
2 41 (45.05%) SQL
3 39 (42.86%) Selenium
4 38 (41.76%) C#
5 37 (40.66%) Test Automation
6 35 (38.46%) Automated Testing
6 35 (38.46%) QuickTest Pro
7 34 (37.36%) QA
8 30 (32.97%) UNIX
9 29 (31.87%) Finance
10 27 (29.67%) .NET
11 26 (28.57%) LoadRunner
12 23 (25.27%) Scrum
13 22 (24.18%) Python
14 20 (21.98%) ISEB
15 19 (20.88%) Linux
16 18 (19.78%) Shell Script
17 17 (18.68%) User Acceptance Testing
17 17 (18.68%) JUnit
18 16 (17.58%) Perl
18 16 (17.58%) Agile Software Development
19 15 (16.48%) ISTQB
20 14 (15.38%) NUnit
20 14 (15.38%) WebDriver
21 13 (14.29%) Ruby
21 13 (14.29%) Oracle
21 13 (14.29%) Rational Robot
22 12 (13.19%) PL/SQL
22 12 (13.19%) XML
22 12 (13.19%) Degree

Technical Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs within the UK that cited Technical 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 Technical Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 27 (29.67%) .NET
2 12 (13.19%) XML
3 7 (7.692%) J2EE
4 3 (3.297%) Hibernate
4 3 (3.297%) Spring
4 3 (3.297%) JSF
5 2 (2.198%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.198%) X-Windows
6 1 (1.099%) XML Messaging
6 1 (1.099%) Middleware
6 1 (1.099%) COM
6 1 (1.099%) Web Services
6 1 (1.099%) ICEfaces
6 1 (1.099%) HTML
Application Platforms
1 3 (3.297%) WebLogic
1 3 (3.297%) WebLogic Portal
2 1 (1.099%) Oracle Workflow
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.396%) HTTP
1 4 (4.396%) TCP/IP
2 2 (2.198%) HTTPS
3 1 (1.099%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.791%) SQL Server
2 7 (7.692%) RDBMS
3 2 (2.198%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.099%) Oracle 11g
4 1 (1.099%) Oracle 8/8i
Development Applications
1 39 (42.86%) Selenium
2 35 (38.46%) QuickTest Pro
3 26 (28.57%) LoadRunner
4 17 (18.68%) JUnit
5 14 (15.38%) NUnit
5 14 (15.38%) WebDriver
6 13 (14.29%) Rational Robot
7 11 (12.09%) WebLOAD
8 10 (10.99%) TestComplete
8 10 (10.99%) JMeter
9 7 (7.692%) Cucumber
9 7 (7.692%) WinRunner
10 6 (6.593%) FitNesse
11 3 (3.297%) Bugzilla
11 3 (3.297%) ClearQuest
12 2 (2.198%) Visual Studio
12 2 (2.198%) SilkTest
12 2 (2.198%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (2.198%) JBehave
12 2 (2.198%) Hudson
General
1 29 (31.87%) Finance
2 9 (9.890%) Banking
2 9 (9.890%) Investment Banking
3 7 (7.692%) Financial Institution
4 2 (2.198%) Front Office
5 1 (1.099%) Back Office
5 1 (1.099%) Billing
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.09%) Social Network
2 4 (4.396%) SaaS
2 4 (4.396%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (3.297%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.297%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 3 (3.297%) Fixed Income
3 3 (3.297%) Equities
3 3 (3.297%) Derivative
3 3 (3.297%) Computer Science
4 2 (2.198%) iPad
4 2 (2.198%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (2.198%) New Media
5 1 (1.099%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.099%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 30 (32.97%) UNIX
2 19 (20.88%) Linux
3 10 (10.99%) Windows
4 7 (7.692%) Solaris
5 6 (6.593%) OpenBSD
5 6 (6.593%) Ubuntu
6 3 (3.297%) Mac OS X
7 1 (1.099%) Windows Server 2003
7 1 (1.099%) Windows Vista
7 1 (1.099%) Windows Server 2008
7 1 (1.099%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.66%) Test Automation
2 35 (38.46%) Automated Testing
3 23 (25.27%) Scrum
4 17 (18.68%) User Acceptance Testing
5 16 (17.58%) Agile Software Development
6 12 (13.19%) Continuous Integration
7 11 (12.09%) Waterfall
7 11 (12.09%) E-Commerce
8 10 (10.99%) TDD
9 8 (8.791%) Manual Testing
10 7 (7.692%) Test Strategy
10 7 (7.692%) Automation Testing
10 7 (7.692%) Performance Testing
11 5 (5.495%) Load Testing
11 5 (5.495%) Software Testing
11 5 (5.495%) Integration Testing
11 5 (5.495%) Migration
12 4 (4.396%) Test Scripting
12 4 (4.396%) Time Management
12 4 (4.396%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 64 (70.33%) Java
2 41 (45.05%) SQL
3 38 (41.76%) C#
4 22 (24.18%) Python
5 18 (19.78%) Shell Script
6 16 (17.58%) Perl
7 13 (14.29%) Ruby
8 12 (13.19%) PL/SQL
9 8 (8.791%) Bash shell
10 7 (7.692%) sed
10 7 (7.692%) Korn
10 7 (7.692%) AWK
10 7 (7.692%) VBScript
11 4 (4.396%) C++
12 3 (3.297%) Tcl
13 2 (2.198%) F#
Qualifications
1 20 (21.98%) ISEB
2 15 (16.48%) ISTQB
3 12 (13.19%) Degree
4 1 (1.099%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (37.36%) QA
System Software
1 3 (3.297%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.099%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 13 (14.29%) Oracle
2 3 (3.297%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.297%) VMware
3 2 (2.198%) Salesforce.com
4 1 (1.099%) HP
East London
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Salary: GBP40000 to GBP45000 per annum
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This role is for a 3rd Line Technical Support engineer who has strong Windows OS background and ideally VMWare and Citrix experience... The most successful Technical Support candidates...
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