Wales User Acceptance Testing Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for User Acceptance Testing (UAT) skills within the Wales region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited User Acceptance Testing over the 3 months to 18 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

User Acceptance Testing (UAT)
Location Aldershot Altrincham Basildon Basingstoke Bath Batley Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bishop's Stortford Blackburn Bolton Bournemouth Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheshire Chester Chesterfield Cirencester City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Cwmbran Daventry Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Doncaster Dorking Dorset East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Farnborough Felixstowe Feltham Flintshire Folkestone Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hayes Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ipswich Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Liverpool London Loughborough Luton Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Manchester Market Drayton Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northumberland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Poole Potters Bar Preston Reading Redditch Rugby Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stevenage Stirling Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thame Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wakefield Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Welwyn Garden City West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Westminster Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Windsor Wirral Witney Woking Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 18 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	97	93
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching permanent IT job ads	9	20
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.006 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.916 %	1.569 %
Salaries quoted	9	18
Average minimum salary	£30,000	£26,591
Average salary	£33,167	£31,364
% change on same period last year	+5.74 %
Average maximum salary	£36,333	£36,136
UK excluding London average salary	£37,954	£36,466
% change on same period last year	+4.08 %
Processes & Methodologies Wales
Matching permanent IT job ads	982	1275
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.636 %	0.569 %
Salaries quoted	893	1160
Average minimum salary	£34,175	£35,085
Average salary	£38,648	£38,869
% change on same period last year	-0.56 %
Average maximum salary	£43,121	£42,652
UK excluding London average salary	£42,986	£44,543
% change on same period last year	-3.49 %
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User Acceptance Testing
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Wales region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Wales region.

User Acceptance Testing
Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing across the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008.

User Acceptance Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing User Acceptance Testing within the Wales region over the 3 months to 18 November 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
South Wales	-4	8	£33,563	+9.27 %
North Wales	+5	1	£30,000	-

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User Acceptance Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing User Acceptance Testing 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 User Acceptance Testing.

1 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 15 (62.50 %) Finance 3 12 (50.00 %) QuickTest Pro 4 7 (29.17 %) Risk Management 5 6 (25.00 %) ISEB 6 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 7 4 (16.67 %) Software Testing 7 4 (16.67 %) ISTQB 7 4 (16.67 %) QA 7 4 (16.67 %) System Testing 8 3 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 8 3 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 8 3 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 8 3 (12.50 %) MS Project 8 3 (12.50 %) .NET

8 3 (12.50 %) Oracle 9 2 (8.333 %) Crystal Reports 9 2 (8.333 %) VBA 9 2 (8.333 %) ODBC 9 2 (8.333 %) MS Office 9 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Financials 9 2 (8.333 %) MS Access 9 2 (8.333 %) ERP 9 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 9 2 (8.333 %) Banking 9 2 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 9 2 (8.333 %) Systems Analysis 9 2 (8.333 %) Test Scripting 9 2 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 9 2 (8.333 %) Web Testing

User Acceptance Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 18 November 2008, IT jobs across the Wales region citing User Acceptance Testing 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 User Acceptance Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (12.50 %) .NET 2 2 (8.333 %) ODBC 3 1 (4.167 %) WebServices	Applications 1 5 (20.83 %) MS Excel 2 3 (12.50 %) MS Project 3 2 (8.333 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 2 (8.333 %) Oracle Financials	Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (8.333 %) Crystal Reports 1 2 (8.333 %) MS Access
Development Applications 1 12 (50.00 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (4.167 %) WinRunner 2 1 (4.167 %) TestDirector	General 1 15 (62.50 %) Finance 2 3 (12.50 %) Financial Institution 3 2 (8.333 %) Banking 4 1 (4.167 %) Telecoms
Job Titles 1 13 (54.17 %) Tester 2 11 (45.83 %) Senior Tester 3 6 (25.00 %) Analyst 4 5 (20.83 %) Test Analyst 5 4 (16.67 %) Senior Analyst 5 4 (16.67 %) Senior Test Analyst 6 2 (8.333 %) Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) Systems Tester 6 2 (8.333 %) Team Leader 6 2 (8.333 %) SQL Developer 6 2 (8.333 %) VBA Developer 7 1 (4.167 %) Applications Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Technical Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Support Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Applications Support Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Test Team Leader 7 1 (4.167 %) Project Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Business Analyst 7 1 (4.167 %) Technical Project Manager 7 1 (4.167 %) Development Manager	Operating Systems 1 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat Linux 1 1 (4.167 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 7 (29.17 %) Risk Management 2 4 (16.67 %) Software Testing 2 4 (16.67 %) System Testing 3 3 (12.50 %) Manual Testing 3 3 (12.50 %) Business Analysis 4 2 (8.333 %) ERP 4 2 (8.333 %) Data Analysis 4 2 (8.333 %) Systems Analysis 4 2 (8.333 %) Test Scripting 4 2 (8.333 %) Integration Testing 4 2 (8.333 %) Web Testing 5 1 (4.167 %) Test Management 5 1 (4.167 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (4.167 %) Security Cleared 5 1 (4.167 %) Web Development 5 1 (4.167 %) Project Management 5 1 (4.167 %) ITIL 5 1 (4.167 %) PRINCE2	Programming Languages 1 16 (66.67 %) SQL 2 2 (8.333 %) VBA 3 1 (4.167 %) C#
Qualifications 1 6 (25.00 %) ISEB 2 4 (16.67 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (16.67 %) QA
Vendors 1 3 (12.50 %) Oracle 2 2 (8.333 %) Microsoft 3 1 (4.167 %) HP 3 1 (4.167 %) Red Hat 3 1 (4.167 %) Progress