The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 17 June 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
17 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 44 48 41
Rank change year-on-year
+4 -7
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 7 20 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 1.842% 3.781% 0.709%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.491% 4.651% 1.361%
Number of salaries quoted 7 19 2
Average salary £35,000 £34,000 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.94% -2.85%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
281 430 147
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 73.95% 81.29% 52.13%
Number of salaries quoted 225 397 134
Average salary £35,000 £35,000 £37,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.40%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,500 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Cheshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Warrington region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Warrington Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Software Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Warrington region.

Warrington Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 11 (73.33%) NHS
2 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 8 (53.33%) Oracle
3 7 (46.67%) QA
3 7 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 7 (46.67%) ISEB
4 6 (40.00%) PL/SQL
5 5 (33.33%) PACS
6 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
6 4 (26.67%) Selenium
6 4 (26.67%) Perl
6 4 (26.67%) C
6 4 (26.67%) C++
6 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
6 4 (26.67%) DB2
6 4 (26.67%) VB
6 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
7 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
7 2 (13.33%) Degree
7 2 (13.33%) JIRA
7 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
7 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
7 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (13.33%) FTP
7 2 (13.33%) J2EE
7 2 (13.33%) XML
7 2 (13.33%) Linux
7 2 (13.33%) ERP
7 2 (13.33%) Java
8 1 (6.667%) Progress

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 June 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (13.33%) J2EE
1 2 (13.33%) XML
Communications & Networking
1 2 (13.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (26.67%) SQL Server
1 4 (26.67%) DB2
1 4 (26.67%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (13.33%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
2 5 (33.33%) Test Analyst
3 4 (26.67%) Tester
3 4 (26.67%) Automation Tester
4 3 (20.00%) QA Analyst
5 2 (13.33%) Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Java Developer
5 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
5 2 (13.33%) Java Programmer
5 2 (13.33%) Programmer
6 1 (6.667%) Senior Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Senior QA Analyst
6 1 (6.667%) Automation Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 11 (73.33%) NHS
2 5 (33.33%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (26.67%) Test Scripting
3 2 (13.33%) Waterfall
3 2 (13.33%) ERP
3 2 (13.33%) Regression Testing
4 1 (6.667%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (53.33%) SQL
2 6 (40.00%) PL/SQL
3 4 (26.67%) Perl
3 4 (26.67%) C
3 4 (26.67%) C++
3 4 (26.67%) VB
4 2 (13.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 7 (46.67%) ISEB
2 2 (13.33%) ISTQB
2 2 (13.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (46.67%) QA
Vendors
1 8 (53.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.667%) Progress
Warrington, Cheshire
You will have a strong UAT background (and experience within Manual / Functional testing too) and ideally have worked within the NHS / healthcare sector with PAS/PACS experience ... NHS /...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013