The first table below looks at the demand for Test Scripting skills in IT jobs advertised for the Warrington region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Scripting 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 Processes & Methodologies category for the Warrington region.

Location
3 months to
17 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Scripting (Test Scripts)
Rank 43 43 40
Rank change year-on-year
0 -3
Permanent jobs citing Test Scripting 9 23 2
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 2.535% 4.665% 0.692%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.297% 5.721% 1.136%
Number of salaries quoted 5 19 2
Average salary £32,500 £30,000 £33,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
+8.33% -11.11%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £27,500 £28,750
10% offered a salary of more than £47,000 £35,000 £38,750
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £34,500 £33,500
% change year-on-year
+1.44% +2.98%
All Processes & Methodologies
Warrington
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
273 402 176
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Warrington 76.90% 81.54% 60.90%
Number of salaries quoted 207 369 152
Average salary £37,500 £35,000 £37,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+7.14% -6.66%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £24,000 £26,000
10% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £47,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Test Scripting
Cheshire

Test Scripting
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Warrington Test Scripting Jobs Demand Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Trend

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

Warrington Test Scripting Salary Trend

Test Scripting
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Scripting across the Warrington region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Warrington Test Scripting Salary Histogram

Test Scripting
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting.

1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) Selenium
3 9 (56.25%) QA
3 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 9 (56.25%) C
4 8 (50.00%) C++
4 8 (50.00%) Perl
4 8 (50.00%) PL/SQL
4 8 (50.00%) DB2
4 8 (50.00%) VB
5 7 (43.75%) Automated Testing
6 4 (25.00%) NHS
6 4 (25.00%) MS Office
6 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
6 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
6 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
6 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
6 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
6 4 (25.00%) NUnit
6 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
7 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
7 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
7 3 (18.75%) XenApp
7 3 (18.75%) XenDesktop
7 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
7 3 (18.75%) VBScript
7 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
7 3 (18.75%) Windows
7 3 (18.75%) IIS

Test Scripting
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the Warrington region citing Test Scripting 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 Test Scripting. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 1 (6.250%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 3 (18.75%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (25.00%) MS Office
1 4 (25.00%) MS Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (50.00%) DB2
2 4 (25.00%) RDBMS
2 4 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (75.00%) Selenium
2 4 (25.00%) Visual Studio
2 4 (25.00%) NUnit
General
1 1 (6.250%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Test Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) QA Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Automation Tester
3 4 (25.00%) Tester
4 3 (18.75%) Software Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Virtualisation Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) Automation Analyst
5 1 (6.250%) Software Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Test Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Quality Manager
5 1 (6.250%) QA Manager
5 1 (6.250%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) QA Engineer
5 1 (6.250%) QA Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 3 (18.75%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Automated Testing
2 4 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (18.75%) E-Commerce
4 1 (6.250%) Regression Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Risk Management
4 1 (6.250%) Scrum
4 1 (6.250%) TDD
4 1 (6.250%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Integration Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Web Testing
4 1 (6.250%) System Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Test Strategy
4 1 (6.250%) Automation Testing
4 1 (6.250%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 15 (93.75%) SQL
2 9 (56.25%) C
3 8 (50.00%) C++
3 8 (50.00%) Perl
3 8 (50.00%) PL/SQL
3 8 (50.00%) VB
4 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
4 3 (18.75%) VBScript
5 1 (6.250%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft App-V
1 3 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
1 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
1 3 (18.75%) XenApp
1 3 (18.75%) XenDesktop
Vendors
1 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (18.75%) Citrix
3 3 (18.75%) VMware
Daresbury, Warrington, Cheshire, North West
Understanding of Virtual technologies (such as VMWare, Hyper-V, App-V etc), - Understanding of Active Directory, SQL, IIS - Scripting experience with either Powershell / VBScript. - Experience with Citrix (XenApp/...
AppSense
Posted: 19 May 2013
Warrington, Liverpool, Manchester, North West
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...
360 Resourcing Solutions
Salary: £30k - 40k per year + Bens
Posted: 7 May 2013