The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Watford region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 22 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 advertised for the Watford region.

Location
3 months to
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 39 52 57
Rank change year-on-year
+13 +5
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 10 9 8
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 3.472% 2.535% 1.818%
As % of the Job Titles category 3.623% 2.579% 1.869%
Number of salaries quoted 2 9 2
Average salary £23,500 £32,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-27.69% -23.52%
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Watford
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
276 349 428
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Watford 95.83% 98.31% 97.27%
Number of salaries quoted 220 236 322
Average salary £40,000 £40,000 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £29,500 £27,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £61,500 £52,500
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
Hertfordshire

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Watford Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

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

Watford Tester Salary Trend

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited 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 Tester in their job title.

1 13 (81.25%) Java
1 13 (81.25%) E-Commerce
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 12 (75.00%) Retail
2 12 (75.00%) IBM
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
2 12 (75.00%) J2EE
2 12 (75.00%) DB2
2 12 (75.00%) WebSphere
3 9 (56.25%) Performance Testing
3 9 (56.25%) WebSphere Application Server
3 9 (56.25%) Oracle
3 9 (56.25%) HTTP
3 9 (56.25%) HTTPS
3 9 (56.25%) Windows
3 9 (56.25%) AIX
3 9 (56.25%) Linux
3 9 (56.25%) JBoss
3 9 (56.25%) Tomcat
3 9 (56.25%) Sun
3 9 (56.25%) Internet
3 9 (56.25%) Manufacturing
4 7 (43.75%) Data Analysis
4 7 (43.75%) Servlets
4 7 (43.75%) Perl
5 5 (31.25%) Automated Testing
6 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
7 3 (18.75%) HP
7 3 (18.75%) QuickTest Pro
7 3 (18.75%) LoadRunner

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT jobs across the Watford region that cited 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 12 (75.00%) J2EE
1 12 (75.00%) WebSphere
2 7 (43.75%) Servlets
3 3 (18.75%) HTML
3 3 (18.75%) XML
3 3 (18.75%) Flash
Application Platforms
1 9 (56.25%) WebSphere Application Server
1 9 (56.25%) Tomcat
2 3 (18.75%) MQSeries
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) HTTP
1 9 (56.25%) HTTPS
1 9 (56.25%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (75.00%) DB2
2 3 (18.75%) DbVisualizer
Development Applications
1 3 (18.75%) QuickTest Pro
1 3 (18.75%) LoadRunner
General
1 13 (81.25%) Finance
2 12 (75.00%) Retail
3 9 (56.25%) Manufacturing
4 3 (18.75%) Games
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Computer Science
2 1 (6.250%) Mathematics
Operating Systems
1 9 (56.25%) Windows
1 9 (56.25%) AIX
1 9 (56.25%) Linux
2 3 (18.75%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (81.25%) E-Commerce
2 9 (56.25%) Performance Testing
3 7 (43.75%) Data Analysis
4 5 (31.25%) Automated Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Regression Testing
6 3 (18.75%) System Testing
7 2 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
7 2 (12.50%) Capacity Planning
7 2 (12.50%) Test Scripting
7 2 (12.50%) Software Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Project Management
8 1 (6.250%) Manual Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (81.25%) Java
2 12 (75.00%) SQL
3 7 (43.75%) Perl
4 3 (18.75%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (6.250%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 12 (75.00%) IBM
2 9 (56.25%) Oracle
2 9 (56.25%) JBoss
2 9 (56.25%) Sun
3 3 (18.75%) HP