The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Welwyn Garden City region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 20 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
20 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 39 27 42
Rank change year-on-year
-12 +15
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 1 3 7
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 0.426% 2.239% 2.500%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.483% 2.778% 3.286%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 7
Average salary £37,500 £30,000 £32,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+25.00% -7.69%
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
207 108 213
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 88.09% 80.60% 76.07%
Number of salaries quoted 202 85 206
Average salary £50,000 £47,500 £42,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
+5.26% +11.76%
90% offered a salary of more than £34,000 £31,200 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,500 £57,500
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
Hertfordshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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 4 (100.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) System Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (50.00%) WatiN
2 2 (50.00%) Open Source
2 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) C
2 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (50.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 2 (50.00%) ATM
2 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (50.00%) HP
2 2 (50.00%) ISEB
2 2 (50.00%) EPoS
2 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Validation
2 2 (50.00%) Scrum
2 2 (50.00%) APACS

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 June 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City 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.

Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2005
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server
1 2 (50.00%) SQL Server 2000
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) WatiN
1 2 (50.00%) NUnit
General
1 4 (100.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 2 (50.00%) Finance
2 2 (50.00%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Environment Manager
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Open Source
1 2 (50.00%) EPoS
1 2 (50.00%) APACS
Operating Systems
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2008
1 2 (50.00%) Windows
1 2 (50.00%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Automated Testing
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (50.00%) System Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
1 2 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) User Stories
1 2 (50.00%) E-Commerce
1 2 (50.00%) Validation
1 2 (50.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
1 2 (50.00%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (50.00%) HP