The first table below looks at the demand for System 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 System Testing over the 3 months to 24 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 Welwyn Garden City region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
System Testing
Rank - 20 40
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 0 2 10
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City - 1.613% 3.759%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 1.980% 4.673%
Number of salaries quoted 0 0 10
Average salary - - £31,250
UK excluding London average salary £34,500 £36,000 £33,500
% change year-on-year
-4.16% +7.46%
All Processes & Methodologies
Welwyn Garden City
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
219 101 214
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Welwyn Garden City 86.56% 81.45% 80.45%
Number of salaries quoted 216 78 199
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 £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £60,000 £58,500 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
System Testing
Hertfordshire

System Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Welwyn Garden City System Testing Jobs Demand Trend

System Testing
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing System Testing across the Welwyn Garden City region.

Welwyn Garden City System Testing Salary Trend

System Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing System 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 System Testing.

1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) HP
2 2 (66.67%) ISEB
2 2 (66.67%) EPoS
2 2 (66.67%) SQL
2 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
2 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Validation
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) APACS
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
2 2 (66.67%) NUnit
2 2 (66.67%) Banking
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) Windows
2 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
2 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (66.67%) WatiN
2 2 (66.67%) Open Source
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) ATM
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development

System Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the Welwyn Garden City region citing System 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 System Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) MS PowerPoint
1 1 (33.33%) MS Excel
1 1 (33.33%) MS Office
Communications & Networking
1 2 (66.67%) ATM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2000
1 2 (66.67%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) NUnit
1 2 (66.67%) WatiN
2 1 (33.33%) ClearQuest
2 1 (33.33%) RequisitePro
General
1 2 (66.67%) Telecoms
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Leader
2 1 (33.33%) Lead Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Technical Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) EPoS
1 2 (66.67%) APACS
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
1 2 (66.67%) Windows
1 2 (66.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 1 (33.33%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Validation
1 2 (66.67%) Scrum
1 2 (66.67%) Automated Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
1 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Embedded Software Development
2 1 (33.33%) Integration Testing
2 1 (33.33%) UML
2 1 (33.33%) Document Management
2 1 (33.33%) Agile Software Development
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) SQL
1 2 (66.67%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) ISEB
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (66.67%) HP