Manual Testing Jobs in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013.

Manual Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the West Midlands region over the 3 months to 17 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location (Click each for more statistics)	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Worcestershire	+21	16	£30,000	+66.66%
Warwickshire	+17	13	£37,000	+5.71%
Birmingham	-22	12	£24,500	-15.51%
Walsall	-	3	£36,000	-
Staffordshire	-9	2	£29,750	-15.00%
West Bromwich	-	2	£36,250	-
Wolverhampton	0	1	£28,000	+41.77%
Shropshire	-	1	£44,000	-
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing.

1 56 (70.89%) Automated Testing 1 56 (70.89%) QA 2 52 (65.82%) SQL 3 49 (62.03%) Selenium 4 38 (48.10%) Finance 5 29 (36.71%) SQL Server 6 22 (27.85%) ISEB 6 22 (27.85%) User Acceptance Testing 7 21 (26.58%) Test Scripting 8 19 (24.05%) Oracle 9 18 (22.78%) Windows 10 16 (20.25%) VB 11 15 (18.99%) HTML 11 15 (18.99%) Windows 2000 11 15 (18.99%) UNIX

11 15 (18.99%) Agile Software Development 12 11 (13.92%) Java 12 11 (13.92%) SQL Server 2005 12 11 (13.92%) Release Management 12 11 (13.92%) SQL Server 2008 13 10 (12.66%) .NET 13 10 (12.66%) Regression Testing 14 9 (11.39%) Microsoft 14 9 (11.39%) ISTQB 15 8 (10.13%) Java EE 15 8 (10.13%) FitNesse 15 8 (10.13%) Spring MVC 15 8 (10.13%) JasperReports 15 8 (10.13%) Ajax 15 8 (10.13%) Spring

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Midlands region citing Manual 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 Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 15 (18.99%) HTML 2 10 (12.66%) .NET 3 8 (10.13%) Spring 3 8 (10.13%) Ajax 3 8 (10.13%) Java EE 3 8 (10.13%) Spring MVC 3 8 (10.13%) SOAP 3 8 (10.13%) JMS 3 8 (10.13%) JMX 3 8 (10.13%) Hibernate 4 6 (7.595%) XML 5 4 (5.063%) XSD 5 4 (5.063%) XSLT 6 2 (2.532%) ASP.NET 7 1 (1.266%) .NET Framework 7 1 (1.266%) WinForms	Application Platforms 1 8 (10.13%) Tomcat 1 8 (10.13%) ActiveMQ
Applications 1 1 (1.266%) MS Office	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.266%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 29 (36.71%) SQL Server 2 11 (13.92%) SQL Server 2005 2 11 (13.92%) SQL Server 2008 3 8 (10.13%) JasperReports 4 1 (1.266%) SQL Server Integration Services 4 1 (1.266%) SQL Server Analysis Services 4 1 (1.266%) Microsoft Analysis Services	Development Applications 1 49 (62.03%) Selenium 2 8 (10.13%) FitNesse 2 8 (10.13%) Subversion 2 8 (10.13%) Maven 2 8 (10.13%) Eclipse 2 8 (10.13%) TeamCity 2 8 (10.13%) Apache Continuum 3 7 (8.861%) Visual Studio 4 6 (7.595%) QuickTest Pro 5 4 (5.063%) Team Foundation Server 6 3 (3.797%) TestComplete 7 1 (1.266%) WinRunner
General 1 38 (48.10%) Finance 2 2 (2.532%) Front Office 2 2 (2.532%) Back Office 3 1 (1.266%) Advertising	Job Titles 1 45 (56.96%) Test Analyst 1 45 (56.96%) Analyst 2 41 (51.90%) Tester 3 19 (24.05%) Systems Analyst 3 19 (24.05%) Systems Test Analyst 4 18 (22.78%) QA Tester 5 13 (16.46%) Systems Tester 6 11 (13.92%) Test Coordinator 6 11 (13.92%) Coordinator 7 8 (10.13%) Developer 7 8 (10.13%) UAT Tester 8 7 (8.861%) Test Manager 9 4 (5.063%) QA Engineer 9 4 (5.063%) Software Tester 10 3 (3.797%) UAT Test Analyst 10 3 (3.797%) Agile Test Analyst 10 3 (3.797%) UAT Analyst 11 2 (2.532%) Software Test Analyst 11 2 (2.532%) Functional Tester 11 2 (2.532%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous 1 8 (10.13%) Firmware 2 6 (7.595%) Management Information System 3 3 (3.797%) NHS 3 3 (3.797%) Mobile Payment 4 2 (2.532%) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 18 (22.78%) Windows 2 15 (18.99%) Windows 2000 2 15 (18.99%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies 1 56 (70.89%) Automated Testing 2 22 (27.85%) User Acceptance Testing 3 21 (26.58%) Test Scripting 4 15 (18.99%) Agile Software Development 5 11 (13.92%) Release Management 6 10 (12.66%) Regression Testing 7 8 (10.13%) MVC 8 7 (8.861%) Unit Testing 9 6 (7.595%) Test Automation 9 6 (7.595%) Software Testing 10 5 (6.329%) Scrum 10 5 (6.329%) Test Strategy 10 5 (6.329%) Automation Testing 11 4 (5.063%) Agile Testing 11 4 (5.063%) V-Model 11 4 (5.063%) Integration Testing 11 4 (5.063%) Test Management 11 4 (5.063%) Continuous Integration 11 4 (5.063%) TDD 12 3 (3.797%) Change Management	Programming Languages 1 52 (65.82%) SQL 2 16 (20.25%) VB 3 11 (13.92%) Java 4 6 (7.595%) C# 5 4 (5.063%) C++ 6 1 (1.266%) C 6 1 (1.266%) Embedded C 6 1 (1.266%) VBScript
Qualifications 1 22 (27.85%) ISEB 2 9 (11.39%) ISTQB 3 1 (1.266%) Degree 3 1 (1.266%) Security Cleared 3 1 (1.266%) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 56 (70.89%) QA
Vendors 1 19 (24.05%) Oracle 2 9 (11.39%) Microsoft 3 8 (10.13%) JBoss