West Yorkshire Software Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the West Yorkshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Tester in their job title over the 3 months to 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Aylesbury Banbury Bath Berkshire Birmingham Bradford Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chippenham City of London Congleton Coventry Crewe Deeside Derby Derbyshire Dorking Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England Eastleigh England Farnborough Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hampshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hounslow Huddersfield Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lightwater Liverpool London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Preston Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swadlincote Thame Trowbridge Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wimbledon Woking Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	159	162
Rank change on same period last year	+3
Matching permanent IT job ads	14	29
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.009 %	0.013 %
As % of the category below	0.338 %	0.503 %
Salaries quoted	6	26
Average minimum salary	£24,000	£26,115
Average salary	£24,000	£27,173
% change on same period last year	-11.67 %
Average maximum salary	£24,000	£28,231
UK excluding London average salary	£29,173	£29,267
% change on same period last year	-0.32 %
Job Titles West Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	4137	5763
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.767 %	2.571 %
Salaries quoted	3527	4889
Average minimum salary	£30,952	£30,688
Average salary	£33,610	£33,286
% change on same period last year	+0.97 %
Average maximum salary	£36,268	£35,884
UK excluding London average salary	£38,498	£39,074
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
Software Tester Yorkshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the West Yorkshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Tester across the West Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	+11	8	£23,750	-13.63 %
Huddersfield	+12	4	£25,000	-
Bradford	-	3	£22,500	-
Wakefield	+14	3	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title.

1 12 (57.14 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 8 (38.10 %) .NET 3 7 (33.33 %) TestDirector 3 7 (33.33 %) ISEB 3 7 (33.33 %) Automated Testing 4 6 (28.57 %) Finance 5 5 (23.81 %) WinRunner 5 5 (23.81 %) Unit Testing 6 4 (19.05 %) Integration Testing 6 4 (19.05 %) Degree 6 4 (19.05 %) PRINCE2 6 4 (19.05 %) SQL 6 4 (19.05 %) Financial Institution 7 3 (14.29 %) Electronics 7 3 (14.29 %) Software Engineering

7 3 (14.29 %) Software Testing 7 3 (14.29 %) IPTV 7 3 (14.29 %) Project Planning 7 3 (14.29 %) System Testing 8 2 (9.524 %) ISTQB 8 2 (9.524 %) .NET Framework 8 2 (9.524 %) Test Scripting 8 2 (9.524 %) Agile Software Development 8 2 (9.524 %) Health 8 2 (9.524 %) HTML 8 2 (9.524 %) C 8 2 (9.524 %) Flash 9 1 (4.762 %) SLA 9 1 (4.762 %) LoadRunner 9 1 (4.762 %) NHS

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region that cited Software 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 Software Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 8 (38.10 %) .NET 2 2 (9.524 %) .NET Framework 2 2 (9.524 %) HTML	Development Applications 1 7 (33.33 %) TestDirector 2 5 (23.81 %) WinRunner 3 2 (9.524 %) Flash 4 1 (4.762 %) LoadRunner
General 1 6 (28.57 %) Finance 2 4 (19.05 %) Financial Institution 3 3 (14.29 %) Electronics 4 2 (9.524 %) Health 5 1 (4.762 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 3 (14.29 %) IPTV 2 1 (4.762 %) NHS
Operating Systems 1 1 (4.762 %) UNIX 1 1 (4.762 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 12 (57.14 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 7 (33.33 %) Automated Testing 3 5 (23.81 %) Unit Testing 4 4 (19.05 %) Integration Testing 4 4 (19.05 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (14.29 %) Software Engineering 5 3 (14.29 %) Software Testing 5 3 (14.29 %) Project Planning 5 3 (14.29 %) System Testing 6 2 (9.524 %) Agile Software Development 6 2 (9.524 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (4.762 %) Manual Testing 7 1 (4.762 %) Regression Testing 7 1 (4.762 %) Stress Testing
Programming Languages 1 4 (19.05 %) SQL 2 2 (9.524 %) C 3 1 (4.762 %) C++	Qualifications 1 7 (33.33 %) ISEB 2 4 (19.05 %) Degree 3 2 (9.524 %) ISTQB 4 1 (4.762 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (4.762 %) SLA 1 1 (4.762 %) QA