The first table below looks at the demand for Stress Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the West Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Stress Testing over the 3 months to 23 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 West Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
23 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Stress Testing
Rank 127 151 149
Rank change year-on-year
+24 -2
Permanent jobs citing Stress Testing 45 15 3
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 1.239% 0.467% 0.099%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.586% 0.605% 0.139%
Number of salaries quoted 41 11 3
Average salary £38,000 £50,000 £57,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-24.00% -13.04%
UK excluding London average salary £37,500 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
-6.25% +6.66%
All Processes & Methodologies
West Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
2838 2480 2151
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in West Yorkshire 78.12% 77.26% 71.11%
Number of salaries quoted 2202 2043 1797
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £27,000 £26,500 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Stress Testing
Yorkshire

Stress Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

West Yorkshire Stress Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Trend

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

West Yorkshire Stress Testing Salary Trend

Stress Testing
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Stress Testing across the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 May 2013.

West Yorkshire Stress Testing Salary Histogram

Stress Testing
Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Stress Testing within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 23 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
Leeds +1 34 £38,000 -24.00%
Pudsey - 2 £28,750 -
Stress Testing
Yorkshire

Stress Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing.

1 40 (55.56%) Oracle
2 34 (47.22%) WebLogic
2 34 (47.22%) Shell Script
3 31 (43.06%) SQL
4 30 (41.67%) Python
4 30 (41.67%) Subversion
5 29 (40.28%) Jython
5 29 (40.28%) Middleware
5 29 (40.28%) SOA
5 29 (40.28%) Perl
5 29 (40.28%) Performance Testing
5 29 (40.28%) Load Testing
5 29 (40.28%) Oracle Fusion
5 29 (40.28%) Oracle Service Bus
5 29 (40.28%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
6 26 (36.11%) PL/SQL
7 25 (34.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 24 (33.33%) User Stories
8 24 (33.33%) UNIX
8 24 (33.33%) Benchmarking
9 22 (30.56%) Scrum
10 21 (29.17%) JMS
11 13 (18.06%) Finance
11 13 (18.06%) Windows
12 12 (16.67%) Selenium
13 10 (13.89%) Unit Testing
13 10 (13.89%) E-Commerce
14 9 (12.50%) GIS
15 8 (11.11%) QA
16 6 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro

Stress Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 23 May 2013, IT jobs across the West Yorkshire region citing Stress 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 Stress Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 29 (40.28%) Middleware
1 29 (40.28%) Oracle Fusion
2 21 (29.17%) JMS
3 6 (8.333%) XML
4 5 (6.944%) J2EE
4 5 (6.944%) HTML
4 5 (6.944%) WebSphere
5 1 (1.389%) Web Services
5 1 (1.389%) LAMP
Application Platforms
1 34 (47.22%) WebLogic
2 29 (40.28%) Oracle Service Bus
3 25 (34.72%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 5 (6.944%) Apache
4 5 (6.944%) Tomcat
4 5 (6.944%) iPlanet
4 5 (6.944%) ATG Dynamo
5 4 (5.556%) WebLogic Portal
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.944%) HTTP
2 1 (1.389%) FTP
2 1 (1.389%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) GIS
2 5 (6.944%) Oracle 10g
2 5 (6.944%) Oracle 9i
2 5 (6.944%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.944%) DB2
2 5 (6.944%) MySQL
2 5 (6.944%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 30 (41.67%) Subversion
2 12 (16.67%) Selenium
3 6 (8.333%) QuickTest Pro
3 6 (8.333%) JMeter
4 5 (6.944%) JUnit
4 5 (6.944%) LoadRunner
5 2 (2.778%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.389%) OpenSTA
General
1 13 (18.06%) Finance
Job Titles
1 29 (40.28%) Administrator
2 23 (31.94%) Analyst
3 17 (23.61%) Middleware Administrator
4 16 (22.22%) Test Analyst
4 16 (22.22%) Tester
5 13 (18.06%) Performance Analyst
5 13 (18.06%) Performance Test Analyst
6 12 (16.67%) Technical Administrator
6 12 (16.67%) Performance Tester
7 10 (13.89%) Developer
8 7 (9.722%) Middleware Analyst
9 5 (6.944%) Oracle Developer
10 4 (5.556%) Senior Developer
10 4 (5.556%) Technical Tester
11 1 (1.389%) Java/J2EE Developer
11 1 (1.389%) Team Leader
11 1 (1.389%) Test Team Leader
11 1 (1.389%) Java Developer
11 1 (1.389%) Agile Test Analyst
11 1 (1.389%) Software Team Leader
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.944%) N-Tier
1 5 (6.944%) Data Integration
Operating Systems
1 24 (33.33%) UNIX
2 13 (18.06%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (40.28%) SOA
1 29 (40.28%) Performance Testing
1 29 (40.28%) Load Testing
2 24 (33.33%) User Stories
2 24 (33.33%) Benchmarking
3 22 (30.56%) Scrum
4 10 (13.89%) Unit Testing
4 10 (13.89%) E-Commerce
5 5 (6.944%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (5.556%) Automation Testing
6 4 (5.556%) Software Testing
7 3 (4.167%) Regression Testing
7 3 (4.167%) Manual Testing
8 2 (2.778%) Kanban
9 1 (1.389%) RAD
9 1 (1.389%) Automated Testing
9 1 (1.389%) V-Model
9 1 (1.389%) Test Management
9 1 (1.389%) Security Testing
9 1 (1.389%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 34 (47.22%) Shell Script
2 31 (43.06%) SQL
3 30 (41.67%) Python
4 29 (40.28%) Jython
4 29 (40.28%) Perl
4 29 (40.28%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
5 26 (36.11%) PL/SQL
6 5 (6.944%) JavaScript
7 2 (2.778%) Java
8 1 (1.389%) C
Qualifications
1 2 (2.778%) ISEB
2 1 (1.389%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (6.944%) Control-M
1 5 (6.944%) Tivoli
2 1 (1.389%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 40 (55.56%) Oracle
2 5 (6.944%) BEA
2 5 (6.944%) IBM
2 5 (6.944%) JBoss
2 5 (6.944%) ATG
2 5 (6.944%) hybris