West Yorkshire Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the 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 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 Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bolton Bradford Brentwood Brighton Bristol Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Burton-upon-Trent Bury Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester Chichester Chippenham Cirencester City of London Clapham Congleton County Antrim Coventry Crawley Crewe Croydon Deeside Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorking Dudley Dunfermline Ealing East Grinstead East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Exeter Farnborough Farnham Fife Flintshire Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Gwent Hammersmith Hampshire Hertford Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Hounslow Hove Huddersfield Ilford Ipswich Kent Kingston Upon Thames Knutsford Lancashire Lancaster Leatherhead Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lightwater Liverpool Livingston London Luton Lutterworth M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Nuneaton Oxford Oxfordshire Oxted Paddington Peterborough Preston Reading Reigate Rochester Rugby Runcorn Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shrewsbury Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans Stafford Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Stratford-upon-Avon Street Stroud Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swadlincote Swindon Telford Thame Thames Valley Trowbridge Twickenham Tyne and Wear UK Wakefield Wales Walton-on-Thames Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigan Wiltshire Wimbledon Wirral Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	124	101
Rank change on same period last year	-23
Matching permanent IT job ads	49	101
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.045 %
As % of the category below	1.184 %	1.753 %
Salaries quoted	40	64
Average minimum salary	£27,204	£28,774
Average salary	£28,286	£30,387
% change on same period last year	-6.91 %
Average maximum salary	£29,367	£31,999
UK excluding London average salary	£32,477	£31,727
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
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 %
Tester Yorkshire

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing 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 Tester across the West Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing 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 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	-13	35	£30,984	-1.92 %
Bradford	+5	15	£23,250	-
Huddersfield	+9	4	£25,000	-
Wakefield	+12	3	-	-

Tester Yorkshire

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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 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 Tester in their job title.

1 32 (34.41 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 29 (31.18 %) Automated Testing 2 29 (31.18 %) ISEB 3 26 (27.96 %) QA 4 20 (21.51 %) LoadRunner 5 17 (18.28 %) System Testing 6 16 (17.20 %) Agile Software Development 7 14 (15.05 %) SQL 7 14 (15.05 %) Degree 8 13 (13.98 %) Manual Testing 9 12 (12.90 %) TestDirector 10 11 (11.83 %) E-Commerce 10 11 (11.83 %) Load Testing 10 11 (11.83 %) Software Testing 11 10 (10.75 %) Finance

11 10 (10.75 %) Scrum 11 10 (10.75 %) QuickTest Pro 11 10 (10.75 %) C 11 10 (10.75 %) .NET 12 8 (8.602 %) Regression Testing 12 8 (8.602 %) ISEB Practitioner 12 8 (8.602 %) Pensions 13 7 (7.527 %) Web Testing 13 7 (7.527 %) Test Scripting 13 7 (7.527 %) Health 13 7 (7.527 %) Extreme Programming 14 6 (6.452 %) Retail 14 6 (6.452 %) WinRunner 14 6 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 14 6 (6.452 %) Unit Testing

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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 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 Tester in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 10 (10.75 %) .NET 2 2 (2.151 %) HTML 2 2 (2.151 %) .NET Framework 3 1 (1.075 %) J2EE 3 1 (1.075 %) WebServices	Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.075 %) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence 1 3 (3.226 %) SQL Server 2 1 (1.075 %) SQL Server 2000	Development Applications 1 20 (21.51 %) LoadRunner 2 12 (12.90 %) TestDirector 3 10 (10.75 %) QuickTest Pro 4 6 (6.452 %) WinRunner 5 2 (2.151 %) TestPartner 5 2 (2.151 %) Visual Studio 5 2 (2.151 %) Flash 5 2 (2.151 %) Rational Rose
General 1 10 (10.75 %) Finance 2 8 (8.602 %) Pensions 3 7 (7.527 %) Health 4 6 (6.452 %) Retail 5 5 (5.376 %) Financial Institution 5 5 (5.376 %) Electronics 6 4 (4.301 %) Insurance 7 2 (2.151 %) Construction 7 2 (2.151 %) Government 8 1 (1.075 %) Advertising 8 1 (1.075 %) Marketing	Miscellaneous 1 4 (4.301 %) Statistics 2 3 (3.226 %) Firmware 2 3 (3.226 %) Management Information System 2 3 (3.226 %) IPTV 3 2 (2.151 %) EPoS 4 1 (1.075 %) NHS 4 1 (1.075 %) Mathematics 4 1 (1.075 %) Computer Science 4 1 (1.075 %) Client/Server
Operating Systems 1 5 (5.376 %) UNIX 2 1 (1.075 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 32 (34.41 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 29 (31.18 %) Automated Testing 3 17 (18.28 %) System Testing 4 16 (17.20 %) Agile Software Development 5 13 (13.98 %) Manual Testing 6 11 (11.83 %) E-Commerce 6 11 (11.83 %) Software Testing 6 11 (11.83 %) Load Testing 7 10 (10.75 %) Scrum 8 8 (8.602 %) Regression Testing 9 7 (7.527 %) Extreme Programming 9 7 (7.527 %) Web Testing 9 7 (7.527 %) Test Scripting 10 6 (6.452 %) Unit Testing 10 6 (6.452 %) Integration Testing 10 6 (6.452 %) PRINCE2 11 5 (5.376 %) Information Security 11 5 (5.376 %) TDD 11 5 (5.376 %) Penetration Testing 11 5 (5.376 %) Security Testing
Programming Languages 1 14 (15.05 %) SQL 2 10 (10.75 %) C 3 5 (5.376 %) Java 4 4 (4.301 %) C++ 5 3 (3.226 %) VBScript 5 3 (3.226 %) Assembly Language 6 2 (2.151 %) VB 7 1 (1.075 %) Shell Script 7 1 (1.075 %) JavaScript 7 1 (1.075 %) PL/SQL 7 1 (1.075 %) C#	Qualifications 1 29 (31.18 %) ISEB 2 14 (15.05 %) Degree 3 8 (8.602 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 4 (4.301 %) ISTQB 5 2 (2.151 %) PRINCE2 Certification 6 1 (1.075 %) HND 6 1 (1.075 %) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 26 (27.96 %) QA 2 2 (2.151 %) TickIT 2 2 (2.151 %) ISO9001 3 1 (1.075 %) SLA	Vendors 1 2 (2.151 %) Microsoft 2 1 (1.075 %) Oracle