Wigan Tester Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs within the Wigan 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.

Tester
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	23	20
Rank change on same period last year	-3
Matching permanent IT job ads	3	1
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.000 %
As % of the category below	1.987 %	1.351 %
Salaries quoted	0	1
Average minimum salary	-	£28,000
Average salary	-	£29,000
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum salary	-	£30,000
UK excluding London average salary	£32,477	£31,727
% change on same period last year	+2.36 %
Job Titles Wigan
Matching permanent IT job ads	151	74
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.101 %	0.033 %
Salaries quoted	137	73
Average minimum salary	£33,689	£26,696
Average salary	£36,150	£28,848
% change on same period last year	+25.31 %
Average maximum salary	£38,611	£31,000
UK excluding London average salary	£38,498	£39,074
% change on same period last year	-1.47 %
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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 Wigan 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 Wigan region.

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Top 20 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Wigan 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 8 (100.00 %) QA 2 4 (50.00 %) Finance 3 3 (37.50 %) Manufacturing 3 3 (37.50 %) Degree 3 3 (37.50 %) System Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) MS PowerPoint 3 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 3 3 (37.50 %) C 3 3 (37.50 %) C++ 3 3 (37.50 %) Java 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 3 3 (37.50 %) SAP 3 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 3 3 (37.50 %) ERP

3 3 (37.50 %) ISO9001 3 3 (37.50 %) ISEB 3 3 (37.50 %) JD Edwards 3 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 4 2 (25.00 %) Manual Testing

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Wigan 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.

Applications 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Office 1 3 (37.50 %) MS Excel 1 3 (37.50 %) MS PowerPoint	General 1 4 (50.00 %) Finance 2 3 (37.50 %) Manufacturing
Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (37.50 %) ERP 1 3 (37.50 %) Project Management 1 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 1 3 (37.50 %) Test Scripting 1 3 (37.50 %) System Testing 2 2 (25.00 %) Manual Testing	Programming Languages 1 3 (37.50 %) C 1 3 (37.50 %) C++ 1 3 (37.50 %) Java
Qualifications 1 3 (37.50 %) ISEB 1 3 (37.50 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 8 (100.00 %) QA 2 3 (37.50 %) ISO9001
Vendors 1 3 (37.50 %) SAP 1 3 (37.50 %) JD Edwards