The first table below looks at the demand for the Tester role in IT jobs advertised for the Wiltshire region. 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 20 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 Job Titles advertised for the Wiltshire region.

Location
3 months to
20 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Tester
Rank 73 54 70
Rank change year-on-year
-19 +16
Permanent jobs requiring a Tester 4 32 16
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 0.459% 3.150% 1.479%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.479% 3.347% 1.522%
Number of salaries quoted 4 32 12
Average salary £33,000 £34,000 £27,500
Average salary % change year-on-year
-2.94% +23.63%
90% offered a salary of more than £30,900 £25,000 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £36,150 £37,350 £35,000
UK excluding London average salary £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
All Job Titles
Wiltshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
835 956 1051
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Wiltshire 95.87% 94.09% 97.13%
Number of salaries quoted 751 818 958
Average salary £37,500 £35,875 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+4.52% +2.50%
90% offered a salary of more than £25,000 £22,500 £23,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £47,500 £50,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Tester
South West

Tester
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Wiltshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Wiltshire Tester Jobs Demand Trend

Tester
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Tester across the Wiltshire region.

Wiltshire Tester Salary Trend

Tester
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 Wiltshire region over the 3 months to 20 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
Swindon -14 3 £33,000 -2.94%
Tester
South West

Tester
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 7 (50.00%) ISEB
1 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (50.00%) QA
2 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
2 6 (42.86%) HP
2 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
2 6 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
3 5 (35.71%) V-Model
3 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
3 5 (35.71%) Borland
3 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
3 5 (35.71%) SilkPerformer
3 5 (35.71%) Usability Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Test Management
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
4 4 (28.57%) Web Services
4 4 (28.57%) Linux
5 3 (21.43%) UNIX
5 3 (21.43%) Windows
5 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
5 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Marketing Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) HTML5
6 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) Marketing
6 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development

Tester
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 May 2013, IT jobs across the Wiltshire 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 4 (28.57%) Web Services
2 2 (14.29%) XML
2 2 (14.29%) JSON
2 2 (14.29%) Silverlight
2 2 (14.29%) HTML
2 2 (14.29%) HTML5
3 1 (7.143%) Pylons
Application Platforms
1 1 (7.143%) Apache
1 1 (7.143%) Tomcat
Communications & Networking
1 1 (7.143%) TCP/IP
1 1 (7.143%) VPN
1 1 (7.143%) IGMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (21.43%) RDBMS
2 1 (7.143%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) LoadRunner
1 5 (35.71%) SilkPerformer
2 1 (7.143%) QuickTest Pro
General
1 2 (14.29%) Finance
1 2 (14.29%) Marketing
2 1 (7.143%) Telecoms
2 1 (7.143%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.143%) EPoS
1 1 (7.143%) EFT
Operating Systems
1 4 (28.57%) Linux
2 3 (21.43%) UNIX
2 3 (21.43%) Windows
3 1 (7.143%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 6 (42.86%) Waterfall
3 5 (35.71%) V-Model
3 5 (35.71%) Business Continuity
3 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
3 5 (35.71%) Usability Testing
3 5 (35.71%) Test Management
4 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Automated Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 2 (14.29%) Test Strategy
6 2 (14.29%) Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) Marketing Analytics
6 2 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Manual Testing
6 2 (14.29%) Scrum
6 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 2 (14.29%) Agile Software Development
7 1 (7.143%) Use Case
7 1 (7.143%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (42.86%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) C#
2 2 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (7.143%) Perl
3 1 (7.143%) C++
3 1 (7.143%) VBScript
3 1 (7.143%) Tcl
3 1 (7.143%) Bash shell
3 1 (7.143%) C
Qualifications
1 7 (50.00%) ISEB
2 6 (42.86%) ISTQB
3 2 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (50.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 6 (42.86%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (42.86%) HP
2 5 (35.71%) Borland
3 1 (7.143%) Intergraph
3 1 (7.143%) Sun
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