Yorkshire Software Tester Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Software Tester role in IT jobs within the 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Abingdon Altrincham Ascot Aylesbury Barnstaple Basingstoke Bath Bedford Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Bromley Buckingham Buckinghamshire Burnley Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Cardiff Cheadle Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Devon Dorset Dundee East Midlands East of England East Sussex East Yorkshire Eastleigh Edinburgh Egham England Essex Exeter Exmouth Fareham Farnborough Farnham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harpenden Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Honiton Hull Ipswich Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Letchworth Lichfield Liverpool London Macclesfield Manchester Marlow Merseyside Milton Keynes Newport Newton Abbot Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Petersfield Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Reigate Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skipton Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Albans St Helens Staffordshire Stowmarket Stratford-upon-Avon Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wellingborough West Midlands West Yorkshire Weybridge Wigston Wiltshire Winchester Woking Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	231	218
Rank change on same period last year	-13
Matching permanent IT job ads	23	37
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.015 %
As % of the category below	0.249 %	0.374 %
Salaries quoted	21	32
Average minimum salary	£24,714	£27,944
Average salary	£27,214	£29,111
% change on same period last year	-6.51 %
Average maximum salary	£29,714	£30,278
UK excluding London average salary	£30,201	£29,444
% change on same period last year	+2.57 %
Job Titles Yorkshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	9252	9902
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.884 %	4.055 %
Salaries quoted	7530	8260
Average minimum salary	£30,958	£30,740
Average salary	£33,462	£33,163
% change on same period last year	+0.90 %
Average maximum salary	£35,965	£35,586
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Software Tester England

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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 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 Yorkshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Tester across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Tester within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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
South Yorkshire	-15	9	£28,278	+9.33 %
North Yorkshire	+9	8	£25,563	-14.79 %
West Yorkshire	-4	3	£27,250	-11.02 %
East Yorkshire	-2	2	£29,000	-6.45 %

Software Tester England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the 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 44 (57.14 %) ISEB 2 31 (40.26 %) Automated Testing 3 21 (27.27 %) Manual Testing 4 19 (24.68 %) Test Scripting 4 19 (24.68 %) Finance 5 18 (23.38 %) Degree 5 18 (23.38 %) QA 5 18 (23.38 %) Software Testing 6 17 (22.08 %) Microsoft 6 17 (22.08 %) TestDirector 7 12 (15.58 %) Java 7 12 (15.58 %) Problem Management 8 11 (14.29 %) SQL 9 10 (12.99 %) Regression Testing 10 9 (11.69 %) .NET

10 9 (11.69 %) SQL Server 10 9 (11.69 %) MS Excel 11 8 (10.39 %) LoadRunner 11 8 (10.39 %) User Acceptance Testing 12 7 (9.091 %) Unit Testing 12 7 (9.091 %) VB 13 5 (6.494 %) Client/Server 13 5 (6.494 %) UNIX 13 5 (6.494 %) ISEB Practitioner 14 4 (5.195 %) Legal 14 4 (5.195 %) VB6 14 4 (5.195 %) Crystal Reports 14 4 (5.195 %) Oracle 14 4 (5.195 %) Rational Robot 15 3 (3.896 %) QuickTest Pro

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the 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 9 (11.69 %) .NET 2 3 (3.896 %) XML 3 2 (2.597 %) CSS 3 2 (2.597 %) ASP 3 2 (2.597 %) HTML 4 1 (1.299 %) ASP.NET 4 1 (1.299 %) COM+ 4 1 (1.299 %) ADO 4 1 (1.299 %) WebServices 4 1 (1.299 %) EDI 4 1 (1.299 %) .NET Framework	Application Platforms 1 3 (3.896 %) IIS
Applications 1 9 (11.69 %) MS Excel 2 2 (2.597 %) MS Office 2 2 (2.597 %) MS PowerPoint 3 1 (1.299 %) MS Visio	Business Applications 1 1 (1.299 %) BASE24
Communications & Networking 1 1 (1.299 %) LAN 1 1 (1.299 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 9 (11.69 %) SQL Server 2 4 (5.195 %) Crystal Reports 3 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 2000 3 1 (1.299 %) SQLPlus 3 1 (1.299 %) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications 1 17 (22.08 %) TestDirector 2 8 (10.39 %) LoadRunner 3 4 (5.195 %) Rational Robot 4 3 (3.896 %) QuickTest Pro 5 2 (2.597 %) WinRunner 6 1 (1.299 %) Visual Studio 6 1 (1.299 %) SilkTest	General 1 19 (24.68 %) Finance 2 4 (5.195 %) Legal 3 3 (3.896 %) Retail 4 2 (2.597 %) Publishing 4 2 (2.597 %) Construction 4 2 (2.597 %) Health 5 1 (1.299 %) Law 5 1 (1.299 %) Education 5 1 (1.299 %) Banking 5 1 (1.299 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 5 (6.494 %) Client/Server 2 3 (3.896 %) Computer Science 3 1 (1.299 %) EFT 3 1 (1.299 %) Mainframe 3 1 (1.299 %) Management Information System 3 1 (1.299 %) Tandem 3 1 (1.299 %) Statistics	Operating Systems 1 5 (6.494 %) UNIX 2 3 (3.896 %) Windows 2 3 (3.896 %) Linux 3 1 (1.299 %) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies 1 31 (40.26 %) Automated Testing 2 21 (27.27 %) Manual Testing 3 19 (24.68 %) Test Scripting 4 18 (23.38 %) Software Testing 5 12 (15.58 %) Problem Management 6 10 (12.99 %) Regression Testing 7 8 (10.39 %) User Acceptance Testing 8 7 (9.091 %) Unit Testing 9 3 (3.896 %) Risk Assessment 10 2 (2.597 %) E-Commerce 10 2 (2.597 %) Web Development 10 2 (2.597 %) System Testing 11 1 (1.299 %) Test Management 11 1 (1.299 %) CAD 11 1 (1.299 %) Workflow 11 1 (1.299 %) Agile Software Development 11 1 (1.299 %) Systems Analysis	Programming Languages 1 12 (15.58 %) Java 2 11 (14.29 %) SQL 3 7 (9.091 %) VB 4 4 (5.195 %) VB6 5 3 (3.896 %) JavaScript 6 2 (2.597 %) Perl 6 2 (2.597 %) C# 6 2 (2.597 %) Python 7 1 (1.299 %) Ruby 7 1 (1.299 %) C 7 1 (1.299 %) C++ 7 1 (1.299 %) Transact-SQL 7 1 (1.299 %) VBScript 7 1 (1.299 %) PHP
Qualifications 1 44 (57.14 %) ISEB 2 18 (23.38 %) Degree 3 5 (6.494 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (23.38 %) QA
Vendors 1 17 (22.08 %) Microsoft 2 4 (5.195 %) Oracle 3 1 (1.299 %) HP 3 1 (1.299 %) Apple