Software Testing Jobs in Yorkshire

Software Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Software Testing
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Software Testing across the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

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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 Software Testing within the Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 19 June 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	Find Job Vacancies
West Yorkshire	-12	76	£32,000	-5.88%	7
South Yorkshire	+9	16	£42,500	-5.55%	4
North Yorkshire	0	7	£31,500	-3.07%
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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing.

1 79 (50.64%) ISEB 2 51 (32.69%) QA 3 43 (27.56%) Microsoft 4 41 (26.28%) ISTQB 5 40 (25.64%) .NET 6 37 (23.72%) Test Scripting 7 35 (22.44%) Test Management 7 35 (22.44%) SQL 8 34 (21.79%) Agile Software Development 9 33 (21.15%) Degree 9 33 (21.15%) Selenium 9 33 (21.15%) Windows 10 32 (20.51%) ITIL 11 31 (19.87%) SQL Server 12 29 (18.59%) XML

13 26 (16.67%) Web Services 13 26 (16.67%) Linux 14 24 (15.38%) C# 15 23 (14.74%) MS Excel 15 23 (14.74%) User Acceptance Testing 16 22 (14.10%) UNIX 17 21 (13.46%) Manual Testing 17 21 (13.46%) Test Automation 18 20 (12.82%) Automated Testing 18 20 (12.82%) Finance 18 20 (12.82%) Visual Studio 19 19 (12.18%) ASP.NET 20 18 (11.54%) HTML 20 18 (11.54%) CRM 20 18 (11.54%) Project Management

Software Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT jobs across the Yorkshire region citing Software 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 Software Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 40 (25.64%) .NET 2 29 (18.59%) XML 3 26 (16.67%) Web Services 4 19 (12.18%) ASP.NET 5 18 (11.54%) HTML 6 10 (6.410%) SOAP 7 9 (5.769%) soapUI 7 9 (5.769%) XML Schema 8 7 (4.487%) XSL 9 6 (3.846%) Ajax 10 4 (2.564%) XSD 10 4 (2.564%) CSS 10 4 (2.564%) WSDL 10 4 (2.564%) LAMP 11 3 (1.923%) .NET Framework 11 3 (1.923%) jQuery 11 3 (1.923%) Gherkin 11 3 (1.923%) CSS3 11 3 (1.923%) HTML5 12 2 (1.282%) GStreamer	Application Platforms 1 9 (5.769%) SharePoint 2 4 (2.564%) Oracle SOA Suite 2 4 (2.564%) Apache 2 4 (2.564%) Tomcat 3 3 (1.923%) IIS 4 2 (1.282%) CMS 5 1 (0.641%) Drupal
Applications 1 23 (14.74%) MS Excel 2 3 (1.923%) MS Project 2 3 (1.923%) Mingle 3 2 (1.282%) MS Office 4 1 (0.641%) MS PowerPoint 4 1 (0.641%) Fireworks 4 1 (0.641%) MS Visio 4 1 (0.641%) Photoshop	Business Applications 1 9 (5.769%) Dynamics CRM 2 4 (2.564%) Oracle Applications 3 2 (1.282%) Oracle BPM
Communications & Networking 1 14 (8.974%) FTP 2 2 (1.282%) DVB 2 2 (1.282%) Internet 3 1 (0.641%) Firewall 3 1 (0.641%) HTTP 3 1 (0.641%) TCP/IP 3 1 (0.641%) VPN 3 1 (0.641%) GPRS 3 1 (0.641%) GSM	Database & Business Intelligence 1 31 (19.87%) SQL Server 2 6 (3.846%) MySQL 3 5 (3.205%) Oracle 11g 4 1 (0.641%) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.641%) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.641%) TOAD 4 1 (0.641%) RDBMS
Development Applications 1 33 (21.15%) Selenium 2 20 (12.82%) Visual Studio 3 18 (11.54%) QuickTest Pro 4 15 (9.615%) Team Foundation Server 5 11 (7.051%) LoadRunner 6 10 (6.410%) FitNesse 6 10 (6.410%) Cucumber 6 10 (6.410%) SpecFlow 7 7 (4.487%) Subversion 8 5 (3.205%) JIRA 8 5 (3.205%) Git (software) 9 4 (2.564%) Eclipse 9 4 (2.564%) JDeveloper 10 3 (1.923%) Visual Studio Team System 11 2 (1.282%) Flex Builder 12 1 (0.641%) Mercurial 12 1 (0.641%) WebDriver 12 1 (0.641%) TeamCity 12 1 (0.641%) MSI	General 1 20 (12.82%) Finance 2 14 (8.974%) Retail 2 14 (8.974%) Telecoms 3 12 (7.692%) Banking 3 12 (7.692%) Investment Banking 4 6 (3.846%) Retail Banking 5 4 (2.564%) Advertising 6 3 (1.923%) Legal 7 2 (1.282%) Games 8 1 (0.641%) Electronics 8 1 (0.641%) Automotive
Job Titles 1 39 (25.00%) Analyst 2 33 (21.15%) Test Analyst 3 26 (16.67%) Test Manager 4 20 (12.82%) Tester 5 14 (8.974%) Software Tester 6 13 (8.333%) Software Engineer 7 12 (7.692%) Developer 8 10 (6.410%) Test Engineer 9 8 (5.128%) Consultant 10 7 (4.487%) Support Manager 10 7 (4.487%) Software Test Engineer 10 7 (4.487%) QA Manager 10 7 (4.487%) Operations Manager 11 6 (3.846%) Graduate 11 6 (3.846%) Test Consultant 12 5 (3.205%) Release Manager 12 5 (3.205%) Test Leader 12 5 (3.205%) Applications Support 12 5 (3.205%) Coordinator 13 4 (2.564%) Development Manager	Miscellaneous 1 6 (3.846%) STB 2 5 (3.205%) Open Source 3 4 (2.564%) Management Information System 3 4 (2.564%) Computer Science 4 3 (1.923%) Mathematics 4 3 (1.923%) NHS 4 3 (1.923%) Firmware 4 3 (1.923%) N-Tier 5 2 (1.282%) MPEG 5 2 (1.282%) DTV 5 2 (1.282%) Streaming Video 5 2 (1.282%) Physics 6 1 (0.641%) Credit Risk 6 1 (0.641%) Client/Server 6 1 (0.641%) CAN bus
Operating Systems 1 33 (21.15%) Windows 2 26 (16.67%) Linux 3 22 (14.10%) UNIX 4 4 (2.564%) SUSE 4 4 (2.564%) openSUSE 4 4 (2.564%) Ubuntu 5 2 (1.282%) VxWorks 6 1 (0.641%) Embedded Linux 6 1 (0.641%) Windows Server 2008 6 1 (0.641%) Windows 2000 Server 6 1 (0.641%) Windows Server 2003 6 1 (0.641%) Windows 2000 6 1 (0.641%) Windows XP	Processes & Methodologies 1 37 (23.72%) Test Scripting 2 35 (22.44%) Test Management 3 34 (21.79%) Agile Software Development 4 32 (20.51%) ITIL 5 23 (14.74%) User Acceptance Testing 6 21 (13.46%) Manual Testing 6 21 (13.46%) Test Automation 7 20 (12.82%) Automated Testing 8 18 (11.54%) CRM 8 18 (11.54%) Project Management 9 13 (8.333%) Waterfall 10 12 (7.692%) Performance Management 11 11 (7.051%) Usability Testing 11 11 (7.051%) Scrum 12 10 (6.410%) PRINCE 12 10 (6.410%) TDD 13 9 (5.769%) Continuous Improvement 14 8 (5.128%) OO 14 8 (5.128%) Stress Testing 15 7 (4.487%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages 1 35 (22.44%) SQL 2 24 (15.38%) C# 3 13 (8.333%) Java 4 7 (4.487%) C 5 5 (3.205%) T-SQL 5 5 (3.205%) VB 5 5 (3.205%) JavaScript 5 5 (3.205%) C++ 6 4 (2.564%) PHP 6 4 (2.564%) VB.NET 6 4 (2.564%) Embedded C 6 4 (2.564%) Tcl 7 3 (1.923%) PowerShell 7 3 (1.923%) VBA 8 2 (1.282%) ActionScript 8 2 (1.282%) Perl 8 2 (1.282%) Python 8 2 (1.282%) Embedded C++ 8 2 (1.282%) PHP5 9 1 (0.641%) PL/SQL	Qualifications 1 79 (50.64%) ISEB 2 41 (26.28%) ISTQB 3 33 (21.15%) Degree 4 4 (2.564%) Security Cleared 4 4 (2.564%) MBA 5 2 (1.282%) Microsoft Certification 5 2 (1.282%) ITIL Certification 5 2 (1.282%) SC Cleared 5 2 (1.282%) ISEB Practitioner 6 1 (0.641%) MCITP 6 1 (0.641%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 51 (32.69%) QA 2 10 (6.410%) SLA	System Software 1 2 (1.282%) Hyper-V 2 1 (0.641%) VMware ESX 2 1 (0.641%) VMware Infrastructure 2 1 (0.641%) vSphere
Systems Management 1 16 (10.26%) HP Quality Center	Vendors 1 43 (27.56%) Microsoft 2 14 (8.974%) HP 3 6 (3.846%) Oracle 4 4 (2.564%) Adobe 5 2 (1.282%) Apple 5 2 (1.282%) Sage 5 2 (1.282%) Hitachi 5 2 (1.282%) Bloomberg 5 2 (1.282%) Zend 5 2 (1.282%) VMware 6 1 (0.641%) Cisco 6 1 (0.641%) Salesforce.com 6 1 (0.641%) Twitter