The first table below looks at the demand for Software Testing skills in IT jobs advertised for the Yorkshire region. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Yorkshire region.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Software Testing
Rank 119 106 147
Rank change year-on-year
-13 +41
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing 93 119 52
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 1.713% 2.258% 1.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.175% 2.982% 1.436%
Number of salaries quoted 70 105 37
Average salary £32,250 £34,000 £30,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
-5.14% +13.33%
90% offered a salary of more than £23,050 £24,000 £18,066
10% offered a salary of more than £44,750 £42,800 £35,400
UK excluding London average salary £35,000 £35,000 £32,500
% change year-on-year
- +7.69%
All Processes & Methodologies
Yorkshire
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
4276 3991 3620
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in Yorkshire 78.75% 75.74% 71.39%
Number of salaries quoted 3303 3238 3074
Average salary £37,500 £36,500 £35,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
+2.73% +4.28%
90% offered a salary of more than £26,000 £25,000 £25,000
10% offered a salary of more than £55,000 £55,000 £54,700
UK excluding London average salary £40,000 £41,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year
-2.43% +2.50%
Software Testing
England

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.

Yorkshire Software Testing Jobs Demand Trend

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.

Yorkshire Software Testing Salary Trend

Software Testing
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.

Yorkshire Software Testing Salary Histogram

Software Testing
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%
Software Testing
England

Software Testing
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
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Our development approach embraces Agile methodologies and tasks will include the design and execution of tests, recording issues found during testing and bringing key areas of concern to...
The Bridge Ltd
Salary: £neg + bonus + benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
Skills & Experience Required: -Experienced Tester / QA specialist -Proven software testing experience -ISEB / ISTQB certified -Bug tracking tools (preferably Jira) -Experienced writing test scripts from scratch Desirable Skills: -Automated...
AMsource Technology
Salary: From £30,000 to £40,000 per annum + benefits
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, Yorkshire
The candidate shall be responsible for implementing the Technical Testing Strategy ensuring emerging technologies are covered, and that SDE/STE's have the required skills, tools and training...
Hays Specialist Recruitment
Salary: £20000.00 - £50000.00 per annum
Posted: 7 June 2013
Sheffield, Yorkshire
Test Manager - Sheffield - £40,000 to £45,000 + BenefitsA new opportunity has come up to join the IT Leadership team as the Test Manager to ensure the highest...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Sheffield, South Yorkshire
Knowledge of testing a wide range of IT projects -Testing experience with multiple software technologies -Previous Test Management experience across full testing lifecycle -Previous experience of effectively managing...
Harvey Nash plc
Salary: £40000 - £45000 per annum + + Benefits
Posted: 13 June 2013
Wakefield, West Yorkshire
Searchability.co.uk
Salary: £15000 - £18000 per annum
Posted: 14 June 2013
Leeds, West Yorkshire
4it Recruitment Ltd
Salary: £Excellent Salary + Benefits
Posted: 17 June 2013
Hessle, North Humberside
AWD Recruitment
Salary: £18,000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 18 June 2013
West Yorkshire
OCC Computing
Salary: Market related
Posted: 24 May 2013
Barnsley, Yorkshire
Energize Recruitment Solutions Ltd
Salary: £20000 - £32000 per annum + Benefits
Posted: 6 June 2013
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