Software Testing Jobs in the East of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Software Testing England / East of England
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	171	144	179
Rank change year-on-year	-27	+35
Permanent jobs citing Software Testing	92	125	122
As % of all permanent IT jobs advertised in the East of England	1.48%	1.85%	1.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category	1.68%	2.12%	1.72%
Number of salaries quoted	89	101	96
Median salary	£42,500	£40,000	£36,250
Median salary % change year-on-year	+6.25%	+10.34%
90% offered a salary of more than	£26,000	£27,500	£22,500
10% offered a salary of more than	£61,000	£65,000	£50,000
UK excluding London median salary	£35,625	£35,000	£36,000
% change year-on-year	+1.78%	-2.77%

Software Testing is in the process and methodology skills category. The next table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England with a requirement for process and methodology skills.

Process & Methodology Skills East of England
Permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process and methodology skills	5480	5908	7083
As % of all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in the East of England	88.03%	87.64%	86.33%
Number of salaries quoted	4436	4963	5802
Median salary	£47,500	£47,500	£45,000
Median salary % change year-on-year	-	+5.55%
90% offered a salary of more than	£32,500	£31,500	£30,000
10% offered a salary of more than	£70,000	£65,000	£70,000
UK excluding London median salary	£45,000	£45,000	£44,000
% change year-on-year	-	+2.27%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in the East of England citing Software Testing as a proportion of all permanent or contract IT jobs with a match in the Processes & Methodologies category.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in the East of England

Software Testing
Salary Trend in the East of England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Software Testing in the East of England.

Salary trend for Software Testing in the East of England

Software Testing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

The salary distribution of IT jobs citing Software Testing in the East of England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Salary histogram for Software Testing in the East of England

Software Testing
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the East of England region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. 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	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Permanent IT Job Ads	Median Salary Last 3 Months	Median Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
Cambridgeshire	-19	42	£45,000	+16.88%	12
Hertfordshire	-8	25	£45,000	-25.00%	4
Suffolk	-4	12	£30,000	-7.69%	1
Norfolk	+1	9	£28,500	-28.75%
Essex	-24	3	£47,500	-
Bedfordshire	+16	1	£37,500	-42.30%	1
Software Testing England

Software Testing
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT jobs citing Software Testing also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all job ads across the East of England region with a requirement for Software Testing.

1	137 (71.35%)	Test Automation
2	103 (53.65%)	Agile Software Development
2	103 (53.65%)	QA
3	88 (45.83%)	Selenium
4	63 (32.81%)	C#
5	61 (31.77%)	.NET
6	58 (30.21%)	Scrum
7	53 (27.60%)	JIRA
8	47 (24.48%)	Test Strategy
9	45 (23.44%)	TDD
10	43 (22.40%)	WebDriver
11	41 (21.35%)	Finance
12	39 (20.31%)	Degree
13	35 (18.23%)	RESTful
13	35 (18.23%)	Microsoft

14	34 (17.71%)	SQL
15	33 (17.19%)	Test Scripting
15	33 (17.19%)	ISTQB
16	32 (16.67%)	Java
16	32 (16.67%)	Python
17	31 (16.15%)	Kanban
18	29 (15.10%)	Manual Testing
18	29 (15.10%)	BDD
19	28 (14.58%)	TeamCity
20	27 (14.06%)	Continuous Integration
20	27 (14.06%)	Regression Testing
20	27 (14.06%)	ISEB
21	25 (13.02%)	Cucumber
22	24 (12.50%)	Git (software)
22	24 (12.50%)	JavaScript

Software Testing
Co-occurring IT Skills in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same job type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	15 (7.81%)	Confluence
1	15 (7.81%)	Tomcat
2	7 (3.65%)	CMS
3	5 (2.60%)	IIS
4	2 (1.04%)	Apache Spark
5	1 (0.52%)	BizTalk Server
5	1 (0.52%)	SharePoint

Applications
1	4 (2.08%)	Microsoft Office
2	3 (1.56%)	Microsoft Excel

Business Applications
1	4 (2.08%)	Sonata
2	2 (1.04%)	Dynamics CRM
3	1 (0.52%)	SAP Oil and Gas

Cloud Services
1	13 (6.77%)	GitHub
2	8 (4.17%)	SaaS
3	3 (1.56%)	Amazon AWS
3	3 (1.56%)	IaaS
3	3 (1.56%)	Oracle Service Cloud

Communications & Networking
1	8 (4.17%)	HTTP

Database & Business Intelligence
1	21 (10.94%)	SQL Server
2	8 (4.17%)	MariaDB
2	8 (4.17%)	MongoDB
3	7 (3.65%)	Big Data
4	5 (2.60%)	Geospatial Data
4	5 (2.60%)	GIS
4	5 (2.60%)	Relational Database
5	4 (2.08%)	RDBMS
6	3 (1.56%)	Data Warehouse
7	2 (1.04%)	Apache Hive
7	2 (1.04%)	Hadoop
7	2 (1.04%)	Impala
7	2 (1.04%)	SQL Server 2008
8	1 (0.52%)	SQL Server Integration Services
8	1 (0.52%)	SQL Server Reporting Services

Development Applications
1	88 (45.83%)	Selenium
2	53 (27.60%)	JIRA
3	43 (22.40%)	WebDriver
4	28 (14.58%)	TeamCity
5	25 (13.02%)	Cucumber
6	24 (12.50%)	Git (software)
6	24 (12.50%)	Jenkins
7	19 (9.90%)	JUnit
7	19 (9.90%)	SoapUI
8	15 (7.81%)	Maven
9	12 (6.25%)	JBehave
10	11 (5.73%)	AppVeyor
10	11 (5.73%)	Octopus Deploy
11	9 (4.69%)	Subversion
12	8 (4.17%)	Fiddler
13	7 (3.65%)	HP UFT
14	6 (3.13%)	NUnit
14	6 (3.13%)	SpecFlow
14	6 (3.13%)	Team Foundation Server
14	6 (3.13%)	Zephyr

General
1	41 (21.35%)	Finance
2	11 (5.73%)	Retail
3	7 (3.65%)	Games
4	4 (2.08%)	Publishing
5	3 (1.56%)	Marketing
5	3 (1.56%)	Pharmaceutical
6	2 (1.04%)	Manufacturing
7	1 (0.52%)	Billing
7	1 (0.52%)	Electronics
7	1 (0.52%)	Legal
7	1 (0.52%)	Telecoms

Job Titles
1	48 (25.00%)	Analyst
2	46 (23.96%)	Test Analyst
3	43 (22.40%)	Tester
4	34 (17.71%)	Developer
5	29 (15.10%)	Test Engineer
6	27 (14.06%)	Software Tester
7	18 (9.38%)	Senior Developer
8	17 (8.85%)	Software Test Engineer
9	15 (7.81%)	Automation Tester
10	14 (7.29%)	C# Developer
11	13 (6.77%)	QA Tester
11	13 (6.77%)	Test Manager
12	12 (6.25%)	QA Leader
12	12 (6.25%)	Team Leader
13	11 (5.73%)	QA Engineer
13	11 (5.73%)	Software Analyst
13	11 (5.73%)	Software Developer
14	10 (5.21%)	.NET Developer
14	10 (5.21%)	Junior
14	10 (5.21%)	Senior C# Developer

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	61 (31.77%)	.NET
2	35 (18.23%)	RESTful
3	24 (12.50%)	ASP.NET
4	21 (10.94%)	Gherkin
5	20 (10.42%)	ASP.NET Web API
6	18 (9.38%)	HTML
7	15 (7.81%)	Hibernate
7	15 (7.81%)	Spring
8	13 (6.77%)	ASP.NET MVC
8	13 (6.77%)	Middleware
9	12 (6.25%)	AngularJS
10	10 (5.21%)	CSS
11	9 (4.69%)	.NET Framework
11	9 (4.69%)	REST
11	9 (4.69%)	Web Services
12	8 (4.17%)	Entity Framework
12	8 (4.17%)	HTML5
12	8 (4.17%)	JSON
12	8 (4.17%)	Ninject
12	8 (4.17%)	RabbitMQ

Miscellaneous
1	21 (10.94%)	Computer Science
2	12 (6.25%)	iPad
3	9 (4.69%)	Analytical Skills
4	8 (4.17%)	Greenfield Project
5	4 (2.08%)	BBC
5	4 (2.08%)	Enterprise Software
5	4 (2.08%)	Management Information System
5	4 (2.08%)	N-Tier
5	4 (2.08%)	User Experience
5	4 (2.08%)	Virtual Team
6	3 (1.56%)	Mobile App
7	2 (1.04%)	Algorithms
8	1 (0.52%)	Digital Media
8	1 (0.52%)	Robotics

Operating Systems
1	8 (4.17%)	Linux
2	7 (3.65%)	Unix
2	7 (3.65%)	Windows

Processes & Methodologies
1	137 (71.35%)	Test Automation
2	103 (53.65%)	Agile Software Development
3	58 (30.21%)	Scrum
4	47 (24.48%)	Test Strategy
5	45 (23.44%)	TDD
6	33 (17.19%)	Test Scripting
7	31 (16.15%)	Kanban
8	29 (15.10%)	BDD
8	29 (15.10%)	Manual Testing
9	27 (14.06%)	Continuous Integration
9	27 (14.06%)	Regression Testing
10	23 (11.98%)	Integration Testing
11	21 (10.94%)	SDLC
12	20 (10.42%)	MVC
13	19 (9.90%)	Continuous Delivery
13	19 (9.90%)	OO
13	19 (9.90%)	Open Source
13	19 (9.90%)	User Acceptance Testing
14	18 (9.38%)	Functional Testing
14	18 (9.38%)	Software Engineering

Programming Languages
1	63 (32.81%)	C#
2	34 (17.71%)	SQL
3	32 (16.67%)	Java
3	32 (16.67%)	Python
4	24 (12.50%)	JavaScript
5	9 (4.69%)	T-SQL
6	6 (3.13%)	C
7	5 (2.60%)	Bash Shell
7	5 (2.60%)	Ruby
8	4 (2.08%)	C++
9	3 (1.56%)	Shell Script
10	2 (1.04%)	PL/SQL
11	1 (0.52%)	MATLAB
11	1 (0.52%)	PowerShell
11	1 (0.52%)	VB.NET

Qualifications
1	39 (20.31%)	Degree
2	33 (17.19%)	ISTQB
3	27 (14.06%)	ISEB
4	4 (2.08%)	ISEB Practitioner
4	4 (2.08%)	SC Cleared
4	4 (2.08%)	Security Cleared
5	2 (1.04%)	CCA
5	2 (1.04%)	Citrix Certification
5	2 (1.04%)	ISTQB Foundation Certification
5	2 (1.04%)	MCSA
5	2 (1.04%)	MCSD
5	2 (1.04%)	Microsoft Certification
6	1 (0.52%)	CSQA
6	1 (0.52%)	HND

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	103 (53.65%)	QA
2	3 (1.56%)	PMO

System Software
1	12 (6.25%)	Docker
2	4 (2.08%)	Active Directory
3	1 (0.52%)	VirtualBox
3	1 (0.52%)	VMware Infrastructure

Systems Management
1	2 (1.04%)	HP Quality Center
1	2 (1.04%)	Oozie

Vendors
1	35 (18.23%)	Microsoft
2	18 (9.38%)	Atlassian
3	8 (4.17%)	Oracle
4	4 (2.08%)	Virgin Media
5	2 (1.04%)	Cloudera
5	2 (1.04%)	Xamarin
6	1 (0.52%)	SAP
6	1 (0.52%)	Siebel
6	1 (0.52%)	VMware