Test Management Contracts in Buckinghamshire
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Test Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Buckinghamshire region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Management over the 3 months to 17 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 of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Buckinghamshire region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
17 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management
Rank 62 71 72
Rank change year-on-year
+9 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Management 3 4 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 0.381% 0.394% 0.283%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.545% 0.592% 0.462%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
Average daily rate £394 £350 £355
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+12.50% -1.40%
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.00 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
-0.77% -0.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Buckinghamshire
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 550 676 650
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Buckinghamshire 69.80% 66.54% 61.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 340 316 268
Average daily rate £325 £325 £350
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -7.14%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £188 £200 £196
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £425 £508
UK excluding London average daily rate £363 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
-0.68% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 34 51
Average hourly rate £18.00 £15.00 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+20.00% -25.00%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £10.58 £12.85
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £35.00 £18.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.60 £25.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year
+26.40% -16.66%
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Management across the Buckinghamshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Buckinghamshire Test Management Jobs Demand Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Management across the Buckinghamshire region.

Buckinghamshire Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the Buckinghamshire region over the 3 months to 17 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
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Milton Keynes - 2 £394 -
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Test Management 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 contract IT job ads sampled that cited Test Management.

1 10 (62.50%) Finance
1 10 (62.50%) ISEB
2 9 (56.25%) QA
2 9 (56.25%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (50.00%) Performance Testing
3 8 (50.00%) System Testing
3 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
5 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
7 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
7 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
7 2 (12.50%) Resource Management
7 2 (12.50%) Scrum
7 2 (12.50%) .NET
7 2 (12.50%) SAP
8 1 (6.250%) SOAP
8 1 (6.250%) Web Services
8 1 (6.250%) Windows
8 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
8 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
8 1 (6.250%) Programme Management
8 1 (6.250%) Banking
8 1 (6.250%) BPEL
8 1 (6.250%) Automotive
8 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
8 1 (6.250%) Manual Testing
8 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
8 1 (6.250%) Waterfall

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 17 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Buckinghamshire region citing Test Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Test Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 2 (12.50%) .NET
2 1 (6.250%) SOAP
2 1 (6.250%) Web Services
Development Applications
1 1 (6.250%) Visual Studio
1 1 (6.250%) QuickTest Pro
1 1 (6.250%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 10 (62.50%) Finance
2 1 (6.250%) Automotive
2 1 (6.250%) Banking
Job Titles
1 14 (87.50%) Test Manager
2 2 (12.50%) SAP Manager
2 2 (12.50%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Test Leader
3 1 (6.250%) Testing Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Head of Testing
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Manager
3 1 (6.250%) QA Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Test Specialist
3 1 (6.250%) Senior Test Manager
3 1 (6.250%) Senior QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.250%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.250%) Windows
1 1 (6.250%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (56.25%) User Acceptance Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Performance Testing
2 8 (50.00%) System Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 5 (31.25%) Test Strategy
4 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (18.75%) Test Scripting
6 2 (12.50%) Scrum
6 2 (12.50%) Resource Management
7 1 (6.250%) Waterfall
7 1 (6.250%) Programme Management
7 1 (6.250%) BPEL
7 1 (6.250%) Manual Testing
Qualifications
1 10 (62.50%) ISEB
2 2 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (56.25%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
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