Cambridgeshire Test Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the Cambridgeshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 13 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Manager
Location Basingstoke Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Home Counties Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Waterlooville West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Yorkshire	3 months to 13 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	54	64
Rank change on same period last year	+10
Matching contract IT job ads	6	9
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.009 %
As % of the category below	0.902 %	0.859 %
Daily rates quoted	3	3
Average minimum daily rate	£408	£500
Average daily rate	£408	£508
% change on same period last year	-19.67 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£517
UK excluding London average daily rate	£426	£413
% change on same period last year	+3.01 %
Hourly rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum hourly rate	-	-
Average hourly rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum hourly rate	-	-
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£46.28	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Cambridgeshire
Matching contract IT job ads	665	1048
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.940 %	1.061 %
Daily rates quoted	138	189
Average minimum daily rate	£308	£305
Average daily rate	£333	£321
% change on same period last year	+3.73 %
Average maximum daily rate	£359	£338
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£353
% change on same period last year	-0.18 %
Hourly rates quoted	145	188
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.46	£28.26
Average hourly rate	£21.92	£30.27
% change on same period last year	-27.56 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£23.39	£32.28
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.71	£25.14
% change on same period last year	-5.69 %
Test Manager East of England

We calculate average IT contractor rates directly from the figures quoted and do not attempt to derive hourly rates from daily rates or vice versa.

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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Manager across the Cambridgeshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Manager across the Cambridgeshire region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 2008.

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Hourly Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Manager across the Cambridgeshire region.

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Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the Cambridgeshire region over the 3 months to 13 October 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 Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Cambridge	+13	3	-	-

Test Manager East of England

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Test Manager 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Test Manager in their job title.

1 3 (27.27 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (18.18 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (18.18 %) CTC Cleared 2 2 (18.18 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (18.18 %) Rational Functional Tester 2 2 (18.18 %) J2EE 2 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 2 2 (18.18 %) IBM 2 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 2 (18.18 %) ISEB 2 2 (18.18 %) Java 2 2 (18.18 %) TestDirector 2 2 (18.18 %) Rational Robot 3 1 (9.091 %) DTV 3 1 (9.091 %) Wi-Fi

3 1 (9.091 %) Wireless 3 1 (9.091 %) Handset 3 1 (9.091 %) Games 3 1 (9.091 %) Scrum 3 1 (9.091 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (9.091 %) Perl 3 1 (9.091 %) Genesys 3 1 (9.091 %) SAP 3 1 (9.091 %) Python 3 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (9.091 %) STB 3 1 (9.091 %) Insurance 3 1 (9.091 %) ISTQB 3 1 (9.091 %) Music 3 1 (9.091 %) Matrix Management

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 13 October 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Cambridgeshire region that cited Test Manager 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 contract IT job ads sampled with Test Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (18.18 %) J2EE	Communications & Networking 1 1 (9.091 %) Wi-Fi 1 1 (9.091 %) Wireless
Development Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) TestDirector 1 2 (18.18 %) Rational Robot 1 2 (18.18 %) Rational Functional Tester 2 1 (9.091 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 1 (9.091 %) Games 1 1 (9.091 %) Insurance 1 1 (9.091 %) Music
Miscellaneous 1 1 (9.091 %) DTV 1 1 (9.091 %) Handset 1 1 (9.091 %) STB	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (27.27 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (18.18 %) SC Cleared 2 2 (18.18 %) CTC Cleared 2 2 (18.18 %) Security Cleared 3 1 (9.091 %) Web Testing 3 1 (9.091 %) System Testing 3 1 (9.091 %) E-Commerce 3 1 (9.091 %) Scrum 3 1 (9.091 %) Matrix Management 3 1 (9.091 %) Use Case
Programming Languages 1 2 (18.18 %) Java 2 1 (9.091 %) Perl 2 1 (9.091 %) Python	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) ISEB 2 1 (9.091 %) ISTQB
Vendors 1 2 (18.18 %) Oracle 1 2 (18.18 %) IBM 1 2 (18.18 %) Microsoft 2 1 (9.091 %) Genesys 2 1 (9.091 %) SAP