East Midlands Test Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the East Midlands 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 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	68	64
Rank change on same period last year	-4
Matching contract IT job ads	25	33
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.033 %	0.033 %
As % of the category below	1.460 %	1.747 %
Daily rates quoted	7	12
Average minimum daily rate	£451	£424
Average daily rate	£479	£433
% change on same period last year	+10.61 %
Average maximum daily rate	£507	£443
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£409
% change on same period last year	+3.32 %
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	£46.67	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles East Midlands
Matching contract IT job ads	1712	1889
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.282 %	1.884 %
Daily rates quoted	511	366
Average minimum daily rate	£353	£326
Average daily rate	£374	£344
% change on same period last year	+8.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£395	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£356	£355
% change on same period last year	+0.30 %
Hourly rates quoted	195	283
Average minimum hourly rate	£18.28	£20.75
Average hourly rate	£19.74	£22.39
% change on same period last year	-11.86 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£21.20	£24.04
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.79	£25.66
% change on same period last year	-7.31 %
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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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands 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 East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 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 East Midlands region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the East Midlands region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Nottinghamshire	-1	10	£650	+61.85 %
Leicestershire	-11	6	£380	-20.83 %
Northamptonshire	-1	5	£465	+19.23 %
Derbyshire	-	2	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 10 (21.74 %) SAP 1 10 (21.74 %) Finance 1 10 (21.74 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 10 (21.74 %) Test Management 2 7 (15.22 %) ISEB 3 6 (13.04 %) Migration 3 6 (13.04 %) SAP HR 3 6 (13.04 %) Project Management 4 5 (10.87 %) ERP 4 5 (10.87 %) SQL 4 5 (10.87 %) Performance Testing 4 5 (10.87 %) Mainframe 5 4 (8.696 %) Test Scripting 5 4 (8.696 %) Retail 5 4 (8.696 %) Oracle

5 4 (8.696 %) QuickTest Pro 6 3 (6.522 %) PRINCE2 6 3 (6.522 %) Windows 6 3 (6.522 %) Oracle Forms 6 3 (6.522 %) CRM 6 3 (6.522 %) Quality Management 6 3 (6.522 %) Automated Testing 6 3 (6.522 %) Data Migration 7 2 (4.348 %) SAP HCM 7 2 (4.348 %) Software Testing 7 2 (4.348 %) Banking 7 2 (4.348 %) Risk Analysis 7 2 (4.348 %) SCADA 7 2 (4.348 %) CA Clarity 7 2 (4.348 %) QA

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the East Midlands 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 1 (2.174 %) SOAP 1 1 (2.174 %) WebServices	Applications 1 2 (4.348 %) CA Clarity 1 2 (4.348 %) MS Project 2 1 (2.174 %) MS Office
Business Applications 1 6 (13.04 %) SAP HR 2 2 (4.348 %) SAP HCM 3 1 (2.174 %) SAP Payroll	Communications & Networking 1 1 (2.174 %) HTTP 1 1 (2.174 %) HTTPS 1 1 (2.174 %) RSVP 1 1 (2.174 %) NGN
Development Applications 1 4 (8.696 %) QuickTest Pro 2 3 (6.522 %) Oracle Forms 3 1 (2.174 %) Bugzilla 3 1 (2.174 %) WebLOAD 3 1 (2.174 %) Rational Performance Tester	General 1 10 (21.74 %) Finance 2 4 (8.696 %) Retail 3 2 (4.348 %) Banking 4 1 (2.174 %) Telecoms 4 1 (2.174 %) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous 1 5 (10.87 %) Mainframe 2 2 (4.348 %) SCADA 2 2 (4.348 %) EPoS	Operating Systems 1 3 (6.522 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 10 (21.74 %) User Acceptance Testing 1 10 (21.74 %) Test Management 2 6 (13.04 %) Migration 2 6 (13.04 %) Project Management 3 5 (10.87 %) ERP 3 5 (10.87 %) Performance Testing 4 4 (8.696 %) Test Scripting 5 3 (6.522 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (6.522 %) CRM 5 3 (6.522 %) Quality Management 5 3 (6.522 %) Automated Testing 5 3 (6.522 %) Data Migration 6 2 (4.348 %) Software Testing 6 2 (4.348 %) Risk Analysis 6 2 (4.348 %) Stakeholder Management 6 2 (4.348 %) Time Management 6 2 (4.348 %) Performance Management 7 1 (2.174 %) Service Management 7 1 (2.174 %) Validation 7 1 (2.174 %) Incident Management	Programming Languages 1 5 (10.87 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 7 (15.22 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (4.348 %) QA 1 2 (4.348 %) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management 1 1 (2.174 %) MOM	Vendors 1 10 (21.74 %) SAP 2 4 (8.696 %) Oracle 3 1 (2.174 %) Microsoft