Hertfordshire Test Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the Hertfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Manager
Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	60	89
Rank change on same period last year	+29
Matching contract IT job ads	11	6
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.018 %	0.006 %
As % of the category below	1.194 %	0.375 %
Daily rates quoted	4	3
Average minimum daily rate	£438	£450
Average daily rate	£466	£473
% change on same period last year	-1.62 %
Average maximum daily rate	£494	£497
UK excluding London average daily rate	£413	£418
% change on same period last year	-1.16 %
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	£45.67	£53.50
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
Job Titles Hertfordshire
Matching contract IT job ads	921	1599
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	1.480 %	1.717 %
Daily rates quoted	284	619
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£324
Average daily rate	£357	£344
% change on same period last year	+3.85 %
Average maximum daily rate	£378	£364
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.07 %
Hourly rates quoted	112	194
Average minimum hourly rate	£26.57	£23.77
Average hourly rate	£27.67	£24.98
% change on same period last year	+10.75 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£28.76	£26.19
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.10	£24.04
% change on same period last year	-3.88 %
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.

Test Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of IT contractor jobs citing Test Manager across the Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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 Hertfordshire 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 Hertfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Watford	+18	1	-	-

Test Manager East of England

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Top 28 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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 29 (70.73 %) Telecoms 2 17 (41.46 %) GSM 2 17 (41.46 %) MGW 3 15 (36.59 %) Software Testing 4 12 (29.27 %) Ericsson 5 9 (21.95 %) Test Management 6 8 (19.51 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 7 (17.07 %) ISEB 8 6 (14.63 %) Billing 9 5 (12.20 %) Retail 10 4 (9.756 %) Project Management 10 4 (9.756 %) PRINCE2 11 1 (2.439 %) Amdocs 11 1 (2.439 %) ISEB Practitioner 11 1 (2.439 %) Performance Testing

11 1 (2.439 %) Integration Testing 11 1 (2.439 %) Degree 11 1 (2.439 %) Windows Vista 11 1 (2.439 %) QA 11 1 (2.439 %) MS Office 11 1 (2.439 %) Finance 11 1 (2.439 %) Migration 11 1 (2.439 %) UNIX 11 1 (2.439 %) Windows 11 1 (2.439 %) MS Excel 11 1 (2.439 %) Windows XP 11 1 (2.439 %) JDA 11 1 (2.439 %) System Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Hertfordshire 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.

Applications 1 1 (2.439 %) MS Office 1 1 (2.439 %) MS Excel	Communications & Networking 1 17 (41.46 %) GSM 1 17 (41.46 %) MGW
General 1 29 (70.73 %) Telecoms 2 6 (14.63 %) Billing 3 5 (12.20 %) Retail 4 1 (2.439 %) Finance	Operating Systems 1 1 (2.439 %) UNIX 1 1 (2.439 %) Windows 1 1 (2.439 %) Windows XP 1 1 (2.439 %) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies 1 15 (36.59 %) Software Testing 2 9 (21.95 %) Test Management 3 8 (19.51 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 4 (9.756 %) PRINCE2 4 4 (9.756 %) Project Management 5 1 (2.439 %) Migration 5 1 (2.439 %) System Testing 5 1 (2.439 %) Performance Testing 5 1 (2.439 %) Integration Testing	Qualifications 1 7 (17.07 %) ISEB 2 1 (2.439 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (2.439 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.439 %) QA	Vendors 1 12 (29.27 %) Ericsson 2 1 (2.439 %) JDA 2 1 (2.439 %) Amdocs