Lancashire Test Management Contracts

This section looks at the demand for Test Management skills within the Lancashire region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Management over the 3 months to 21 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Blackpool Bradford Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Dartford Denbighshire Devon Docklands, London East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North Wales North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Oxfordshire Plymouth Pontypool Portsmouth Reading Rhyl Scotland Shropshire Skelmersdale South Coast South East South Wales South West St Albans Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Swindon Telford Torfaen Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	35	33
Rank change on same period last year	-2
Matching contract IT job ads	3	18
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.018 %
As % of the category below	1.807 %	5.000 %
Daily rates quoted	1	3
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£433
Average daily rate	£420	£483
% change on same period last year	-13.10 %
Average maximum daily rate	£440	£533
UK excluding London average daily rate	£387	£417
% change on same period last year	-7.09 %
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	£37.33	£53.63
% change on same period last year	-30.39 %
Processes & Methodologies Lancashire
Matching contract IT job ads	166	360
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.219 %	0.359 %
Daily rates quoted	38	86
Average minimum daily rate	£369	£347
Average daily rate	£388	£358
% change on same period last year	+8.40 %
Average maximum daily rate	£407	£368
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£377
% change on same period last year	+0.74 %
Hourly rates quoted	33	40
Average minimum hourly rate	£23.45	£24.81
Average hourly rate	£24.93	£27.59
% change on same period last year	-9.64 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.41	£30.37
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£30.30	£30.18
% change on same period last year	+0.42 %
Test Management North West

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 Management across the Lancashire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies 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 Management across the Lancashire region.

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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 Management across the Lancashire 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 Management within the Lancashire region over the 3 months to 21 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
Skelmersdale	-	2	-	-
Blackpool	+2	1	£420	-

Test Management North West

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Top 6 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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 2 (66.67 %) Performance Testing 1 2 (66.67 %) Banking 1 2 (66.67 %) Insurance 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Lancashire 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.

General 1 2 (66.67 %) Banking 1 2 (66.67 %) Insurance 1 2 (66.67 %) Finance	Job Titles 1 3 (100.00 %) Senior Manager 1 3 (100.00 %) Senior Test Manager 1 3 (100.00 %) Test Manager 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Senior Test Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Performance Testing 1 2 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 1 (33.33 %) User Acceptance Testing