M4 Corridor Test Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the M4 Corridor 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 1 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 M4 Corridor 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 1 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	20
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	1.130 %
Daily rates quoted	0	0
Average minimum daily rate	-	-
Average daily rate	-	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£413	£418
% change on same period last year	-1.20 %
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	£46.29	£53.50
% change on same period last year	-13.48 %
Job Titles M4 Corridor
Matching contract IT job ads	102	177
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.162 %	0.188 %
Daily rates quoted	21	50
Average minimum daily rate	£415	£378
Average daily rate	£448	£400
% change on same period last year	+12.07 %
Average maximum daily rate	£481	£421
UK excluding London average daily rate	£353	£351
% change on same period last year	+0.46 %
Hourly rates quoted	3	1
Average minimum hourly rate	£17.33	£35.00
Average hourly rate	£20.00	£40.00
% change on same period last year	-50.00 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.67	£45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.14	£24.11
% change on same period last year	-4.03 %
Test Manager South East

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 M4 Corridor region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Manager across the M4 Corridor region.

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Top 19 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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 2 (33.33 %) BMC 1 2 (33.33 %) Remedy 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (33.33 %) SAP 1 2 (33.33 %) Data Mining 1 2 (33.33 %) Government 1 2 (33.33 %) Validation 1 2 (33.33 %) Requirements Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 1 2 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 1 (16.67 %) ISEB 2 1 (16.67 %) Finance

2 1 (16.67 %) WinRunner 2 1 (16.67 %) TestDirector 2 1 (16.67 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (16.67 %) LoadRunner

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 1 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the M4 Corridor 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.

Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (33.33 %) Data Mining	Development Applications 1 1 (16.67 %) WinRunner 1 1 (16.67 %) TestDirector 1 1 (16.67 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (16.67 %) LoadRunner
General 1 2 (33.33 %) Government 2 1 (16.67 %) Finance	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Service Delivery 1 2 (33.33 %) Validation 1 2 (33.33 %) Requirements Management 1 2 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 1 2 (33.33 %) SC Cleared 1 2 (33.33 %) Security Cleared 2 1 (16.67 %) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications 1 1 (16.67 %) ISEB	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) SAP 1 2 (33.33 %) BMC 1 2 (33.33 %) Remedy