The first table below looks at the demand for Test Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Manchester region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Management over the 3 months to 19 June 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Manchester region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
19 Jun 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Management
Rank 69 78 68
Rank change year-on-year
+9 -10
Contract jobs citing Test Management 6 3 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 0.626% 0.243% 0.288%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.917% 0.380% 0.457%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 2
Average daily rate £310 £475 £481
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-34.73% -1.24%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £475 £266
10% offered a daily rate of more than £412 £475 £696
UK excluding London average daily rate £375 £375 £400
% change year-on-year
- -6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £32.25 £32.25 £32.50
% change year-on-year
- -0.76%
All Processes & Methodologies
Manchester
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
654 790 657
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Manchester 68.20% 64.02% 62.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 338 388 310
Average daily rate £338 £313 £300
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+8.00% +4.16%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £220 £200
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £450 £450
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 32 34
Average hourly rate £17.50 £20.00 £17.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-12.50% +14.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.90 £12.01 £11.05
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £77.50 £35.00 £33.25
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Management
North West

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Management across the Manchester region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Manchester Test Management Jobs Demand Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Management across the Manchester region.

Manchester Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Management across the Manchester region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

Manchester Test Management Daily Rate Histogram

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Management across the Manchester region.

Manchester Test Management Hourly Rate Trend

Test Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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 5 (38.46%) Finance
1 5 (38.46%) Test Strategy
2 4 (30.77%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) CRM
2 4 (30.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
3 2 (15.38%) QA
4 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
4 1 (7.692%) Degree
4 1 (7.692%) Mathematics
4 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
4 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (7.692%) Publishing
4 1 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.692%) E-Learning
4 1 (7.692%) Banking
4 1 (7.692%) Automated Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) MVC

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Manchester 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.

Application Development
1 1 (7.692%) .NET Framework
1 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (7.692%) ADO.NET Entity Framework
1 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET MVC 3
1 1 (7.692%) .NET
1 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET
Business Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Dynamics CRM
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.692%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 1 (7.692%) Visual Studio
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 1 (7.692%) Publishing
2 1 (7.692%) Banking
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Test Manager
2 4 (30.77%) Analyst
2 4 (30.77%) Business Analyst
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Manager
3 2 (15.38%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Software Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Testing Manager
4 1 (7.692%) Head of Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Software Testing Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) .NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Systems Tester
4 1 (7.692%) ASP.NET Developer
4 1 (7.692%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Software Engineer
4 1 (7.692%) Developer
4 1 (7.692%) Tester
4 1 (7.692%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.692%) Mathematics
1 1 (7.692%) Computer Science
1 1 (7.692%) E-Learning
1 1 (7.692%) Smartcard
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (38.46%) Test Strategy
2 4 (30.77%) Change Management
2 4 (30.77%) CRM
3 2 (15.38%) Integration Testing
4 1 (7.692%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Functional Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Data Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Test Automation
4 1 (7.692%) Portfolio Management
4 1 (7.692%) Migration
4 1 (7.692%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (7.692%) Automated Testing
4 1 (7.692%) Software Testing
4 1 (7.692%) MVC
4 1 (7.692%) B2B
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.692%) C#
Qualifications
1 1 (7.692%) Degree
1 1 (7.692%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (7.692%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 4 (30.77%) Microsoft