Merseyside Test Management Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for Test Management skills within the Merseyside 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 November 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bournemouth Brighton Buckinghamshire Canary Wharf Cheshire City of London Coventry Darlington Derby Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Ipswich Lancashire Leeds Liverpool London Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Oxfordshire Reading Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Shropshire South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Staffordshire Stockton-on-Tees Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 21 Nov 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	35
Rank change on same period last year	-6
Matching contract IT job ads	1	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.002 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.463 %	0.599 %
Daily rates quoted	1	1
Average minimum daily rate	£300	£475
Average daily rate	£300	£475
% change on same period last year	-36.84 %
Average maximum daily rate	£300	£475
UK excluding London average daily rate	£377	£399
% change on same period last year	-5.44 %
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	£40.14	£40.92
% change on same period last year	-1.88 %
Processes & Methodologies Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	216	167
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.340 %	0.179 %
Daily rates quoted	59	29
Average minimum daily rate	£363	£323
Average daily rate	£407	£342
% change on same period last year	+19.19 %
Average maximum daily rate	£452	£361
UK excluding London average daily rate	£380	£370
% change on same period last year	+2.76 %
Hourly rates quoted	21	23
Average minimum hourly rate	£22.11	£27.32
Average hourly rate	£24.34	£29.78
% change on same period last year	-18.25 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£26.58	£32.24
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£28.17	£29.91
% change on same period last year	-5.80 %
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 Merseyside 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 Merseyside 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 Management within the Merseyside region over the 3 months to 21 November 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
Liverpool	-	1	£300	-

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Top 9 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (50.00 %) SQL 1 1 (50.00 %) CRM 1 1 (50.00 %) ISEB 1 1 (50.00 %) Government 1 1 (50.00 %) Migration 1 1 (50.00 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) BC Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) V-Model

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 21 November 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (50.00 %) Government	Job Titles 1 1 (50.00 %) Analyst 1 1 (50.00 %) Test Manager 1 1 (50.00 %) Test Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (50.00 %) CRM 1 1 (50.00 %) Migration 1 1 (50.00 %) SC Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) BC Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) Security Cleared 1 1 (50.00 %) V-Model	Programming Languages 1 1 (50.00 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 1 (50.00 %) ISEB