Merseyside Test Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the Merseyside 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southend-on-Sea Staffordshire Staines Stockport Stockton-on-Tees Stoke-on-Trent Surrey Sussex Swindon Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	-	40
Rank change on same period last year	-
Matching contract IT job ads	0	1
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.000 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.000 %	0.306 %
Daily rates quoted	0	1
Average minimum daily rate	-	£360
Average daily rate	-	£395
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	-	£430
UK excluding London average daily rate	£415	£409
% change on same period last year	+1.38 %
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	£50.00	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Merseyside
Matching contract IT job ads	354	327
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.472 %	0.331 %
Daily rates quoted	94	91
Average minimum daily rate	£327	£288
Average daily rate	£345	£303
% change on same period last year	+13.96 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£318
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	49	41
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.81	£18.69
Average hourly rate	£17.55	£20.30
% change on same period last year	-13.51 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.29	£21.90
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
Test Manager 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 Manager across the Merseyside 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 Merseyside region.

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Top 3 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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 1 (25.00 %) IBM 1 1 (25.00 %) Finance 1 1 (25.00 %) Test Scripting

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Merseyside 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.

General 1 1 (25.00 %) Finance	Processes & Methodologies 1 1 (25.00 %) Test Scripting
Vendors 1 1 (25.00 %) IBM