Newcastle Upon Tyne Test Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 20 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Blackpool Bournemouth Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Loughborough M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South Coast 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 Teesside Telford Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uttoxeter Uxbridge Wales Warwick Warwickshire Waterlooville West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wilmslow Wiltshire Windsor Yorkshire	3 months to 20 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	20	29
Rank change on same period last year	+9
Matching contract IT job ads	2	2
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.418 %	0.939 %
Daily rates quoted	2	1
Average minimum daily rate	£350	£350
Average daily rate	£366	£350
% change on same period last year	+4.64 %
Average maximum daily rate	£383	£350
UK excluding London average daily rate	£423	£408
% change on same period last year	+3.65 %
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	£43.33	-
% change on same period last year	-
Job Titles Newcastle Upon Tyne
Matching contract IT job ads	141	213
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.186 %	0.212 %
Daily rates quoted	36	57
Average minimum daily rate	£257	£357
Average daily rate	£274	£374
% change on same period last year	-26.68 %
Average maximum daily rate	£292	£390
UK excluding London average daily rate	£355	£354
% change on same period last year	+0.35 %
Hourly rates quoted	18	29
Average minimum hourly rate	£19.06	£21.17
Average hourly rate	£20.62	£22.66
% change on same period last year	-8.99 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£22.19	£24.15
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.68	£25.69
% change on same period last year	-7.85 %
Test Manager Tyne and Wear

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 Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 Newcastle Upon Tyne region.

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Daily Rate Histogram

The chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region over the 3 months to 20 August 2008.

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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 Manager across the Newcastle Upon Tyne region.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle Upon Tyne 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 3 (42.86 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (42.86 %) Government 1 3 (42.86 %) QA 1 3 (42.86 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (28.57 %) Risk Management 2 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 2 (28.57 %) Pensions 2 2 (28.57 %) WebSphere 2 2 (28.57 %) Atlassian 2 2 (28.57 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) OOD 2 2 (28.57 %) ISEB 2 2 (28.57 %) QuickTest Pro 2 2 (28.57 %) LoadRunner 2 2 (28.57 %) UNIX

2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2 2 (28.57 %) AIX 2 2 (28.57 %) Linux 2 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000 2 2 (28.57 %) UML 2 2 (28.57 %) OO 2 2 (28.57 %) JBoss 2 2 (28.57 %) HTML 2 2 (28.57 %) Java 2 2 (28.57 %) MySQL 2 2 (28.57 %) Oracle 2 2 (28.57 %) DB2 2 2 (28.57 %) JSP 2 2 (28.57 %) Servlets 2 2 (28.57 %) WebServices

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 20 August 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Newcastle Upon Tyne 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.

Application Development 1 2 (28.57 %) WebSphere 1 2 (28.57 %) HTML 1 2 (28.57 %) JSP 1 2 (28.57 %) Servlets 1 2 (28.57 %) WebServices 1 2 (28.57 %) XML 1 2 (28.57 %) XSL	Application Platforms 1 2 (28.57 %) JBoss
Business Applications 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle 11i 1 1 (14.29 %) Oracle iRecruitment	Communications & Networking 1 1 (14.29 %) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 2 (28.57 %) MySQL 1 2 (28.57 %) DB2	Development Applications 1 2 (28.57 %) QuickTest Pro 1 2 (28.57 %) LoadRunner 2 1 (14.29 %) TestDirector
General 1 3 (42.86 %) Government 2 2 (28.57 %) Telecoms 2 2 (28.57 %) Pensions	Miscellaneous 1 1 (14.29 %) Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (28.57 %) UNIX 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 1 2 (28.57 %) AIX 1 2 (28.57 %) Linux 1 2 (28.57 %) Windows 2000	Processes & Methodologies 1 3 (42.86 %) PRINCE2 1 3 (42.86 %) Security Cleared 2 2 (28.57 %) Risk Management 2 2 (28.57 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 2 (28.57 %) OOD 2 2 (28.57 %) UML 2 2 (28.57 %) OO 2 2 (28.57 %) ITIL 3 1 (14.29 %) PRINCE 3 1 (14.29 %) Configuration Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Project Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Management 3 1 (14.29 %) Service Delivery 3 1 (14.29 %) Regression Testing 3 1 (14.29 %) ITSM 3 1 (14.29 %) Test Management 3 1 (14.29 %) SC Cleared 3 1 (14.29 %) Release Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (28.57 %) Java	Qualifications 1 2 (28.57 %) ISEB 2 1 (14.29 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 1 (14.29 %) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 3 (42.86 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (28.57 %) Atlassian 1 2 (28.57 %) Oracle