Northamptonshire Test Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the Northamptonshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the contractor rates offered in IT job ads that have cited Test Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 4 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bradford Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chalfont St Giles Channel Islands Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh England Epsom Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Havant Hayes Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Jersey Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool London M4 Corridor Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Portsmouth Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines 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 4 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	36	20
Rank change on same period last year	-16
Matching contract IT job ads	3	11
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.004 %	0.012 %
As % of the category below	0.750 %	4.280 %
Daily rates quoted	3	8
Average minimum daily rate	£400	£511
Average daily rate	£408	£559
% change on same period last year	-26.92 %
Average maximum daily rate	£417	£606
UK excluding London average daily rate	£409	£418
% change on same period last year	-2.30 %
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 Northamptonshire
Matching contract IT job ads	400	257
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.527 %	0.273 %
Daily rates quoted	154	66
Average minimum daily rate	£370	£364
Average daily rate	£389	£395
% change on same period last year	-1.63 %
Average maximum daily rate	£408	£427
UK excluding London average daily rate	£361	£352
% change on same period last year	+2.55 %
Hourly rates quoted	68	33
Average minimum hourly rate	£12.76	£20.26
Average hourly rate	£13.81	£21.18
% change on same period last year	-34.79 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£14.86	£22.10
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.28	£26.07
% change on same period last year	-10.69 %
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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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire 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 Northamptonshire region over the 3 months to 4 July 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 Northamptonshire region.

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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 6 (54.55 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 5 (45.45 %) Test Management 2 5 (45.45 %) Finance 3 2 (18.18 %) CA Clarity 3 2 (18.18 %) QA 3 2 (18.18 %) Credit Risk 3 2 (18.18 %) Migration 3 2 (18.18 %) Banking 3 2 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (18.18 %) Windows 3 2 (18.18 %) ISEB 3 2 (18.18 %) Mainframe 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Financial Institution 4 1 (9.091 %) Risk Management

4 1 (9.091 %) TestDirector 4 1 (9.091 %) Basel II 4 1 (9.091 %) Investment Banking 4 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Retail 4 1 (9.091 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (9.091 %) SQL 4 1 (9.091 %) Test Scripting

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 4 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the Northamptonshire 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.

Applications 1 2 (18.18 %) CA Clarity	Development Applications 1 1 (9.091 %) TestDirector
General 1 5 (45.45 %) Finance 2 2 (18.18 %) Banking 3 1 (9.091 %) Retail 3 1 (9.091 %) Investment Banking 3 1 (9.091 %) Financial Institution	Miscellaneous 1 2 (18.18 %) Mainframe 1 2 (18.18 %) Credit Risk
Operating Systems 1 2 (18.18 %) Windows	Processes & Methodologies 1 6 (54.55 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 5 (45.45 %) Test Management 3 2 (18.18 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (18.18 %) Migration 4 1 (9.091 %) Incident Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Risk Analysis 4 1 (9.091 %) Service Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Risk Management 4 1 (9.091 %) Test Scripting
Programming Languages 1 1 (9.091 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 2 (18.18 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (18.18 %) QA 2 1 (9.091 %) Basel II