The first table below looks at the demand for Test Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Peterborough 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 Peterborough 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 19 - 26
Rank change year-on-year
- 0
Contract jobs citing Test Management 1 0 5
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 0.885% - 3.356%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.538% - 3.937%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 4
Average daily rate £450 - £363
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
Peterborough
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
65 60 127
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Peterborough 57.52% 64.52% 85.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 29 57
Average daily rate £375 £450 £400
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-16.66% +12.50%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £250 £275 £290
10% offered a daily rate of more than £450 £500 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £370 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
+1.36% -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 14
Average hourly rate - £12.00 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -63.07%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%
Test Management
Cambridgeshire

Test Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Peterborough 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 Peterborough region.

Peterborough Test Management Daily Rate Trend

Test Management
Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
2 3 (75.00%) Web Services
2 3 (75.00%) HP
2 3 (75.00%) Middleware
2 3 (75.00%) Back Office
2 3 (75.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Publishing
3 1 (25.00%) E-Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation

Test Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Peterborough 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 3 (75.00%) Web Services
1 3 (75.00%) Middleware
General
1 3 (75.00%) Back Office
1 3 (75.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (100.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Test Programme Manager
2 3 (75.00%) Programme Manager
3 1 (25.00%) QA Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Software Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Software Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Testing Manager
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) QA Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) E-Learning
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Time Management
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) HP