The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts advertised for the South East region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Manager in their job title 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 Job Titles advertised for the South East 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 Manager
Rank 148 160 155
Rank change year-on-year
+12 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 72 87 92
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 0.899% 0.870% 0.868%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.968% 0.946% 0.938%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 51 41
Average daily rate £400 £400 £400
90% offered a daily rate of more than £350 £318 £288
10% offered a daily rate of more than £502 £475 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £400 £401 £425
% change year-on-year
-0.12% -5.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Average hourly rate - - £37.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - £30.23
All Job Titles
South East
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
7436 9200 9812
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the South East 92.86% 92.04% 92.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 3762 4120 4265
Average daily rate £350 £350 £350
90% offered a daily rate of more than £200 £225 £215
10% offered a daily rate of more than £500 £500 £490
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 584 683 849
Average hourly rate £18.00 £18.50 £19.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-2.70% -2.63%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £12.20 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £40.00 £42.50 £42.50
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £19.94
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -9.72%
Test Manager
England

Test Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Test Manager across the South East region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

South East Test Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Manager across the South East region.

South East Test Manager Daily Rate Trend

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Manager across the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013.

South East Test Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Test Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Test Manager across the South East region.

South East Test Manager Hourly Rate Trend

Test Manager
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the South East region over the 3 months to 19 June 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Find
Job
Vacancies
Berkshire +14 31 £400 - 4
Hampshire +2 12 £413 -17.50%
Buckinghamshire -10 8 £400 +15.94% 1
Surrey +16 7 £500 +8.10% 2
Oxfordshire +6 6 £425 -
East Sussex -2 2 £400 -0.12%
Kent - 1 - -
West Sussex - - - - 1
M4 Corridor - - - -
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England

Test Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 58 (33.14%) Test Management
2 54 (30.86%) Test Strategy
3 46 (26.29%) User Acceptance Testing
3 46 (26.29%) Finance
4 34 (19.43%) ISEB
5 31 (17.71%) QA
6 30 (17.14%) HP Quality Center
7 27 (15.43%) ISTQB
7 27 (15.43%) SAP
8 26 (14.86%) Oracle
8 26 (14.86%) Security Cleared
9 25 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
10 24 (13.71%) Test Scripting
11 23 (13.14%) SC Cleared
12 20 (11.43%) Migration
13 18 (10.29%) Agile Software Development
13 18 (10.29%) Windows
14 17 (9.714%) HP
14 17 (9.714%) Telecoms
15 15 (8.571%) Software Testing
16 13 (7.429%) Performance Testing
16 13 (7.429%) System Testing
17 11 (6.286%) Retail
18 10 (5.714%) ERP
19 9 (5.143%) SOA
19 9 (5.143%) Regression Testing
19 9 (5.143%) Banking
19 9 (5.143%) Integration Testing
19 9 (5.143%) Test Automation
20 8 (4.571%) Windows 7

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 19 June 2013, IT contractor jobs across the South East 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 8 (4.571%) .NET
2 3 (1.714%) SOAP
2 3 (1.714%) WebSphere
2 3 (1.714%) soapUI
3 2 (1.143%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.143%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.143%) ASP.NET
3 2 (1.143%) JSP
3 2 (1.143%) Web Services
3 2 (1.143%) HTML
3 2 (1.143%) Middleware
4 1 (0.571%) J2EE
4 1 (0.571%) JSF
4 1 (0.571%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.571%) WCF
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.143%) Windows Azure
1 2 (1.143%) IIS
1 2 (1.143%) SharePoint
1 2 (1.143%) Tomcat
2 1 (0.571%) IBM Notes
2 1 (0.571%) ESB
Applications
1 1 (0.571%) MS Excel
1 1 (0.571%) MS PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 7 (4.000%) Agresso
2 6 (3.429%) Oracle EBS
3 4 (2.286%) Oracle EBS R12
3 4 (2.286%) Oracle Applications
4 3 (1.714%) Oracle HRMS
5 2 (1.143%) SAP MM
5 2 (1.143%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.571%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.571%) Lawson
6 1 (0.571%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.571%) Oracle Payroll
6 1 (0.571%) SAP CO
6 1 (0.571%) Movex
6 1 (0.571%) CODA-Financials
6 1 (0.571%) Dynamics NAV
6 1 (0.571%) Dynamics AX
6 1 (0.571%) Dynamics GP
6 1 (0.571%) ResourceLink
6 1 (0.571%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.571%) Oracle iProcurement
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.286%) BSS
2 2 (1.143%) LAN
2 2 (1.143%) WAN
2 2 (1.143%) Internet
3 1 (0.571%) HTTP
3 1 (0.571%) ADSL
3 1 (0.571%) ATM
3 1 (0.571%) Broadband
3 1 (0.571%) GPRS
3 1 (0.571%) DSL
3 1 (0.571%) LLU
3 1 (0.571%) Cisco ICM
3 1 (0.571%) SIGTRAN
3 1 (0.571%) BT 21CN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (4.571%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.714%) Oracle 8/8i
2 3 (1.714%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.143%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.143%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.571%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (0.571%) SQL Server 2005
Development Applications
1 8 (4.571%) LoadRunner
2 7 (4.000%) Selenium
3 4 (2.286%) QuickTest Pro
4 3 (1.714%) TestDirector
4 3 (1.714%) Visual Studio
4 3 (1.714%) Team Foundation Server
5 2 (1.143%) WebDriver
5 2 (1.143%) Cucumber
5 2 (1.143%) JIRA
6 1 (0.571%) WinRunner
6 1 (0.571%) Bugzilla
General
1 46 (26.29%) Finance
2 17 (9.714%) Telecoms
3 11 (6.286%) Retail
4 9 (5.143%) Banking
5 4 (2.286%) Investment Banking
6 3 (1.714%) Electronics
7 2 (1.143%) Spanish Language
7 2 (1.143%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.571%) Games
8 1 (0.571%) Back Office
8 1 (0.571%) Automotive
8 1 (0.571%) Law
8 1 (0.571%) Legal
8 1 (0.571%) General Ledger
8 1 (0.571%) French Language
8 1 (0.571%) German Language
8 1 (0.571%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 4 (2.286%) Open Source
2 3 (1.714%) Mainframe
2 3 (1.714%) Smart Meter
2 3 (1.714%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.143%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (1.143%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.143%) AS400
3 2 (1.143%) PMI
4 1 (0.571%) EPoS
4 1 (0.571%) Handset
4 1 (0.571%) Credit Risk
4 1 (0.571%) IBM Mainframe
4 1 (0.571%) iPhone
4 1 (0.571%) iSeries
4 1 (0.571%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.571%) SaaS
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.29%) Windows
2 8 (4.571%) Windows 7
3 7 (4.000%) Windows Server 2008
4 6 (3.429%) Windows Server 2003
5 4 (2.286%) Windows XP
5 4 (2.286%) UNIX
6 2 (1.143%) Windows 2000
7 1 (0.571%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 58 (33.14%) Test Management
2 54 (30.86%) Test Strategy
3 46 (26.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 25 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 24 (13.71%) Test Scripting
6 20 (11.43%) Migration
7 18 (10.29%) Agile Software Development
8 15 (8.571%) Software Testing
9 13 (7.429%) Performance Testing
9 13 (7.429%) System Testing
10 10 (5.714%) ERP
11 9 (5.143%) SOA
11 9 (5.143%) Regression Testing
11 9 (5.143%) Integration Testing
11 9 (5.143%) Test Automation
12 8 (4.571%) Validation
13 7 (4.000%) Project Management
14 6 (3.429%) Resource Management
15 5 (2.857%) ITIL
15 5 (2.857%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (4.000%) SQL
2 4 (2.286%) Java
3 3 (1.714%) C
4 2 (1.143%) C#
4 2 (1.143%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.571%) RPG
Qualifications
1 34 (19.43%) ISEB
2 27 (15.43%) ISTQB
3 26 (14.86%) Security Cleared
4 23 (13.14%) SC Cleared
5 2 (1.143%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.571%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (17.71%) QA
2 1 (0.571%) SLA
2 1 (0.571%) FATCA
System Software
1 8 (4.571%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (2.286%) Microsoft App-V
3 3 (1.714%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.714%) XenApp
4 2 (1.143%) XenServer
4 2 (1.143%) Hyper-V
4 2 (1.143%) VMware ESX
4 2 (1.143%) VMware Workstation
5 1 (0.571%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 30 (17.14%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.571%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (15.43%) SAP
2 26 (14.86%) Oracle
3 17 (9.714%) HP
4 8 (4.571%) VMware
5 5 (2.857%) Citrix
6 4 (2.286%) Infor
6 4 (2.286%) PeopleSoft
6 4 (2.286%) IBM
6 4 (2.286%) JD Edwards
7 3 (1.714%) Sage
7 3 (1.714%) Microsoft
7 3 (1.714%) Siebel
7 3 (1.714%) AppSense
7 3 (1.714%) RedPrairie
8 2 (1.143%) Guidewire
8 2 (1.143%) NetApp
8 2 (1.143%) Pegasus
9 1 (0.571%) Lotus
9 1 (0.571%) CODA
9 1 (0.571%) Cisco
Milton Keynes, Thames Valley
My client is seeking an experienced Test Manager to join and manage their testing team.The ideal candidate will posses the following skills:-Experience/ exposure to resource link-...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £400 - £450 per day
Posted: 29 May 2013
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