The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Programme Manager role in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Test Programme Manager in their job title over the 3 months to 24 May 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 currently tracked.

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
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Programme Manager
Rank 522 575 578
Rank change year-on-year
+53 +3
Contract jobs requiring a Test Programme Manager 7 9 6
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.015% 0.015% 0.010%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.017% 0.011%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 7 3
Average daily rate £475 £500 £475
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-5.00% +5.26%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £425 £455 £395
10% offered a daily rate of more than £625 £570 £495
UK excluding London average daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year
-10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate - - -
All Job Titles
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
42733 53947 56601
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 92.11% 92.50% 92.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 24507 29722 30764
Average daily rate £400 £400 £425
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -5.88%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £240 £240 £250
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £575 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £350 £350 £350
Number of hourly rates quoted 2112 2572 2930
Average hourly rate £18.50 £18.50 £20.00
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
- -7.50%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £11.00 £11.00 £11.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £41.50 £40.00 £41.38
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £18.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year
-2.77% -10.00%

Test Programme Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

Test Programme Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Test Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Test Programme Manager within the UK.

Test Programme Manager Daily Rate Trend

Test Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Test Programme Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

Test Programme Manager Daily Rate Histogram

Test Programme Manager
Top 10 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Programme Manager within the UK over the 3 months to 24 May 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
England +44 7 £475 -5.00%
East of England - 4 £450 -
Cambridgeshire - 3 £450 -
Peterborough - 3 £450 -
London +36 1 £650 +30.00%
West Midlands - 1 £500 -
South West - 1 - -
City of London - 1 £650 -
Hertfordshire - 1 £400 -
Birmingham - 1 £500 -

Test Programme Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Test Programme 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 Programme Manager in their job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Test Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Test Management
3 5 (55.56%) Finance
3 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
4 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
5 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Back Office
5 3 (33.33%) Web Services
5 3 (33.33%) HP
5 3 (33.33%) Middleware
5 3 (33.33%) System Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Time Management
5 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Business Transformation
6 2 (22.22%) JDA
6 2 (22.22%) SAP
7 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
7 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 1 (11.11%) .NET
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle
7 1 (11.11%) Endur
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
7 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
7 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 1 (11.11%) Scrum
7 1 (11.11%) Banking
7 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (11.11%) Waterfall

Test Programme Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK that cited Test Programme 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 Programme Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 3 (33.33%) Web Services
1 3 (33.33%) Middleware
2 1 (11.11%) .NET
Business Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (11.11%) Endur
1 1 (11.11%) Oracle EBS R12
General
1 5 (55.56%) Finance
2 3 (33.33%) Back Office
3 1 (11.11%) Manufacturing
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Test Strategy
2 6 (66.67%) Test Management
3 4 (44.44%) Integration Testing
4 3 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (33.33%) System Testing
4 3 (33.33%) Time Management
4 3 (33.33%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Business Transformation
6 1 (11.11%) Resource Management
6 1 (11.11%) Test Scripting
6 1 (11.11%) Project Management
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) Scrum
6 1 (11.11%) Waterfall
Systems Management
1 5 (55.56%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) HP
2 2 (22.22%) JDA
2 2 (22.22%) SAP
3 1 (11.11%) Oracle
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