West Yorkshire Test Manager Contracts

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the West Yorkshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Basingstoke Bath Berkshire Birmingham Blackpool Borehamwood Bournemouth Brentwood Bridgend Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester Chesterfield City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Hinckley Home Counties Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire London M4 Corridor Manchester Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Plymouth Poole Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough Somerset 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 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 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	76	80
Rank change on same period last year	+4
Matching contract IT job ads	19	16
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.025 %	0.016 %
As % of the category below	1.112 %	0.868 %
Daily rates quoted	6	7
Average minimum daily rate	£325	£367
Average daily rate	£329	£380
% change on same period last year	-13.37 %
Average maximum daily rate	£333	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£415	£409
% change on same period last year	+1.38 %
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 West Yorkshire
Matching contract IT job ads	1708	1843
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	2.277 %	1.865 %
Daily rates quoted	412	332
Average minimum daily rate	£326	£302
Average daily rate	£345	£321
% change on same period last year	+7.31 %
Average maximum daily rate	£364	£341
UK excluding London average daily rate	£357	£353
% change on same period last year	+1.09 %
Hourly rates quoted	128	152
Average minimum hourly rate	£20.50	£21.31
Average hourly rate	£22.57	£22.94
% change on same period last year	-1.59 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£24.64	£24.56
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.51	£25.99
% change on same period last year	-9.54 %
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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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire 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 West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 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 West Yorkshire region.

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Contract Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the West Yorkshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year. A positive number indicates a relative increase in demand.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Last	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Average Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Average Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year
Leeds	+2	11	£310	-
Halifax	-13	1	-	-

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 18 (40.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 14 (31.11 %) Finance 3 8 (17.78 %) Test Management 3 8 (17.78 %) Test Scripting 4 7 (15.56 %) HL7 5 6 (13.33 %) NHS 6 5 (11.11 %) Retail 7 4 (8.889 %) SNOMED CT 7 4 (8.889 %) Informatics 7 4 (8.889 %) Health 7 4 (8.889 %) Stakeholder Management 8 3 (6.667 %) Project Management 8 3 (6.667 %) ISEB 8 3 (6.667 %) Performance Testing 9 2 (4.444 %) Logistics

9 2 (4.444 %) Banking 9 2 (4.444 %) Mathematics 9 2 (4.444 %) Statistics 9 2 (4.444 %) Degree 9 2 (4.444 %) IBM 9 2 (4.444 %) Basel II 9 2 (4.444 %) Mainframe 9 2 (4.444 %) UNIX 9 2 (4.444 %) SAS 9 2 (4.444 %) Validation 9 2 (4.444 %) Migration 9 2 (4.444 %) TestDirector 10 1 (2.222 %) NPfIT 10 1 (2.222 %) Process Management 10 1 (2.222 %) Financial Institution

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT contractor jobs across the West Yorkshire 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 1 (2.222 %) XML	Application Platforms 1 2 (4.444 %) SAS
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (2.222 %) DB2 1 1 (2.222 %) Datawarehouse 1 1 (2.222 %) Base SAS	Development Applications 1 2 (4.444 %) TestDirector 2 1 (2.222 %) QuickTest Pro 2 1 (2.222 %) QARun 2 1 (2.222 %) WinRunner
General 1 14 (31.11 %) Finance 2 5 (11.11 %) Retail 3 4 (8.889 %) Health 4 2 (4.444 %) Banking 5 1 (2.222 %) Government 5 1 (2.222 %) Financial Institution	Miscellaneous 1 6 (13.33 %) NHS 2 4 (8.889 %) Informatics 3 2 (4.444 %) Mathematics 3 2 (4.444 %) Mainframe 3 2 (4.444 %) Statistics 4 1 (2.222 %) Client/Server 4 1 (2.222 %) NPfIT 4 1 (2.222 %) IBM Mainframe
Operating Systems 1 2 (4.444 %) UNIX 2 1 (2.222 %) AIX 2 1 (2.222 %) OS/390	Processes & Methodologies 1 18 (40.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 8 (17.78 %) Test Management 2 8 (17.78 %) Test Scripting 3 4 (8.889 %) Stakeholder Management 4 3 (6.667 %) Project Management 4 3 (6.667 %) Performance Testing 5 2 (4.444 %) Logistics 5 2 (4.444 %) Validation 5 2 (4.444 %) Migration 6 1 (2.222 %) Risk Assessment 6 1 (2.222 %) Process Management 6 1 (2.222 %) Risk Management 6 1 (2.222 %) Workflow 6 1 (2.222 %) Automated Testing 6 1 (2.222 %) Fund Management 6 1 (2.222 %) Use Case 6 1 (2.222 %) Unit Testing 6 1 (2.222 %) Integration Testing 6 1 (2.222 %) Security Cleared 6 1 (2.222 %) Business Intelligence
Qualifications 1 3 (6.667 %) ISEB 2 2 (4.444 %) Degree 3 1 (2.222 %) ISEB Practitioner	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 7 (15.56 %) HL7 2 4 (8.889 %) SNOMED CT 3 2 (4.444 %) Basel II 4 1 (2.222 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (4.444 %) IBM 2 1 (2.222 %) HP