York Test Manager Contracts

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT contracts within the York 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 3 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Basingstoke Belfast Berkshire Bicester Birmingham Bournemouth Bracknell Bristol Buckinghamshire Bury Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London County Antrim Coventry Crawley Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Anglia East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Gatwick Glasgow Gloucestershire Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Havant Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lanarkshire Lancashire Leeds Leicestershire Liverpool London Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newbury Newcastle Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Reading Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Skelmersdale Slough South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Staffordshire Staines Suffolk Surrey Swindon Telford Thames Ditton Thames Valley Tyne and Wear Tyneside UK Wales Warrington Watford West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 3 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	14	31
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching contract IT job ads	3	4
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	3.529 %	1.980 %
Daily rates quoted	1	0
Average minimum daily rate	£390	-
Average daily rate	£405	-
% change on same period last year	-
Average maximum daily rate	£420	-
UK excluding London average daily rate	£410	£418
% change on same period last year	-1.93 %
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	£45.67	£53.50
% change on same period last year	-14.64 %
Job Titles York
Matching contract IT job ads	85	202
As % of all UK contract IT job ads sampled	0.137 %	0.220 %
Daily rates quoted	28	66
Average minimum daily rate	£337	£373
Average daily rate	£350	£383
% change on same period last year	-8.54 %
Average maximum daily rate	£362	£393
UK excluding London average daily rate	£352	£352
% change on same period last year	+0.12 %
Hourly rates quoted	5	5
Average minimum hourly rate	£15.96	£25.41
Average hourly rate	£17.69	£26.05
% change on same period last year	-32.09 %
Average maximum hourly rate	£19.41	£26.68
UK excluding London average hourly rate	£23.16	£23.97
% change on same period last year	-3.40 %
Test Manager North Yorkshire

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 York 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 York region.

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Top 13 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 2 (66.67 %) C 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector 1 2 (66.67 %) BizTalk Server 1 2 (66.67 %) Quality Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Validation 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) Insurance 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Management 2 1 (33.33 %) Finance

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 3 December 2008, IT contractor jobs across the York 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 Platforms 1 2 (66.67 %) BizTalk Server	Development Applications 1 2 (66.67 %) TestDirector
General 1 1 (33.33 %) Finance 1 1 (33.33 %) Insurance	Processes & Methodologies 1 2 (66.67 %) Quality Management 1 2 (66.67 %) Validation 1 2 (66.67 %) Migration 1 2 (66.67 %) Test Scripting 1 2 (66.67 %) Data Migration 2 1 (33.33 %) Test Management
Programming Languages 1 2 (66.67 %) C 1 2 (66.67 %) SQL	Vendors 1 2 (66.67 %) Oracle