Cheshire Test Manager Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT jobs within the Cheshire region compared to all other Job Titles we currently track. Included is a guide to the average salaries 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.

Test Manager
Location Amersham Banbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Staines Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	107	134
Rank change on same period last year	+27
Matching permanent IT job ads	40	9
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.021 %	0.004 %
As % of the category below	1.268 %	0.309 %
Salaries quoted	33	6
Average minimum salary	£42,788	£44,167
Average salary	£48,894	£50,417
% change on same period last year	-3.02 %
Average maximum salary	£55,000	£56,667
UK excluding London average salary	£48,828	£50,259
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Job Titles Cheshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	3154	2915
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.665 %	1.194 %
Salaries quoted	2846	2573
Average minimum salary	£32,511	£31,772
Average salary	£35,753	£34,366
% change on same period last year	+4.03 %
Average maximum salary	£38,995	£36,961
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Test Manager North West

Test Manager
Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Cheshire region as a proportion of the total demand within the Job Titles category.

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Salary Trend

The chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Cheshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Cheshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the Cheshire 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 Permanent IT Job Ads	Average Salary Last 3 Months	Average Salary % Change on Same Period Last Year
Runcorn	+3	18	£51,706	-26.13 %
Knutsford	-19	5	£43,000	-
Chester	+9	4	£40,000	+3.22 %
Warrington	-	3	£54,000	-

Test Manager North West

Test Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled with Test Manager in their job title.

1 38 (64.41 %) Test Management 2 34 (57.63 %) Finance 3 18 (30.51 %) ISEB 4 14 (23.73 %) Security Cleared 5 12 (20.34 %) Degree 6 11 (18.64 %) DV Cleared 7 10 (16.95 %) Windows 7 10 (16.95 %) ITIL 7 10 (16.95 %) Compuware 8 9 (15.25 %) QA 8 9 (15.25 %) Software Testing 8 9 (15.25 %) Banking 9 8 (13.56 %) ISEB Practitioner 9 8 (13.56 %) Project Management 10 6 (10.17 %) Stakeholder Management

10 6 (10.17 %) Pensions 10 6 (10.17 %) Supplier Management 11 5 (8.475 %) Health 11 5 (8.475 %) WinRunner 11 5 (8.475 %) Service Management 11 5 (8.475 %) SLA 11 5 (8.475 %) Test Scripting 12 4 (6.780 %) TestDirector 12 4 (6.780 %) Retail 13 3 (5.085 %) Performance Testing 13 3 (5.085 %) Project Planning 13 3 (5.085 %) Retail Banking 13 3 (5.085 %) TestPartner 13 3 (5.085 %) Internet 13 3 (5.085 %) Risk Management

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Cheshire 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 IT job ads sampled with Test Manager in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 1 (1.695 %) .NET 1 1 (1.695 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 1 (1.695 %) MS Project 1 1 (1.695 %) MS Excel 1 1 (1.695 %) MS Visio 1 1 (1.695 %) MS PowerPoint
Communications & Networking 1 3 (5.085 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (1.695 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 5 (8.475 %) WinRunner 2 4 (6.780 %) TestDirector 3 3 (5.085 %) QuickTest Pro 3 3 (5.085 %) TestPartner 4 2 (3.390 %) LoadRunner 5 1 (1.695 %) Visual Studio	General 1 34 (57.63 %) Finance 2 9 (15.25 %) Banking 3 6 (10.17 %) Pensions 4 5 (8.475 %) Health 5 4 (6.780 %) Retail 6 3 (5.085 %) Retail Banking 7 2 (3.390 %) Telecoms 7 2 (3.390 %) Insurance 8 1 (1.695 %) Government 8 1 (1.695 %) Corporate Banking 8 1 (1.695 %) Investment Banking
Miscellaneous 1 1 (1.695 %) AS400	Operating Systems 1 10 (16.95 %) Windows
Processes & Methodologies 1 38 (64.41 %) Test Management 2 14 (23.73 %) Security Cleared 3 11 (18.64 %) DV Cleared 4 10 (16.95 %) ITIL 5 9 (15.25 %) Software Testing 6 8 (13.56 %) Project Management 7 6 (10.17 %) Stakeholder Management 7 6 (10.17 %) Supplier Management 8 5 (8.475 %) Service Management 8 5 (8.475 %) Test Scripting 9 3 (5.085 %) Project Planning 9 3 (5.085 %) Risk Management 9 3 (5.085 %) Performance Testing 10 2 (3.390 %) User Acceptance Testing 10 2 (3.390 %) Programme Management 10 2 (3.390 %) Automated Testing 10 2 (3.390 %) PRINCE2 11 1 (1.695 %) Business Intelligence 11 1 (1.695 %) Quality Management 11 1 (1.695 %) Resource Management	Programming Languages 1 2 (3.390 %) C 2 1 (1.695 %) Java
Qualifications 1 18 (30.51 %) ISEB 2 12 (20.34 %) Degree 3 8 (13.56 %) ISEB Practitioner 4 3 (5.085 %) ITIL Certification 5 1 (1.695 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 9 (15.25 %) QA 2 5 (8.475 %) SLA 3 2 (3.390 %) ISO9001 4 1 (1.695 %) ISO9000 4 1 (1.695 %) Basel II 4 1 (1.695 %) TickIT
Vendors 1 10 (16.95 %) Compuware 2 3 (5.085 %) HP 3 2 (3.390 %) MKS 4 1 (1.695 %) Microsoft