The first table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT jobs advertised for the City of London region. 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 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 advertised for the City of London region.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Test Manager
Rank 270 209 199
Rank change year-on-year
-61 -10
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Manager 51 115 138
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 0.437% 0.880% 0.895%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.471% 0.945% 0.955%
Number of salaries quoted 48 94 124
Average salary £65,000 £70,000 £68,750
Average salary % change year-on-year
-7.14% +1.81%
90% offered a salary of more than £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £84,250
UK excluding London average salary £50,000 £48,500 £48,000
% change year-on-year
+3.09% +1.04%
All Job Titles
City of London
Permanent IT job ads with a match in the
Job Titles category
10837 12171 14447
As % of all permanent IT jobs located in the City of London 92.90% 93.16% 93.65%
Number of salaries quoted 9335 11069 13022
Average salary £52,500 £52,500 £55,000
Average salary % change year-on-year
- -4.54%
90% offered a salary of more than £32,500 £32,500 £32,500
10% offered a salary of more than £75,000 £85,000 £80,000
UK excluding London average salary £38,000 £38,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year
- +1.33%
Test Manager
London

Test Manager
Jobs Demand Trend

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

City of London Test Manager Jobs Demand Trend

Test Manager
Salary Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for salaries quoted in permanent IT jobs citing Test Manager across the City of London region.

City of London Test Manager Salary Trend

Test Manager
Salary Histogram

This chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Manager across the City of London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

City of London Test Manager Salary Histogram

Test Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 50 (38.76%) Test Strategy
2 47 (36.43%) Finance
3 44 (34.11%) ISEB
4 37 (28.68%) Test Management
5 33 (25.58%) Banking
6 31 (24.03%) User Acceptance Testing
7 29 (22.48%) ISTQB
8 26 (20.16%) QA
9 23 (17.83%) Asset Management
9 23 (17.83%) PRINCE2
10 20 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
11 19 (14.73%) Investment Banking
12 18 (13.95%) Retail
13 17 (13.18%) SQL
13 17 (13.18%) Test Scripting
14 15 (11.63%) Microsoft
14 15 (11.63%) Equities
14 15 (11.63%) Risk Management
15 14 (10.85%) Fixed Income
15 14 (10.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
15 14 (10.85%) Java
15 14 (10.85%) HP Quality Center
16 12 (9.302%) Performance Testing
16 12 (9.302%) Project Planning
16 12 (9.302%) Degree
17 11 (8.527%) Selenium
17 11 (8.527%) Agile Software Development
17 11 (8.527%) Advertising
17 11 (8.527%) Validation
18 10 (7.752%) Project Management

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT jobs across the City of London 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 6 (4.651%) J2EE
2 5 (3.876%) LAMP
3 3 (2.326%) .NET
3 3 (2.326%) Middleware
4 2 (1.550%) ASP.NET
4 2 (1.550%) Web Services
5 1 (0.775%) XML
Application Platforms
1 2 (1.550%) SharePoint
Applications
1 10 (7.752%) MS Excel
2 5 (3.876%) MS Office
3 3 (2.326%) MS PowerPoint
4 1 (0.775%) MS Project
4 1 (0.775%) MS Visio
Communications & Networking
1 6 (4.651%) HTTP
2 2 (1.550%) GSM
2 2 (1.550%) PSTN
2 2 (1.550%) SAN
3 1 (0.775%) DVB
3 1 (0.775%) Internet
3 1 (0.775%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.550%) QlikView
2 1 (0.775%) DataStage
Development Applications
1 11 (8.527%) Selenium
2 8 (6.202%) Team Foundation Server
3 7 (5.426%) QuickTest Pro
3 7 (5.426%) LoadRunner
4 2 (1.550%) OpenSTA
5 1 (0.775%) MSTest
5 1 (0.775%) TestDirector
5 1 (0.775%) JUnit
5 1 (0.775%) WebLOAD
5 1 (0.775%) FitNesse
5 1 (0.775%) NUnit
5 1 (0.775%) JMeter
General
1 47 (36.43%) Finance
2 33 (25.58%) Banking
3 19 (14.73%) Investment Banking
4 18 (13.95%) Retail
5 11 (8.527%) Advertising
6 6 (4.651%) Back Office
7 4 (3.101%) Telecoms
7 4 (3.101%) Front Office
8 1 (0.775%) Financial Institution
8 1 (0.775%) Wholesale Banking
Miscellaneous
1 15 (11.63%) Equities
2 14 (10.85%) Fixed Income
3 6 (4.651%) Client/Server
3 6 (4.651%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.876%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 5 (3.876%) Derivative
5 3 (2.326%) Handset
6 2 (1.550%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.550%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.550%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.775%) Open Source
7 1 (0.775%) Blackberry
7 1 (0.775%) DTV
7 1 (0.775%) PMI
7 1 (0.775%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.775%) Equity Derivative
Operating Systems
1 3 (2.326%) Android
1 3 (2.326%) Apple iOS
1 3 (2.326%) Windows
2 2 (1.550%) Solaris
2 2 (1.550%) Linux
2 2 (1.550%) UNIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (38.76%) Test Strategy
2 37 (28.68%) Test Management
3 31 (24.03%) User Acceptance Testing
4 23 (17.83%) Asset Management
4 23 (17.83%) PRINCE2
5 20 (15.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 17 (13.18%) Test Scripting
7 15 (11.63%) Risk Management
8 12 (9.302%) Performance Testing
8 12 (9.302%) Project Planning
9 11 (8.527%) Agile Software Development
9 11 (8.527%) Validation
10 10 (7.752%) Project Management
11 8 (6.202%) System Testing
12 7 (5.426%) Test Automation
12 7 (5.426%) Manual Testing
12 7 (5.426%) Waterfall
12 7 (5.426%) TDD
13 6 (4.651%) Software Testing
13 6 (4.651%) Automated Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (13.18%) SQL
2 14 (10.85%) Java
3 8 (6.202%) C#
4 5 (3.876%) C
5 2 (1.550%) VB
5 2 (1.550%) Perl
6 1 (0.775%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.775%) VBScript
6 1 (0.775%) Python
6 1 (0.775%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 44 (34.11%) ISEB
2 29 (22.48%) ISTQB
3 14 (10.85%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 12 (9.302%) Degree
5 5 (3.876%) ISEB Practitioner
6 4 (3.101%) Security Cleared
7 2 (1.550%) SC Cleared
8 1 (0.775%) ITIL Certification
8 1 (0.775%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (20.16%) QA
2 1 (0.775%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.775%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 14 (10.85%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 15 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 7 (5.426%) Reuters
2 7 (5.426%) Bloomberg
3 6 (4.651%) Oracle
4 5 (3.876%) HP
5 3 (2.326%) Citrix
5 3 (2.326%) MKS
6 1 (0.775%) Fundtech
6 1 (0.775%) SAP
6 1 (0.775%) Huawei
6 1 (0.775%) TOWER Software
City, London
PRINCE2, MSP or similar project management qualification (Foundation as a minimum); Experience of working in large organisations... ISEB/ISTQB Foundation (or higher) Testing Certification (or equivalent)... Define UAT...
Elevate Recruitment
Salary: From £45,000 to £65,000 per annum + Bonus and Benefits
Posted: 19 May 2013
City, London
c) Has worked within an Agile development environment... You may have experience of the following: Test Manager, Waterfall, Software Testing Manager, Scrum, ISTQB, Agile, QA Manager, Quality Assurance,...
EasyWebRecruitment.com
Salary: c£55,000 per annum
Posted: 21 May 2013
City, London
You will be working on CMS projects in an exciting and fast-paced agile environment. The right candidate will have: - 6 years + experience in testing - 3 years + test...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + pension and bonus
Posted: 23 May 2013
City, London
You will be working on CMS projects in an exciting and fast-paced agile environment. The right candidate will have: - 6 years + experience in testing - 3 years + test...
Redrock Consulting Ltd
Salary: £45000 - £55000 per annum + pension and bonus
Posted: 20 May 2013
City, London
The successful Test Portfolio Manager (Banking, Integration, QC, Automation) will have: Solid Test Management/Programme Management experience... Test background - Automation (QTP, selenium) and QC experience... Great Stakeholder Management...
ANSON MCCADE
Salary: From £60,000 to £75,000 per annum + Bonus + Market-Leading Package
Posted: 22 May 2013
City of London
I am looking for an experienced Test Manager to join a top tier asset management firm... You will also be required to prepare test strategy documents covering test...
Real Staffing
Salary: £40 - £55 per annum
Posted: 22 May 2013