City of London Test Manager Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT jobs within the City of London 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 last 3 months to 9 May 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Abingdon Amersham Basildon Basingstoke Bathgate Berkshire Bingley Birmingham Blackburn Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Channel Islands Chertsey Cheshire City of London Cornwall County Londonderry Coventry Crawley Croydon Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Herefordshire Hertfordshire Horsham Hove Ipswich Jersey Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leamington Spa Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Lewes Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Lytham St Annes M4 Corridor Macclesfield Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Northern Ireland Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Preston Reading Redhill Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Shropshire Slough Solihull Somerset South Coast South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Stevenage Suffolk Surbiton Surrey Sussex Swindon Tadworth Telford Thames Valley Tunbridge Wells UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wiltshire Winchester Wolverhampton Worcester Worcestershire York Yorkshire	3 months to 9 May 2008	Same period last year
Rank	166	204
Rank change on same period last year	+38
Matching permanent IT job ads	242	133
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.118 %	0.059 %
As % of the category below	1.170 %	0.762 %
Salaries quoted	235	107
Average minimum salary	£56,234	£65,234
Average salary	£59,230	£67,397
% change on same period last year	-12.11 %
Average maximum salary	£62,226	£69,561
UK excluding London average salary	£48,061	£47,596
% change on same period last year	+0.97 %
Job Titles City of London
Matching permanent IT job ads	20690	17458
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	10.09 %	7.801 %
Salaries quoted	17403	13464
Average minimum salary	£48,079	£52,536
Average salary	£53,042	£57,030
% change on same period last year	-6.99 %
Average maximum salary	£58,005	£61,524
UK excluding London average salary	£38,630	£39,089
% change on same period last year	-1.17 %
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Test Manager
Demand Trend

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

Test Manager
Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Manager across the City of London region over the past 3 months.

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Test Manager also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Test Manager.

1 222 (57.66 %) ISEB 2 207 (53.77 %) Finance 3 198 (51.43 %) TestDirector 4 194 (50.39 %) Test Management 5 183 (47.53 %) Banking 6 146 (37.92 %) User Acceptance Testing 7 110 (28.57 %) QA 8 107 (27.79 %) Derivative 9 84 (21.82 %) Use Case 10 48 (12.47 %) Equities 11 42 (10.91 %) Insurance 12 41 (10.65 %) UML 13 36 (9.351 %) Performance Testing 14 34 (8.831 %) Software Testing 15 31 (8.052 %) QuickTest Pro

16 30 (7.792 %) WinRunner 17 28 (7.273 %) Retail 18 25 (6.494 %) SQL 19 23 (5.974 %) Test Scripting 20 22 (5.714 %) Investment Banking 21 21 (5.455 %) Automated Testing 22 20 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 23 19 (4.935 %) .NET 24 18 (4.675 %) LoadRunner 24 18 (4.675 %) ISEB Practitioner 25 17 (4.416 %) E-Commerce 26 16 (4.156 %) Windows 27 15 (3.896 %) XML 27 15 (3.896 %) Microsoft 28 14 (3.636 %) MS Excel

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

Over the past 6 months permanent IT jobs across the City of London region citing Test Manager also mentioned the following skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of IT job ads sampled citing Test Manager. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 19 (4.935 %) .NET 2 15 (3.896 %) XML 3 8 (2.078 %) J2EE 4 5 (1.299 %) CSS 4 5 (1.299 %) XHTML 4 5 (1.299 %) LAMP 5 4 (1.039 %) HTML 6 2 (0.519 %) XSLT 7 1 (0.260 %) Django 7 1 (0.260 %) ASP.NET 7 1 (0.260 %) RSS 7 1 (0.260 %) XML Schema 7 1 (0.260 %) OLE	Application Platforms 1 13 (3.377 %) Content Management Server 1 13 (3.377 %) CMS 2 10 (2.597 %) SharePoint 3 3 (0.779 %) Exchange Server 2007 3 3 (0.779 %) Blackberry Enterprise Server 4 2 (0.519 %) IIS 5 1 (0.260 %) MQSeries
Applications 1 14 (3.636 %) MS Excel 2 4 (1.039 %) MS Visio 3 3 (0.779 %) MS Office	Business Applications 1 3 (0.779 %) VisionPLUS
Communications & Networking 1 5 (1.299 %) Internet	Database & Business Intelligence 1 6 (1.558 %) Oracle Reports 2 4 (1.039 %) SQL Server 3 2 (0.519 %) Datawarehouse 3 2 (0.519 %) RDBMS 3 2 (0.519 %) SQL Server 2000 4 1 (0.260 %) SQL Server 2005 4 1 (0.260 %) ETL
Development Applications 1 198 (51.43 %) TestDirector 2 31 (8.052 %) QuickTest Pro 3 30 (7.792 %) WinRunner 4 18 (4.675 %) LoadRunner 5 12 (3.117 %) Selenium 6 4 (1.039 %) Rational Robot 7 3 (0.779 %) Visual Studio 7 3 (0.779 %) JIRA 8 2 (0.519 %) FitNesse 8 2 (0.519 %) ClearQuest 9 1 (0.260 %) MSI	General 1 207 (53.77 %) Finance 2 183 (47.53 %) Banking 3 42 (10.91 %) Insurance 4 28 (7.273 %) Retail 5 22 (5.714 %) Investment Banking 6 12 (3.117 %) Back Office 7 8 (2.078 %) Pensions 8 5 (1.299 %) Education 9 3 (0.779 %) Health 9 3 (0.779 %) Financial Institution 9 3 (0.779 %) Front Office 9 3 (0.779 %) Music 10 2 (0.519 %) Private Banking 11 1 (0.260 %) Interactive Media 11 1 (0.260 %) Telecoms
Miscellaneous 1 107 (27.79 %) Derivative 2 48 (12.47 %) Equities 3 8 (2.078 %) N-Tier 4 6 (1.558 %) Asset Management 4 6 (1.558 %) Fixed Income 5 4 (1.039 %) Fund Management 6 3 (0.779 %) Client/Server 6 3 (0.779 %) Web 2.0 6 3 (0.779 %) Foreign Exchange (FX) 6 3 (0.779 %) Blackberry 7 2 (0.519 %) Mainframe 7 2 (0.519 %) EPoS 7 2 (0.519 %) Credit Risk 7 2 (0.519 %) CMDB 8 1 (0.260 %) Computer Science	Operating Systems 1 16 (4.156 %) Windows 2 6 (1.558 %) Unix 3 3 (0.779 %) Windows XP 4 2 (0.519 %) Windows NT 5 1 (0.260 %) Windows 2000
Processes & Methodologies 1 194 (50.39 %) Test Management 2 146 (37.92 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 84 (21.82 %) Use Case 4 41 (10.65 %) UML 5 36 (9.351 %) Performance Testing 6 34 (8.831 %) Software Testing 7 23 (5.974 %) Test Scripting 8 21 (5.455 %) Automated Testing 9 20 (5.195 %) PRINCE2 10 17 (4.416 %) E-Commerce 11 14 (3.636 %) System Testing 12 12 (3.117 %) Agile Software Development 13 10 (2.597 %) Web Testing 14 9 (2.338 %) Investment Management 14 9 (2.338 %) Web Development 14 9 (2.338 %) Project Management 15 8 (2.078 %) RUP 16 7 (1.818 %) Business Analysis 16 7 (1.818 %) Release Management 16 7 (1.818 %) Security Testing	Programming Languages 1 25 (6.494 %) SQL 2 8 (2.078 %) Java 3 4 (1.039 %) C# 4 3 (0.779 %) VBA 5 2 (0.519 %) C++ 5 2 (0.519 %) C 6 1 (0.260 %) JavaScript 6 1 (0.260 %) Python 6 1 (0.260 %) VBScript 6 1 (0.260 %) VB
Qualifications 1 222 (57.66 %) ISEB 2 18 (4.675 %) ISEB Practitioner 3 7 (1.818 %) PRINCE2 Certification 4 6 (1.558 %) ISTQB 4 6 (1.558 %) Degree 5 3 (0.779 %) ITIL Certification 5 3 (0.779 %) PMP 5 3 (0.779 %) PMI Certification	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 110 (28.57 %) QA 2 2 (0.519 %) Basel II 3 1 (0.260 %) MiFID 3 1 (0.260 %) ISO9001
System Software 1 3 (0.779 %) Active Directory	Vendors 1 15 (3.896 %) Microsoft 2 10 (2.597 %) Retek 3 8 (2.078 %) Oracle 4 7 (1.818 %) Meridio 5 6 (1.558 %) SAP 5 6 (1.558 %) Citrix 6 4 (1.039 %) Retalix 7 3 (0.779 %) HP 8 1 (0.260 %) Ab Initio 8 1 (0.260 %) IBM 8 1 (0.260 %) Compuware