Croydon Test Management Jobs

This section looks at the demand for Test Management skills within the Croydon region with a comparison to our Processes & Methodologies category. Included is a guide to the average salaries offered in IT jobs that have cited Test Management over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Aberdeen Barnet Basingstoke Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Borehamwood Bournemouth Bradford Bridgend Bristol Buckinghamshire Caerphilly Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Dartford Daventry Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Kilbride East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Halifax Hammersmith Hampshire Harrogate Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire High Wycombe Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northallerton Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Portsmouth Pudsey Reading Reigate Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Slough Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Southwark Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swansea Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Wales West Yorkshire Wiltshire York Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	71	59
Rank change on same period last year	-12
Matching permanent IT job ads	5	5
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.002 %
As % of the category below	1.111 %	1.211 %
Salaries quoted	5	5
Average minimum salary	£38,200	£60,000
Average salary	£42,600	£60,000
% change on same period last year	-29.00 %
Average maximum salary	£47,000	£60,000
UK excluding London average salary	£49,720	£47,585
% change on same period last year	+4.48 %
Processes & Methodologies Croydon
Matching permanent IT job ads	450	413
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.246 %	0.173 %
Salaries quoted	411	372
Average minimum salary	£42,289	£41,726
Average salary	£45,079	£44,321
% change on same period last year	+1.71 %
Average maximum salary	£47,869	£46,916
UK excluding London average salary	£42,478	£44,432
% change on same period last year	-4.39 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Management across the Croydon region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

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Salary Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Management across the Croydon region over the 3 months to 29 August 2008.

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Top 17 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing Test Management also 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 that cited Test Management.

1 4 (66.67 %) ISEB 1 4 (66.67 %) Software Testing 1 4 (66.67 %) QA 2 2 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Manual Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Release Management 2 2 (33.33 %) Pensions 2 2 (33.33 %) Auditing 2 2 (33.33 %) TestDirector 2 2 (33.33 %) .NET 2 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 2 2 (33.33 %) HP 2 2 (33.33 %) Finance 2 2 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (33.33 %) Banking

2 2 (33.33 %) ISEB Practitioner 2 2 (33.33 %) Automated Testing

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Croydon region citing Test Management also 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 that cited Test Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 2 (33.33 %) .NET	Development Applications 1 2 (33.33 %) TestDirector
General 1 2 (33.33 %) Finance 1 2 (33.33 %) Banking 1 2 (33.33 %) Pensions 1 2 (33.33 %) Auditing	Job Titles 1 4 (66.67 %) QA Manager 1 4 (66.67 %) Test Manager 1 4 (66.67 %) QA Test Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Test Analyst 2 2 (33.33 %) Release Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Systems Manager 2 2 (33.33 %) Quality Analyst
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (66.67 %) Software Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Release Management 2 2 (33.33 %) Performance Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Manual Testing 2 2 (33.33 %) Agile Software Development 2 2 (33.33 %) Automated Testing	Qualifications 1 4 (66.67 %) ISEB 2 2 (33.33 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 4 (66.67 %) QA	Vendors 1 2 (33.33 %) Microsoft 1 2 (33.33 %) HP