Manchester Test Team Leader Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Team Leader role in IT jobs within the Manchester 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 Team Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 29 August 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Testing Team Lead
Location Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire City of London Colchester Coventry Crawley Croydon Devon Docklands, London Dorset Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Exeter Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Letchworth Livingston London Manchester Middlesbrough Milton Keynes Newport North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Pudsey Reigate Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockport Surrey UK Wales Warrington Welwyn Garden City West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Yorkshire	3 months to 29 Aug 2008	Same period last year
Rank	170	187
Rank change on same period last year	+17
Matching permanent IT job ads	15	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.008 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	0.320 %	0.354 %
Salaries quoted	5	19
Average minimum salary	£31,800	£32,053
Average salary	£33,400	£35,105
% change on same period last year	-4.85 %
Average maximum salary	£35,000	£38,158
UK excluding London average salary	£40,524	£38,324
% change on same period last year	+5.74 %
Job Titles Manchester
Matching permanent IT job ads	4688	6496
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	2.560 %	2.728 %
Salaries quoted	3993	5552
Average minimum salary	£33,380	£36,527
Average salary	£38,229	£41,178
% change on same period last year	-7.16 %
Average maximum salary	£43,077	£45,829
UK excluding London average salary	£38,060	£39,458
% change on same period last year	-3.54 %
Test Team Leader North West

Test Team Leader
Demand Trend

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

Test Team Leader
Salary Trend

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

Test Team Leader
Salary Histogram

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

Test Team Leader
Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Team Leader within the Manchester region over the 3 months to 29 August 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
Stockport	+9	5	-	-
Bolton	-	1	£35,000	-
Wigan	-	1	£32,500	-

Test Team Leader North West

Test Team Leader
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Test Team Leader 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 Team Leader in their job title.

1 13 (44.83 %) ISEB 1 13 (44.83 %) Software Testing 2 9 (31.03 %) Security Testing 2 9 (31.03 %) Network Security 2 9 (31.03 %) CESG 2 9 (31.03 %) Penetration Testing 2 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft 3 8 (27.59 %) Regression Testing 4 7 (24.14 %) ISTQB 5 6 (20.69 %) Windows 6 4 (13.79 %) SQL 6 4 (13.79 %) Automated Testing 6 4 (13.79 %) System Testing 7 3 (10.34 %) Manual Testing 7 3 (10.34 %) User Acceptance Testing

7 3 (10.34 %) .NET 8 2 (6.897 %) C# 8 2 (6.897 %) Java 8 2 (6.897 %) Perl 8 2 (6.897 %) MS Excel 8 2 (6.897 %) ISO9000 8 2 (6.897 %) Citrix 8 2 (6.897 %) EPoS 8 2 (6.897 %) Terminal Server 8 2 (6.897 %) Retail 8 2 (6.897 %) Education 8 2 (6.897 %) Health 8 2 (6.897 %) Games 8 2 (6.897 %) Compuware 8 2 (6.897 %) Test Management

Test Team Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 29 August 2008, IT jobs across the Manchester region that cited Test Team Leader 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 Team Leader in their job title. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development 1 3 (10.34 %) .NET	Applications 1 2 (6.897 %) MS Excel
Communications & Networking 1 9 (31.03 %) Network Security	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.448 %) SQL Server
Development Applications 1 1 (3.448 %) WinRunner 1 1 (3.448 %) QuickTest Pro 1 1 (3.448 %) LoadRunner 1 1 (3.448 %) Rational Robot	General 1 2 (6.897 %) Education 1 2 (6.897 %) Health 1 2 (6.897 %) Games 1 2 (6.897 %) Retail 1 2 (6.897 %) Pensions
Miscellaneous 1 9 (31.03 %) CESG 2 2 (6.897 %) EPoS 3 1 (3.448 %) Mainframe 3 1 (3.448 %) IBM Mainframe	Operating Systems 1 6 (20.69 %) Windows 2 1 (3.448 %) Solaris 2 1 (3.448 %) Linux
Processes & Methodologies 1 13 (44.83 %) Software Testing 2 9 (31.03 %) Security Testing 2 9 (31.03 %) Penetration Testing 3 8 (27.59 %) Regression Testing 4 4 (13.79 %) Automated Testing 4 4 (13.79 %) System Testing 5 3 (10.34 %) Manual Testing 5 3 (10.34 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (6.897 %) Test Management 7 1 (3.448 %) Risk Management	Programming Languages 1 4 (13.79 %) SQL 2 2 (6.897 %) C# 2 2 (6.897 %) Java 2 2 (6.897 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 13 (44.83 %) ISEB 2 7 (24.14 %) ISTQB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 2 (6.897 %) ISO9000 1 2 (6.897 %) TickIT 1 2 (6.897 %) QA
System Software 1 2 (6.897 %) Terminal Server	Vendors 1 9 (31.03 %) Microsoft 2 2 (6.897 %) Compuware 2 2 (6.897 %) Citrix 3 1 (3.448 %) IBM