Midlands Test Manager Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT jobs within the Midlands 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 10 October 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Manager
Location Banbury Basingstoke Bath Bedfordshire Berkshire Bicester Birkenhead Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brighton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheltenham Cheshire Chester City of London Coventry Croydon Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset East Anglia East Midlands East of England East Sussex Eastleigh Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Fareham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Hampshire Harrow Hemel Hempstead Hereford Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Hove Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Poole Portsmouth Preston Pudsey Reading Runcorn Scotland Selby Sheffield Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Southport Stirling Stockport Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford Wells West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Wigan Wiltshire Winchester Wokingham York Yorkshire	3 months to 10 Oct 2008	Same period last year
Rank	41	55
Rank change on same period last year	+14
Matching permanent IT job ads	20	23
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.012 %	0.010 %
As % of the category below	2.994 %	1.530 %
Salaries quoted	15	12
Average minimum salary	£71,667	£43,167
Average salary	£87,167	£44,792
% change on same period last year	+94.60 %
Average maximum salary	£102,667	£46,417
UK excluding London average salary	£51,165	£49,862
% change on same period last year	+2.61 %
Job Titles Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	668	1503
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.387 %	0.647 %
Salaries quoted	499	1155
Average minimum salary	£45,957	£41,535
Average salary	£52,628	£46,764
% change on same period last year	+12.53 %
Average maximum salary	£59,298	£51,993
UK excluding London average salary	£38,208	£39,261
% change on same period last year	-2.68 %
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Demand Trend

The chart provides a 3-month moving total beginning in 2004 of permanent IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Midlands 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 Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Midlands region over the 3 months to 10 October 2008.

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Top 26 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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 22 (57.89 %) Government 2 17 (44.74 %) Test Management 3 7 (18.42 %) HNC 4 5 (13.16 %) Finance 5 3 (7.895 %) PRINCE2 5 3 (7.895 %) ISEB 6 2 (5.263 %) EPoS 6 2 (5.263 %) Project Management 6 2 (5.263 %) Risk Assessment 6 2 (5.263 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 2 (5.263 %) Retail 6 2 (5.263 %) ISEB Practitioner 7 1 (2.632 %) QA 7 1 (2.632 %) Migration 7 1 (2.632 %) MS Project

7 1 (2.632 %) SAP 7 1 (2.632 %) ITIL 7 1 (2.632 %) Programme Management 7 1 (2.632 %) Test Scripting 7 1 (2.632 %) V-Model 7 1 (2.632 %) Service Management 7 1 (2.632 %) Risk Management 7 1 (2.632 %) SAP HR 7 1 (2.632 %) PRINCE 7 1 (2.632 %) ISO9001 7 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 10 October 2008, IT jobs across the Midlands 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.

Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) MS Project	Business Applications 1 1 (2.632 %) SAP HR
General 1 22 (57.89 %) Government 2 5 (13.16 %) Finance 3 2 (5.263 %) Retail	Miscellaneous 1 2 (5.263 %) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies 1 17 (44.74 %) Test Management 2 3 (7.895 %) PRINCE2 3 2 (5.263 %) Risk Assessment 3 2 (5.263 %) Project Management 3 2 (5.263 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 1 (2.632 %) ITIL 4 1 (2.632 %) Test Scripting 4 1 (2.632 %) V-Model 4 1 (2.632 %) Service Management 4 1 (2.632 %) Risk Management 4 1 (2.632 %) Migration 4 1 (2.632 %) Programme Management 4 1 (2.632 %) PRINCE	Qualifications 1 7 (18.42 %) HNC 2 3 (7.895 %) ISEB 3 2 (5.263 %) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 1 (2.632 %) ISO9001 1 1 (2.632 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (2.632 %) SAP 1 1 (2.632 %) Microsoft