Oxfordshire Test Management Jobs

The table below looks at the demand for Test Management skills within the Oxfordshire 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 2 December 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Barnet Bath Berkshire Birkenhead Birmingham Bishop Auckland Bournemouth Bradford Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Cheshire City of London Colchester Crawley Croydon Darlington Derby Derbyshire Docklands, London Dorset Durham East Kilbride East Midlands East of England East Sussex Edinburgh Ellesmere Port England Essex Farnham Feltham Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Guildford Gwent Hampshire Harrogate Hertfordshire High Wycombe Hove Kent Lancashire Leeds Leicester Leicestershire Livingston London Luton Manchester Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Milton Keynes Newcastle Upon Tyne Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Paddington Poole Reading Redhill Reigate Rotherham Rugby Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Somerset South East South Lanarkshire South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southport Stockton-on-Tees Surrey Sussex Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Warrington Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Winchester Woking York Yorkshire	3 months to 2 Dec 2008	Same period last year
Rank	123	138
Rank change on same period last year	+15
Matching permanent IT job ads	4	3
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.003 %	0.001 %
As % of the category below	0.292 %	0.219 %
Salaries quoted	4	3
Average minimum salary	£47,500	£58,333
Average salary	£50,625	£58,333
% change on same period last year	-13.21 %
Average maximum salary	£53,750	£58,333
UK excluding London average salary	£45,774	£46,916
% change on same period last year	-2.43 %
Processes & Methodologies Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	1370	1369
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.916 %	0.611 %
Salaries quoted	1237	1237
Average minimum salary	£35,324	£36,124
Average salary	£39,082	£39,537
% change on same period last year	-1.15 %
Average maximum salary	£42,840	£42,951
UK excluding London average salary	£42,954	£44,648
% change on same period last year	-3.79 %
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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 Oxfordshire 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 Oxfordshire region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Management across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 2008.

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Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 2 December 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
Oxford	+13	2	£57,500	+64.28 %

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Top 23 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 5 (62.50 %) QA 2 4 (50.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) Performance Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 3 3 (37.50 %) Music 3 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 3 3 (37.50 %) .NET 3 3 (37.50 %) CMS 4 2 (25.00 %) Stakeholder Management 4 2 (25.00 %) Process Management 5 1 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 5 1 (12.50 %) MS Office 5 1 (12.50 %) SQL 5 1 (12.50 %) Ingres 5 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft

5 1 (12.50 %) ISEB 5 1 (12.50 %) TestDirector 5 1 (12.50 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 5 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 5 1 (12.50 %) Performance Management 5 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 5 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared

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Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 2 December 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 3 (37.50 %) .NET	Application Platforms 1 3 (37.50 %) CMS
Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) MS Office	Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (12.50 %) Ingres
Development Applications 1 1 (12.50 %) TestDirector 1 1 (12.50 %) QuickTest Pro	General 1 3 (37.50 %) Music
Job Titles 1 3 (37.50 %) Test Team Leader 1 3 (37.50 %) Team Leader 2 2 (25.00 %) Release Manager 2 2 (25.00 %) Change Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Senior Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Tester 3 1 (12.50 %) Analyst 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Manager 3 1 (12.50 %) Test Analyst	Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (50.00 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) Performance Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) Unit Testing 2 3 (37.50 %) E-Commerce 3 2 (25.00 %) Process Management 3 2 (25.00 %) Stakeholder Management 4 1 (12.50 %) Technical Architecture 4 1 (12.50 %) Regression Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) System Testing 4 1 (12.50 %) Performance Management 4 1 (12.50 %) SC Cleared 4 1 (12.50 %) Security Cleared
Programming Languages 1 1 (12.50 %) SQL	Qualifications 1 1 (12.50 %) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 5 (62.50 %) QA	Vendors 1 1 (12.50 %) Microsoft