Oxfordshire Test Manager Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Manager role in IT jobs within the Oxfordshire 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 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

Test Manager
Location Amersham Banbury Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bournemouth Bracknell Bradford Brentford Brentwood Bristol Buckinghamshire Camberley Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chertsey Cheshire Chester City of London Cornwall Coventry Croydon Dartford Derbyshire Devon Docklands, London Dorset East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Fareham Farnborough Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Godalming Guildford Hammersmith Hampshire Hemel Hempstead Herefordshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Ipswich Kent Knutsford Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire Liverpool Livingston London Luton Maidenhead Manchester Marlow Merseyside Middlesex Midlands Newport Norfolk North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Norwich Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Peterborough Plymouth Poole Portsmouth Reading Runcorn Scotland Sheffield Solihull Somerset South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton St Ives Staines Stirling Stockport Stowmarket Suffolk Surrey Sussex Swindon Thames Valley Tyne and Wear UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington Warwick Warwickshire Watford West Lothian West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Woking Wokingham Wolverhampton York Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	134	134
Rank change on same period last year	0
Matching permanent IT job ads	10	11
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.005 %	0.005 %
As % of the category below	0.359 %	0.361 %
Salaries quoted	10	11
Average minimum salary	£40,000	£40,909
Average salary	£44,773	£47,500
% change on same period last year	-5.74 %
Average maximum salary	£49,545	£54,091
UK excluding London average salary	£48,828	£50,259
% change on same period last year	-2.84 %
Job Titles Oxfordshire
Matching permanent IT job ads	2788	3044
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	1.472 %	1.246 %
Salaries quoted	2537	2597
Average minimum salary	£32,624	£32,596
Average salary	£36,083	£35,741
% change on same period last year	+0.95 %
Average maximum salary	£39,542	£38,885
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
Test Manager South East

Test Manager
Demand Trend

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

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Manager across the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 2008.

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Job Locations

This section looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the Oxfordshire region over the 3 months to 25 July 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	+1	7	£46,786	-2.01 %
Banbury	-	1	£45,000	-

Test Manager South East

Test Manager
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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 18 (69.23 %) QA 2 4 (15.38 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 4 (15.38 %) Telecoms 2 4 (15.38 %) ISEB 3 3 (11.54 %) LoadRunner 3 3 (11.54 %) Project Management 3 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 3 3 (11.54 %) Performance Testing 3 3 (11.54 %) Resource Management 3 3 (11.54 %) SilkPerformer 4 2 (7.692 %) Pensions 4 2 (7.692 %) Segue 4 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 4 2 (7.692 %) Test Management 4 2 (7.692 %) Publishing

4 2 (7.692 %) Disaster Recovery 4 2 (7.692 %) TestDirector 4 2 (7.692 %) SQL 4 2 (7.692 %) ITIL 4 2 (7.692 %) Cognos 5 1 (3.846 %) Bluetooth 5 1 (3.846 %) GPRS 5 1 (3.846 %) GSM 5 1 (3.846 %) TCP/IP 5 1 (3.846 %) HP 5 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 5 1 (3.846 %) Windows 5 1 (3.846 %) Linux 5 1 (3.846 %) QuickTest Pro 5 1 (3.846 %) WinRunner

Test Manager
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the Oxfordshire 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.

Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.846 %) Bluetooth 1 1 (3.846 %) GPRS 1 1 (3.846 %) GSM 1 1 (3.846 %) TCP/IP 1 1 (3.846 %) Internet	Development Applications 1 3 (11.54 %) LoadRunner 1 3 (11.54 %) SilkPerformer 2 2 (7.692 %) TestDirector 3 1 (3.846 %) QuickTest Pro 3 1 (3.846 %) WinRunner
General 1 4 (15.38 %) Telecoms 2 2 (7.692 %) Publishing 2 2 (7.692 %) Pensions 3 1 (3.846 %) Electronics 3 1 (3.846 %) Finance 3 1 (3.846 %) Automotive 3 1 (3.846 %) Health	Operating Systems 1 1 (3.846 %) Windows 1 1 (3.846 %) Linux 1 1 (3.846 %) Windows CE 1 1 (3.846 %) Windows Mobile
Processes & Methodologies 1 4 (15.38 %) User Acceptance Testing 2 3 (11.54 %) Performance Testing 2 3 (11.54 %) Project Management 2 3 (11.54 %) Agile Software Development 2 3 (11.54 %) Resource Management 3 2 (7.692 %) Security Cleared 3 2 (7.692 %) Disaster Recovery 3 2 (7.692 %) ITIL 3 2 (7.692 %) Test Management 4 1 (3.846 %) Manual Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE2 4 1 (3.846 %) PRINCE 4 1 (3.846 %) Automated Testing 4 1 (3.846 %) Software Testing	Programming Languages 1 2 (7.692 %) SQL
Qualifications 1 4 (15.38 %) ISEB	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 18 (69.23 %) QA
Vendors 1 2 (7.692 %) Cognos 1 2 (7.692 %) Segue 2 1 (3.846 %) HP