West Midlands Test Team Leader Jobs

This section looks at the demand for the Test Team Leader role in IT jobs within the West 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 Team Leader in their job title over the 3 months to 25 July 2008 with a comparison to the same period last year.

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Location Amersham Barnet Basildon Basingstoke Bedfordshire Berkshire Birmingham Bolton Bristol Buckinghamshire Cambridge Cambridgeshire Canary Wharf Cardiff Chelmsford Cheltenham Chertsey Cheshire Chippenham City of London Coventry Crawley Croydon Darlington Docklands, London Durham Ealing East Midlands East of England Edinburgh England Essex Glasgow Gloucester Gloucestershire Hammersmith Hampshire Hertfordshire Home Counties Lancashire Leeds Lincoln Lincolnshire London Manchester Middlesbrough Middlesex Milton Keynes Newport North East North West North Yorkshire Northampton Northamptonshire Nottingham Nottinghamshire Oxford Oxfordshire Portsmouth Pudsey Salisbury Scotland Sheffield Slough Solihull South East South Wales South West South Yorkshire Southampton Stirling Stockport Surrey Thames Valley UK Uxbridge Wales Walsall Warrington West Midlands West Sussex West Yorkshire Weybridge Wiltshire Wolverhampton Yorkshire	3 months to 25 Jul 2008	Same period last year
Rank	209	208
Rank change on same period last year	-1
Matching permanent IT job ads	26	18
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	0.014 %	0.007 %
As % of the category below	0.313 %	0.219 %
Salaries quoted	26	16
Average minimum salary	£37,190	£31,688
Average salary	£38,931	£32,781
% change on same period last year	+18.76 %
Average maximum salary	£40,672	£33,875
UK excluding London average salary	£40,798	£38,233
% change on same period last year	+6.70 %
Job Titles West Midlands
Matching permanent IT job ads	8306	8236
As % of all UK permanent IT job ads sampled	4.385 %	3.373 %
Salaries quoted	7053	7067
Average minimum salary	£32,958	£33,465
Average salary	£35,879	£36,265
% change on same period last year	-1.06 %
Average maximum salary	£38,800	£39,065
UK excluding London average salary	£38,197	£39,483
% change on same period last year	-3.25 %
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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 West 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 Team Leader across the West Midlands region.

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Salary Histogram

The chart provides a salary histogram for IT jobs citing Test Team Leader across the West Midlands 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 Team Leader within the West Midlands 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
Birmingham	-	13	£37,615	-
Coventry	-15	4	£43,500	+39.82 %
Walsall	-	1	£38,000	-
Wolverhampton	-6	1	£38,000	+14.00 %
Solihull	-4	1	£40,000	+1.26 %

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Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 21 (63.64 %) QA 2 11 (33.33 %) Quality Management 3 9 (27.27 %) ISEB 4 8 (24.24 %) Test Scripting 5 7 (21.21 %) User Acceptance Testing 6 5 (15.15 %) System Testing 6 5 (15.15 %) Retail 6 5 (15.15 %) Oracle 6 5 (15.15 %) Finance 7 4 (12.12 %) Oracle CRM 7 4 (12.12 %) CRM 7 4 (12.12 %) .NET 8 3 (9.091 %) Manual Testing 8 3 (9.091 %) Automated Testing 8 3 (9.091 %) Software Testing

8 3 (9.091 %) SQL 9 2 (6.061 %) Client/Server 9 2 (6.061 %) EPoS 9 2 (6.061 %) MS Office 9 2 (6.061 %) SAP 9 2 (6.061 %) Regression Testing 9 2 (6.061 %) Test Management 10 1 (3.030 %) Pensions 10 1 (3.030 %) Retail Banking 10 1 (3.030 %) Degree 10 1 (3.030 %) Education 10 1 (3.030 %) Health 10 1 (3.030 %) Games 10 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms 10 1 (3.030 %) Banking

Test Team Leader
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 25 July 2008, IT jobs across the West Midlands 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 4 (12.12 %) .NET 2 1 (3.030 %) ASP.NET	Applications 1 2 (6.061 %) MS Office 2 1 (3.030 %) MS Excel
Business Applications 1 4 (12.12 %) Oracle CRM 2 1 (3.030 %) SAP HR	Communications & Networking 1 1 (3.030 %) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence 1 1 (3.030 %) Oracle 8/8i	Development Applications 1 1 (3.030 %) TestDirector 1 1 (3.030 %) QuickTest Pro
General 1 5 (15.15 %) Finance 1 5 (15.15 %) Retail 2 1 (3.030 %) Pensions 2 1 (3.030 %) Retail Banking 2 1 (3.030 %) Telecoms 2 1 (3.030 %) Education 2 1 (3.030 %) Health 2 1 (3.030 %) Games 2 1 (3.030 %) Banking	Miscellaneous 1 2 (6.061 %) Client/Server 1 2 (6.061 %) EPoS
Processes & Methodologies 1 11 (33.33 %) Quality Management 2 8 (24.24 %) Test Scripting 3 7 (21.21 %) User Acceptance Testing 4 5 (15.15 %) System Testing 5 4 (12.12 %) CRM 6 3 (9.091 %) Automated Testing 6 3 (9.091 %) Software Testing 6 3 (9.091 %) Manual Testing 7 2 (6.061 %) Test Management 7 2 (6.061 %) Regression Testing 8 1 (3.030 %) OOP	Programming Languages 1 3 (9.091 %) SQL 2 1 (3.030 %) VB.NET 2 1 (3.030 %) C 2 1 (3.030 %) C++ 2 1 (3.030 %) Java 2 1 (3.030 %) JavaScript 2 1 (3.030 %) Perl
Qualifications 1 9 (27.27 %) ISEB 2 1 (3.030 %) Degree	Quality Assurance & Compliance 1 21 (63.64 %) QA
Vendors 1 5 (15.15 %) Oracle 2 2 (6.061 %) SAP