Slow Market?

[The Spartan]

To what - not testing? Genuinely interested as I'm a Test Manager.

There seems to be a pattern emerging whereas teams have leads who feed into whoever is designated I.T. Manager rather than having a Test Manager in general. I went to the most recent London Test Gathering and spoke with other tester's who confirm that was how their organisation's had now been structured.

In my current gig they've recently restructured the whole of I.T. and the 4 test managers and Head of Testing are now in the process of transitioning to new roles within the company.

[SussexSeagull]

Agile tends to not need Test Managers (although this does leave no one in charge of overall standards, but that is another conversation).

[kal]

There seems to be a pattern emerging whereas teams have leads who feed into whoever is designated I.T. Manager rather than having a Test Manager in general. I went to the most recent London Test Gathering and spoke with other tester's who confirm that was how their organisation's had now been structured.

In my current gig they've recently restructured the whole of I.T. and the 4 test managers and Head of Testing are now in the process of transitioning to new roles within the company.

+1 Have to say the same applies at my current client co, the traditional PM/TM is no more.

[The Spartan]

Agile tends to not need Test Managers (although this does leave no one in charge of overall standards, but that is another conversation).

Agreed it puts more emphasis on testers within the stream which can be both a good and a bad thing, it then comes down to the quality of people that you hire on how things are driven forward.

[spb]

The rates are as low as 160 quid for UAT lead. And surprisingly there are people ready to accept. This one is for some company in Brentford. Must be outsourced again

[The Spartan]

The rates are as low as 160 quid for UAT lead. And surprisingly there are people ready to accept. This one is for some company in Brentford. Must be outsourced again

That's shocking you can't buy much quality with that

[rocktronAMP]

That's shocking you can't buy much quality with that

This is just my two pence. As a test manager, you may want to diversify your expertise. Have you look into Dev Ops or Web Ops (Developer / Operations - Web / Operations )? Or perhaps you can get more into the business as Business Analyst (BA in Test)?