Test Manager Contracts in England

Test Manager
UK > England

The median Test Manager daily rate in England is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 351 382 420
Rank change year-on-year +31 +38 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 189 301 395
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.51% 0.60% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.63% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 135 214 297
10th Percentile £326 £425 £413
25th Percentile £444 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £588
90th Percentile £738 £775 £669
UK median daily rate £550 £535 £523
% change year-on-year +2.80% +2.39% +10.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 1
Median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £45.18
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +37.23% -
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year -11.29% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,271 47,824 67,952
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.61% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,751 33,955 48,268
10th Percentile £275 £312 £313
25th Percentile £412 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,410 1,422 1,902
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.71 £48.70
90th Percentile £72.54 £77.00 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.83 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.38% +95.65% -

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 27 April 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +41 95 £600 +9.09% 11
Midlands +23 23 £275 -45.00% 2
South East +13 23 £550 +14.58% 11
North of England +12 20 £500 -9.09% 2
West Midlands +29 14 £475 -5.00% 1
South West +25 13 £486 -7.38% 1
North West +11 12 £463 -15.91% 2
East Midlands +21 9 £270 -44.62% 1
East of England +9 6 £450 -14.29% 4
Yorkshire +2 6 £550 +4.76%
North East - 2 £500 -
Test Manager
UK

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 27 April 2024, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 74 (39.15%) Test Strategy
2 69 (36.51%) Test Management
3 55 (29.10%) Social Skills
4 51 (26.98%) Test Automation
5 40 (21.16%) QA
6 39 (20.63%) Finance
7 38 (20.11%) Azure
8 35 (18.52%) JIRA
8 35 (18.52%) Agile
9 33 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
10 30 (15.87%) DevOps
11 25 (13.23%) Test Scripting
11 25 (13.23%) Defect Management
12 24 (12.70%) SAP
13 22 (11.64%) Migration
13 22 (11.64%) End-to-End Testing
13 22 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
14 21 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (10.58%) Test Planning
15 20 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
16 19 (10.05%) Selenium
17 18 (9.52%) ISTQB
18 17 (8.99%) Software Testing
18 17 (8.99%) Security Cleared
18 17 (8.99%) Project Management
18 17 (8.99%) Scenario Testing
19 16 (8.47%) Waterfall
20 15 (7.94%) Non-Functional Testing
20 15 (7.94%) Integration Testing
21 14 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (2.65%) Confluence
1 5 (2.65%) SharePoint
2 2 (1.06%) Apache
2 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.53%) CICS
3 1 (0.53%) CMS
3 1 (0.53%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.53%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.06%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 8 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.06%) Cerner Millennium
2 2 (1.06%) iTrent
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.53%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.53%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.53%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.53%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.11%) Azure
2 20 (10.58%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (5.82%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.17%) OCI
4 6 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 5 (2.65%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (2.65%) PowerApps
6 4 (2.12%) AWS
7 2 (1.06%) GCP
7 2 (1.06%) OneDrive
7 2 (1.06%) Power Automate
7 2 (1.06%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.53%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.53%) Contentful
8 1 (0.53%) Snowflake
8 1 (0.53%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.65%) Firewall
2 2 (1.06%) HTTP
3 1 (0.53%) Internet
3 1 (0.53%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.53%) WAN
3 1 (0.53%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.53%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.65%) Power BI
2 2 (1.06%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (1.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.53%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.53%) DB2
3 1 (0.53%) GIS
3 1 (0.53%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 35 (18.52%) JIRA
2 19 (10.05%) Selenium
3 11 (5.82%) JMeter
4 5 (2.65%) Postman
4 5 (2.65%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.59%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.06%) JUnit
6 2 (1.06%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.53%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.53%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.53%) Gatling
7 1 (0.53%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.53%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.53%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.53%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (29.10%) Social Skills
2 39 (20.63%) Finance
3 13 (6.88%) Banking
4 12 (6.35%) Public Sector
5 10 (5.29%) Manufacturing
6 9 (4.76%) Analytical Skills
6 9 (4.76%) Legal
7 8 (4.23%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (3.70%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (3.70%) Investment Banking
8 7 (3.70%) Retail
9 6 (3.17%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.17%) Prime Brokerage
9 6 (3.17%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 5 (2.65%) Electronics
10 5 (2.65%) Marketing
10 5 (2.65%) Military
10 5 (2.65%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
11 3 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (4.76%) ADO
2 4 (2.12%) Gherkin
2 4 (2.12%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.06%) FHIR
3 2 (1.06%) JSON
3 2 (1.06%) Middleware
3 2 (1.06%) REST
3 2 (1.06%) SOAP
3 2 (1.06%) XML
4 1 (0.53%) .NET
4 1 (0.53%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (0.53%) Node.js
4 1 (0.53%) Playwright
4 1 (0.53%) React
4 1 (0.53%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.53%) Web Services
4 1 (0.53%) WebSockets
4 1 (0.53%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.29%) Product Ownership
2 8 (4.23%) Equities
3 5 (2.65%) Management Information System
4 4 (2.12%) Derivative
4 4 (2.12%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.59%) FMCG
5 3 (1.59%) Life Science
5 3 (1.59%) NHS
5 3 (1.59%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.06%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.06%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (1.06%) Hedge funds
6 2 (1.06%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.06%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.53%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.53%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.53%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.53%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.53%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 11 (5.82%) Windows
2 7 (3.70%) Linux
3 2 (1.06%) Unix
3 2 (1.06%) VMS
3 2 (1.06%) Windows 2000
3 2 (1.06%) Windows XP
4 1 (0.53%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (39.15%) Test Strategy
2 69 (36.51%) Test Management
3 51 (26.98%) Test Automation
4 35 (18.52%) Agile
5 33 (17.46%) User Acceptance Testing
6 30 (15.87%) DevOps
7 25 (13.23%) Defect Management
7 25 (13.23%) Test Scripting
8 22 (11.64%) End-to-End Testing
8 22 (11.64%) Migration
8 22 (11.64%) Problem-Solving
9 21 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
10 20 (10.58%) Test Planning
11 17 (8.99%) Project Management
11 17 (8.99%) Scenario Testing
11 17 (8.99%) Software Testing
12 16 (8.47%) Waterfall
13 15 (7.94%) Integration Testing
13 15 (7.94%) Non-Functional Testing
14 14 (7.41%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.59%) Python
1 3 (1.59%) SQL
2 2 (1.06%) C#
2 2 (1.06%) C++
2 2 (1.06%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.06%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.53%) Assembly Language
3 1 (0.53%) COBOL
3 1 (0.53%) Java
3 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.53%) JCL
3 1 (0.53%) Scala
3 1 (0.53%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 18 (9.52%) ISTQB
2 17 (8.99%) Security Cleared
3 11 (5.82%) SC Cleared
4 10 (5.29%) Degree
5 7 (3.70%) DV Cleared
5 7 (3.70%) HNC
5 7 (3.70%) HND
6 5 (2.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.12%) ISEB
8 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.59%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.06%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 1 (0.53%) CEH
10 1 (0.53%) CREST Certified
10 1 (0.53%) GIAC
10 1 (0.53%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.53%) NVQ Level 3
10 1 (0.53%) PhD
10 1 (0.53%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (21.16%) QA
2 4 (2.12%) HL7
3 2 (1.06%) GxP
4 1 (0.53%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.53%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.53%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.53%) NIST
4 1 (0.53%) PMO
4 1 (0.53%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.06%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.53%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.53%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.06%) Ansible
2 2 (1.06%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.06%) Terraform
3 1 (0.53%) Grafana
Vendors
1 24 (12.70%) SAP
2 13 (6.88%) Microsoft
3 12 (6.35%) Oracle
4 5 (2.65%) Salesforce
5 3 (1.59%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.06%) Cerner
6 2 (1.06%) Fortinet
6 2 (1.06%) HP
6 2 (1.06%) Juniper
6 2 (1.06%) VMware
7 1 (0.53%) Citrix
7 1 (0.53%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.53%) Databricks
7 1 (0.53%) Dataiku
7 1 (0.53%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.53%) IBM
7 1 (0.53%) Informatica
7 1 (0.53%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (0.53%) Temenos
7 1 (0.53%) Workday