Test Manager Contracts in England

Test Manager
UK > England

The median Test Manager daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 May 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 374 420
Rank change year-on-year +28 +46 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 201 284 401
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.58% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.61% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 143 198 304
10th Percentile £320 £425 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £625 £614 £588
90th Percentile £738 £735 £652
UK median daily rate £535 £545 £525
% change year-on-year -1.83% +3.81% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £45.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +37.23% -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year +0.81% +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 33,916 46,484 67,372
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.64% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,507 32,994 47,972
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £639
90th Percentile £750 £758 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,425 1,382 1,859
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.37
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.45 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.50 £62.80
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

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 7 May 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 7 May 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 +45 97 £575 +2.22% 8
South East +20 33 £525 +10.53% 8
Midlands +32 22 £275 -45.00% 2
North of England -1 19 £481 -12.50% 1
West Midlands +22 13 £475 -5.00% 2
South West +19 13 £486 -7.38% 1
North West +16 12 £463 -17.78%
East Midlands +24 9 £270 -44.62%
East of England +2 8 £450 -10.00% 5
Yorkshire +6 6 £550 -
North East - 1 - - 1
Test Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 May 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 84 (41.79%) Test Strategy
2 77 (38.31%) Test Management
3 63 (31.34%) Social Skills
4 60 (29.85%) Test Automation
5 44 (21.89%) Agile
6 41 (20.40%) Finance
7 40 (19.90%) QA
8 36 (17.91%) JIRA
8 36 (17.91%) Azure
9 34 (16.92%) User Acceptance Testing
10 30 (14.93%) DevOps
11 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
12 26 (12.94%) Software Testing
13 25 (12.44%) Waterfall
13 25 (12.44%) Defect Management
14 24 (11.94%) SAP
15 23 (11.44%) End-to-End Testing
16 22 (10.95%) ISTQB
17 21 (10.45%) Test Scripting
18 20 (9.95%) Migration
18 20 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
19 19 (9.45%) Selenium
19 19 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
20 18 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
21 17 (8.46%) Integration Testing
21 17 (8.46%) Test Planning
21 17 (8.46%) Security Cleared
22 16 (7.96%) Project Management
23 15 (7.46%) Oracle
23 15 (7.46%) Regression Testing

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 6 (2.99%) SharePoint
2 4 (1.99%) Confluence
2 4 (1.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (3.98%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.49%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.00%) iTrent
3 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 36 (17.91%) Azure
2 20 (9.95%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (4.98%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (2.99%) OCI
5 5 (2.49%) Power Platform
6 4 (1.99%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (1.99%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.49%) AWS
8 2 (1.00%) GCP
8 2 (1.00%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle CX
8 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.00%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.50%) Contentful
9 1 (0.50%) SaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Firewall
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.49%) Power BI
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.50%) GIS
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (17.91%) JIRA
2 19 (9.45%) Selenium
3 11 (5.47%) JMeter
4 5 (2.49%) Postman
4 5 (2.49%) SpecFlow
5 3 (1.49%) Cucumber
6 2 (1.00%) JUnit
6 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
7 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
7 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.50%) Gatling
7 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
7 1 (0.50%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (31.34%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.40%) Finance
3 14 (6.97%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.47%) Banking
5 11 (5.47%) Legal
6 10 (4.98%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.48%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.48%) Retail
8 8 (3.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.48%) Investment Banking
10 6 (2.99%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (2.99%) Prime Brokerage
10 6 (2.99%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 5 (2.49%) Electronics
11 5 (2.49%) Marketing
11 5 (2.49%) Military
11 5 (2.49%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.49%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.49%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.98%) Web Services
2 9 (4.48%) ADO
3 5 (2.49%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.99%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.00%) FHIR
5 2 (1.00%) JSON
5 2 (1.00%) Middleware
5 2 (1.00%) REST
5 2 (1.00%) SOAP
5 2 (1.00%) XML
6 1 (0.50%) .NET
6 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
6 1 (0.50%) Playwright
6 1 (0.50%) React
6 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.50%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.50%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (4.98%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.48%) Life Science
3 8 (3.98%) Equities
4 6 (2.99%) NHS
5 5 (2.49%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.99%) Derivative
6 4 (1.99%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.49%) FMCG
7 3 (1.49%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.00%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
9 1 (0.50%) Blockchain
9 1 (0.50%) Onboarding
9 1 (0.50%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.98%) Windows
2 7 (3.48%) Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (1.00%) VMS
3 2 (1.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (1.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (41.79%) Test Strategy
2 77 (38.31%) Test Management
3 60 (29.85%) Test Automation
4 44 (21.89%) Agile
5 34 (16.92%) User Acceptance Testing
6 30 (14.93%) DevOps
7 27 (13.43%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (12.94%) Software Testing
9 25 (12.44%) Defect Management
9 25 (12.44%) Waterfall
10 23 (11.44%) End-to-End Testing
11 21 (10.45%) Test Scripting
12 20 (9.95%) Migration
13 19 (9.45%) Continuous Improvement
14 18 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
15 17 (8.46%) Integration Testing
15 17 (8.46%) Test Planning
16 16 (7.96%) Project Management
17 15 (7.46%) Functional Testing
17 15 (7.46%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.49%) Python
1 3 (1.49%) SQL
2 2 (1.00%) C#
2 2 (1.00%) C++
2 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.50%) Java
3 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.50%) Scala
3 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (10.95%) ISTQB
2 17 (8.46%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.47%) Degree
4 11 (5.47%) SC Cleared
5 8 (3.98%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.48%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.48%) HNC
6 7 (3.48%) HND
7 5 (2.49%) ISEB
8 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.50%) GPEN
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.50%) PhD
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (19.90%) QA
2 9 (4.48%) HL7
3 2 (1.00%) GDPR
3 2 (1.00%) GxP
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.49%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.00%) Ansible
2 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (11.94%) SAP
2 15 (7.46%) Oracle
3 13 (6.47%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.48%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.00%) Juniper
5 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.00%) VMware
6 1 (0.50%) Citrix
6 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.50%) Databricks
6 1 (0.50%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.50%) eFront
6 1 (0.50%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.50%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.50%) HP
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (0.50%) Temenos
6 1 (0.50%) Workday