Test Manager Contracts in London

Test Manager
England > London

The median Test Manager daily rate in London is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 299 343 445
Rank change year-on-year +44 +102 -84
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 97 156 165
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.58% 0.42%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.61% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 118 130
10th Percentile £406 £450 £425
25th Percentile £506 £507 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% - +10.55%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £613
90th Percentile £788 £800 £689
England median daily rate £550 £550 £525
% change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £45.18
Median % change year-on-year - +37.23% -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year -11.29% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,604 25,696 37,092
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.23% 95.28% 95.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,003 18,613 27,062
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £443 £463 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 287 451
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.50
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.57 £22.06
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% - +11.64%
75th Percentile £43.75 £60.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £64.67 £76.10 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.02 £44.77 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.53% +98.96% +0.36%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Central London +35 13 £550 -4.35% 1
West London +18 3 £475 -
South London +9 1 £575 -2.13% 1
Test Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 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 London region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 42 (43.30%) Test Strategy
2 37 (38.14%) Test Management
3 30 (30.93%) Test Automation
4 27 (27.84%) QA
5 25 (25.77%) Agile
6 24 (24.74%) Finance
7 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
8 22 (22.68%) JIRA
9 15 (15.46%) Selenium
9 15 (15.46%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (15.46%) Azure
10 14 (14.43%) Test Scripting
10 14 (14.43%) End-to-End Testing
11 12 (12.37%) Programme Management
11 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
11 12 (12.37%) Waterfall
11 12 (12.37%) DevOps
12 11 (11.34%) Banking
12 11 (11.34%) ISTQB
12 11 (11.34%) SAP
13 10 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
13 10 (10.31%) JMeter
14 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
14 9 (9.28%) Software Testing
14 9 (9.28%) Migration
14 9 (9.28%) Scenario Testing
14 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
14 9 (9.28%) Defect Management
15 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (5.15%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.06%) Apache
3 2 (2.06%) Confluence
4 1 (1.03%) CICS
4 1 (1.03%) CMS
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.03%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.03%) Oracle General Ledger
2 1 (1.03%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 15 (15.46%) Azure
2 8 (8.25%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.15%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.12%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.12%) PowerApps
5 2 (2.06%) AWS
5 2 (2.06%) OneDrive
5 2 (2.06%) Power Automate
6 1 (1.03%) Amazon OpenSearch
6 1 (1.03%) Azure Pipelines
6 1 (1.03%) Contentful
6 1 (1.03%) SaaS
6 1 (1.03%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.03%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.03%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.06%) HTTP
2 1 (1.03%) Firewall
2 1 (1.03%) Internet
2 1 (1.03%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.03%) WAN
2 1 (1.03%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) Power BI
2 2 (2.06%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.03%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.03%) DB2
3 1 (1.03%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 22 (22.68%) JIRA
2 15 (15.46%) Selenium
3 10 (10.31%) JMeter
4 2 (2.06%) JUnit
4 2 (2.06%) Postman
4 2 (2.06%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.03%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.03%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.03%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.03%) Gatling
5 1 (1.03%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.03%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.03%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.03%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (24.74%) Finance
2 23 (23.71%) Social Skills
3 11 (11.34%) Banking
4 9 (9.28%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.25%) Legal
6 7 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.22%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.19%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.19%) Prime Brokerage
7 6 (6.19%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 5 (5.15%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (4.12%) Electronics
9 4 (4.12%) Marketing
9 4 (4.12%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.09%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (3.09%) Retail
11 2 (2.06%) Front Office
12 1 (1.03%) Financial Institution
12 1 (1.03%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.25%) ADO
2 2 (2.06%) FHIR
2 2 (2.06%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.06%) JSON
2 2 (2.06%) REST
2 2 (2.06%) SOAP
2 2 (2.06%) XML
3 1 (1.03%) .NET
3 1 (1.03%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.03%) Middleware
3 1 (1.03%) Node.js
3 1 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.03%) Playwright
3 1 (1.03%) React
3 1 (1.03%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.03%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.25%) Equities
2 7 (7.22%) Product Ownership
3 4 (4.12%) Derivative
4 2 (2.06%) Distributed Architecture
4 2 (2.06%) FMCG
4 2 (2.06%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.03%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.03%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.03%) EPoS
5 1 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.03%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.03%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.03%) NHS
5 1 (1.03%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.03%) PACS
5 1 (1.03%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.03%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.19%) Linux
2 3 (3.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (43.30%) Test Strategy
2 37 (38.14%) Test Management
3 30 (30.93%) Test Automation
4 25 (25.77%) Agile
5 15 (15.46%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (14.43%) End-to-End Testing
6 14 (14.43%) Test Scripting
7 12 (12.37%) DevOps
7 12 (12.37%) Programme Management
7 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 12 (12.37%) Waterfall
8 10 (10.31%) Business Intelligence
9 9 (9.28%) Defect Management
9 9 (9.28%) Migration
9 9 (9.28%) Scenario Testing
9 9 (9.28%) Software Testing
10 8 (8.25%) Collaborative Working
10 8 (8.25%) Integration Testing
11 7 (7.22%) SDLC
11 7 (7.22%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.09%) SQL
2 2 (2.06%) C#
2 2 (2.06%) Python
3 1 (1.03%) Assembly Language
3 1 (1.03%) C++
3 1 (1.03%) COBOL
3 1 (1.03%) Java
3 1 (1.03%) JCL
3 1 (1.03%) Scala
3 1 (1.03%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
2 11 (11.34%) ISTQB
3 7 (7.22%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.19%) Degree
4 6 (6.19%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.15%) ISEB
6 3 (3.09%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.03%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (1.03%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.03%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (27.84%) QA
2 3 (3.09%) HL7
3 1 (1.03%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 20022
3 1 (1.03%) PMO
3 1 (1.03%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.03%) Grafana
1 1 (1.03%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.03%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) SAP
2 9 (9.28%) Microsoft
3 3 (3.09%) Oracle
4 2 (2.06%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.03%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.03%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.03%) eFront
5 1 (1.03%) Finsemble
5 1 (1.03%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.03%) IBM
5 1 (1.03%) Informatica
5 1 (1.03%) Temenos
5 1 (1.03%) VMware
5 1 (1.03%) Workday