Test Manager Contracts in the Midlands

Test Manager
England > Midlands

The median Test Manager daily rate in the Midlands is £275 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 116 139 159
Rank change year-on-year +23 +20 -28
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 23 23 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.67% 0.95%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.71% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 17 39
10th Percentile £260 £420 £448
25th Percentile £269 £475 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -45.00% -0.99% +12.22%
75th Percentile £488 £550 £536
90th Percentile £570 £569 £568
England median daily rate £550 £540 £525
% change year-on-year +1.85% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year -11.29% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 2,508 3,256 4,857
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.94% 94.65% 95.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,690 2,289 3,556
10th Percentile £213 £223 £206
25th Percentile £325 £363 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £475 £458
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% +3.83% +14.38%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £550
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 128 177
10th Percentile £11.84 £12.35 £10.50
25th Percentile £14.27 £15.21 £13.75
Median hourly rate £19.59 £20.00 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% +15.74% +14.47%
75th Percentile £35.00 £28.88 £22.00
90th Percentile £54.60 £61.50 £32.70
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.22%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the Midlands

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the Midlands

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the Midlands

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the Midlands

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +29 14 £475 -5.00% 1
East Midlands +21 9 £270 -44.62% 1
Test Manager
England

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

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 Midlands region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (34.78%) Asset Management
2 8 (34.78%) Test Strategy
3 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
3 7 (30.43%) Time Management
3 7 (30.43%) HNC
3 7 (30.43%) HND
3 7 (30.43%) Conflict Management
4 6 (26.09%) DevOps
4 6 (26.09%) People Management
4 6 (26.09%) Critical Thinking
4 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
4 6 (26.09%) Azure
5 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
5 5 (21.74%) QA
6 4 (17.39%) Project Management
6 4 (17.39%) Migration
7 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 3 (13.04%) Scrum
7 3 (13.04%) Service Management
7 3 (13.04%) SAP
7 3 (13.04%) ITIL
7 3 (13.04%) JIRA
7 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
7 3 (13.04%) ISTQB
7 3 (13.04%) Test Management
7 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
7 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (13.04%) Defect Management

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (4.35%) Confluence
1 1 (4.35%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (26.09%) Azure
2 3 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (8.70%) AWS
3 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (8.70%) GCP
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.35%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (8.70%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (13.04%) JIRA
General
1 17 (73.91%) Social Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (4.35%) Finance
3 1 (4.35%) Manufacturing
3 1 (4.35%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.70%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (8.70%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.35%) Windows
1 1 (4.35%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (34.78%) Asset Management
1 8 (34.78%) Problem-Solving
1 8 (34.78%) Test Strategy
2 7 (30.43%) Conflict Management
2 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
2 7 (30.43%) Time Management
3 6 (26.09%) Critical Thinking
3 6 (26.09%) Decision-Making
3 6 (26.09%) DevOps
3 6 (26.09%) People Management
4 5 (21.74%) User Acceptance Testing
5 4 (17.39%) Migration
5 4 (17.39%) Project Management
6 3 (13.04%) ITIL
6 3 (13.04%) Scrum
6 3 (13.04%) Service Management
6 3 (13.04%) Software Testing
6 3 (13.04%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (13.04%) Test Automation
6 3 (13.04%) Test Management
Qualifications
1 7 (30.43%) HNC
1 7 (30.43%) HND
2 3 (13.04%) ISTQB
3 2 (8.70%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 2 (8.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.35%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (4.35%) NVQ Level 3
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (21.74%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.35%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (8.70%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) SAP
2 2 (8.70%) HP
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
2 2 (8.70%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.35%) Microsoft