Test Management Contracts in the North of England

Test Management
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 191 219
Rank change year-on-year +19 +28 -43
Contract jobs citing Test Management 16 22 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.34% 0.39% 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.42% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 13 26
10th Percentile £397 £395 £281
25th Percentile £409 £433 £323
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £550 £444
Median % change year-on-year -20.45% +23.94% +33.26%
75th Percentile £481 £600 £505
90th Percentile £562 £626 £538
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £11.00 - -
England median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +140.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Test Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,995 5,182 6,316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.73% 90.78% 88.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,430 3,599 4,626
10th Percentile £300 £300 £241
25th Percentile £400 £413 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +10.21%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £563
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 202 253
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.86 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.72 £29.15 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -39.21% +57.57% +0.87%
75th Percentile £44.81 £46.51 £31.00
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £52.40
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the North of 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
North West +25 9 £425 -22.73% 3
Yorkshire +19 6 £450 -18.18%
North East +14 1 - -
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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:

Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 1 (6.25%) Figma
2 1 (6.25%) GitHub
2 1 (6.25%) OCI
2 1 (6.25%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Data Lake
1 1 (6.25%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 5 (31.25%) JIRA
2 3 (18.75%) JMeter
2 3 (18.75%) Selenium
3 2 (12.50%) Cucumber
3 2 (12.50%) Zephyr
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket
4 1 (6.25%) Bitbucket Server
4 1 (6.25%) Cypress.io
4 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
4 1 (6.25%) Postman
4 1 (6.25%) SoapUI
General
1 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Organisational Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 2 (12.50%) Retail
4 1 (6.25%) Aviation
4 1 (6.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Test Manager
2 3 (18.75%) Coordinator
3 2 (12.50%) Analyst
3 2 (12.50%) Automation Tester
3 2 (12.50%) QA Manager
3 2 (12.50%) QA Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Tester
4 1 (6.25%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Data Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Analyst
4 1 (6.25%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.25%) UAT Manager
4 1 (6.25%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (12.50%) Gherkin
2 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
2 1 (6.25%) GraphQL
2 1 (6.25%) Kafka
2 1 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (6.25%) SOAP
2 1 (6.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Agile
1 7 (43.75%) Test Automation
2 5 (31.25%) Test Planning
3 4 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 4 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
4 3 (18.75%) CI/CD
4 3 (18.75%) Configuration Management
4 3 (18.75%) Customer Service
4 3 (18.75%) Data Entry
4 3 (18.75%) Mentoring
4 3 (18.75%) Test Strategy
5 2 (12.50%) BDD
5 2 (12.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (12.50%) DevOps
5 2 (12.50%) ERP
5 2 (12.50%) Open Source
5 2 (12.50%) Regression Testing
5 2 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) Java
1 2 (12.50%) JavaScript
1 2 (12.50%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 3 (18.75%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (18.75%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) HP ALM
1 1 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft
1 3 (18.75%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) Oracle
3 1 (6.25%) HP
3 1 (6.25%) MuleSoft
3 1 (6.25%) Salesforce