Test Management Contracts in the North West

Test Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 145 165
Rank change year-on-year +18 +20 -35
Contract jobs citing Test Management 10 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.36% 0.25% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.42% 0.27% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile £405 £355 -
25th Percentile £413 £433 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £388
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +29.03% +2.24%
75th Percentile £480 £600 £494
90th Percentile £515 £660 £538
England median daily rate £513 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 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 West

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 West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,385 2,910 3,587
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.32% 90.57% 88.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,526 2,071 2,633
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £401 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £589 £588 £575
90th Percentile £688 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 243 145 164
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.49 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.28 £21.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +10.64%
75th Percentile £45.44 £48.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £58.75
England median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
% change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Manchester +15 6 £425 -22.73% 2
Cheshire +6 2 £480 +10.34% 2
Lancashire - 1 - -
Merseyside - 1 - -
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
1 1 (10.00%) Figma
1 1 (10.00%) Rubrik
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Zephyr
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) JMeter
3 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
3 1 (10.00%) TestDirector
General
1 2 (20.00%) Retail
1 2 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Aviation
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Automation Tester
3 2 (20.00%) QA Manager
3 2 (20.00%) QA Test Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Test Analyst
3 2 (20.00%) Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Business Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Coordinator
4 1 (10.00%) Data Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
4 1 (10.00%) UAT Manager
4 1 (10.00%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
1 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
1 1 (10.00%) Kafka
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (40.00%) Test Automation
1 4 (40.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) Defect Management
3 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 2 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (10.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (10.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (10.00%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (10.00%) Open Source
4 1 (10.00%) Performance Monitoring
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (10.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) C#
2 1 (10.00%) Java
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (10.00%) Degree
2 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) HP
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (10.00%) MuleSoft
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) SAP