Test Manager Contracts in the South East

Test Manager
England > South East

The median Test Manager daily rate in the South East is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 30 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
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 177 185 196
Rank change year-on-year +8 +11 -29
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 29 36 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.52% 0.62% 0.86%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.66% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 25 55
10th Percentile £389 £410 £413
25th Percentile £461 £463 £462
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £666 £513 £550
90th Percentile £738 £578 £623
England median daily rate £535 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -0.93% +2.86% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,143 5,494 7,436
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.50% 94.56% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,085 3,832 5,040
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.42% +8.48%
75th Percentile £613 £604 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 481 240 337
10th Percentile £12.78 £18.04 £12.24
25th Percentile £18.32 £22.16 £15.50
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.40 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.86% +130.48% -16.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.16 £43.95
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £60.60
England median hourly rate £36.31 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -19.32% +100.00% +0.36%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the South East

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the South East

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the South East over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the South East

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the South East

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 30 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
Thames Valley +3 14 £494 +3.95% 4
Berkshire -6 12 £519 +15.28% 3
Surrey - 7 £675 - 2
Hampshire -5 4 £775 +53.47% 1
West Sussex - 3 £550 - 3
Buckinghamshire +19 2 £475 - 1
Test Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 30 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 South East region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 15 (51.72%) Test Management
2 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
3 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
4 11 (37.93%) Azure
4 11 (37.93%) Test Strategy
5 7 (24.14%) Oracle
5 7 (24.14%) Finance
6 6 (20.69%) Agile
6 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
6 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
6 6 (20.69%) DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (20.69%) End-to-End Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Business Strategy
7 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Software Testing
7 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
7 5 (17.24%) Web Services
8 4 (13.79%) ERP
8 4 (13.79%) Project Management
8 4 (13.79%) Service Management
8 4 (13.79%) Disaster Recovery
8 4 (13.79%) Migration
8 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (13.79%) Military
8 4 (13.79%) Defect Management
8 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 4 (13.79%) OCI

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (3.45%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (3.45%) SAP Retail
2 1 (3.45%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (37.93%) Azure
2 6 (20.69%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (13.79%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 3 (10.34%) Postman
1 3 (10.34%) Selenium
1 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
2 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 14 (48.28%) Social Skills
2 7 (24.14%) Finance
3 4 (13.79%) Military
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Public Sector
5 1 (3.45%) Automotive
5 1 (3.45%) Aviation
5 1 (3.45%) Banking
5 1 (3.45%) Legal
5 1 (3.45%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (3.45%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Web Services
2 3 (10.34%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (3.45%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Life Science
2 2 (6.90%) NHS
2 2 (6.90%) Product Ownership
3 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (51.72%) Test Management
2 12 (41.38%) Test Automation
3 11 (37.93%) Test Strategy
4 6 (20.69%) Agile
4 6 (20.69%) DevOps
4 6 (20.69%) End-to-End Testing
4 6 (20.69%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
5 5 (17.24%) Business Strategy
5 5 (17.24%) Integration Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Scenario Testing
5 5 (17.24%) Software Testing
5 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
6 4 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (13.79%) Defect Management
6 4 (13.79%) ERP
6 4 (13.79%) Migration
6 4 (13.79%) Project Management
6 4 (13.79%) Service Management
6 4 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 6 (20.69%) ISTQB
2 3 (10.34%) Degree
3 2 (6.90%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.34%) HL7
2 2 (6.90%) QA
3 1 (3.45%) Def Stans
Vendors
1 7 (24.14%) Oracle
2 3 (10.34%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.45%) Citrix
3 1 (3.45%) SAP