Test Management Contracts in South Wales

Test Management
Wales > South Wales

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 40 58 74
Rank change year-on-year +18 +16 -
Contract jobs citing Test Management 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 0.60% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.22% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £210 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year -47.50% -15.79% -
75th Percentile - - £488
90th Percentile - - -
Wales median daily rate £210 £400 £475
% change year-on-year -47.50% -15.79% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £11.00 - -
Wales median hourly rate £11.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 267 460 747
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 79.94% 88.63% 83.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 351 552
10th Percentile £160 £190 £256
25th Percentile £357 £350 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £492
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.46% +10.25%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £575
90th Percentile £669 £650 £650
Wales median daily rate £500 £475 £485
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.06% +7.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 23 28
10th Percentile £11.21 £16.37 £14.31
25th Percentile £15.35 £16.98 £19.46
Median hourly rate £22.68 £18.14 £21.63
Median % change year-on-year +25.03% -16.12% +5.36%
75th Percentile £52.31 £22.11 £31.97
90th Percentile £87.62 £49.75 £47.40
Wales median hourly rate £22.50 £18.82 £22.50
% change year-on-year +19.59% -16.38% +15.38%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in South Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in South Wales

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in South Wales.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in South Wales

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in South Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in South Wales

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 South Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cardiff +9 1 £210 -47.50% 2
Newport - 1 - -
Test Management
Wales

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Team Foundation Server
1 1 (50.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (50.00%) Conflict Resolution
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Data Entry
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Health Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) Informatics
1 1 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) Microsoft