Test Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Management
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 126 130 146
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 -28
Contract jobs citing Test Management 13 22 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.48% 0.75% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.81% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 12 19
10th Percentile - £434 £391
25th Percentile £463 £463 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £528 £514 £575
90th Percentile £575 £519 £635
South East median daily rate £550 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,348 2,701 3,092
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.25% 91.93% 88.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,307 1,878 2,085
10th Percentile £213 £320 £225
25th Percentile £369 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £506 £500
% change year-on-year -1.14% +1.25% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 172 62 85
10th Percentile £15.52 £18.60 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.94 £24.86 £12.05
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.61 £79.19 £67.00
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.00% +122.22% -12.62%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 26 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
Berkshire -7 12 £506 -0.34% 6
Buckinghamshire +23 1 £475 - 2
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 6 (46.15%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle EBS
1 7 (53.85%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
Cloud Services
1 8 (61.54%) Azure
1 8 (61.54%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (7.69%) OCI
Development Applications
1 1 (7.69%) TestRail
General
1 7 (53.85%) Organisational Skills
1 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.69%) Automotive
3 1 (7.69%) Banking
3 1 (7.69%) Finance
3 1 (7.69%) Legal
3 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (61.54%) Analyst
1 8 (61.54%) Test Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) QA Analyst
2 6 (46.15%) QA Test Analyst
3 4 (30.77%) Test Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Business Test Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Defect Manager
4 1 (7.69%) E-Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Oracle Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (7.69%) Life Science
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
1 8 (61.54%) DevOps
2 7 (53.85%) Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (15.38%) ERP
3 2 (15.38%) Software Engineering
3 2 (15.38%) Software Testing
3 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
3 2 (15.38%) Test Planning
3 2 (15.38%) Test Strategy
4 1 (7.69%) Computer Science
4 1 (7.69%) Continuous Integration
4 1 (7.69%) Defect Management
4 1 (7.69%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (7.69%) E-Commerce
4 1 (7.69%) Incident Management
4 1 (7.69%) Regression Testing
4 1 (7.69%) Requirements Analysis
4 1 (7.69%) SDLC
4 1 (7.69%) Test Scripting
Qualifications
1 5 (38.46%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) ISTQB
3 1 (7.69%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (7.69%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) HL7
Vendors
1 9 (69.23%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow