Test Manager Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Manager
South East > Thames Valley

The median Test Manager daily rate in the Thames Valley is £494 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 May 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 128 131 143
Rank change year-on-year +3 +12 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 14 19 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.53% 0.67% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.71% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 12 16
10th Percentile £418 £400 £406
25th Percentile £453 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £475 £493
Median % change year-on-year +3.95% -3.55% +9.44%
75th Percentile £528 £495 £628
90th Percentile £556 £500 £675
South East median daily rate £525 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +10.53% -5.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 2,462 2,693 3,339
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.91% 94.59% 95.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,417 1,863 2,279
10th Percentile £209 £311 £190
25th Percentile £370 £406 £375
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 £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 185 76 98
10th Percentile £15.63 £17.11 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £20.75 £13.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £48.40 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.02% +176.57% -16.86%
75th Percentile £62.50 £66.21 £23.69
90th Percentile £85.49 £79.19 £55.71
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the Thames Valley

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the Thames Valley

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the Thames Valley

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the Thames Valley

Test Manager
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 Manager within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 8 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
Berkshire -4 12 £519 +15.28% 2
Buckinghamshire +18 2 £475 - 1
Test Manager
South East

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 8 May 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 Thames Valley region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 7 (50.00%) Test Management
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Azure
3 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
4 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
5 3 (21.43%) Selenium
5 3 (21.43%) HL7
5 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 3 (21.43%) Life Science
5 3 (21.43%) Web Services
5 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (21.43%) SpecFlow
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
5 3 (21.43%) Postman
6 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
6 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
6 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
6 2 (14.29%) NHS
6 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
6 2 (14.29%) QA
6 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 1 (7.14%) Banking
7 1 (7.14%) Degree

Test Manager Skill Set
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 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (35.71%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (7.14%) OCI
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Postman
1 3 (21.43%) Selenium
1 3 (21.43%) SpecFlow
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
3 1 (7.14%) Automotive
3 1 (7.14%) Aviation
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (21.43%) Web Services
2 1 (7.14%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Life Science
2 2 (14.29%) NHS
3 1 (7.14%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Management
2 6 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
4 3 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (21.43%) DevOps
4 3 (21.43%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) E-Commerce
5 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
5 2 (14.29%) Test Scripting
5 2 (14.29%) Waterfall
6 1 (7.14%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (7.14%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (7.14%) Requirements Gathering
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Identification
6 1 (7.14%) Technical Debt
6 1 (7.14%) Test Assurance
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) ISTQB
2 1 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) HL7
2 2 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (7.14%) Citrix
1 1 (7.14%) Oracle