Test Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 274 325 274
Rank change year-on-year +51 -51 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Management 129 105 255
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.46% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.52% 0.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 94 77 205
10th Percentile £363 £400 £314
25th Percentile £405 £429 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £470
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +11.70% +6.82%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £518
90th Percentile £610 £675 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £541 £495
% change year-on-year -7.62% +9.34% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £17.25
% change year-on-year - - -62.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 June 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
South East +29 58 £550 +10.00% 10
East of England +17 15 £375 -46.43% 2
North of England +8 15 £438 -18.60% 2
Midlands +20 13 £485 -3.00% 4
Scotland +53 11 £539 +2.57% 2
South West -4 11 £425 -29.41% 6
West Midlands +17 8 £485 -3.00% 2
North West +12 8 £425 -15.00% 2
Yorkshire +8 6 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands +11 5 £595 -0.83% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
Wales - 2 £210 -
North East +9 1 - -
Test Management
UK

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 10 (7.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (3.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.75%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (6.20%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.55%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.78%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 26 (20.16%) Azure
2 22 (17.05%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (3.88%) AWS
3 5 (3.88%) Power Platform
3 5 (3.88%) SaaS
4 4 (3.10%) OCI
4 4 (3.10%) PowerApps
5 1 (0.78%) Figma
5 1 (0.78%) GCP
5 1 (0.78%) GitHub
5 1 (0.78%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.10%) Big Data
1 4 (3.10%) SAP BW
2 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.78%) GIS
2 1 (0.78%) Hadoop
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle BI EE
2 1 (0.78%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.78%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (15.50%) JIRA
2 19 (14.73%) TestRail
3 11 (8.53%) Selenium
4 6 (4.65%) JMeter
5 4 (3.10%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.33%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.33%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.55%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.55%) JUnit
7 2 (1.55%) Tricentis qTest
7 2 (1.55%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.78%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.78%) Postman
8 1 (0.78%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.78%) Visual Studio
General
1 41 (31.78%) Social Skills
2 16 (12.40%) Finance
3 13 (10.08%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.30%) Organisational Skills
5 8 (6.20%) Public Sector
6 6 (4.65%) Games
7 4 (3.10%) Banking
8 3 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (2.33%) Military
8 3 (2.33%) Retail
9 2 (1.55%) Aviation
9 2 (1.55%) Law
9 2 (1.55%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (0.78%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 39 (30.23%) Analyst
1 39 (30.23%) Test Manager
2 33 (25.58%) Test Analyst
3 21 (16.28%) Lead
4 19 (14.73%) Test Leader
5 18 (13.95%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 15 (11.63%) Senior
7 6 (4.65%) Consultant
7 6 (4.65%) QA Analyst
7 6 (4.65%) QA Test Analyst
7 6 (4.65%) SAP Consultant
8 5 (3.88%) Business Analyst
8 5 (3.88%) Test Engineer
8 5 (3.88%) Tester
9 4 (3.10%) Coordinator
9 4 (3.10%) Security Consultant
9 4 (3.10%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (3.10%) Senior Consultant
9 4 (3.10%) Senior Security Consultant
9 4 (3.10%) Senior Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) Web Services
2 5 (3.88%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.55%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.55%) XML
4 1 (0.78%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.78%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.78%) JSON
4 1 (0.78%) Kafka
4 1 (0.78%) Playwright
4 1 (0.78%) REST
4 1 (0.78%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.78%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.65%) Life Science
2 5 (3.88%) PKI
3 4 (3.10%) NHS
4 3 (2.33%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.55%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.55%) Equities
5 2 (1.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.55%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.55%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.78%) IVR
6 1 (0.78%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.78%) PMI
6 1 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.78%) Windows
1 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (41.09%) Agile
2 44 (34.11%) Test Automation
3 39 (30.23%) Test Strategy
4 27 (20.93%) DevOps
4 27 (20.93%) Test Planning
5 21 (16.28%) Defect Management
5 21 (16.28%) User Acceptance Testing
6 20 (15.50%) Continuous Integration
6 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
7 17 (13.18%) Scenario Testing
8 15 (11.63%) Test Scripting
9 14 (10.85%) Project Management
9 14 (10.85%) Software Testing
10 12 (9.30%) Functional Testing
10 12 (9.30%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 12 (9.30%) Scrum
10 12 (9.30%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (9.30%) Waterfall
11 11 (8.53%) Requirements Analysis
12 10 (7.75%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.10%) JavaScript
1 4 (3.10%) Python
1 4 (3.10%) SQL
2 3 (2.33%) C#
3 2 (1.55%) Java
4 1 (0.78%) ProC
4 1 (0.78%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 37 (28.68%) Security Cleared
2 34 (26.36%) ISTQB
3 22 (17.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 18 (13.95%) Degree
4 18 (13.95%) DV Cleared
5 10 (7.75%) SC Cleared
6 6 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (3.10%) ISEB
8 2 (1.55%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (1.55%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.78%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (19.38%) QA
2 5 (3.88%) HL7
2 5 (3.88%) PMO
3 4 (3.10%) GDPR
4 1 (0.78%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (3.88%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.43%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.55%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (13.95%) Oracle
2 11 (8.53%) Microsoft
3 10 (7.75%) SAP
4 4 (3.10%) HP
5 2 (1.55%) Genesys
5 2 (1.55%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.78%) FIS
6 1 (0.78%) Google
6 1 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.78%) ScienceLogic