QA Test Manager Contracts

Quality Assurance Test Manager
UK

The median Quality Assurance Test Manager daily rate in the UK is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 582 706 816
Rank change year-on-year +124 +110 -141
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Manager 4 16 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.027% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.028% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 13 13
10th Percentile - £475 £430
25th Percentile £413 £508 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +9.38% +6.67%
75th Percentile £438 £575 £538
90th Percentile - £615 £598
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £456
% change year-on-year - - +6.73%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

QA Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Manager in the UK

QA Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Test Manager.

Daily rate trend for QA Test Manager in the UK

QA Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing QA Test Manager.

Hourly rate trend for QA Test Manager in the UK

QA Test Manager
Top 6 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 25 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
England +110 4 £425 -20.26% 1
UK excluding London +70 3 £425 -
North of England +33 2 £425 -
North West - 2 £425 -
London +98 1 - - 1
South East - 1 - -

QA Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, QA 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 featuring QA Test Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
3 1 (25.00%) Node.js
3 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
3 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) ZeroMQ
3 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) C++
3 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (25.00%) Citrix
3 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (25.00%) React
3 1 (25.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Grafana
3 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
3 1 (25.00%) Gatling
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright

QA Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon OpenSearch
1 1 (25.00%) Contentful
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
1 2 (50.00%) Zephyr
2 1 (25.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (25.00%) Gatling
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 2 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) FIX Protocol
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) WebSockets
1 1 (25.00%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (25.00%) Blockchain
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Test Management
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (25.00%) Migration
2 1 (25.00%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C++
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Citrix
1 1 (25.00%) Finsemble