Senior Test Manager Contracts

Senior Test Manager
UK

The median Senior Test Manager daily rate in the UK is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 695 826
Rank change year-on-year +112 +131 -142
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Test Manager 8 23 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.039% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.041% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 14 20
10th Percentile £423 £465 £459
25th Percentile £450 £502 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £688 £716 £596
90th Percentile £695 £831 £676
UK excluding London median daily rate £675 £490 £519
% change year-on-year +37.76% -5.54% -5.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £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 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

Senior Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Test Manager in the UK

Senior Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Test Manager in the UK

Senior Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Test Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Test Manager in the UK

Senior Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Senior Test Manager in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Test Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 4 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
England +97 8 £500 -7.41% 3
London +95 7 £488 -18.75% 1
Work from Home +125 5 £455 -11.65%
UK excluding London +59 1 £675 +37.76% 2
Midlands - 1 £675 - 2
West Midlands - 1 £675 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, Senior 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 Senior Test Manager in the job title.

1 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) Test Management
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
2 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
2 2 (25.00%) Legal
2 2 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
3 1 (12.50%) Project Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
3 1 (12.50%) Practice Management
3 1 (12.50%) Finance

Senior 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 2 (25.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
2 2 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 2 (25.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (12.50%) OneDrive
3 1 (12.50%) Power Automate
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
General
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (37.50%) Agile
1 3 (37.50%) DevOps
1 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
1 3 (37.50%) Test Management
1 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
2 2 (25.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (25.00%) Waterfall
3 1 (12.50%) Computer Science
3 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Line Management
3 1 (12.50%) Migration
3 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Practice Management
3 1 (12.50%) Process Improvement
3 1 (12.50%) Programme Management
3 1 (12.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (12.50%) Software Engineering
3 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
3 1 (12.50%) Validation
Qualifications
1 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (12.50%) Degree
1 1 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 1 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft