Test Management Contracts

Test Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 361 446 422
Rank change year-on-year +85 -24 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Management 247 288 521
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.48% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.54% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 201 412
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £411 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £556
90th Percentile £646 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +2.50% +2.56% +9.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.50
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +140.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,374 53,774 80,482
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.91% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,095 37,304 56,474
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,422 1,763 1,928
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year - +80.00% -8.17%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 27 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 +90 216 £513 -2.38% 63
UK excluding London +72 126 £513 +2.50% 36
London +70 98 £500 -9.09% 25
Work from Home +112 91 £535 +6.15% 30
South East +18 52 £550 +10.00% 17
North of England +28 17 £450 -18.18% 4
East of England +26 15 £375 -42.31% 3
South West +25 14 £425 -19.05% 4
Scotland +34 11 £539 +3.56% 3
Midlands +22 11 £485 -1.62% 4
North West +18 10 £425 -15.00% 4
West Midlands +28 8 £485 -1.62% 1
Yorkshire +14 6 £450 -18.18%
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +19 3 £620 +29.17% 3
Wales +17 2 £210 -47.50% 2
North East +19 1 - -

Test Management
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 8 (3.24%) Confluence
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (4.86%) SAP S/4HANA
2 11 (4.45%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (3.24%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.21%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.81%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 47 (19.03%) Azure
2 28 (11.34%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.88%) AWS
4 8 (3.24%) BrowserStack
5 7 (2.83%) OCI
6 6 (2.43%) Firebase
6 6 (2.43%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.02%) BlazeMeter
8 4 (1.62%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.62%) SaaS
8 4 (1.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.21%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (1.21%) GitHub
10 2 (0.81%) Figma
10 2 (0.81%) GCP
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.43%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) Internet
2 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) 3G
3 1 (0.40%) 4G
3 1 (0.40%) 5G
3 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.40%) DNS
3 1 (0.40%) MQTT
3 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
3 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.83%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.62%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (1.62%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.21%) Big Data
3 3 (1.21%) Power BI
4 2 (0.81%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (26.32%) JIRA
2 33 (13.36%) Selenium
3 29 (11.74%) TestRail
4 27 (10.93%) JMeter
5 12 (4.86%) Cucumber
5 12 (4.86%) Jenkins
6 11 (4.45%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.05%) Postman
8 9 (3.64%) GitLab
9 7 (2.83%) Appium
9 7 (2.83%) Git
9 7 (2.83%) LoadRunner
9 7 (2.83%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.62%) FitNesse
10 4 (1.62%) Gatling
10 4 (1.62%) JUnit
10 4 (1.62%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.21%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.81%) Maven
General
1 66 (26.72%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.38%) Finance
3 23 (9.31%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.50%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.67%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.86%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.05%) Banking
7 10 (4.05%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.24%) Games
8 8 (3.24%) Manufacturing
9 7 (2.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.43%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.02%) Electronics
11 5 (2.02%) Marketing
12 4 (1.62%) Back Office
12 4 (1.62%) Legal
12 4 (1.62%) Military
12 4 (1.62%) Retail
13 3 (1.21%) Front Office
13 3 (1.21%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 83 (33.60%) Test Manager
2 52 (21.05%) Analyst
3 47 (19.03%) Test Analyst
4 32 (12.96%) Lead
5 28 (11.34%) Test Leader
6 25 (10.12%) Senior
7 23 (9.31%) Tester
8 22 (8.91%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 15 (6.07%) Test Engineer
10 12 (4.86%) QA Tester
10 12 (4.86%) SAP Manager
11 9 (3.64%) Consultant
11 9 (3.64%) SAP Test Manager
12 8 (3.24%) Senior Test Engineer
12 8 (3.24%) Testing Manager
13 7 (2.83%) Project Manager
13 7 (2.83%) QA Analyst
13 7 (2.83%) QA Test Analyst
14 6 (2.43%) Coordinator
14 6 (2.43%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.50%) ADO
2 9 (3.64%) Middleware
2 9 (3.64%) REST
2 9 (3.64%) WebdriverIO
3 8 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (2.43%) Playwright
5 5 (2.02%) Gherkin
5 5 (2.02%) XML
6 4 (1.62%) SOAP
7 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.81%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.81%) Jest
7 2 (0.81%) RESTful
8 1 (0.40%) Kafka
8 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.40%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.45%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.02%) PKI
3 4 (1.62%) Equities
3 4 (1.62%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.62%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.62%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.21%) FMCG
4 3 (1.21%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.21%) Life Science
4 3 (1.21%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.81%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.81%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.40%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.40%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.83%) Linux
2 3 (1.21%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) CentOS
4 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (38.46%) Agile
2 87 (35.22%) Test Automation
3 61 (24.70%) Test Strategy
4 52 (21.05%) DevOps
5 48 (19.43%) User Acceptance Testing
6 45 (18.22%) Test Planning
7 44 (17.81%) Defect Management
8 40 (16.19%) Scenario Testing
9 39 (15.79%) Test Scripting
10 38 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 37 (14.98%) Continuous Integration
12 36 (14.57%) End-to-End Testing
13 33 (13.36%) Project Management
14 30 (12.15%) Stakeholder Management
15 29 (11.74%) Non-Functional Testing
16 26 (10.53%) Software Testing
17 21 (8.50%) CI/CD
17 21 (8.50%) Functional Testing
17 21 (8.50%) Performance Testing
18 20 (8.10%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.50%) JavaScript
2 17 (6.88%) Python
3 15 (6.07%) Java
4 9 (3.64%) SQL
5 5 (2.02%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.81%) C#
7 1 (0.40%) Bash
7 1 (0.40%) ProC
Qualifications
1 65 (26.32%) Security Cleared
2 54 (21.86%) ISTQB
3 33 (13.36%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 28 (11.34%) Degree
4 28 (11.34%) SC Cleared
5 27 (10.93%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.86%) ISEB
7 6 (2.43%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.62%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.21%) PMP
10 2 (0.81%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (25.51%) QA
2 6 (2.43%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.02%) PMO
4 4 (1.62%) GDPR
5 3 (1.21%) GxP
6 2 (0.81%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) HL7
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.83%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.45%) HP ALM
2 7 (2.83%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.81%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 33 (13.36%) Oracle
2 26 (10.53%) SAP
3 16 (6.48%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.26%) HP
5 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.62%) Workday
7 3 (1.21%) Citrix
8 2 (0.81%) Adobe
8 2 (0.81%) Genesys
8 2 (0.81%) Google
8 2 (0.81%) Qualtrics
8 2 (0.81%) Splunk
8 2 (0.81%) UiPath
9 1 (0.40%) Ariba
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) FIS
9 1 (0.40%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.40%) ScienceLogic