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 19 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 338 433 398
Rank change year-on-year +95 -35 +31
Contract jobs citing Test Management 253 276 557
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.48% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.54% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 191 441
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £596 £600 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £475
% change year-on-year -2.44% +7.89% +7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.64
25th Percentile - - £16.59
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £26.13
75th Percentile - - £41.25
90th Percentile - - £52.50
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 36,644 51,414 79,489
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.11% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,629 35,622 55,798
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £438 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,441 1,693 1,893
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.99 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.13% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.52
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -5.27%

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 19 May 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 19 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 +90 224 £500 -5.93% 47
UK excluding London +75 136 £500 -2.44% 28
Work from Home +95 97 £513 - 17
London +61 93 £515 -6.36% 16
South East +35 61 £550 +10.00% 6
North of England +20 16 £438 -20.45% 5
South West +13 16 £425 -29.41% 4
East of England +25 15 £375 -11.76% 4
Scotland +42 11 £539 +3.06% 2
Midlands +22 11 £485 -3.00% 6
North West +12 9 £425 -15.00% 3
West Midlands +22 8 £485 -3.00% 4
Yorkshire +11 6 £450 -18.18% 2
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +19 3 £620 +29.17% 2
Wales - 2 £210 - 1
North East +14 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 13 (5.14%) Confluence
2 2 (0.79%) 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 (3.95%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.14%) Oracle EBS
1 13 (5.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.56%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 45 (17.79%) Azure
2 33 (13.04%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.72%) AWS
4 13 (5.14%) BrowserStack
5 11 (4.35%) Firebase
6 10 (3.95%) BlazeMeter
7 8 (3.16%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.16%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 6 (2.37%) OCI
8 6 (2.37%) PowerApps
8 6 (2.37%) SaaS
9 3 (1.19%) GCP
9 3 (1.19%) GitHub
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
10 2 (0.79%) Datadog
10 2 (0.79%) Figma
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.79%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.79%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.79%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.98%) Firewall
2 2 (0.79%) 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%) MQTT
3 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.77%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.58%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (1.58%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.19%) Big Data
3 3 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.19%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.40%) DB2
4 1 (0.40%) GIS
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (25.69%) JIRA
2 35 (13.83%) JMeter
2 35 (13.83%) Selenium
3 30 (11.86%) TestRail
4 20 (7.91%) Cypress.io
5 18 (7.11%) Jenkins
6 16 (6.32%) GitLab
7 15 (5.93%) Postman
8 13 (5.14%) Cucumber
9 12 (4.74%) Appium
10 8 (3.16%) Git
11 6 (2.37%) JUnit
11 6 (2.37%) LoadRunner
11 6 (2.37%) SpecFlow
12 5 (1.98%) SoapUI
13 4 (1.58%) FitNesse
14 3 (1.19%) Gatling
14 3 (1.19%) Zephyr
15 2 (0.79%) Bitbucket Server
15 2 (0.79%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 77 (30.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.21%) Finance
3 24 (9.49%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.14%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (3.95%) Banking
7 8 (3.16%) Games
7 8 (3.16%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.37%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (1.98%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.58%) Back Office
11 4 (1.58%) Electronics
11 4 (1.58%) Marketing
11 4 (1.58%) Military
11 4 (1.58%) Retail
12 3 (1.19%) Front Office
12 3 (1.19%) German Language
12 3 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 87 (34.39%) Test Manager
2 54 (21.34%) Analyst
3 47 (18.58%) Test Analyst
4 35 (13.83%) Lead
5 31 (12.25%) Test Leader
6 29 (11.46%) Senior
7 24 (9.49%) Tester
8 20 (7.91%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 18 (7.11%) Test Engineer
10 14 (5.53%) QA Tester
11 13 (5.14%) SAP Manager
12 9 (3.56%) Consultant
12 9 (3.56%) SAP Test Manager
13 8 (3.16%) QA Analyst
13 8 (3.16%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (2.77%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.77%) QA Test Analyst
14 7 (2.77%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (2.37%) Coordinator
15 6 (2.37%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.32%) Middleware
2 14 (5.53%) ADO
2 14 (5.53%) WebdriverIO
3 11 (4.35%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.16%) REST
4 8 (3.16%) Web Services
5 6 (2.37%) Playwright
6 5 (1.98%) Gherkin
6 5 (1.98%) XML
7 4 (1.58%) SOAP
8 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.79%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.79%) Jest
9 1 (0.40%) Kafka
9 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.40%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.35%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.56%) Life Science
3 5 (1.98%) Mobile App
3 5 (1.98%) NHS
3 5 (1.98%) PKI
4 4 (1.58%) FMCG
4 4 (1.58%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.58%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.58%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.58%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.19%) Equities
5 3 (1.19%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.79%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.79%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.40%) EPoS
7 1 (0.40%) IVR
7 1 (0.40%) PMI
7 1 (0.40%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.16%) Linux
2 4 (1.58%) Windows
3 2 (0.79%) 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
1 108 (42.69%) Agile
2 98 (38.74%) Test Automation
3 67 (26.48%) Test Strategy
4 51 (20.16%) DevOps
5 48 (18.97%) Test Planning
6 42 (16.60%) Continuous Integration
7 41 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.42%) User Acceptance Testing
9 37 (14.62%) Defect Management
10 36 (14.23%) Scenario Testing
11 34 (13.44%) Non-Functional Testing
12 32 (12.65%) Software Testing
12 32 (12.65%) Test Scripting
13 28 (11.07%) CI/CD
13 28 (11.07%) End-to-End Testing
14 27 (10.67%) Performance Testing
15 25 (9.88%) Scrum
15 25 (9.88%) Stakeholder Management
15 25 (9.88%) Waterfall
16 24 (9.49%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.88%) JavaScript
2 16 (6.32%) Python
3 15 (5.93%) Java
4 13 (5.14%) SQL
5 6 (2.37%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.58%) C#
7 2 (0.79%) ProC
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
Qualifications
1 63 (24.90%) Security Cleared
2 56 (22.13%) ISTQB
3 31 (12.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 29 (11.46%) Degree
5 28 (11.07%) SC Cleared
6 25 (9.88%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.74%) ISEB
8 9 (3.56%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.58%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.19%) PMP
11 2 (0.79%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (25.69%) QA
2 6 (2.37%) HL7
3 5 (1.98%) Accessibility
3 5 (1.98%) PMO
4 4 (1.58%) GDPR
5 3 (1.19%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.77%) Docker
2 5 (1.98%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.16%) HP ALM
1 8 (3.16%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 35 (13.83%) Oracle
2 26 (10.28%) SAP
3 20 (7.91%) Microsoft
4 10 (3.95%) HP
5 5 (1.98%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.19%) Citrix
6 3 (1.19%) Google
7 2 (0.79%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.79%) Genesys
7 2 (0.79%) UiPath
8 1 (0.40%) Adobe
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) FIS
8 1 (0.40%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.40%) Informatica
8 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.40%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.40%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.40%) Splunk
8 1 (0.40%) Workday