Test Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Test Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 24 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
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 126 127
Rank change year-on-year +31 +1 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 14 15 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.73% 0.62% 1.28%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.66% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 11 37
10th Percentile £275 £475 £435
25th Percentile £344 £488 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.99% +12.22%
75th Percentile £563 £544 £538
90th Percentile £635 £550 £558
England median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year -11.29% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,762 2,284 3,481
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 94.69% 96.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,188 1,571 2,548
10th Percentile £259 £250 £213
25th Percentile £363 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +17.28%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £700 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 134 69 85
10th Percentile £12.01 £12.50 £12.30
25th Percentile £15.00 £15.10 £14.00
Median hourly rate £22.25 £19.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.11% +11.76% +6.25%
75th Percentile £42.31 £27.13 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.88 £54.50 £23.15
England median hourly rate £35.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -21.11% +100.00% +0.36%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 24 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
Birmingham +11 7 £500 -
Warwickshire +4 4 - -
Solihull - 2 £275 -
Coventry +13 1 £675 +28.57%
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 24 April 2024, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 6 (42.86%) Azure
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) QA
5 4 (28.57%) Project Management
5 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Test Management
6 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
6 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) SAP
6 3 (21.43%) ITIL
6 3 (21.43%) JIRA
6 3 (21.43%) Service Management
6 3 (21.43%) Migration
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Scrum
7 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (14.29%) Release Management
7 2 (14.29%) HP
7 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
7 2 (14.29%) Firewall
7 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
7 2 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 2 (14.29%) GCP
7 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) AWS
3 2 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
4 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 3 (21.43%) JIRA
General
1 10 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Manufacturing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (14.29%) Public Cloud
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Windows
1 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 6 (42.86%) DevOps
3 4 (28.57%) Project Management
3 4 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (21.43%) ITIL
4 3 (21.43%) Migration
4 3 (21.43%) Scrum
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (21.43%) Test Automation
4 3 (21.43%) Test Management
5 2 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 2 (14.29%) Data Protection
5 2 (14.29%) Defect Management
5 2 (14.29%) Release Management
5 2 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (14.29%) Software Testing
5 2 (14.29%) Test Assurance
6 1 (7.14%) Customer Experience
6 1 (7.14%) Verification and Validation
Qualifications
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 2 (14.29%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
1 2 (14.29%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) SAP
2 2 (14.29%) HP
2 2 (14.29%) Salesforce
2 2 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 1 (7.14%) Microsoft