Test Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 11 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 252 341 397
Rank change year-on-year +89 +56 -35
Contract jobs citing Test Management 92 106 241
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.44% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.50% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 73 198
10th Percentile £379 £407 £350
25th Percentile £416 £440 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £606 £626 £550
90th Percentile £643 £800 £641
UK median daily rate £500 £540 £495
% change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.00
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £17.00
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £17.25
% change year-on-year - - -62.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Test Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,892 21,388 39,955
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.30% 89.62% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,688 15,183 29,114
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +5.42%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 574 493 516
10th Percentile £14.91 £18.49 £14.94
25th Percentile £23.81 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £42.75 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.57% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £59.25
90th Percentile £74.35 £78.60 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £35.02 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.24% +36.35% +11.65%

Test Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Management.

Test Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Management over the 6 months to 11 June 2024.

Test Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Management.

Test Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 7 (7.61%) Confluence
2 2 (2.17%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) nginx
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 17 (18.48%) Azure
1 17 (18.48%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (8.70%) AWS
3 7 (7.61%) Power Platform
4 6 (6.52%) PowerApps
5 5 (5.43%) BlazeMeter
5 5 (5.43%) BrowserStack
5 5 (5.43%) Firebase
5 5 (5.43%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 3 (3.26%) Azure API Management
6 3 (3.26%) Dynamics 365
6 3 (3.26%) GitHub
7 2 (2.17%) GCP
7 2 (2.17%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (2.17%) OCI
7 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
7 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.17%) SaaS
7 2 (2.17%) Sauce Labs
7 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) MQTT
1 1 (1.09%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.26%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.17%) DB2
3 2 (2.17%) Power BI
4 1 (1.09%) Big Data
4 1 (1.09%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.09%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) JIRA
1 20 (21.74%) JMeter
2 14 (15.22%) Selenium
3 12 (13.04%) TestRail
4 11 (11.96%) Jenkins
5 9 (9.78%) Postman
6 8 (8.70%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.52%) Cucumber
7 6 (6.52%) GitLab
8 5 (5.43%) Appium
8 5 (5.43%) LoadRunner
8 5 (5.43%) SoapUI
9 4 (4.35%) JUnit
10 3 (3.26%) Git
11 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket
11 2 (2.17%) Bitbucket Server
11 2 (2.17%) Bugzilla
11 2 (2.17%) FitNesse
11 2 (2.17%) SpecFlow
11 2 (2.17%) TestNG
General
1 33 (35.87%) Social Skills
2 28 (30.43%) Finance
3 14 (15.22%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.87%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Banking
5 4 (4.35%) Electronics
5 4 (4.35%) Legal
5 4 (4.35%) Manufacturing
5 4 (4.35%) Marketing
5 4 (4.35%) Organisational Skills
5 4 (4.35%) Retail
5 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
6 2 (2.17%) Back Office
6 2 (2.17%) Front Office
7 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.09%) German Language
7 1 (1.09%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.09%) Law
7 1 (1.09%) Polish Language
7 1 (1.09%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 33 (35.87%) Test Manager
2 17 (18.48%) Analyst
3 14 (15.22%) Test Analyst
4 10 (10.87%) Tester
5 8 (8.70%) Senior
6 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 7 (7.61%) QA Tester
7 6 (6.52%) Lead
8 5 (5.43%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.43%) Test Engineer
8 5 (5.43%) Test Leader
9 4 (4.35%) Coordinator
10 3 (3.26%) Business Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Integration Manager
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Analyst
10 3 (3.26%) Senior Test Engineer
11 2 (2.17%) Architect
11 2 (2.17%) Debt Manager
11 2 (2.17%) SAP Manager
11 2 (2.17%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) Middleware
2 5 (5.43%) Oracle Fusion
2 5 (5.43%) WebdriverIO
2 5 (5.43%) XML
3 4 (4.35%) SOAP
4 3 (3.26%) Playwright
4 3 (3.26%) Swagger
4 3 (3.26%) Web Services
5 2 (2.17%) REST
6 1 (1.09%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 5 (5.43%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.26%) Life Science
3 2 (2.17%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.17%) NHS
3 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.17%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.09%) DataPower
4 1 (1.09%) EPoS
4 1 (1.09%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.09%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.09%) Robotics
4 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.09%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.61%) Linux
2 4 (4.35%) Windows
3 1 (1.09%) Android
3 1 (1.09%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.09%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (50.00%) Agile
2 43 (46.74%) Test Automation
3 33 (35.87%) Test Strategy
4 21 (22.83%) DevOps
5 18 (19.57%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (18.48%) Test Scripting
7 16 (17.39%) End-to-End Testing
8 15 (16.30%) Non-Functional Testing
8 15 (16.30%) Performance Testing
8 15 (16.30%) User Acceptance Testing
8 15 (16.30%) Waterfall
9 14 (15.22%) CI/CD
9 14 (15.22%) Scrum
10 13 (14.13%) Project Management
10 13 (14.13%) Test Planning
11 11 (11.96%) Defect Tracking
11 11 (11.96%) Functional Testing
11 11 (11.96%) Software Testing
12 10 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.04%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.87%) SQL
3 7 (7.61%) Python
4 5 (5.43%) Java
5 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.09%) Bash
6 1 (1.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 28 (30.43%) Security Cleared
2 25 (27.17%) ISTQB
3 12 (13.04%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.96%) Degree
4 11 (11.96%) DV Cleared
5 9 (9.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (5.43%) ISEB
7 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.09%) PMP
8 1 (1.09%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.65%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) GDPR
3 3 (3.26%) PMO
4 2 (2.17%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) HL7
5 1 (1.09%) GxP
System Software
1 3 (3.26%) Docker
2 1 (1.09%) iptables
2 1 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.52%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.17%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.17%) Terraform
3 1 (1.09%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 19 (20.65%) Microsoft
2 15 (16.30%) Oracle
3 8 (8.70%) HP
3 8 (8.70%) SAP
4 3 (3.26%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.17%) Citrix
5 2 (2.17%) Google
5 2 (2.17%) UiPath
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
5 2 (2.17%) Workday
6 1 (1.09%) Ariba
6 1 (1.09%) FIS
6 1 (1.09%) Genesys