Test Management Contracts in Birmingham

Test Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 66 69
Rank change year-on-year +27 +3 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Management 11 1 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 2.11% 0.13% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.43% 0.16% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £511 - £365
25th Percentile £519 - £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £400 £400
Median % change year-on-year +37.50% - -17.95%
75th Percentile £594 - £463
90th Percentile £625 - £485
West Midlands median daily rate £538 £485 £493
% change year-on-year +10.82% -1.62% -1.40%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 requiring process or methodology skills in Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 644 798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 86.59% 83.31% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 317 423 537
10th Percentile £163 £240 £263
25th Percentile £375 £368 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £513
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% -9.76% +7.89%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £625
90th Percentile £700 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £512
% change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 44 27
10th Percentile - £13.20 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.75 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.38 £27.25 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -32.57% +81.67% -14.19%
75th Percentile £27.69 £48.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £71.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Birmingham

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Birmingham

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) SaaS
1 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
2 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (45.45%) Social Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Retail
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
4 1 (9.09%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Test Manager
2 3 (27.27%) ERP Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) JIRA Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Lead
3 2 (18.18%) QA Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Telecoms Manager
4 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Test Leader
4 1 (9.09%) UAT Manager
4 1 (9.09%) UAT Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (9.09%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Test Strategy
2 5 (45.45%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Integration Testing
4 3 (27.27%) ERP
4 3 (27.27%) Performance Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (18.18%) Defect Management
5 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Performance Metrics
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Resilience Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Scalability Testing
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
5 2 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) System Integration Testing
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB
1 1 (9.09%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (36.36%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Micro Focus
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle