Test Management Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

Test Management
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 32 53
Rank change year-on-year -32 +21 +19
Contract jobs citing Test Management 2 6 1
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 0.25% 2.54% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 2.74% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile £312 £420 -
25th Percentile £331 £431 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.72% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £431 - £488
90th Percentile £457 - -
South East median daily rate £463 £500 £550
% change year-on-year -7.50% -9.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
South East median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 -
% change year-on-year +16.67% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 637 219 393
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.35% 92.80% 82.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 445 157 271
10th Percentile £310 £281 £255
25th Percentile £413 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £501 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.90% +5.37% -1.04%
75th Percentile £598 £588 £580
90th Percentile £640 £646 £688
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 29 23 31
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £15.91 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +150.00%
75th Percentile £19.34 £39.13 £30.00
90th Percentile £36.00 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £52.50 £28.00 £47.50
% change year-on-year +87.50% -41.05% -5.00%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

Test Management job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Buckinghamshire

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

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 Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2026. 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
Milton Keynes -34 1 £450 - 1
Newport Pagnell - 1 £300 -
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Git
1 1 (50.00%) JMeter
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Automation Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) WebdriverIO
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Integration
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Load Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Logistics
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) TMMi
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle