Test Management Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Test Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cheshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 65 55 48
Rank change year-on-year -10 -7 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Management 8 2 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.28% 0.39% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.39% 0.45% 0.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 2 0
10th Percentile £267 - -
25th Percentile £270 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £367 £575 -
Median % change year-on-year -36.20% - -
75th Percentile £417 - -
90th Percentile £476 - -
North West median daily rate £400 £400 £500
% change year-on-year - -20.00% +73.91%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 575 440 345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 91.71% 86.44% 88.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 433 278 199
10th Percentile £305 £328 £275
25th Percentile £358 £390 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £476 £500
Median % change year-on-year -9.71% -4.75% +11.11%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £645
North West median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 16 30
10th Percentile - £16.00 £16.93
25th Percentile £12.82 £30.31 £22.44
Median hourly rate £17.75 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -49.29% +14.60% +45.43%
75th Percentile £34.00 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £47.50 £36.18
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -37.63% +15.21% +57.30%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Cheshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Cheshire over the 6 months to 9 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Cheshire

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

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

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 9 September 2025. 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
Knutsford - 5 £270 - 1
Test Management
North West

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 3 (37.50%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (62.50%) JIRA
2 3 (37.50%) TestRail
3 2 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 8 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Finance
3 3 (37.50%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Presentation Skills
3 3 (37.50%) Publishing
4 1 (12.50%) Banking
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Tester
1 3 (37.50%) UAT Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Service Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Service Transition Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Transition Manager
2 2 (25.00%) UAT Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) UAT Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 5 (62.50%) Computer Science
2 5 (62.50%) Test Scripting
2 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (37.50%) Change Management
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) ITIL
3 3 (37.50%) ITSM
3 3 (37.50%) Programme Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Programme Governance
3 3 (37.50%) Release Management
3 3 (37.50%) SDLC
3 3 (37.50%) Service Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Service Design
3 3 (37.50%) Service Management
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Test Strategy
3 3 (37.50%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 5 (62.50%) Degree
2 3 (37.50%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) HP
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft
1 3 (37.50%) ServiceNow