Test Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Test Management
Central London > City of London

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

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 127 110 114
Rank change year-on-year -17 +4 +29
Contract jobs citing Test Management 10 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.46% 0.47% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.49% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 5 5
10th Percentile £406 £339 £420
25th Percentile £495 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £425 £471
Median % change year-on-year +29.41% -9.67% -23.18%
75th Percentile £600 £498 £488
90th Percentile £670 £604 £626
Central London median daily rate £550 £425 £471
% change year-on-year +29.41% -9.67% -23.18%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,950 1,622 1,935
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.24% 94.41% 91.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,346 1,089 1,205
10th Percentile £364 £325 £365
25th Percentile £456 £424 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £763 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -2.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 19 20
10th Percentile - £16.96 £15.80
25th Percentile £17.60 £21.09 £21.63
Median hourly rate £21.00 £27.50 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.64% -22.54% +13.60%
75th Percentile £31.00 £39.88 £97.38
90th Percentile £61.50 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% -21.43% +27.27%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 6 October 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the City of London

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Test Management

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) BlazeMeter
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub
1 1 (10.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
1 1 (10.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) DHCP
1 1 (10.00%) DNS
1 1 (10.00%) INAP
1 1 (10.00%) Intelligent Network
1 1 (10.00%) RTP
1 1 (10.00%) tcpdump
1 1 (10.00%) VoIP
1 1 (10.00%) Wireshark
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 2 (20.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) Appium
3 1 (10.00%) eggPlant
3 1 (10.00%) GitLab
3 1 (10.00%) HP UFT
3 1 (10.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) JUnit
3 1 (10.00%) LoadRunner
3 1 (10.00%) Locust
3 1 (10.00%) Newman
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Rational Functional Tester
3 1 (10.00%) REST Assured
3 1 (10.00%) Robot Framework
3 1 (10.00%) SOAtest
3 1 (10.00%) TestCafe
3 1 (10.00%) TestNG
3 1 (10.00%) TestRail
3 1 (10.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (30.00%) Finance
1 3 (30.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (10.00%) Banking
2 1 (10.00%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Test Manager
2 3 (30.00%) Applications Tester
2 3 (30.00%) Tester
3 2 (20.00%) Lead
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Programme Test Manager
3 2 (20.00%) Test Leader
3 2 (20.00%) Test Programme Manager
4 1 (10.00%) Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Automation Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) QA Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Security Tester
4 1 (10.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (40.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) HTML
2 1 (10.00%) LDAP
2 1 (10.00%) REST
2 1 (10.00%) SOAP
2 1 (10.00%) Taurus
2 1 (10.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) XBRL
2 1 (10.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Media Streaming
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
2 1 (10.00%) CentOS
2 1 (10.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
2 1 (10.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (70.00%) Software Testing
1 7 (70.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 6 (60.00%) Test Automation
3 5 (50.00%) SDLC
3 5 (50.00%) Test Scripting
3 5 (50.00%) Test Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Agile
4 4 (40.00%) Defect Management
4 4 (40.00%) Defect Tracking
4 4 (40.00%) Manual Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Regression Testing
4 4 (40.00%) Scenario Testing
5 3 (30.00%) Insurtech
5 3 (30.00%) Waterfall
6 2 (20.00%) DevOps
6 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Performance Testing
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (20.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (20.00%) Java
1 2 (20.00%) Python
1 2 (20.00%) SQL
2 1 (10.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (10.00%) Korn
2 1 (10.00%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (10.00%) ISEB
3 1 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (10.00%) MOS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) Software Quality Assurance
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Oracle
2 2 (20.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Dialogic
3 1 (10.00%) Metaswitch
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Workday