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 9 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 121 108 121
Rank change year-on-year -13 +13 +39
Contract jobs citing Test Management 11 10 9
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.50% 0.57% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.57% 0.62% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 6 7
10th Percentile £389 £431 £468
25th Percentile £431 £439 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £575 £575
90th Percentile £638 £581 £580
Central London median daily rate £500 £513 £550
% change year-on-year -2.44% -6.82% +10.00%

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 1,917 1,611 2,040
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 86.82% 92.53% 89.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,315 1,034 1,437
10th Percentile £363 £363 £350
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £570
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -5.00%
75th Percentile £675 £677 £688
90th Percentile £775 £772 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% -7.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 9 11
10th Percentile - £22.00 £18.93
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.66 £20.07
Median hourly rate £32.07 £31.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.44% +24.00% -38.27%
75th Percentile £52.16 £48.75 £40.92
90th Percentile £59.72 £71.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.56 £31.00 £27.81
% change year-on-year -14.34% +11.47% -20.54%

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 9 April 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Algo Collateral
2 1 (9.09%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (9.09%) NetSuite
2 1 (9.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub
1 1 (9.09%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (72.73%) JIRA
2 3 (27.27%) Selenium
3 2 (18.18%) Cypress.io
4 1 (9.09%) Jenkins
4 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
4 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
4 1 (9.09%) TestRail
General
1 6 (54.55%) Finance
2 3 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Banking
3 2 (18.18%) Front Office
4 1 (9.09%) Back Office
4 1 (9.09%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Investment Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Analyst
1 3 (27.27%) Tester
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Analyst
2 2 (18.18%) Test Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Applications Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Lead
3 1 (9.09%) Manual Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Migration Manager
3 1 (9.09%) QA Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) QA Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) Systems Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) Playwright
2 1 (9.09%) pytest
2 1 (9.09%) REST
2 1 (9.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Derivative
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
1 6 (54.55%) Test Automation
1 6 (54.55%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Data Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Defect Management
2 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 4 (36.36%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Integration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Regression Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Software Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) System Integration Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Test Scripting
3 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) API Integration
4 2 (18.18%) Defect Tracking
4 2 (18.18%) Migration
4 2 (18.18%) System Testing
4 2 (18.18%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
1 3 (27.27%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) ISTQB
2 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
2 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) QA
2 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) IFRS
2 1 (9.09%) IFRS 17
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) HP
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
1 2 (18.18%) SmartStream
1 2 (18.18%) Workday
2 1 (9.09%) IBM
2 1 (9.09%) Oracle
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow