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 8 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 119 111 115
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 +48
Contract jobs citing Test Management 8 6 11
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.34% 0.35% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.38% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 3 9
10th Percentile £443 - £440
25th Percentile £473 £431 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +25.71% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £575 £471 £575
90th Percentile £612 £487 £578
Central London median daily rate £550 £438 £550
% change year-on-year +25.71% -20.45% +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 2,037 1,598 1,969
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.62% 93.72% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,385 1,008 1,376
10th Percentile £358 £356 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 15 13
10th Percentile £17.42 £18.70 £19.98
25th Percentile £18.75 £24.21 £20.22
Median hourly rate £24.47 £28.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -14.16% +8.57% -25.00%
75th Percentile £49.78 £46.25 £40.00
90th Percentile £62.36 £78.75 £48.57
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.50 £27.81
% change year-on-year -8.39% +2.48% -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

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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 8 June 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub
1 1 (12.50%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (12.50%) Jenkins
3 1 (12.50%) REST Assured
3 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (12.50%) Back Office
3 1 (12.50%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Front Office
3 1 (12.50%) Investment Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Tester
2 3 (37.50%) Applications Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) QA Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Security Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Senior
3 1 (12.50%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Senior QA Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Leader
3 1 (12.50%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) .NET
2 2 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (12.50%) pytest
3 1 (12.50%) REST
3 1 (12.50%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (62.50%) Defect Tracking
2 5 (62.50%) Software Testing
2 5 (62.50%) User Acceptance Testing
3 4 (50.00%) SDLC
3 4 (50.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (37.50%) Insurtech
4 3 (37.50%) Manual Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Regression Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Defect Management
5 2 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Identity Access Management
6 1 (12.50%) Non-Functional Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 1 (12.50%) System Integration Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Python
2 2 (25.00%) Java
2 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (12.50%) C#
3 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (12.50%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (12.50%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle
1 1 (12.50%) ServiceNow