Test Management Contract Job Trends in Croydon

Test Management
South London > Croydon

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Croydon requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 - 30
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Test Management 2 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Croydon 1.14% - 1.68%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.30% - 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £397 - £283
25th Percentile £415 - £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 - £294
Median % change year-on-year - - -48.35%
75th Percentile £488 - £298
90th Percentile £506 - £299
South London median daily rate £390 £413 £300
% change year-on-year -5.45% +37.50% -47.25%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Croydon

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 Croydon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 154 77 114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Croydon 88.00% 91.67% 95.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 113 55 78
10th Percentile £447 £425 £373
25th Percentile £492 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £515 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% +0.49% -4.92%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £575
90th Percentile £718 £711 £630
South London median daily rate £505 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -3.81% +5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 9
10th Percentile - - £16.28
25th Percentile - - £17.00
Median hourly rate - - £22.50
75th Percentile - - £25.25
90th Percentile - - £35.20
South London median hourly rate £58.94 £15.84 £23.50
% change year-on-year +272.06% -32.60% -53.39%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Croydon

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Croydon

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Croydon

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

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

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Croydon

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Croydon over the 6 months to 10 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Croydon

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Croydon 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) pytest
1 1 (50.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Defect Tracking
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) SFIA
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA