Test Management Contract Job Trends in Durham

Test Management
North East > Durham

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Durham requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 7 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Test Management 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Durham 3.57% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.56% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £475 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £525 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Durham

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 Durham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 18 48 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Durham 64.29% 90.57% 93.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 39
10th Percentile £170 £313 -
25th Percentile £256 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £495 £425
Median % change year-on-year -11.62% +16.47% -0.58%
75th Percentile £473 £594 £513
90th Percentile £548 £631 £588
North East median daily rate £450 £450 £450
% change year-on-year - - -14.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 0
10th Percentile £18.46 £17.30 -
25th Percentile £20.20 £20.75 -
Median hourly rate £23.11 £26.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -12.81% - -
75th Percentile £26.01 £28.14 -
90th Percentile £27.75 £29.12 -
North East median hourly rate £19.25 £29.77 £32.00
% change year-on-year -35.34% -6.97% +82.86%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Durham

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Durham

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Durham

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

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

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in Durham

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 Durham region over the 6 months to 4 November 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
Stockton-on-Tees - 1 £500 - 2
Test Management
North East

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Durham 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:

Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) UAT Manager
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Business Transformation
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) ERP
1 1 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Migration
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Microsoft