Test Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Test Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 51 -
Rank change year-on-year -18 - -
Contract jobs citing Test Management 4 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.45% 0.68% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.79% -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £306 £671 -
25th Percentile £309 £679 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 £700 -
Median % change year-on-year -51.41% - -
75th Percentile £374 £712 -
90th Percentile £376 £715 -
England median daily rate £425 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -19.05% - +5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 753 507 596
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.80% 86.67% 82.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 312 425
10th Percentile £188 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -6.18% -2.05%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £681
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 86 23 45
10th Percentile £15.86 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.44 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -18.07% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £24.87 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +26.76%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Management

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Test Management

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Northamptonshire - 4 £340 -
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 2 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Postman
3 1 (25.00%) JMeter
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Java Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) .NET
2 1 (25.00%) .NET Framework
2 1 (25.00%) REST
2 1 (25.00%) SOAP
2 1 (25.00%) Spring
2 1 (25.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Mainframe
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Data Analytics
2 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Microservices
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (50.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Project Planning
2 2 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft