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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 - 66
Rank change year-on-year - - +12
Contract jobs citing Test Management 4 0 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.36% - 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.47% - 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 5
10th Percentile £386 - -
25th Percentile £421 - £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 - £595
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.83%
75th Percentile £578 - £620
90th Percentile £636 - £622
England median daily rate £413 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -13.16% -5.00% -9.09%

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 856 584 691
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 77.82% 88.22% 78.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 486 391 455
10th Percentile £200 £223 £200
25th Percentile £394 £332 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £420 £425
Median % change year-on-year +10.71% -1.18% -10.53%
75th Percentile £563 £500 £550
90th Percentile £644 £600 £623
England median daily rate £518 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -0.46% -0.98% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 115 47 64
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.75
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.68 £12.75
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £17.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% +9.39% -33.83%
75th Percentile £24.86 £25.13 £26.24
90th Percentile £32.79 £32.81 £50.00
England median hourly rate £47.00 £27.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year +70.91% -26.67% +7.05%

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

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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
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 16 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the East Midlands

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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 16 June 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 - 2 £424 -
Nottinghamshire - 1 £675 -
Derbyshire - 1 - -
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Aviation
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Local Government
1 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) Procurement Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP EWM Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Manager
2 1 (25.00%) SAP S/4HANA Consultant
2 1 (25.00%) SAP Test Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Mainframe
1 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
1 1 (25.00%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Data Analytics
2 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
2 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Management
2 1 (25.00%) Matrix Organization
2 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (25.00%) Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (25.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (25.00%) Source to Pay
2 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Ariba
1 2 (50.00%) SAP