Test Management Contracts in the East of England

Test Management
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 100 120
Rank change year-on-year +15 +20 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Management 7 13 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.63% 0.68% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.80% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 3
10th Percentile £488 - £480
25th Percentile - £363 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £375 £700
Median % change year-on-year +60.00% -46.43% +41.41%
75th Percentile - £522 -
90th Percentile - £708 -
England median daily rate £475 £488 £533
% change year-on-year -2.66% -8.36% +10.94%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 983 1,625 1,735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 89.04% 84.50% 87.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 651 1,015
10th Percentile £212 £200 £229
25th Percentile £363 £313 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £440 £500
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -12.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £574 £600
90th Percentile £650 £650 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 202 608 348
10th Percentile £14.99 £14.17 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £31.64 £40.00 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.90% +90.48% +7.69%
75th Percentile £65.94 £63.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £82.50 £70.38 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +44.23%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the East of England

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the East of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the East of England

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the East of England over the 6 months to 2 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the East of England

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the East of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the East of England

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 July 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
Bedfordshire - 5 £600 - 6
Hertfordshire +14 2 £513 +36.67% 15
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (71.43%) SAP ERP
2 4 (57.14%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) GitHub
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) LoadRunner
1 5 (71.43%) NeoLoad
2 3 (42.86%) Jenkins
2 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 3 (42.86%) JMeter
General
1 5 (71.43%) Pharmaceutical
1 5 (71.43%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Lead
2 4 (57.14%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) FMCG
1 5 (71.43%) Life Science
2 1 (14.29%) IoT
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Waterfall
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 5 (71.43%) ERP
2 5 (71.43%) Non-Functional Testing
2 5 (71.43%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (57.14%) Matrix Management
4 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
4 3 (42.86%) Service Management
4 3 (42.86%) Validation
5 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
6 1 (14.29%) Analytical Thinking
6 1 (14.29%) Contingency Planning
6 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
6 1 (14.29%) Operational Acceptance Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Performance Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Proactive Monitoring
6 1 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
6 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (42.86%) GxP
1 3 (42.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
1 1 (14.29%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 6 (85.71%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Ariba
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Micro Focus
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow