Test Manager Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Test Manager
England > East of England

The median Test Manager daily rate in the East of England is £366, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 97 85 108
Rank change year-on-year -12 +23 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 5 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.35% 0.23% 0.38%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.41% 0.26% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile £273 - -
25th Percentile £303 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £366 - £491
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.03%
75th Percentile £486 - £511
90th Percentile £607 - -
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £65.00
England median hourly rate - £35.00 £53.75
% change year-on-year - -34.88% +5.39%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the East of England with a recognized job title 1,229 1,174 1,671
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 86.12% 89.35% 89.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 548 500 987
10th Percentile £185 £220 £190
25th Percentile £350 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £599
90th Percentile £688 £638 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 299 204 282
10th Percentile £13.77 £15.22 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £47.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.84% +6.74% +124.63%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £70.00 £79.30
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £45.88
% change year-on-year -37.63% -12.11% +52.93%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Test Manager job vacancy trend in the East of England

Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the East of England over the 6 months to 5 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the East of England

Test Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Test Manager
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 Manager within the East of England region over the 6 months to 5 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
Cambridgeshire -2 3 £320 -
Hertfordshire -7 2 £675 - 5
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 5 November 2025, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East of England region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) QA
3 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (60.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
3 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
3 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (40.00%) Azure
4 2 (40.00%) C#
4 2 (40.00%) Playwright
4 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) AWS
5 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Confluence
5 1 (20.00%) DevOps
5 1 (20.00%) GCP
5 1 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (20.00%) Line Management
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (20.00%) Programme Delivery
5 1 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (20.00%) Resource Allocation

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (20.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 3 (60.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (40.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Line Management
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (20.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (40.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (80.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SLA