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 £320, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 87 91 105
Rank change year-on-year +4 +14 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 4 5 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.31% 0.33% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.37% 0.37% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £266 - -
25th Percentile £286 - £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £320 - £491
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.03%
75th Percentile £369 - £580
90th Percentile £399 - £705
England median daily rate £520 £520 £550
% change year-on-year -0.05% -5.45% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
Median hourly rate - £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +2.94%

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 1,092 1,352 1,659
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.19% 88.37% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 485 548 985
10th Percentile £186 £200 £200
25th Percentile £363 £300 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £595 £569 £600
90th Percentile £688 £603 £712
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 261 357 261
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.50 £21.37 £17.72
Median hourly rate £40.00 £47.50 £41.80
Median % change year-on-year -15.79% +13.64% +111.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £69.25 £84.36
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -45.54% +2.62% +73.08%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +3 3 £320 -
Hertfordshire 0 1 - -
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number 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 4 (100.00%) QA
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (75.00%) SCADA
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
3 2 (50.00%) Playwright
3 2 (50.00%) C#
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Line Management
4 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (25.00%) GCP
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) SLA
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Test Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (25.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) SCADA
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (75.00%) Hardware-in-the-Loop
2 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Performance Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Planning
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Line Management
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Allocation
3 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) SLA