Programme Test Manager Contracts in England

Programme Test Manager
UK > England

The median Programme Test Manager daily rate in England is £588 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 540 632 756
Rank change year-on-year +92 +124 -143
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Test Manager 8 24 34
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.022% 0.048% 0.048%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.051% 0.050%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 32
10th Percentile £494 £506 £506
25th Percentile £544 £525 £522
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £625 £638
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% -1.96% +21.43%
75th Percentile £631 £791 £716
90th Percentile £663 £850 £738
UK median daily rate £588 £600 £638
% change year-on-year -2.08% -5.88% +21.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £62.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £62.00 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in 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 England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Programme Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Programme Test Manager in England

Programme Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Programme Test Manager in England.

Daily rate trend for Programme Test Manager in England

Programme Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Programme Test Manager in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Programme Test Manager in England

Programme Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Programme Test Manager in England.

Hourly rate trend for Programme Test Manager in England

Programme Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Programme Test Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
London +102 6 £575 -8.00% 2
Midlands +31 1 £675 +22.73%
North of England +25 1 £625 -
Yorkshire +20 1 £625 -
West Midlands - 1 £675 -
Programme Test Manager
UK

Programme Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Programme 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 England region featuring Programme Test Manager in the job title.

1 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (25.00%) Azure
4 2 (25.00%) QA
4 2 (25.00%) Legal
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
4 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Selenium
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Test Management
5 1 (12.50%) Test Scripting
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
5 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement

Programme Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (12.50%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Azure
1 2 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Selenium
1 1 (12.50%) SpecFlow
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (25.00%) Legal
1 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Finance
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 2 (25.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 3 (37.50%) DevOps
3 3 (37.50%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (25.00%) Migration
4 2 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (12.50%) Facilities Management
5 1 (12.50%) Integration Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Open Source
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Practice Management
5 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (12.50%) Supplier Management
5 1 (12.50%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (12.50%) Validation
5 1 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) QA
2 1 (12.50%) SLA
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Cognizant
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 1 (12.50%) Oracle