Programme Test Manager Contracts in England

Programme Test Manager
UK > England

The median Programme Test Manager daily rate in England is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 19 July 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
19 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 484 539 599
Rank change year-on-year +55 +60 +138
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Test Manager 22 7 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.080% 0.019% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.087% 0.021% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 5 13
10th Percentile £453 £519 £470
25th Percentile £522 £538 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +4.00%
75th Percentile £747 £613 £838
90th Percentile £775 £628 £848
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £625
% change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 25,186 33,515 44,514
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.86% 92.98% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,387 22,034 31,463
10th Percentile £290 £300 £310
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £628 £638 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 2,292 1,392
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.83
25th Percentile £17.85 £18.00 £19.25
Median hourly rate £27.45 £40.33 £44.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.93% -8.35% +76.00%
75th Percentile £56.52 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -37.13% -6.98% +67.45%

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 19 July 2025.

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 19 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
London +48 12 £725 +26.09%
North of England +8 4 £600 -4.00% 2
South East - 3 £455 -
Yorkshire +3 2 £750 +20.00% 2
North West - 2 £475 -
East of England - 1 - -
East Midlands - 1 £525 -
Midlands - 1 £525 -
Programme Test Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 19 July 2025, 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 15 (68.18%) Test Strategy
2 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 8 (36.36%) Test Management
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) QA
5 7 (31.82%) Risk Management
5 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
6 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (22.73%) Azure
7 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) Defect Management
8 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
8 4 (18.18%) Test Assurance
8 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Workday
8 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
9 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (13.64%) Snow
9 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.64%) Use Case
9 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (13.64%) People Management
9 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
9 3 (13.64%) JIRA
9 3 (13.64%) Banking
9 3 (13.64%) Migration

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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (22.73%) Azure
2 4 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 3 (13.64%) Banking
4 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.55%) Billing
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
5 1 (4.55%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (4.55%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Centre
1 1 (4.55%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (68.18%) Test Strategy
2 12 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (40.91%) Test Automation
4 8 (36.36%) Test Management
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Risk Management
6 6 (27.27%) User Acceptance Testing
7 5 (22.73%) DevOps
7 5 (22.73%) Waterfall
8 4 (18.18%) Defect Management
8 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Test Assurance
8 4 (18.18%) Test Scripting
9 3 (13.64%) Collaborative Working
9 3 (13.64%) Migration
9 3 (13.64%) People Management
9 3 (13.64%) Problem-Solving
9 3 (13.64%) Root Cause Analysis
9 3 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 3 (13.64%) Use Case
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) SLA
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Workday
2 3 (13.64%) CheckPoint
2 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
2 3 (13.64%) Snow
3 2 (9.09%) Oracle
4 1 (4.55%) Avaloq
4 1 (4.55%) Guidewire
4 1 (4.55%) Informatica