Test Management Contracts in England

Test Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 1 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 325 346 425
Rank change year-on-year +21 +79 -43
Contract jobs citing Test Management 173 213 220
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.57% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.74% 0.67% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 124 160 156
10th Percentile £325 £363 £408
25th Percentile £400 £405 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.66% -8.36% +10.94%
75th Percentile £575 £595 £602
90th Percentile £699 £626 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -2.66% -7.05% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - £51.25
Median hourly rate £65.00 £11.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +490.91% -79.05% +215.79%
75th Percentile £73.81 £34.81 £53.75
90th Percentile £80.68 £77.68 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £11.00 £53.25
% change year-on-year +490.91% -79.34% +220.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 23,377 31,762 42,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.15% 85.55% 89.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,054 20,587 29,761
10th Percentile £300 £305 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £775
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -4.57% -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,168 2,328 1,554
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.79 £11.87
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.06 £16.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +1.65% +46.03%
75th Percentile £55.00 £61.60 £64.63
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.00 £75.80
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -32.93% +4.17% +38.46%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 1 July 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
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 Test Management within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +25 77 £500 +3.31% 132
South East +43 39 £469 -14.77% 74
North of England +24 27 £450 +2.86% 64
North West +22 20 £450 +5.88% 31
Midlands +12 15 £463 -4.64% 54
West Midlands +9 14 £450 -7.22% 34
South West +31 7 £438 +2.94% 42
East of England +17 7 £600 +60.00% 49
Yorkshire +3 7 £525 +16.67% 31
Test Management
UK

Test Management
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 10 (5.78%) Confluence
2 3 (1.73%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.58%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 7 (4.05%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 15 (8.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.89%) SAP ERP
2 5 (2.89%) SAP SD
3 3 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.16%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.16%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.16%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.58%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.58%) Finacle
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.58%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 39 (22.54%) Azure
2 36 (20.81%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (5.20%) Power Platform
4 8 (4.62%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (4.62%) PowerApps
5 6 (3.47%) SaaS
6 5 (2.89%) GitHub
6 5 (2.89%) Power Automate
6 5 (2.89%) SuccessFactors
7 3 (1.73%) AWS
7 3 (1.73%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.73%) Azure Functions
7 3 (1.73%) GCP
7 3 (1.73%) Serverless
8 2 (1.16%) BrowserStack
8 2 (1.16%) Entra ID
8 2 (1.16%) OCI
9 1 (0.58%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (0.58%) Oracle Service Cloud
9 1 (0.58%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.89%) Firewall
2 1 (0.58%) Broadband
2 1 (0.58%) Converged Networks
2 1 (0.58%) Internet
2 1 (0.58%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.89%) SAP HANA
2 4 (2.31%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.73%) Azure SQL Database
3 3 (1.73%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.58%) Big Data
4 1 (0.58%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.58%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.58%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.58%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.58%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.58%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 78 (45.09%) JIRA
2 17 (9.83%) TestRail
3 13 (7.51%) Selenium
4 12 (6.94%) Zephyr
5 10 (5.78%) Jenkins
6 7 (4.05%) Postman
7 6 (3.47%) LoadRunner
8 5 (2.89%) JMeter
8 5 (2.89%) JUnit
8 5 (2.89%) LSMW
8 5 (2.89%) NeoLoad
9 4 (2.31%) Appium
9 4 (2.31%) Git
9 4 (2.31%) TestNG
10 3 (1.73%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (1.73%) WebDriver
11 2 (1.16%) Cucumber
11 2 (1.16%) Maven
11 2 (1.16%) TestPartner
11 2 (1.16%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 81 (46.82%) Social Skills
2 34 (19.65%) Finance
3 33 (19.08%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (9.83%) Documentation Skills
5 12 (6.94%) Public Sector
6 11 (6.36%) Banking
7 8 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.47%) Billing
9 5 (2.89%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (2.31%) Back Office
10 4 (2.31%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 4 (2.31%) Publishing
10 4 (2.31%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.73%) Local Government
11 3 (1.73%) Retail
12 2 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 2 (1.16%) Avionics
12 2 (1.16%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.16%) Military
Job Titles
1 55 (31.79%) Test Manager
2 33 (19.08%) Analyst
3 31 (17.92%) Test Analyst
4 22 (12.72%) Tester
5 20 (11.56%) Test Engineer
6 19 (10.98%) Lead
7 16 (9.25%) Test Leader
8 11 (6.36%) Consultant
9 8 (4.62%) Programme Test Manager
9 8 (4.62%) Test Programme Manager
10 7 (4.05%) QA Tester
10 7 (4.05%) Transformation Manager
11 5 (2.89%) Architect
11 5 (2.89%) Change and Release Manager
11 5 (2.89%) Change Manager
11 5 (2.89%) Programme Manager
11 5 (2.89%) Release Manager
11 5 (2.89%) SAP Consultant
11 5 (2.89%) SAP SD Consultant
11 5 (2.89%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (5.20%) Middleware
2 5 (2.89%) BAPI
2 5 (2.89%) EDI
2 5 (2.89%) IDoc
2 5 (2.89%) RFC 2544
2 5 (2.89%) SAP ALE
2 5 (2.89%) SAP Fiori
3 4 (2.31%) ADO
3 4 (2.31%) Playwright
3 4 (2.31%) REST
3 4 (2.31%) WebdriverIO
4 3 (1.73%) SOAP
4 3 (1.73%) Web Services
5 1 (0.58%) JavaFX
5 1 (0.58%) Kafka
5 1 (0.58%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.58%) pytest
5 1 (0.58%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.58%) Spring
5 1 (0.58%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 19 (10.98%) Product Ownership
2 12 (6.94%) SCADA
3 7 (4.05%) Management Information System
4 6 (3.47%) Data Centre
4 6 (3.47%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.89%) FMCG
5 5 (2.89%) Life Science
5 5 (2.89%) Low-Code
6 3 (1.73%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.73%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.73%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.73%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.16%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.16%) Derivative
7 2 (1.16%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.16%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.16%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.16%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 19 (10.98%) Windows
2 5 (2.89%) Android
2 5 (2.89%) Apple iOS
2 5 (2.89%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (44.51%) Agile
2 70 (40.46%) Test Strategy
3 65 (37.57%) Test Automation
4 50 (28.90%) User Acceptance Testing
5 46 (26.59%) DevOps
6 45 (26.01%) Stakeholder Management
7 42 (24.28%) Defect Management
8 38 (21.97%) Problem-Solving
9 32 (18.50%) Test Scripting
10 28 (16.18%) System Integration Testing
11 27 (15.61%) End-to-End Testing
11 27 (15.61%) Validation
12 26 (15.03%) Test Planning
13 23 (13.29%) Integration Testing
13 23 (13.29%) Waterfall
14 22 (12.72%) Migration
14 22 (12.72%) Software Testing
15 20 (11.56%) ITIL
16 19 (10.98%) Scenario Testing
17 18 (10.40%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.09%) SQL
2 12 (6.94%) Java
3 7 (4.05%) Python
4 6 (3.47%) JavaScript
5 5 (2.89%) ABAP
6 4 (2.31%) C#
6 4 (2.31%) Perl
6 4 (2.31%) PL/SQL
6 4 (2.31%) VB
7 2 (1.16%) Korn
7 2 (1.16%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 33 (19.08%) Security Cleared
2 27 (15.61%) ISTQB
3 21 (12.14%) SC Cleared
4 11 (6.36%) DV Cleared
5 10 (5.78%) Degree
6 9 (5.20%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (2.31%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.73%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 2 (1.16%) PMP
10 1 (0.58%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (23.12%) QA
2 5 (2.89%) SLA
3 3 (1.73%) GDPR
3 3 (1.73%) GxP
3 3 (1.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (1.16%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (1.16%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (1.73%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.16%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.58%) Docker
3 1 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 23 (13.29%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.16%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.58%) Grafana
3 1 (0.58%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.58%) OPNET
Vendors
1 23 (13.29%) HP
2 19 (10.98%) Microsoft
2 19 (10.98%) SAP
3 15 (8.67%) Oracle
4 7 (4.05%) MuleSoft
4 7 (4.05%) Workday
5 6 (3.47%) ServiceNow
6 5 (2.89%) Cisco
6 5 (2.89%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.31%) Guidewire
8 3 (1.73%) CheckPoint
8 3 (1.73%) Duck Creek
9 2 (1.16%) Ariba
9 2 (1.16%) Cerner
9 2 (1.16%) Cramer
9 2 (1.16%) Google
9 2 (1.16%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.16%) NEC
9 2 (1.16%) Remedy
9 2 (1.16%) SimCorp