Test Management Contract Job Trends in England

Test Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 363 333 338
Rank change year-on-year -30 +5 +73
Contract jobs citing Test Management 252 150 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.63% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.68% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 104 161
10th Percentile £321 £317 £363
25th Percentile £358 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.43% -3.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £514 £588 £600
90th Percentile £600 £725 £625
UK median daily rate £430 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -9.47% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £26.04 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +490.91% -
75th Percentile - £73.81 £34.81
90th Percentile - £80.68 £77.68
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £11.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +490.91% -

All Process & 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 35,523 21,911 31,466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.02% 91.34% 85.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,505 14,200 20,503
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £523 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,228 974 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.69 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.75 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.71 £27.64 £36.50
% change year-on-year +54.50% -24.27% +1.39%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Test Management job vacancy trend in England

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Test Management

Test Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

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 4 June 2026. 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 -44 96 £415 -17.00% 19
Midlands -18 56 £360 -34.55% 11
West Midlands -22 49 £358 -30.15% 8
South East -46 48 £483 +1.58% 11
North of England -57 36 £394 -7.29% 4
North West -20 26 £393 -7.53% 2
South West -22 16 £450 -21.74% 2
North East - 7 £313 - 1
East Midlands - 5 £429 - 3
East of England -36 4 £450 -25.00% 2
Yorkshire -60 3 £443 +18.79% 2
Test Management
UK

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 22 (8.73%) Confluence
2 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) CMS
3 3 (1.19%) Kentico
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 12 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (1.98%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle EBS
4 3 (1.19%) SAP FI-AR
5 2 (0.79%) Maximo
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.40%) Endur
6 1 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.40%) SAP FI-GL
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) Summit
6 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (32.94%) Azure
2 72 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
3 35 (13.89%) AWS
4 8 (3.17%) GitHub
4 8 (3.17%) SaaS
5 7 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
5 7 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
6 6 (2.38%) GitHub Actions
6 6 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
7 4 (1.59%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.59%) GCP
8 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.19%) OCI
8 3 (1.19%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.40%) BrowserStack
10 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Taleo
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) Network Security
2 6 (2.38%) Firewall
2 6 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.98%) DNS
3 5 (1.98%) VPN
4 4 (1.59%) DHCP
4 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 4 (1.59%) LAN
4 4 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.59%) WAN
5 3 (1.19%) SSL
5 3 (1.19%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.79%) MPLS
6 2 (0.79%) OSPF
6 2 (0.79%) VLAN
7 1 (0.40%) Broadband
7 1 (0.40%) FTP
7 1 (0.40%) Intranet
7 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 31 (12.30%) Data Warehouse
1 31 (12.30%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (1.59%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.19%) Power BI
3 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
4 1 (0.40%) Ataccama
4 1 (0.40%) Base SAS
4 1 (0.40%) Big Data
4 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 114 (45.24%) JIRA
2 42 (16.67%) Zephyr
3 41 (16.27%) Postman
4 23 (9.13%) Selenium
5 17 (6.75%) Git
6 15 (5.95%) TestRail
7 12 (4.76%) Jenkins
8 8 (3.17%) Cypress.io
8 8 (3.17%) REST Assured
9 7 (2.78%) GitLab
10 6 (2.38%) JMeter
11 3 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.19%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.19%) Gatling
12 2 (0.79%) Appium
12 2 (0.79%) MSTest
12 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.40%) Android Studio
13 1 (0.40%) Hudson
13 1 (0.40%) SoapUI
General
1 119 (47.22%) Social Skills
2 61 (24.21%) Finance
3 51 (20.24%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.57%) Banking
7 7 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.38%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (1.98%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
10 4 (1.59%) Automotive
10 4 (1.59%) Front Office
10 4 (1.59%) Local Government
10 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.19%) Back Office
11 3 (1.19%) Electronics
11 3 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Military
Job Titles
1 83 (32.94%) Test Manager
2 53 (21.03%) Analyst
3 42 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 39 (15.48%) Tester
5 33 (13.10%) Lead
6 24 (9.52%) Test Leader
7 19 (7.54%) QA Tester
8 18 (7.14%) Senior
8 18 (7.14%) Test Engineer
9 11 (4.37%) Senior Analyst
10 10 (3.97%) Programme Manager
10 10 (3.97%) Programme Test Manager
10 10 (3.97%) Test Programme Manager
11 9 (3.57%) Software Test Engineer
12 8 (3.17%) Business Analyst
12 8 (3.17%) Consultant
12 8 (3.17%) Senior Test Analyst
13 7 (2.78%) Integration Analyst
13 7 (2.78%) Integration Test Analyst
13 7 (2.78%) Senior Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.35%) REST
2 12 (4.76%) ADO
3 11 (4.37%) Middleware
4 10 (3.97%) Playwright
5 7 (2.78%) RESTful
6 5 (1.98%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.98%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.59%) .NET
7 4 (1.59%) Node.js
7 4 (1.59%) SAML
8 3 (1.19%) SOAP
8 3 (1.19%) Web Services
9 2 (0.79%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.79%) pytest
10 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.40%) Kafka
10 1 (0.40%) OAuth
10 1 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.40%) Vuetify.js
10 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.37%) Self-Motivation
3 9 (3.57%) Legacy Systems
3 9 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
5 7 (2.78%) Management Information System
6 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.19%) EPoS
6 3 (1.19%) Equities
6 3 (1.19%) SCADA
7 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.79%) Derivative
7 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.79%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.79%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.79%) NHS
7 2 (0.79%) PKI
8 1 (0.40%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 16 (6.35%) Windows
2 7 (2.78%) Linux
3 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (52.78%) Agile
2 116 (46.03%) Test Automation
3 114 (45.24%) User Acceptance Testing
4 85 (33.73%) Test Strategy
5 83 (32.94%) End-to-End Testing
6 82 (32.54%) DevOps
7 79 (31.35%) Integration Testing
8 76 (30.16%) Test Scripting
9 73 (28.97%) Scenario Testing
10 71 (28.17%) Defect Management
11 64 (25.40%) Migration
12 62 (24.60%) Stakeholder Management
13 59 (23.41%) Regression Testing
14 57 (22.62%) Validation
15 55 (21.83%) Manual Testing
16 51 (20.24%) Problem-Solving
17 48 (19.05%) ETL
18 47 (18.65%) Software Testing
19 46 (18.25%) Data Migration
20 43 (17.06%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 51 (20.24%) SQL
2 15 (5.95%) Java
2 15 (5.95%) JavaScript
3 14 (5.56%) Python
4 7 (2.78%) TypeScript
5 6 (2.38%) C#
6 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
6 3 (1.19%) VB
7 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
8 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.40%) VB6
Qualifications
1 86 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 64 (25.40%) ISTQB
3 60 (23.81%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.75%) Degree
5 15 (5.95%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 10 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.19%) ISEB
10 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) CCIE
11 1 (0.40%) CCNP
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 120 (47.62%) QA
2 16 (6.35%) IFRS
2 16 (6.35%) IFRS 17
3 7 (2.78%) Accessibility
4 6 (2.38%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.59%) MiFID
5 4 (1.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.79%) EMIR
7 2 (0.79%) GDPR
7 2 (0.79%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.79%) WCAG
8 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) HL7
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
3 3 (1.19%) Docker
4 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.54%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.40%) Control-M
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Iperf
5 1 (0.40%) Nmap
Vendors
1 55 (21.83%) Oracle
2 31 (12.30%) Microsoft
3 22 (8.73%) SAP
4 20 (7.94%) HP
5 8 (3.17%) Cisco
6 7 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 7 (2.78%) VMware
7 6 (2.38%) Denodo
7 6 (2.38%) Talend
8 4 (1.59%) Ariba
8 4 (1.59%) Salesforce
9 3 (1.19%) Citrix
9 3 (1.19%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.79%) Murex
10 2 (0.79%) Sage
10 2 (0.79%) Siemens
11 1 (0.40%) Actian
11 1 (0.40%) Palo Alto