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 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 389 347 321
Rank change year-on-year -42 -26 +82
Contract jobs citing Test Management 252 166 217
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.60% 0.66%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.66% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 120 153
10th Percentile £320 £312 £363
25th Percentile £363 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £473 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.12% -3.18% -7.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £668 £651 £603
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £485
% change year-on-year -2.70% -4.64% -5.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £56.25 - -
25th Percentile £63.13 £57.50 £98.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £102.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -41.46% +95.24%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £106.25
90th Percentile - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £102.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% -41.46% +95.24%

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 39,380 25,274 28,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.88% 90.84% 85.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,176 16,039 17,819
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £625 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,707 1,489 1,353
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.33 £14.84
25th Percentile £17.85 £17.79 £20.00
Median hourly rate £42.30 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.19% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% +3.61%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 -48 101 £500 - 28
Midlands -3 56 £368 -13.41% 2
South East -34 54 £463 -7.50% 7
West Midlands -6 52 £360 -15.29% 2
North of England -77 29 £475 +8.57% 6
North West -46 13 £523 +30.75% 3
South West -43 10 £413 -19.51% 8
Yorkshire -45 9 £474 +5.33% 2
North East -41 7 £313 -40.48% 1
East of England -32 6 £750 +25.00% 8
East Midlands - 2 £557 -
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 20 (7.94%) Confluence
2 6 (2.38%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) CMS
3 3 (1.19%) Kentico
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.79%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.19%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 19 (7.54%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.76%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.19%) SAP FI-AR
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.79%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.79%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.79%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.40%) Endur
6 1 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.40%) Maximo
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 77 (30.56%) Azure
2 66 (26.19%) Azure DevOps
3 37 (14.68%) AWS
4 11 (4.37%) Dynamics 365
5 8 (3.17%) GitHub
5 8 (3.17%) GitHub Actions
5 8 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 8 (3.17%) Serverless
6 7 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
7 6 (2.38%) Azure Functions
7 6 (2.38%) Entra ID
7 6 (2.38%) Power Automate
7 6 (2.38%) SaaS
7 6 (2.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 5 (1.98%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.19%) GCP
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.79%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.79%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) Network Security
2 4 (1.59%) DHCP
2 4 (1.59%) DNS
3 3 (1.19%) Firewall
3 3 (1.19%) Internet
3 3 (1.19%) Intranet
3 3 (1.19%) LAN
3 3 (1.19%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.19%) SSL
3 3 (1.19%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.19%) VPN
3 3 (1.19%) WAN
3 3 (1.19%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.79%) RTP
4 2 (0.79%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.79%) VoIP
5 1 (0.40%) INAP
5 1 (0.40%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.89%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (11.51%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (4.76%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.78%) Power BI
5 6 (2.38%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.79%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.79%) Power Query
6 2 (0.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
7 1 (0.40%) Base SAS
7 1 (0.40%) Big Data
7 1 (0.40%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.40%) DataStage
7 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
7 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.40%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
7 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
7 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 118 (46.83%) JIRA
2 48 (19.05%) Postman
3 42 (16.67%) Zephyr
4 35 (13.89%) Selenium
5 20 (7.94%) Git
6 14 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 14 (5.56%) TestRail
7 12 (4.76%) Cypress.io
8 11 (4.37%) GitLab
9 9 (3.57%) REST Assured
10 8 (3.17%) Cucumber
11 7 (2.78%) JMeter
11 7 (2.78%) WebDriver
12 5 (1.98%) HP UFT
13 4 (1.59%) eggPlant
14 3 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (1.19%) Ranorex
14 3 (1.19%) SOAtest
15 2 (0.79%) Locust
15 2 (0.79%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 104 (41.27%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.41%) Finance
3 50 (19.84%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.14%) Banking
6 11 (4.37%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.38%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Front Office
10 4 (1.59%) Legal
11 3 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.19%) Billing
11 3 (1.19%) General Ledger
11 3 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.19%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.79%) Influencing Skills
12 2 (0.79%) Local Government
12 2 (0.79%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.79%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 77 (30.56%) Test Manager
2 56 (22.22%) Analyst
3 47 (18.65%) Lead
4 45 (17.86%) Test Analyst
5 41 (16.27%) Test Leader
6 30 (11.90%) Tester
7 20 (7.94%) Test Engineer
8 16 (6.35%) Senior
9 14 (5.56%) Consultant
10 12 (4.76%) Programme Manager
10 12 (4.76%) Programme Test Manager
10 12 (4.76%) QA Tester
10 12 (4.76%) Test Programme Manager
11 10 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (3.97%) Software Test Engineer
12 9 (3.57%) SAP Consultant
13 8 (3.17%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.17%) QA Analyst
13 8 (3.17%) Senior Test Analyst
14 7 (2.78%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.33%) Playwright
2 20 (7.94%) REST
3 14 (5.56%) Middleware
4 13 (5.16%) .NET
5 9 (3.57%) ADO
6 8 (3.17%) RESTful
7 7 (2.78%) Gherkin
7 7 (2.78%) SOAP
7 7 (2.78%) XML
8 5 (1.98%) Web Services
9 4 (1.59%) SailPoint
10 3 (1.19%) HTML
10 3 (1.19%) SAML
11 2 (0.79%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.79%) JSON
11 2 (0.79%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.79%) pytest
11 2 (0.79%) Terraform
11 2 (0.79%) XBRL
12 1 (0.40%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.16%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
4 7 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
4 7 (2.78%) SCADA
5 6 (2.38%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.59%) Credit Risk
6 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.19%) EPoS
7 3 (1.19%) PKI
7 3 (1.19%) Public Cloud
8 2 (0.79%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.79%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.79%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.79%) Legacy Applications
8 2 (0.79%) Life Science
8 2 (0.79%) Media Streaming
8 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.79%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 12 (4.76%) Linux
1 12 (4.76%) Windows
2 4 (1.59%) Unix
3 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (50.40%) Agile
2 126 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 109 (43.25%) User Acceptance Testing
4 97 (38.49%) End-to-End Testing
5 84 (33.33%) Defect Management
5 84 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 81 (32.14%) Integration Testing
7 80 (31.75%) DevOps
8 75 (29.76%) Stakeholder Management
9 72 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
10 69 (27.38%) Test Scripting
11 62 (24.60%) Migration
12 55 (21.83%) Manual Testing
13 50 (19.84%) Validation
14 49 (19.44%) System Integration Testing
15 46 (18.25%) Regression Testing
16 44 (17.46%) System Testing
17 43 (17.06%) Data Migration
18 41 (16.27%) Software Testing
19 40 (15.87%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 59 (23.41%) SQL
2 16 (6.35%) JavaScript
3 15 (5.95%) Python
4 14 (5.56%) C#
5 11 (4.37%) Java
6 7 (2.78%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.79%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.79%) VB
7 2 (0.79%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.79%) VBScript
8 1 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.40%) Cypher
8 1 (0.40%) Korn
8 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.40%) Ruby
8 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 84 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 62 (24.60%) ISTQB
3 61 (24.21%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.54%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.35%) Degree
6 13 (5.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 11 (4.37%) BPSS Clearance
8 10 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.59%) ISEB
11 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.19%) ITIL Certification
12 2 (0.79%) AWS Certification
12 2 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.79%) IIBA
12 2 (0.79%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.79%) MOS
13 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
13 1 (0.40%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 122 (48.41%) QA
2 12 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.78%) GDPR
5 6 (2.38%) WCAG
6 3 (1.19%) IFRS
6 3 (1.19%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.79%) GRC
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 20022
7 2 (0.79%) ISO 9001
7 2 (0.79%) MiFID
7 2 (0.79%) NIST
7 2 (0.79%) SEPA
8 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.40%) EMIR
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
8 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
3 4 (1.59%) Docker
4 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.56%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.59%) Ansible
2 4 (1.59%) Kubernetes
2 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.40%) Argo
4 1 (0.40%) Control-M
4 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 51 (20.24%) Oracle
2 35 (13.89%) Microsoft
3 28 (11.11%) SAP
4 14 (5.56%) HP
5 10 (3.97%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.17%) VMware
7 7 (2.78%) Cisco
8 6 (2.38%) Denodo
9 5 (1.98%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.98%) Talend
10 4 (1.59%) Ariba
10 4 (1.59%) Google
10 4 (1.59%) ServiceNow
11 3 (1.19%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.19%) Citrix
11 3 (1.19%) Siemens
11 3 (1.19%) Zscaler
12 2 (0.79%) Databricks
12 2 (0.79%) UiPath
13 1 (0.40%) Workday