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 26 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 334 319
Rank change year-on-year -24 -15 +77
Contract jobs citing Test Management 248 143 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.60% 0.60% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.66% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 100 171
10th Percentile £318 £319 £363
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £514 £588 £600
90th Percentile £591 £726 £625
UK median daily rate £425 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% -7.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 4
10th Percentile £25.78 - -
25th Percentile £48.15 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% +445.45% -
75th Percentile - £73.88 £34.81
90th Percentile - £80.70 £77.68
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £11.00
% change year-on-year +16.67% +445.45% -

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 35,194 21,730 31,440
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.78% 91.29% 86.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,373 14,199 20,591
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,179 923 2,284
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.22 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £15.99
Median hourly rate £45.59 £28.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.80% -23.29% -2.67%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.11
90th Percentile £81.01 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.28 £27.45 £36.00
% change year-on-year +54.01% -23.75% -3.49%

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 26 May 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 26 May 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 26 May 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 -34 99 £413 -17.50% 20
Midlands -23 51 £360 -34.55% 6
South East -48 47 £483 +1.58% 9
West Midlands -27 45 £358 -30.15% 4
North of England -54 34 £394 -12.44% 2
North West -24 25 £393 -12.67% 1
South West -19 17 £450 -21.74% 2
North East - 6 £313 -
East Midlands - 5 £429 - 1
East of England -40 4 £450 -25.00% 1
Yorkshire -55 3 £443 +18.79% 1
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 (8.87%) Confluence
2 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) Kentico
3 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.82%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) MS Visio
4 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (4.03%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.21%) SAP FI-AR
4 2 (0.81%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.81%) Maximo
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.40%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.40%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.40%) Summit
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 83 (33.47%) Azure
2 73 (29.44%) Azure DevOps
3 29 (11.69%) AWS
4 9 (3.63%) Dynamics 365
4 9 (3.63%) GitHub
5 8 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (2.82%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.82%) GitHub Actions
6 7 (2.82%) SaaS
7 4 (1.61%) Entra ID
7 4 (1.61%) GCP
8 3 (1.21%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (1.21%) OCI
9 2 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
9 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.40%) Power Platform
10 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.40%) Tricentis Tosca
10 1 (0.40%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.82%) Firewall
1 7 (2.82%) Network Security
2 6 (2.42%) TCP/IP
3 5 (2.02%) DNS
3 5 (2.02%) VPN
4 4 (1.61%) DHCP
4 4 (1.61%) Internet
4 4 (1.61%) LAN
4 4 (1.61%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.61%) WAN
5 3 (1.21%) SSL
5 3 (1.21%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.81%) BGP
6 2 (0.81%) MPLS
6 2 (0.81%) OSPF
6 2 (0.81%) 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 27 (10.89%) Data Warehouse
1 27 (10.89%) Oracle Reports
2 4 (1.61%) BigQuery
2 4 (1.61%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.21%) 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%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
4 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 107 (43.15%) JIRA
2 38 (15.32%) Zephyr
3 36 (14.52%) Postman
4 25 (10.08%) Selenium
5 14 (5.65%) Git
5 14 (5.65%) TestRail
6 12 (4.84%) Jenkins
7 8 (3.23%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.23%) REST Assured
8 7 (2.82%) GitLab
9 6 (2.42%) JMeter
10 4 (1.61%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.21%) Gatling
11 3 (1.21%) Team Foundation Server
12 2 (0.81%) Appium
12 2 (0.81%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.81%) MSTest
12 2 (0.81%) SpecFlow
13 1 (0.40%) WebDriver
General
1 114 (45.97%) Social Skills
2 56 (22.58%) Finance
3 53 (21.37%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.84%) Organisational Skills
6 7 (2.82%) Banking
6 7 (2.82%) Retail
7 6 (2.42%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.42%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.02%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.61%) Automotive
9 4 (1.61%) Front Office
9 4 (1.61%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.21%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.21%) Back Office
10 3 (1.21%) Electronics
10 3 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.21%) Influencing Skills
10 3 (1.21%) Local Government
10 3 (1.21%) Military
Job Titles
1 80 (32.26%) Test Manager
2 58 (23.39%) Analyst
3 47 (18.95%) Test Analyst
4 37 (14.92%) Tester
5 36 (14.52%) Lead
6 26 (10.48%) Test Leader
7 18 (7.26%) Senior
8 16 (6.45%) QA Tester
8 16 (6.45%) Test Engineer
9 12 (4.84%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (3.63%) Programme Manager
10 9 (3.63%) Programme Test Manager
10 9 (3.63%) Senior Test Analyst
10 9 (3.63%) Test Programme Manager
11 8 (3.23%) Business Analyst
11 8 (3.23%) Infrastructure Analyst
11 8 (3.23%) Integration Analyst
11 8 (3.23%) Integration Test Analyst
11 8 (3.23%) Senior Integration Analyst
11 8 (3.23%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (6.05%) REST
2 12 (4.84%) Middleware
3 11 (4.44%) ADO
3 11 (4.44%) Playwright
4 5 (2.02%) .NET
4 5 (2.02%) Node.js
4 5 (2.02%) Oracle Fusion
4 5 (2.02%) RESTful
4 5 (2.02%) SailPoint
5 4 (1.61%) SAML
6 3 (1.21%) SOAP
6 3 (1.21%) Web Services
7 2 (0.81%) Gherkin
7 2 (0.81%) pytest
8 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
8 1 (0.40%) HTML
8 1 (0.40%) JSON
8 1 (0.40%) Kafka
8 1 (0.40%) OAuth
8 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.63%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.63%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.63%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.23%) Onboarding
3 8 (3.23%) Public Cloud
4 3 (1.21%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.21%) EPoS
4 3 (1.21%) Equities
4 3 (1.21%) SCADA
5 2 (0.81%) Derivative
5 2 (0.81%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.81%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.81%) Market Risk
5 2 (0.81%) Mobile App
5 2 (0.81%) NHS
5 2 (0.81%) PKI
6 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 20 (8.06%) Windows
2 11 (4.44%) Linux
3 3 (1.21%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.81%) Android
4 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
5 1 (0.40%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (52.82%) Agile
2 109 (43.95%) User Acceptance Testing
3 108 (43.55%) Test Automation
4 85 (34.27%) DevOps
5 81 (32.66%) Test Strategy
6 79 (31.85%) End-to-End Testing
7 76 (30.65%) Test Scripting
8 74 (29.84%) Integration Testing
9 71 (28.63%) Defect Management
10 69 (27.82%) Scenario Testing
11 61 (24.60%) Stakeholder Management
12 59 (23.79%) Regression Testing
13 56 (22.58%) Migration
13 56 (22.58%) Validation
14 54 (21.77%) Problem-Solving
15 52 (20.97%) Manual Testing
16 46 (18.55%) Software Testing
17 44 (17.74%) CI/CD
17 44 (17.74%) ETL
18 40 (16.13%) Data Migration
Programming Languages
1 46 (18.55%) SQL
2 17 (6.85%) Java
3 16 (6.45%) JavaScript
3 16 (6.45%) Python
4 8 (3.23%) C#
4 8 (3.23%) TypeScript
5 3 (1.21%) MATLAB
5 3 (1.21%) VB
6 2 (0.81%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.40%) Bash
7 1 (0.40%) Bicep
7 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
7 1 (0.40%) VB6
7 1 (0.40%) XPath
Qualifications
1 81 (32.66%) Security Cleared
2 60 (24.19%) ISTQB
3 55 (22.18%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.26%) Degree
5 17 (6.85%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 10 (4.03%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (4.03%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 6 (2.42%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.21%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.21%) ISEB
10 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.81%) 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%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) DBS Check
11 1 (0.40%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 117 (47.18%) QA
2 15 (6.05%) IFRS
2 15 (6.05%) IFRS 17
3 7 (2.82%) Accessibility
4 5 (2.02%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.61%) MiFID
5 4 (1.61%) SLA
6 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (0.81%) EMIR
7 2 (0.81%) GDPR
7 2 (0.81%) Software Quality Assurance
7 2 (0.81%) 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 5 (2.02%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (1.61%) Active Directory
3 3 (1.21%) Docker
3 3 (1.21%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.81%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 20 (8.06%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.02%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.61%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
5 2 (0.81%) Ansible
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.40%) Control-M
6 1 (0.40%) Grafana
6 1 (0.40%) Iperf
6 1 (0.40%) Nmap
6 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 52 (20.97%) Oracle
2 30 (12.10%) Microsoft
3 21 (8.47%) HP
3 21 (8.47%) SAP
4 7 (2.82%) Cisco
4 7 (2.82%) ServiceNow
5 6 (2.42%) Talend
6 5 (2.02%) VMware
7 4 (1.61%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.61%) Workday
8 3 (1.21%) Ariba
8 3 (1.21%) Citrix
8 3 (1.21%) Denodo
8 3 (1.21%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.81%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.81%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.81%) Murex
9 2 (0.81%) Sage
9 2 (0.81%) Siemens
10 1 (0.40%) Actian