Test Management Contracts in England

Test Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 5 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 417 436
Rank change year-on-year +90 +19 -34
Contract jobs citing Test Management 222 252 405
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.50% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 180 321
10th Percentile £363 £400 £333
25th Percentile £411 £453 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £556
90th Percentile £630 £709 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +46.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,929 45,052 64,584
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.19% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,948 31,615 45,896
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.04%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,590 1,753
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.99 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.40 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -0.18% +49.47% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £35.80 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.42% +43.20% +2.04%

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 5 May 2024.

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
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 5 May 2024. 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 +80 97 £500 -9.09% 22
South East +24 58 £550 +10.00% 12
South West +28 16 £425 -19.05% 5
North of England +26 16 £438 -20.45% 3
East of England +27 15 £375 -42.31% 7
Midlands +27 11 £485 -1.62% 5
North West +29 9 £425 -22.73% 3
West Midlands +20 8 £485 -1.62% 3
Yorkshire +13 6 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands +20 3 £620 +29.17% 2
North East +16 1 - -
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 6 (2.70%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) nginx
3 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (4.05%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 12 (5.41%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (4.50%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (4.05%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.35%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.45%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (18.47%) Azure
2 23 (10.36%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (7.21%) AWS
4 9 (4.05%) BrowserStack
5 7 (3.15%) Firebase
5 7 (3.15%) OCI
6 6 (2.70%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (2.25%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.80%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.80%) SaaS
8 4 (1.80%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.35%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.35%) GitHub
10 2 (0.90%) Datadog
10 2 (0.90%) Figma
10 2 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.90%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.45%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.70%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) 3G
3 1 (0.45%) 4G
3 1 (0.45%) 5G
3 1 (0.45%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.45%) Internet
3 1 (0.45%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.45%) WAN
3 1 (0.45%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.80%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.35%) Power BI
4 2 (0.90%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.45%) GIS
5 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (27.03%) JIRA
2 27 (12.16%) TestRail
3 26 (11.71%) Selenium
4 22 (9.91%) JMeter
5 13 (5.86%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.41%) Cypress.io
6 12 (5.41%) Jenkins
7 10 (4.50%) GitLab
8 8 (3.60%) Appium
8 8 (3.60%) Postman
9 7 (3.15%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.70%) Git
11 5 (2.25%) JUnit
12 4 (1.80%) FitNesse
12 4 (1.80%) Gatling
13 3 (1.35%) LoadRunner
13 3 (1.35%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
14 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket Server
14 2 (0.90%) Maven
General
1 56 (25.23%) Social Skills
2 32 (14.41%) Finance
3 14 (6.31%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (6.31%) Public Sector
4 13 (5.86%) Organisational Skills
5 12 (5.41%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.60%) Games
6 8 (3.60%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.15%) Banking
7 7 (3.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 7 (3.15%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.25%) Telecoms
9 4 (1.80%) Back Office
9 4 (1.80%) Electronics
9 4 (1.80%) Legal
9 4 (1.80%) Marketing
9 4 (1.80%) Military
10 3 (1.35%) Front Office
10 3 (1.35%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 77 (34.68%) Test Manager
2 45 (20.27%) Analyst
3 40 (18.02%) Test Analyst
4 25 (11.26%) Lead
5 23 (10.36%) Senior
5 23 (10.36%) Test Leader
6 22 (9.91%) Tester
7 20 (9.01%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 16 (7.21%) Test Engineer
9 12 (5.41%) QA Tester
10 10 (4.50%) SAP Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Consultant
11 8 (3.60%) SAP Test Manager
11 8 (3.60%) Senior Test Engineer
11 8 (3.60%) Testing Manager
12 7 (3.15%) QA Analyst
12 7 (3.15%) QA Test Analyst
13 6 (2.70%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.70%) SAP Consultant
14 5 (2.25%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.46%) ADO
2 9 (4.05%) Middleware
2 9 (4.05%) Oracle Fusion
2 9 (4.05%) REST
3 8 (3.60%) WebdriverIO
4 7 (3.15%) Web Services
5 5 (2.25%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.35%) Playwright
7 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.90%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.90%) Jest
8 1 (0.45%) Kafka
8 1 (0.45%) SOAP
8 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.05%) Product Ownership
2 8 (3.60%) Life Science
3 6 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 5 (2.25%) PKI
5 4 (1.80%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.35%) FMCG
6 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.35%) NHS
6 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.90%) Equities
7 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.90%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.45%) EPoS
8 1 (0.45%) IVR
8 1 (0.45%) Legacy Applications
8 1 (0.45%) Machine to Machine
8 1 (0.45%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.15%) Linux
2 2 (0.90%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) CentOS
3 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 92 (41.44%) Agile
2 79 (35.59%) Test Automation
3 58 (26.13%) Test Strategy
4 45 (20.27%) DevOps
5 39 (17.57%) Test Planning
5 39 (17.57%) User Acceptance Testing
6 36 (16.22%) Continuous Integration
7 35 (15.77%) Defect Management
7 35 (15.77%) Scenario Testing
8 31 (13.96%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (13.06%) End-to-End Testing
10 27 (12.16%) Project Management
11 25 (11.26%) Stakeholder Management
12 23 (10.36%) Waterfall
13 22 (9.91%) Test Scripting
14 21 (9.46%) Software Testing
15 19 (8.56%) CI/CD
15 19 (8.56%) Non-Functional Testing
16 18 (8.11%) Performance Testing
17 17 (7.66%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.11%) JavaScript
2 16 (7.21%) Python
3 14 (6.31%) Java
4 6 (2.70%) SQL
5 4 (1.80%) C#
5 4 (1.80%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.90%) ProC
7 1 (0.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 58 (26.13%) Security Cleared
2 49 (22.07%) ISTQB
3 29 (13.06%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 25 (11.26%) DV Cleared
5 24 (10.81%) SC Cleared
6 22 (9.91%) Degree
7 7 (3.15%) ISEB
8 6 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.35%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (24.77%) QA
2 5 (2.25%) HL7
3 4 (1.80%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.35%) GDPR
4 3 (1.35%) PMO
5 2 (0.90%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) SLA
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.15%) Docker
2 5 (2.25%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) iptables
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (1.35%) HP ALM
1 3 (1.35%) HP Quality Center
1 3 (1.35%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.90%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 31 (13.96%) Oracle
2 23 (10.36%) SAP
3 12 (5.41%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.25%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.35%) HP
6 2 (0.90%) Adobe
6 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.90%) Genesys
6 2 (0.90%) Qualtrics
6 2 (0.90%) Splunk
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.45%) Citrix
7 1 (0.45%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.45%) FIS
7 1 (0.45%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.45%) Informatica
7 1 (0.45%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (0.45%) Workday