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

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 391 359 329
Rank change year-on-year -32 -30 +69
Contract jobs citing Test Management 255 166 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.59% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.65% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 121 141
10th Percentile £317 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £470 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.26% -6.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £656 £650 £606
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £488
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.23% -7.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £98.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £102.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -41.46% +95.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £66.25 £106.25
90th Percentile - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £102.50
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 39,218 25,382 28,205
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.59% 90.90% 86.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,880 16,110 17,293
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £645
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 2,852 1,550 1,234
10th Percentile £13.90 £14.38 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £17.87 £20.26
Median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%
75th Percentile £67.50 £47.41 £66.61
90th Percentile £79.00 £67.28 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £39.50 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +57.06% -40.82% -

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 27 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
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 27 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 98 £500 - 45
Midlands +4 55 £360 +15.20% 7
West Midlands -4 53 £360 -15.29% 5
South East -43 53 £469 +4.17% 29
North of England -78 29 £475 +5.56% 12
North West -56 17 £523 +26.79% 8
Yorkshire -51 11 £470 +2.17% 3
South West -30 8 £400 -21.95% 7
East of England -19 7 £558 -6.96% 5
East Midlands -16 1 £438 +41.29% 2
North East -39 1 - - 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 24 (9.41%) Confluence
2 8 (3.14%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.18%) CMS
3 3 (1.18%) Kentico
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.39%) CICS
5 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 14 (5.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.75%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.57%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.39%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 17 (6.67%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.49%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.18%) SAP FI-AR
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.78%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.78%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.39%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.39%) Maximo
6 1 (0.39%) NEC Housing
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.39%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.39%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.39%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 84 (32.94%) Azure
2 73 (28.63%) Azure DevOps
3 40 (15.69%) AWS
4 13 (5.10%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (4.31%) Serverless
6 8 (3.14%) Azure Functions
6 8 (3.14%) GitHub
6 8 (3.14%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.14%) Power Automate
6 8 (3.14%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.75%) Azure Sentinel
8 6 (2.35%) GCP
8 6 (2.35%) SaaS
8 6 (2.35%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 5 (1.96%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
9 5 (1.96%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 3 (1.18%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 3 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
10 3 (1.18%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) Network Security
2 4 (1.57%) DHCP
2 4 (1.57%) DNS
3 3 (1.18%) Firewall
3 3 (1.18%) Internet
3 3 (1.18%) Intranet
3 3 (1.18%) LAN
3 3 (1.18%) SD-WAN
3 3 (1.18%) SSL
3 3 (1.18%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.18%) VPN
3 3 (1.18%) WAN
3 3 (1.18%) Wireshark
4 2 (0.78%) RTP
4 2 (0.78%) tcpdump
4 2 (0.78%) VoIP
5 1 (0.39%) INAP
5 1 (0.39%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (11.37%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (5.88%) SQL Server
4 7 (2.75%) Power BI
5 6 (2.35%) SAP BW
6 2 (0.78%) Oracle Database
6 2 (0.78%) Power Query
6 2 (0.78%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 1 (0.39%) Data Mart
7 1 (0.39%) DataStage
7 1 (0.39%) Db2
7 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
7 1 (0.39%) PowerCenter
7 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
7 1 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (46.67%) JIRA
2 46 (18.04%) Postman
3 41 (16.08%) Zephyr
4 37 (14.51%) Selenium
5 21 (8.24%) Git
6 16 (6.27%) Jenkins
7 15 (5.88%) Cypress.io
7 15 (5.88%) TestRail
8 13 (5.10%) GitLab
9 11 (4.31%) Cucumber
10 10 (3.92%) JMeter
11 9 (3.53%) REST Assured
11 9 (3.53%) WebDriver
12 5 (1.96%) HP UFT
13 4 (1.57%) eggPlant
13 4 (1.57%) Gatling
14 3 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (1.18%) Ranorex
14 3 (1.18%) Robot Framework
14 3 (1.18%) SOAtest
General
1 107 (41.96%) Social Skills
2 59 (23.14%) Finance
3 48 (18.82%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.37%) Public Sector
5 18 (7.06%) Banking
6 13 (5.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 10 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
8 8 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (2.75%) Retail
10 5 (1.96%) Billing
10 5 (1.96%) General Ledger
11 4 (1.57%) Front Office
11 4 (1.57%) Legal
12 3 (1.18%) Manufacturing
12 3 (1.18%) Telecoms
13 2 (0.78%) Aerospace
13 2 (0.78%) Games
13 2 (0.78%) Law
13 2 (0.78%) Local Government
13 2 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 75 (29.41%) Test Manager
2 60 (23.53%) Analyst
3 51 (20.00%) Lead
4 49 (19.22%) Test Analyst
5 45 (17.65%) Test Leader
6 34 (13.33%) Tester
7 17 (6.67%) Senior
8 16 (6.27%) Test Engineer
9 14 (5.49%) Programme Manager
9 14 (5.49%) Programme Test Manager
9 14 (5.49%) Test Programme Manager
10 13 (5.10%) QA Tester
11 11 (4.31%) Consultant
11 11 (4.31%) Senior Analyst
12 10 (3.92%) Senior Test Analyst
13 9 (3.53%) Business Analyst
14 8 (3.14%) Lead Test Analyst
14 8 (3.14%) QA Analyst
15 7 (2.75%) QA Test Analyst
15 7 (2.75%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (9.41%) Playwright
2 15 (5.88%) REST
3 14 (5.49%) Middleware
4 13 (5.10%) .NET
5 10 (3.92%) ADO
6 9 (3.53%) Gherkin
7 7 (2.75%) XML
8 6 (2.35%) SOAP
9 5 (1.96%) Web Services
10 4 (1.57%) Terraform
11 3 (1.18%) HTML
11 3 (1.18%) pytest
11 3 (1.18%) RESTful
11 3 (1.18%) SailPoint
11 3 (1.18%) SAML
12 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
12 2 (0.78%) JSON
12 2 (0.78%) Kafka
12 2 (0.78%) Oracle Fusion
12 2 (0.78%) XBRL
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.49%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.10%) Product Ownership
3 6 (2.35%) Legacy Systems
3 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
3 6 (2.35%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.96%) SCADA
5 4 (1.57%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.18%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.18%) EPoS
6 3 (1.18%) PKI
7 2 (0.78%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (0.78%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.78%) Life Science
7 2 (0.78%) Media Streaming
7 2 (0.78%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (5.49%) Windows
2 12 (4.71%) Linux
3 4 (1.57%) Unix
4 3 (1.18%) Mac OS
5 2 (0.78%) Android
5 2 (0.78%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.39%) CentOS
6 1 (0.39%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
6 1 (0.39%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (49.80%) Test Automation
2 124 (48.63%) Agile
3 110 (43.14%) User Acceptance Testing
4 100 (39.22%) End-to-End Testing
5 91 (35.69%) Test Strategy
6 89 (34.90%) DevOps
7 86 (33.73%) Defect Management
8 84 (32.94%) Stakeholder Management
9 81 (31.76%) Integration Testing
10 73 (28.63%) Scenario Testing
10 73 (28.63%) Test Scripting
11 65 (25.49%) Migration
12 58 (22.75%) Manual Testing
13 51 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
13 51 (20.00%) Validation
14 48 (18.82%) Regression Testing
15 46 (18.04%) Data Migration
16 43 (16.86%) CI/CD
16 43 (16.86%) Software Testing
17 41 (16.08%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 56 (21.96%) SQL
2 17 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 17 (6.67%) Python
3 16 (6.27%) C#
4 10 (3.92%) Java
5 7 (2.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.78%) PowerShell
6 2 (0.78%) VB
6 2 (0.78%) VB.NET
6 2 (0.78%) VBScript
7 1 (0.39%) C++
7 1 (0.39%) COBOL
7 1 (0.39%) Cypher
7 1 (0.39%) JCL
7 1 (0.39%) Korn
7 1 (0.39%) Ruby
7 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 87 (34.12%) Security Cleared
2 68 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 61 (23.92%) SC Cleared
4 21 (8.24%) DV Cleared
5 13 (5.10%) Degree
5 13 (5.10%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 12 (4.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 11 (4.31%) BPSS Clearance
8 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.96%) ISEB
10 3 (1.18%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.18%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.78%) IIBA
11 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.78%) MOS
12 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.39%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 128 (50.20%) QA
2 13 (5.10%) Accessibility
3 10 (3.92%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.14%) GDPR
4 8 (3.14%) WCAG
5 3 (1.18%) IFRS
5 3 (1.18%) IFRS 17
5 3 (1.18%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.78%) GRC
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 20022
6 2 (0.78%) ISO 9001
6 2 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) NIST
6 2 (0.78%) PMO
6 2 (0.78%) SEPA
7 1 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
7 1 (0.39%) EMIR
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.35%) Docker
3 5 (1.96%) Virtual Machines
4 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
5 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 13 (5.10%) HP ALM
2 6 (2.35%) Ansible
2 6 (2.35%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.78%) Argo
4 2 (0.78%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 51 (20.00%) Oracle
2 39 (15.29%) Microsoft
3 27 (10.59%) SAP
4 13 (5.10%) HP
5 9 (3.53%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.14%) VMware
7 7 (2.75%) Cisco
8 6 (2.35%) Denodo
9 5 (1.96%) Google
9 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.96%) Talend
10 3 (1.18%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.18%) Citrix
10 3 (1.18%) MuleSoft
10 3 (1.18%) Siemens
10 3 (1.18%) Workday
10 3 (1.18%) Zscaler
11 2 (0.78%) Ariba
11 2 (0.78%) Databricks
11 2 (0.78%) UiPath