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

6 months to
27 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 395 331 344
Rank change year-on-year -64 +13 +59
Contract jobs citing Test Management 245 191 203
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.69% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.76% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 178 140 155
10th Percentile £313 £313 £363
25th Percentile £358 £382 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £448 £463 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.24% -7.50% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £555 £575
90th Percentile £657 £651 £622
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £494
% change year-on-year - -8.91% -5.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 1
10th Percentile £26.04 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £98.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £102.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% -36.59% +95.24%
75th Percentile - £73.81 £106.25
90th Percentile - £80.68 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £102.50
% change year-on-year +7.69% -36.59% +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 38,369 25,044 29,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.25% 90.72% 85.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,058 16,057 19,314
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £423 £405 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £633 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,388 1,359 1,834
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £13.69
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.87 £17.69
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £40.33
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -37.63% -5.12%
75th Percentile £69.56 £51.77 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.13% -5.88%

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 July 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 27 July 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 27 July 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 87 £488 -2.50% 5
Midlands -4 63 £358 -20.44% 9
West Midlands -7 58 £358 -18.17% 7
South East -68 51 £475 -5.00% 6
North of England -77 34 £444 +4.41% 7
North West -47 22 £350 -12.50% 2
South West -35 12 £438 - 3
North East - 7 £313 - 3
East of England -21 5 £750 +25.00% 3
Yorkshire -58 5 £600 +33.33% 4
East Midlands - 3 £480 - 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 20 (8.16%) Confluence
2 6 (2.45%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.22%) CMS
3 3 (1.22%) Kentico
4 2 (0.82%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.82%) SAS
Applications
1 7 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.82%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.82%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 17 (6.94%) SAP S/4HANA
2 10 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.22%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.22%) SAP FI-AR
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.82%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.82%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.41%) Endur
5 1 (0.41%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.41%) Maximo
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.41%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.41%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.41%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.41%) Summit
5 1 (0.41%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 75 (30.61%) Azure
2 67 (27.35%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (14.69%) AWS
4 12 (4.90%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (4.49%) GitHub
6 10 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
7 8 (3.27%) SaaS
8 7 (2.86%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (2.86%) Entra ID
8 7 (2.86%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 6 (2.45%) Microsoft 365
10 5 (2.04%) Azure Functions
10 5 (2.04%) Power Automate
10 5 (2.04%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 5 (2.04%) Serverless
11 3 (1.22%) Power Platform
11 3 (1.22%) SuccessFactors
12 2 (0.82%) OCI
13 1 (0.41%) Azure Logic Apps
13 1 (0.41%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.67%) Network Security
2 5 (2.04%) DHCP
2 5 (2.04%) DNS
2 5 (2.04%) Firewall
2 5 (2.04%) Internet
2 5 (2.04%) LAN
2 5 (2.04%) SD-WAN
2 5 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 5 (2.04%) VPN
2 5 (2.04%) WAN
3 4 (1.63%) Intranet
3 4 (1.63%) SSL
4 2 (0.82%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.41%) 4G
5 1 (0.41%) 5G
5 1 (0.41%) BGP
5 1 (0.41%) MPLS
5 1 (0.41%) OSPF
5 1 (0.41%) tcpdump
5 1 (0.41%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.88%) Data Warehouse
2 32 (13.06%) Oracle Reports
3 6 (2.45%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.63%) SAP BW
5 3 (1.22%) Power BI
6 1 (0.41%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.41%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.41%) Big Data
6 1 (0.41%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.41%) DataStage
6 1 (0.41%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.41%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.41%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.41%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.41%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.41%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (48.57%) JIRA
2 47 (19.18%) Zephyr
3 46 (18.78%) Postman
4 28 (11.43%) Selenium
5 16 (6.53%) Git
5 16 (6.53%) TestRail
6 15 (6.12%) Jenkins
7 12 (4.90%) Cypress.io
8 10 (4.08%) REST Assured
9 8 (3.27%) Cucumber
10 6 (2.45%) GitLab
10 6 (2.45%) WebDriver
11 5 (2.04%) JMeter
12 4 (1.63%) Browser DevTools
13 3 (1.22%) Gatling
13 3 (1.22%) HP UFT
14 1 (0.41%) LoadRunner
14 1 (0.41%) Maven
14 1 (0.41%) TestNG
14 1 (0.41%) Xcode
General
1 106 (43.27%) Social Skills
2 60 (24.49%) Finance
3 53 (21.63%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.67%) Banking
7 8 (3.27%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 7 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 5 (2.04%) Manufacturing
10 4 (1.63%) Front Office
10 4 (1.63%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Local Government
10 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
10 4 (1.63%) Retail
11 3 (1.22%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.22%) Automotive
11 3 (1.22%) Billing
11 3 (1.22%) Electronics
11 3 (1.22%) Publishing
12 2 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 73 (29.80%) Test Manager
2 46 (18.78%) Analyst
3 44 (17.96%) Lead
4 37 (15.10%) Tester
5 36 (14.69%) Test Analyst
6 35 (14.29%) Test Leader
7 18 (7.35%) QA Tester
7 18 (7.35%) Test Engineer
8 15 (6.12%) Consultant
9 14 (5.71%) Senior
10 9 (3.67%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.67%) SAP Consultant
11 8 (3.27%) Software Test Engineer
12 7 (2.86%) Programme Manager
12 7 (2.86%) Programme Test Manager
12 7 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
12 7 (2.86%) Test Programme Manager
13 5 (2.04%) Infrastructure Analyst
13 5 (2.04%) QA Leader
13 5 (2.04%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.57%) REST
2 16 (6.53%) Playwright
3 10 (4.08%) Middleware
4 8 (3.27%) RESTful
5 7 (2.86%) ADO
5 7 (2.86%) Gherkin
6 6 (2.45%) Oracle Fusion
7 5 (2.04%) SOAP
8 4 (1.63%) .NET
8 4 (1.63%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.63%) SAML
9 2 (0.82%) pytest
9 2 (0.82%) Web Services
9 2 (0.82%) XML
10 1 (0.41%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.41%) HTML
10 1 (0.41%) HTML5
10 1 (0.41%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.41%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.41%) Vuetify.js
Miscellaneous
1 14 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.31%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.31%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.27%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.45%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.04%) Public Cloud
5 5 (2.04%) SCADA
6 4 (1.63%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.22%) EPoS
7 3 (1.22%) PKI
8 2 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.82%) Credit Risk
8 2 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (0.82%) Derivative
8 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.82%) Market Risk
8 2 (0.82%) Mobile App
8 2 (0.82%) Online Games
9 1 (0.41%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.41%) OTC Derivatives
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.08%) Windows
2 7 (2.86%) Linux
3 4 (1.63%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.82%) Android
4 2 (0.82%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (54.69%) Agile
2 116 (47.35%) Test Automation
3 104 (42.45%) User Acceptance Testing
4 87 (35.51%) End-to-End Testing
5 80 (32.65%) Test Strategy
6 78 (31.84%) DevOps
7 75 (30.61%) Integration Testing
8 72 (29.39%) Scenario Testing
9 70 (28.57%) Defect Management
10 64 (26.12%) Migration
11 63 (25.71%) Stakeholder Management
11 63 (25.71%) Test Scripting
12 51 (20.82%) Manual Testing
13 49 (20.00%) Validation
14 48 (19.59%) Data Migration
15 45 (18.37%) System Testing
16 44 (17.96%) System Integration Testing
17 43 (17.55%) Problem-Solving
18 40 (16.33%) ETL
18 40 (16.33%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 52 (21.22%) SQL
2 18 (7.35%) JavaScript
3 14 (5.71%) Python
4 11 (4.49%) Java
5 10 (4.08%) C#
6 7 (2.86%) TypeScript
7 4 (1.63%) VB
8 3 (1.22%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.82%) VBScript
10 1 (0.41%) C++
10 1 (0.41%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.41%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.41%) Ruby
10 1 (0.41%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.41%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.41%) VB6
10 1 (0.41%) VBA
Qualifications
1 80 (32.65%) Security Cleared
2 61 (24.90%) ISTQB
3 59 (24.08%) SC Cleared
4 17 (6.94%) Degree
5 16 (6.53%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 9 (3.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 9 (3.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.45%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.63%) Azure Certification
10 3 (1.22%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.82%) CTC Cleared
11 2 (0.82%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.82%) ISEB
12 1 (0.41%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.41%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.41%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 116 (47.35%) QA
2 11 (4.49%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.67%) Data Quality
4 7 (2.86%) GDPR
5 6 (2.45%) IFRS
5 6 (2.45%) IFRS 17
5 6 (2.45%) WCAG
6 4 (1.63%) MiFID
7 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (1.22%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.82%) EMIR
8 2 (0.82%) SLA
9 1 (0.41%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.41%) NIST
9 1 (0.41%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (2.04%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.63%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 16 (6.53%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.82%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (0.82%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.41%) Control-M
4 1 (0.41%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (21.22%) Oracle
2 33 (13.47%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.39%) SAP
4 17 (6.94%) HP
5 9 (3.67%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.27%) Cisco
6 8 (3.27%) VMware
7 6 (2.45%) Denodo
7 6 (2.45%) Talend
8 5 (2.04%) Ariba
9 4 (1.63%) Citrix
9 4 (1.63%) MuleSoft
9 4 (1.63%) Zscaler
10 3 (1.22%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.82%) Murex
11 2 (0.82%) Sage
12 1 (0.41%) Ab Initio
12 1 (0.41%) Calypso
12 1 (0.41%) Informatica
12 1 (0.41%) Siemens