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

6 months to
30 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 358 337 348
Rank change year-on-year -21 +11 +55
Contract jobs citing Test Management 237 139 211
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.62% 0.57% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.63% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 176 98 164
10th Percentile £310 £323 £363
25th Percentile £350 £408 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -17.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £519 £575 £600
90th Percentile £606 £638 £675
UK median daily rate £438 £490 £513
% change year-on-year -10.71% -4.39% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £25.78 - -
25th Percentile £48.15 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £83.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +659.09% -
75th Percentile - £85.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £83.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% +659.09% -

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 32,652 22,196 32,688
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.09% 90.77% 86.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,899 14,634 21,608
10th Percentile £313 £311 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,012 866 2,163
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.00 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.04 £20.03 £15.97
Median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.95% - -13.33%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.67 £57.91
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £31.88 £32.50
% change year-on-year +11.36% -1.91% -9.72%

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 30 March 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 30 March 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 30 March 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 -7 106 £400 -11.11% 19
North of England -42 42 £395 -16.84% 10
Midlands -49 38 £368 -31.63% 8
South East -51 36 £461 -7.80% 16
West Midlands -42 32 £350 -34.88% 8
North West -26 27 £393 -17.26% 2
South West -22 9 £506 +15.71% 5
North East - 8 £350 - 4
Yorkshire -57 7 £443 -1.67% 4
East of England -28 5 £450 -25.00% 3
East Midlands - 5 £429 -
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 (9.28%) Confluence
2 5 (2.11%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) Kentico
3 1 (0.42%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.69%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.42%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.42%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 11 (4.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.69%) Maximo
2 4 (1.69%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (0.84%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (0.84%) BambooHR
3 2 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.84%) NetSuite
3 2 (0.84%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (0.84%) Workday HCM
4 1 (0.42%) Endur
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.42%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.42%) SAP FI-GL
4 1 (0.42%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.42%) Summit
4 1 (0.42%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 88 (37.13%) Azure
2 72 (30.38%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.17%) AWS
4 12 (5.06%) GitHub
5 9 (3.80%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (3.80%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (3.38%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.95%) SaaS
8 6 (2.53%) OCI
9 5 (2.11%) GCP
10 4 (1.69%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.84%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.84%) Power Platform
11 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.84%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.84%) Tricentis Tosca
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Data Factory
12 1 (0.42%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.42%) Serverless
12 1 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.11%) Firewall
2 4 (1.69%) SSL
2 4 (1.69%) TCP/IP
3 3 (1.27%) DNS
3 3 (1.27%) HTTP
3 3 (1.27%) VLAN
3 3 (1.27%) VPN
4 2 (0.84%) BGP
4 2 (0.84%) DHCP
4 2 (0.84%) FTP
4 2 (0.84%) Internet
4 2 (0.84%) LAN
4 2 (0.84%) MPLS
4 2 (0.84%) Network Security
4 2 (0.84%) OSPF
4 2 (0.84%) SD-WAN
4 2 (0.84%) WAN
4 2 (0.84%) Wireshark
5 1 (0.42%) Cisco ASA
5 1 (0.42%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (5.49%) Data Warehouse
1 13 (5.49%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (2.11%) BigQuery
3 4 (1.69%) Relational Database
3 4 (1.69%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.27%) MongoDB
5 2 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (0.84%) Power BI
6 1 (0.42%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.42%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.42%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.42%) Big Data
6 1 (0.42%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.42%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.42%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.42%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 100 (42.19%) JIRA
2 32 (13.50%) Selenium
3 31 (13.08%) Postman
4 30 (12.66%) Zephyr
5 21 (8.86%) TestRail
6 14 (5.91%) Git
7 12 (5.06%) Jenkins
8 11 (4.64%) Cucumber
9 10 (4.22%) Cypress.io
10 9 (3.80%) GitLab
10 9 (3.80%) JMeter
10 9 (3.80%) REST Assured
11 6 (2.53%) SpecFlow
12 5 (2.11%) Gatling
13 3 (1.27%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.27%) Team Foundation Server
14 2 (0.84%) Atlassian Bamboo
14 2 (0.84%) LoadRunner
14 2 (0.84%) MSTest
14 2 (0.84%) WebDriver
General
1 111 (46.84%) Social Skills
2 62 (26.16%) Finance
3 50 (21.10%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (10.13%) Public Sector
5 10 (4.22%) Banking
5 10 (4.22%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
7 6 (2.53%) Manufacturing
8 5 (2.11%) Automotive
8 5 (2.11%) Retail
9 4 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Local Government
9 4 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (1.69%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.27%) Electronics
10 3 (1.27%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.27%) Military
11 2 (0.84%) French Language
11 2 (0.84%) Law
11 2 (0.84%) Legal
Job Titles
1 75 (31.65%) Test Manager
2 51 (21.52%) Analyst
3 47 (19.83%) Test Analyst
4 36 (15.19%) Tester
5 28 (11.81%) Lead
6 22 (9.28%) Senior
7 20 (8.44%) Test Engineer
8 19 (8.02%) Test Leader
9 14 (5.91%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Integration Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Integration Test Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Senior Test Analyst
10 12 (5.06%) Systems Integration Analyst
11 11 (4.64%) QA Engineer
11 11 (4.64%) QA Tester
12 10 (4.22%) Programme Manager
12 10 (4.22%) Programme Test Manager
12 10 (4.22%) Senior Integration Analyst
12 10 (4.22%) Systems Analyst
12 10 (4.22%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (8.44%) REST
2 17 (7.17%) Playwright
3 16 (6.75%) Middleware
4 9 (3.80%) Node.js
5 7 (2.95%) ADO
6 6 (2.53%) RESTful
7 5 (2.11%) JSON
7 5 (2.11%) SAML
7 5 (2.11%) XML
8 4 (1.69%) .NET
8 4 (1.69%) JWT
8 4 (1.69%) OAuth
8 4 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
8 4 (1.69%) SOAP
8 4 (1.69%) Web Services
9 3 (1.27%) LDAP
9 3 (1.27%) Spring
10 2 (0.84%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.84%) HTML
10 2 (0.84%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.75%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.80%) Public Cloud
3 8 (3.38%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.95%) Onboarding
4 7 (2.95%) Self-Motivation
5 5 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
6 4 (1.69%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.69%) SCADA
7 3 (1.27%) Derivative
8 2 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (0.84%) Equities
8 2 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.84%) Mainframe
9 1 (0.42%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.42%) Data Centre
9 1 (0.42%) IoT
9 1 (0.42%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.42%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.42%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 19 (8.02%) Windows
2 8 (3.38%) Linux
3 3 (1.27%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.42%) Android
4 1 (0.42%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.42%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.42%) Unix
4 1 (0.42%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (54.85%) Agile
2 109 (45.99%) Test Automation
3 106 (44.73%) User Acceptance Testing
4 85 (35.86%) DevOps
5 82 (34.60%) Test Strategy
6 68 (28.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 65 (27.43%) Test Scripting
7 65 (27.43%) Validation
8 63 (26.58%) Regression Testing
9 62 (26.16%) Integration Testing
10 60 (25.32%) Defect Management
11 59 (24.89%) Scenario Testing
12 58 (24.47%) End-to-End Testing
13 56 (23.63%) Software Testing
14 55 (23.21%) Problem-Solving
15 54 (22.78%) Continuous Improvement
16 47 (19.83%) Defect Tracking
17 45 (18.99%) CI/CD
18 42 (17.72%) Waterfall
19 41 (17.30%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 44 (18.57%) SQL
2 29 (12.24%) Java
3 20 (8.44%) JavaScript
4 16 (6.75%) C#
5 14 (5.91%) Python
6 10 (4.22%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.11%) XPath
8 3 (1.27%) MATLAB
8 3 (1.27%) VB
9 2 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 1 (0.42%) Bash
10 1 (0.42%) Bicep
10 1 (0.42%) Ruby
10 1 (0.42%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.42%) VB6
Qualifications
1 67 (28.27%) Security Cleared
2 54 (22.78%) ISTQB
3 49 (20.68%) SC Cleared
4 23 (9.70%) Degree
5 10 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.22%) Master's Degree
6 9 (3.80%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 9 (3.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 8 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.27%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.27%) ISEB
9 2 (0.84%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.84%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.84%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.42%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.42%) CCIE
10 1 (0.42%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.42%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.42%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.42%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 114 (48.10%) QA
2 19 (8.02%) IFRS
2 19 (8.02%) IFRS 17
3 9 (3.80%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 4 (1.69%) SLA
5 3 (1.27%) Data Quality
5 3 (1.27%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 2 (0.84%) GDPR
6 2 (0.84%) HL7
6 2 (0.84%) MiFID
6 2 (0.84%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.84%) WCAG
7 1 (0.42%) EMIR
7 1 (0.42%) GxP
7 1 (0.42%) NCSC
7 1 (0.42%) NIST
7 1 (0.42%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 3 (1.27%) Docker
2 2 (0.84%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.84%) Firmware
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (9.28%) HP ALM
2 5 (2.11%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.69%) Grafana
3 4 (1.69%) HP Quality Center
4 3 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.84%) Ansible
5 2 (0.84%) Kibana
5 2 (0.84%) Terraform
6 1 (0.42%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.42%) Control-M
6 1 (0.42%) Iperf
6 1 (0.42%) Nmap
Vendors
1 40 (16.88%) Oracle
2 25 (10.55%) Microsoft
3 23 (9.70%) HP
3 23 (9.70%) SAP
4 13 (5.49%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.95%) Workday
6 5 (2.11%) Salesforce
7 4 (1.69%) Splunk
8 3 (1.27%) Ariba
8 3 (1.27%) IBM
8 3 (1.27%) Micro Focus
8 3 (1.27%) MuleSoft
8 3 (1.27%) OpenText
8 3 (1.27%) Talend
9 2 (0.84%) Cisco
9 2 (0.84%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.84%) PagerDuty
9 2 (0.84%) Sage
9 2 (0.84%) Siemens
9 2 (0.84%) SmartStream