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

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 370 354 331
Rank change year-on-year -16 -23 +59
Contract jobs citing Test Management 167 140 224
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.54% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.58% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 89 162
10th Percentile £308 £398 £381
25th Percentile £363 £419 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £520
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +3.37% +4.00%
75th Percentile £523 £588 £588
90th Percentile £598 £610 £625
UK median daily rate £443 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -15.71% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
UK median hourly rate - - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -31.25%

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 27,490 23,991 31,990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.32% 89.05% 87.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,508 14,731 21,614
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,729 768 1,481
10th Percentile £15.16 £15.59 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.88 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.63% -18.24% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +16.41%

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 11 January 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 11 January 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 +24 86 £425 -19.05% 16
North of England -26 32 £398 -0.63% 37
South East -12 25 £461 -16.27% 54
North West -22 19 £395 -1.25% 14
Midlands -50 11 £359 -33.26% 30
Yorkshire -41 8 £409 -3.82% 18
West Midlands -40 7 £400 -25.58% 11
South West -21 5 £525 -8.70% 24
North East - 5 £500 - 5
East Midlands -22 4 £340 -51.41% 19
East of England -17 2 £625 -31.32% 32
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 16 (9.58%) Confluence
2 2 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Kentico
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.40%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.19%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.20%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.20%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.20%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.20%) Maximo
2 2 (1.20%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.20%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.60%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.60%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (39.52%) Azure
2 43 (25.75%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (5.99%) AWS
4 7 (4.19%) GitHub
4 7 (4.19%) SuccessFactors
5 6 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.99%) GCP
6 5 (2.99%) GitHub Actions
6 5 (2.99%) OCI
7 4 (2.40%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.80%) Power Platform
8 3 (1.80%) SaaS
9 2 (1.20%) BrowserStack
9 2 (1.20%) PaaS
9 2 (1.20%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Data Factory
10 1 (0.60%) PowerApps
10 1 (0.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 1 (0.60%) Serverless
10 1 (0.60%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.80%) HTTP
1 3 (1.80%) SSL
2 2 (1.20%) Firewall
2 2 (1.20%) FTP
3 1 (0.60%) DNS
3 1 (0.60%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.99%) BigQuery
1 5 (2.99%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.40%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.80%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.80%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.20%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.20%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.20%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.20%) Power BI
5 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 66 (39.52%) JIRA
2 27 (16.17%) Selenium
3 21 (12.57%) TestRail
4 19 (11.38%) Postman
5 12 (7.19%) Cucumber
5 12 (7.19%) Zephyr
6 10 (5.99%) Jenkins
7 9 (5.39%) Git
7 9 (5.39%) GitLab
8 6 (3.59%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.59%) JMeter
9 5 (2.99%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.99%) SoapUI
9 5 (2.99%) SpecFlow
10 4 (2.40%) Gatling
11 2 (1.20%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.20%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.20%) TestNG
11 2 (1.20%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.60%) LoadRunner
General
1 81 (48.50%) Social Skills
2 39 (23.35%) Finance
3 30 (17.96%) Analytical Skills
4 22 (13.17%) Public Sector
5 12 (7.19%) Banking
6 10 (5.99%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.79%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.59%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.99%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.80%) Back Office
10 3 (1.80%) Local Government
10 3 (1.80%) Pharmaceutical
10 3 (1.80%) Retail
10 3 (1.80%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.20%) Front Office
11 2 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.20%) Law
11 2 (1.20%) Legal
11 2 (1.20%) Military
11 2 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 51 (30.54%) Test Manager
2 37 (22.16%) Analyst
3 36 (21.56%) Test Analyst
4 27 (16.17%) Tester
5 22 (13.17%) Lead
6 18 (10.78%) Test Leader
7 15 (8.98%) Senior
8 12 (7.19%) Test Engineer
9 10 (5.99%) Integration Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) Integration Test Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) Senior Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) Senior Test Analyst
9 10 (5.99%) Systems Integration Analyst
10 9 (5.39%) Automation Tester
11 8 (4.79%) QA Engineer
11 8 (4.79%) Senior Integration Analyst
11 8 (4.79%) Systems Analyst
11 8 (4.79%) Systems Test Analyst
12 7 (4.19%) QA Tester
13 6 (3.59%) Senior Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.78%) Playwright
2 11 (6.59%) Middleware
3 8 (4.79%) REST
4 7 (4.19%) Node.js
5 6 (3.59%) JSON
5 6 (3.59%) XML
6 5 (2.99%) .NET
6 5 (2.99%) ADO
7 4 (2.40%) JWT
7 4 (2.40%) OAuth
7 4 (2.40%) SAML
7 4 (2.40%) Spring
7 4 (2.40%) Web Services
8 3 (1.80%) LDAP
8 3 (1.80%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.80%) SOAP
9 2 (1.20%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.20%) Gherkin
9 2 (1.20%) Kafka
9 2 (1.20%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.19%) Management Information System
1 7 (4.19%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.59%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.99%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.99%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.40%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.80%) Derivative
6 2 (1.20%) Equities
6 2 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.20%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.20%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.20%) SCADA
7 1 (0.60%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.60%) Data Centre
7 1 (0.60%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.60%) IoT
7 1 (0.60%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.60%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.78%) Windows
2 5 (2.99%) Linux
3 3 (1.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.60%) Unix
4 1 (0.60%) VMS
4 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (50.30%) Agile
1 84 (50.30%) Test Automation
2 63 (37.72%) User Acceptance Testing
3 58 (34.73%) Test Strategy
4 57 (34.13%) DevOps
5 46 (27.54%) Problem-Solving
5 46 (27.54%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (25.75%) Test Scripting
6 43 (25.75%) Validation
7 40 (23.95%) Software Testing
8 38 (22.75%) CI/CD
9 37 (22.16%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (22.16%) Integration Testing
10 35 (20.96%) Defect Management
10 35 (20.96%) Scenario Testing
11 34 (20.36%) Defect Tracking
11 34 (20.36%) Regression Testing
12 31 (18.56%) End-to-End Testing
13 30 (17.96%) Waterfall
14 29 (17.37%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.77%) SQL
2 26 (15.57%) Java
3 17 (10.18%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.59%) C#
5 10 (5.99%) Python
6 9 (5.39%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.99%) XPath
8 1 (0.60%) Bicep
8 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.60%) Ruby
8 1 (0.60%) VB
Qualifications
1 39 (23.35%) Security Cleared
2 36 (21.56%) ISTQB
3 26 (15.57%) SC Cleared
4 15 (8.98%) Degree
5 12 (7.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (3.59%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.99%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.40%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.40%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.20%) ISEB
10 1 (0.60%) CISM
10 1 (0.60%) CISSP
10 1 (0.60%) EMC Certification
10 1 (0.60%) HNC
10 1 (0.60%) HND
10 1 (0.60%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (39.52%) QA
2 10 (5.99%) IFRS
2 10 (5.99%) IFRS 17
3 9 (5.39%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.80%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.80%) WCAG
5 2 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.60%) GDPR
6 1 (0.60%) GxP
6 1 (0.60%) HL7
6 1 (0.60%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.60%) NIST
6 1 (0.60%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.60%) SLA
6 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.20%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.20%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (10.78%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.40%) Grafana
2 4 (2.40%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.20%) Kibana
3 2 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.20%) Terraform
4 1 (0.60%) Ansible
4 1 (0.60%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) SCCM
4 1 (0.60%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (11.98%) Microsoft
1 20 (11.98%) Oracle
2 18 (10.78%) HP
3 15 (8.98%) SAP
4 12 (7.19%) ServiceNow
5 9 (5.39%) Workday
6 4 (2.40%) Micro Focus
6 4 (2.40%) Salesforce
6 4 (2.40%) Splunk
7 3 (1.80%) IBM
7 3 (1.80%) OpenText
8 2 (1.20%) BeyondTrust
8 2 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 2 (1.20%) Dynatrace
8 2 (1.20%) PagerDuty
8 2 (1.20%) SmartStream
8 2 (1.20%) Thycotic
9 1 (0.60%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.60%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.60%) YouTube