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

6 months to
18 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 312 347
Rank change year-on-year -61 +35 +80
Contract jobs citing Test Management 256 194 219
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.71% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.79% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 189 141 167
10th Percentile £313 £325 £363
25th Percentile £358 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £569 £588
90th Percentile £656 £663 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £489
% change year-on-year -2.70% -5.42% -8.17%
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 38,446 24,678 30,937
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 90.65% 85.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,172 15,843 20,140
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £420 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £746 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,378 1,309 2,090
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.28 £13.18
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £16.83
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -8.14%
75th Percentile £68.75 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -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 18 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 18 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 18 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 -50 89 £475 -5.00% 3
Midlands -8 62 £358 -20.44% 5
West Midlands -15 58 £358 -18.17% 4
South East -49 52 £475 -5.00% 11
North of England -82 36 £406 -9.72% 3
North West -50 24 £350 -22.22%
South West -32 13 £450 +2.86% 1
East of England -19 7 £750 +25.00% 1
North East - 7 £313 -
Yorkshire -53 5 £600 +33.33% 3
East Midlands - 2 £578 - 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 23 (8.98%) Confluence
2 7 (2.73%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.17%) CMS
3 3 (1.17%) Kentico
4 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.78%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.13%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.34%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.78%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.78%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 16 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.52%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.17%) Maximo
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.17%) SAP FI-AR
4 2 (0.78%) SAP MM
4 2 (0.78%) SAP SD
5 1 (0.39%) Endur
5 1 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.39%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.39%) Summit
5 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 81 (31.64%) Azure
2 73 (28.52%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (14.06%) AWS
4 11 (4.30%) Dynamics 365
4 11 (4.30%) GitHub
5 10 (3.91%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.13%) SaaS
7 7 (2.73%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.73%) Entra ID
8 6 (2.34%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.34%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Azure Functions
9 4 (1.56%) Power Automate
9 4 (1.56%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) Serverless
10 3 (1.17%) Power Platform
10 3 (1.17%) SuccessFactors
11 2 (0.78%) OCI
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 9 (3.52%) Network Security
2 6 (2.34%) Firewall
2 6 (2.34%) TCP/IP
2 6 (2.34%) VPN
3 5 (1.95%) DHCP
3 5 (1.95%) DNS
3 5 (1.95%) Internet
3 5 (1.95%) LAN
3 5 (1.95%) SD-WAN
3 5 (1.95%) WAN
4 4 (1.56%) Intranet
4 4 (1.56%) SSL
5 3 (1.17%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) MPLS
6 2 (0.78%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.39%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 34 (13.28%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (12.11%) Oracle Reports
3 5 (1.95%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.17%) Power BI
5 2 (0.78%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.78%) SAP BW
6 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.39%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.39%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.39%) Big Data
6 1 (0.39%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.39%) DataStage
6 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.39%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.39%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 126 (49.22%) JIRA
2 47 (18.36%) Postman
3 46 (17.97%) Zephyr
4 26 (10.16%) Selenium
5 17 (6.64%) TestRail
6 16 (6.25%) Git
7 15 (5.86%) Jenkins
8 11 (4.30%) Cypress.io
9 10 (3.91%) REST Assured
10 7 (2.73%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.34%) GitLab
12 5 (1.95%) JMeter
12 5 (1.95%) WebDriver
13 4 (1.56%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (1.17%) Gatling
14 3 (1.17%) HP UFT
14 3 (1.17%) MSTest
15 2 (0.78%) Appium
15 2 (0.78%) Team Foundation Server
16 1 (0.39%) TestNG
General
1 110 (42.97%) Social Skills
2 64 (25.00%) Finance
3 57 (22.27%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (8.98%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 9 (3.52%) Banking
7 7 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 5 (1.95%) Manufacturing
8 5 (1.95%) Retail
9 4 (1.56%) Aerospace
9 4 (1.56%) Front Office
9 4 (1.56%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.56%) Local Government
9 4 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (1.17%) Automotive
10 3 (1.17%) Billing
10 3 (1.17%) Electronics
10 3 (1.17%) Publishing
10 3 (1.17%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 75 (29.30%) Test Manager
2 50 (19.53%) Analyst
3 45 (17.58%) Lead
4 39 (15.23%) Test Analyst
4 39 (15.23%) Tester
5 36 (14.06%) Test Leader
6 20 (7.81%) Test Engineer
7 18 (7.03%) QA Tester
8 13 (5.08%) Consultant
8 13 (5.08%) Senior
9 10 (3.91%) Business Analyst
9 10 (3.91%) Software Test Engineer
10 7 (2.73%) Programme Manager
10 7 (2.73%) Programme Test Manager
10 7 (2.73%) SAP Consultant
10 7 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (2.73%) Test Programme Manager
11 5 (1.95%) QA Leader
11 5 (1.95%) QA Manager
11 5 (1.95%) SC Cleared Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.81%) REST
2 15 (5.86%) Playwright
3 10 (3.91%) Middleware
4 8 (3.13%) ADO
4 8 (3.13%) RESTful
5 6 (2.34%) Gherkin
5 6 (2.34%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.95%) .NET
7 4 (1.56%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.56%) SAML
8 3 (1.17%) SOAP
9 2 (0.78%) pytest
10 1 (0.39%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.39%) HTML
10 1 (0.39%) HTML5
10 1 (0.39%) Node.js
10 1 (0.39%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.39%) Vuetify.js
10 1 (0.39%) Web Services
10 1 (0.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.25%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.08%) Management Information System
2 13 (5.08%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (3.13%) Legacy Systems
4 6 (2.34%) Onboarding
4 6 (2.34%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (1.56%) SCADA
6 3 (1.17%) EPoS
6 3 (1.17%) Mobile App
6 3 (1.17%) PKI
7 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.78%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.78%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.78%) Derivative
7 2 (0.78%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.78%) Online Games
8 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
8 1 (0.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.08%) Windows
2 7 (2.73%) Linux
3 4 (1.56%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.17%) Android
4 3 (1.17%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (54.30%) Agile
2 120 (46.88%) Test Automation
3 110 (42.97%) User Acceptance Testing
4 87 (33.98%) End-to-End Testing
5 84 (32.81%) DevOps
5 84 (32.81%) Test Strategy
6 79 (30.86%) Integration Testing
7 74 (28.91%) Defect Management
8 73 (28.52%) Scenario Testing
9 69 (26.95%) Test Scripting
10 66 (25.78%) Migration
11 65 (25.39%) Stakeholder Management
12 54 (21.09%) Validation
13 52 (20.31%) Manual Testing
14 49 (19.14%) Data Migration
14 49 (19.14%) Regression Testing
15 47 (18.36%) System Testing
16 46 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
17 45 (17.58%) System Integration Testing
18 43 (16.80%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.48%) SQL
2 18 (7.03%) JavaScript
3 14 (5.47%) Python
4 12 (4.69%) C#
5 11 (4.30%) Java
6 7 (2.73%) TypeScript
7 5 (1.95%) VB
8 3 (1.17%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 2 (0.78%) VBScript
10 1 (0.39%) Bash
10 1 (0.39%) C++
10 1 (0.39%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.39%) Ruby
10 1 (0.39%) SAS Macro
10 1 (0.39%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.39%) VB6
10 1 (0.39%) VBA
Qualifications
1 83 (32.42%) Security Cleared
2 66 (25.78%) ISTQB
3 59 (23.05%) SC Cleared
4 20 (7.81%) Degree
5 17 (6.64%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.69%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 10 (3.91%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 9 (3.52%) BPSS Clearance
9 5 (1.95%) Microsoft Certification
10 4 (1.56%) Azure Certification
11 3 (1.17%) ISEB
11 3 (1.17%) ITIL Certification
11 3 (1.17%) Master's Degree
12 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
12 2 (0.78%) CTC Cleared
12 2 (0.78%) DBS Check
12 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
13 1 (0.39%) BC Cleared
13 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
13 1 (0.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 125 (48.83%) QA
2 11 (4.30%) Accessibility
3 9 (3.52%) Data Quality
4 8 (3.13%) IFRS
4 8 (3.13%) IFRS 17
5 6 (2.34%) GDPR
5 6 (2.34%) WCAG
6 4 (1.56%) MiFID
7 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 12207
7 3 (1.17%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 3 (1.17%) SLA
7 3 (1.17%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.78%) EMIR
9 1 (0.39%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.39%) GRC
9 1 (0.39%) NCSC
9 1 (0.39%) NIST
9 1 (0.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.73%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.95%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.56%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.78%) Docker
4 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 19 (7.42%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.95%) HP Quality Center
2 5 (1.95%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.39%) Ansible
4 1 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (0.39%) Control-M
4 1 (0.39%) Iperf
4 1 (0.39%) Nmap
4 1 (0.39%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (20.31%) Oracle
2 35 (13.67%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.38%) SAP
4 20 (7.81%) HP
5 9 (3.52%) Cisco
6 8 (3.13%) VMware
7 7 (2.73%) Salesforce
8 6 (2.34%) Denodo
8 6 (2.34%) Talend
9 5 (1.95%) Ariba
9 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.56%) Citrix
10 4 (1.56%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.17%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.17%) Siemens
12 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
12 2 (0.78%) Murex
12 2 (0.78%) Sage
13 1 (0.39%) Ab Initio
13 1 (0.39%) Kronos