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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 17 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 336 328 398
Rank change year-on-year -8 +70 -27
Contract jobs citing Test Management 168 211 207
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.65% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.75% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 146 143
10th Percentile £312 £363 £375
25th Percentile £394 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £485 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.09% -7.62% +11.70%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £603 £696
UK median daily rate £459 £480 £518
% change year-on-year -4.38% -7.25% +10.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 £98.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £60.00 £102.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.46% +95.24% +228.13%
75th Percentile £66.25 £106.25 £53.75
90th Percentile £68.50 - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £102.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -41.46% +95.24% +228.13%

All Process and 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 25,234 28,138 37,658
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.88% 86.06% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,038 17,541 26,048
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £405 £423 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,497 1,306 1,424
10th Percentile £14.38 £14.92 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.81% +51.01%
75th Percentile £49.75 £66.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.01%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management 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 17 September 2025.

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 17 September 2025. 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 +4 73 £498 +4.74% 16
North of England +5 40 £450 +5.88% 11
South East +2 29 £500 -4.76% 24
North West -12 21 £413 +3.13% 6
Yorkshire +1 16 £450 - 5
Midlands -16 12 £369 -23.97% 22
West Midlands -13 11 £425 -12.37% 13
South West +16 6 £513 -10.87% 12
East of England +6 6 £600 +60.00% 12
North East - 3 £525 -
East Midlands -7 1 £313 -21.88% 8
Test Management
UK

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 12 (7.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (6.55%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (5.95%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 18 (10.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.98%) Oracle EBS
2 5 (2.98%) SAP ERP
2 5 (2.98%) SAP SD
3 2 (1.19%) NEC Housing
4 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.60%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 53 (31.55%) Azure
2 40 (23.81%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.74%) AWS
4 10 (5.95%) GCP
5 9 (5.36%) Power Platform
6 8 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (4.76%) PowerApps
6 8 (4.76%) SaaS
7 7 (4.17%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (2.98%) GitHub
9 4 (2.38%) BrowserStack
9 4 (2.38%) Power Automate
10 3 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.79%) Entra ID
10 3 (1.79%) OCI
11 2 (1.19%) PaaS
12 1 (0.60%) Azure API Management
12 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Purview
12 1 (0.60%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.60%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.98%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.57%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.98%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.60%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.60%) Data Mart
4 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
4 1 (0.60%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.60%) Power BI
4 1 (0.60%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 95 (56.55%) JIRA
2 21 (12.50%) Selenium
3 17 (10.12%) Postman
3 17 (10.12%) TestRail
4 15 (8.93%) Zephyr
5 11 (6.55%) Jenkins
6 9 (5.36%) SoapUI
7 7 (4.17%) Cucumber
7 7 (4.17%) JMeter
8 6 (3.57%) LoadRunner
8 6 (3.57%) TestNG
9 5 (2.98%) Git
9 5 (2.98%) JUnit
9 5 (2.98%) LSMW
9 5 (2.98%) NeoLoad
10 4 (2.38%) Appium
11 3 (1.79%) Cypress.io
11 3 (1.79%) GitLab
11 3 (1.79%) HP UFT
11 3 (1.79%) WebDriver
General
1 90 (53.57%) Social Skills
2 37 (22.02%) Finance
3 29 (17.26%) Analytical Skills
4 16 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 13 (7.74%) Banking
6 9 (5.36%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (4.17%) Pharmaceutical
8 5 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Local Government
8 5 (2.98%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (2.98%) Publishing
8 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
9 4 (2.38%) Billing
9 4 (2.38%) Retail
10 3 (1.79%) Back Office
10 3 (1.79%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.19%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.19%) Avionics
11 2 (1.19%) Investment Banking
11 2 (1.19%) Legal
Job Titles
1 46 (27.38%) Test Manager
2 43 (25.60%) Analyst
3 41 (24.40%) Test Analyst
4 22 (13.10%) Lead
5 19 (11.31%) Test Engineer
6 18 (10.71%) Test Leader
6 18 (10.71%) Tester
7 8 (4.76%) QA Tester
8 7 (4.17%) Automation Tester
8 7 (4.17%) Programme Test Manager
8 7 (4.17%) Test Programme Manager
9 6 (3.57%) Consultant
9 6 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
10 5 (2.98%) QA Automation Tester
10 5 (2.98%) SAP Analyst
10 5 (2.98%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (2.98%) SAP SD Consultant
10 5 (2.98%) SAP Test Analyst
10 5 (2.98%) Transformation Manager
11 4 (2.38%) Principal SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.76%) Playwright
2 6 (3.57%) WebdriverIO
3 5 (2.98%) BAPI
3 5 (2.98%) EDI
3 5 (2.98%) IDoc
3 5 (2.98%) RFC 2544
3 5 (2.98%) SAP ALE
3 5 (2.98%) SAP Fiori
3 5 (2.98%) SOAP
4 4 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (1.79%) ADO
5 3 (1.79%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.79%) Middleware
5 3 (1.79%) REST
5 3 (1.79%) Web Services
6 2 (1.19%) RESTful
7 1 (0.60%) JavaFX
7 1 (0.60%) JSON
7 1 (0.60%) Spring
7 1 (0.60%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 12 (7.14%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.57%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.98%) FMCG
4 5 (2.98%) Life Science
4 5 (2.98%) Public Cloud
5 4 (2.38%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (2.38%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.38%) SCADA
5 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
7 2 (1.19%) Derivative
7 2 (1.19%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.19%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.19%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.60%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (0.60%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 18 (10.71%) Windows
2 2 (1.19%) Android
2 2 (1.19%) Apple iOS
2 2 (1.19%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 71 (42.26%) Agile
2 69 (41.07%) Test Automation
3 64 (38.10%) Test Strategy
4 53 (31.55%) User Acceptance Testing
5 52 (30.95%) DevOps
6 49 (29.17%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (26.79%) Defect Management
8 41 (24.40%) Test Scripting
9 35 (20.83%) Stakeholder Management
10 32 (19.05%) End-to-End Testing
11 31 (18.45%) CI/CD
11 31 (18.45%) Software Testing
11 31 (18.45%) Test Planning
12 29 (17.26%) System Integration Testing
13 27 (16.07%) Waterfall
14 25 (14.88%) Validation
15 23 (13.69%) Scrum
15 23 (13.69%) SDLC
16 22 (13.10%) Migration
17 21 (12.50%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (8.33%) Java
1 14 (8.33%) SQL
2 10 (5.95%) JavaScript
3 7 (4.17%) C#
3 7 (4.17%) Python
4 6 (3.57%) VB
5 5 (2.98%) ABAP
6 2 (1.19%) Korn
6 2 (1.19%) Ruby
6 2 (1.19%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.60%) Perl
7 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
7 1 (0.60%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (20.24%) ISTQB
2 28 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 21 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 19 (11.31%) Degree
5 8 (4.76%) CISM
5 8 (4.76%) CISSP
6 6 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 5 (2.98%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
8 3 (1.79%) EMC Certification
8 3 (1.79%) HNC
8 3 (1.79%) HND
8 3 (1.79%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.19%) ISEB
9 2 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (22.62%) QA
2 7 (4.17%) GDPR
2 7 (4.17%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 7 (4.17%) SLA
3 6 (3.57%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.57%) NIST
3 6 (3.57%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.98%) WCAG
5 3 (1.79%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.79%) GxP
5 3 (1.79%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.60%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.79%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.60%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 25 (14.88%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.79%) Functional Safety
3 1 (0.60%) Grafana
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.60%) OPNET
3 1 (0.60%) SCCM
3 1 (0.60%) SCOM
3 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 34 (20.24%) Microsoft
2 25 (14.88%) HP
3 21 (12.50%) SAP
4 14 (8.33%) Oracle
5 10 (5.95%) CyberArk
6 9 (5.36%) BeyondTrust
6 9 (5.36%) Google
6 9 (5.36%) Thycotic
7 8 (4.76%) Salesforce
8 7 (4.17%) ServiceNow
9 5 (2.98%) Cisco
10 4 (2.38%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.38%) Workday
11 3 (1.79%) Duck Creek
11 3 (1.79%) EMC
12 2 (1.19%) Atlassian
12 2 (1.19%) Cerner
12 2 (1.19%) CheckPoint
12 2 (1.19%) Micro Focus
12 2 (1.19%) NEC