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

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 371 357 331
Rank change year-on-year -14 -26 +58
Contract jobs citing Test Management 175 141 220
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.52% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.58% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 90 159
10th Percentile £308 £399 £381
25th Percentile £373 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.93% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £588
90th Percentile £600 £606 £625
UK median daily rate £440 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -16.19% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +228.13%

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 27,898 24,261 31,670
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.43% 88.86% 88.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,820 14,910 21,421
10th Percentile £304 £310 £306
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £647 £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 1,749 794 1,420
10th Percentile £15.21 £15.62 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +27.14%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -23.53% +21.43%

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 6 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 6 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 +21 89 £425 -19.05% 13
North of England -34 34 £400 - 30
South East -19 27 £461 -16.18% 44
North West -23 21 £400 - 9
Midlands -49 12 £359 -33.26% 29
West Midlands -46 8 £400 -25.58% 11
Yorkshire -47 8 £409 -3.82% 17
South West -13 5 £525 -8.70% 23
North East - 5 £500 - 4
East Midlands -22 4 £340 -51.41% 18
East of England -15 2 £625 -31.32% 26
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 (9.14%) Confluence
2 3 (1.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Kentico
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (1.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.71%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.14%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.14%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (1.14%) Maximo
3 2 (1.14%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.57%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.71%) Azure
2 43 (24.57%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (5.71%) AWS
4 7 (4.00%) Entra ID
4 7 (4.00%) GitHub
4 7 (4.00%) SuccessFactors
5 5 (2.86%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.86%) GCP
5 5 (2.86%) GitHub Actions
5 5 (2.86%) OCI
6 3 (1.71%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.71%) SaaS
7 2 (1.14%) BrowserStack
7 2 (1.14%) Microsoft 365
7 2 (1.14%) PaaS
7 2 (1.14%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.57%) Serverless
8 1 (0.57%) ServiceMax
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.71%) Firewall
1 3 (1.71%) HTTP
1 3 (1.71%) SSL
2 2 (1.14%) FTP
3 1 (0.57%) Broadband
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.43%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.86%) BigQuery
3 4 (2.29%) Relational Database
4 3 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.71%) MongoDB
4 3 (1.71%) Oracle Reports
5 2 (1.14%) Data Warehouse
5 2 (1.14%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.14%) Power BI
6 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 71 (40.57%) JIRA
2 27 (15.43%) Selenium
3 21 (12.00%) TestRail
4 19 (10.86%) Postman
5 13 (7.43%) Zephyr
6 12 (6.86%) Cucumber
7 10 (5.71%) Jenkins
8 9 (5.14%) Git
8 9 (5.14%) GitLab
9 6 (3.43%) Cypress.io
9 6 (3.43%) JMeter
10 5 (2.86%) REST Assured
10 5 (2.86%) SoapUI
10 5 (2.86%) SpecFlow
11 4 (2.29%) Gatling
12 2 (1.14%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (1.14%) HP UFT
12 2 (1.14%) TestNG
12 2 (1.14%) WebDriver
13 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 85 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.43%) Finance
3 30 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.14%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.86%) Banking
6 10 (5.71%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.57%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.43%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.86%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.29%) Legal
10 4 (2.29%) Retail
10 4 (2.29%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.71%) Back Office
11 3 (1.71%) Local Government
11 3 (1.71%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.14%) Front Office
12 2 (1.14%) Law
12 2 (1.14%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.14%) Military
12 2 (1.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (31.43%) Test Manager
2 39 (22.29%) Analyst
3 38 (21.71%) Test Analyst
4 27 (15.43%) Tester
5 22 (12.57%) Lead
6 18 (10.29%) Test Leader
7 14 (8.00%) Senior
8 13 (7.43%) Test Engineer
9 9 (5.14%) Automation Tester
9 9 (5.14%) Integration Analyst
9 9 (5.14%) Integration Test Analyst
9 9 (5.14%) Senior Analyst
9 9 (5.14%) Senior Test Analyst
9 9 (5.14%) Systems Integration Analyst
10 8 (4.57%) QA Engineer
11 7 (4.00%) Programme Manager
11 7 (4.00%) QA Tester
11 7 (4.00%) Senior Integration Analyst
11 7 (4.00%) Systems Analyst
11 7 (4.00%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.43%) Playwright
2 10 (5.71%) Middleware
3 8 (4.57%) REST
4 7 (4.00%) Node.js
5 6 (3.43%) JSON
5 6 (3.43%) XML
6 5 (2.86%) .NET
6 5 (2.86%) ADO
7 4 (2.29%) JWT
7 4 (2.29%) OAuth
7 4 (2.29%) SAML
7 4 (2.29%) Spring
7 4 (2.29%) Web Services
8 3 (1.71%) LDAP
8 3 (1.71%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.71%) SOAP
9 2 (1.14%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.14%) FHIR
9 2 (1.14%) HTML
9 2 (1.14%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 7 (4.00%) Management Information System
1 7 (4.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (3.43%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 5 (2.86%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.29%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.71%) Derivative
6 2 (1.14%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.14%) Equities
6 2 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.14%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.14%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.14%) SCADA
6 2 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.57%) IoT
7 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.00%) Windows
2 5 (2.86%) Linux
3 3 (1.71%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 87 (49.71%) Test Automation
2 85 (48.57%) Agile
3 66 (37.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 61 (34.86%) Test Strategy
5 57 (32.57%) DevOps
6 47 (26.86%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (26.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 46 (26.29%) Test Scripting
8 44 (25.14%) Validation
9 41 (23.43%) Software Testing
10 40 (22.86%) Defect Management
11 38 (21.71%) CI/CD
11 38 (21.71%) Integration Testing
12 37 (21.14%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (20.57%) Defect Tracking
14 35 (20.00%) Regression Testing
14 35 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
15 32 (18.29%) End-to-End Testing
16 31 (17.71%) Test Planning
16 31 (17.71%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 28 (16.00%) SQL
2 26 (14.86%) Java
3 17 (9.71%) JavaScript
4 12 (6.86%) C#
5 10 (5.71%) Python
6 9 (5.14%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.86%) XPath
8 2 (1.14%) VB
9 1 (0.57%) Bicep
9 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.57%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 42 (24.00%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.14%) ISTQB
3 29 (16.57%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.14%) Degree
5 12 (6.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (3.43%) DV Cleared
7 5 (2.86%) Master's Degree
8 4 (2.29%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.29%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 2 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.14%) EMC Certification
9 2 (1.14%) HNC
9 2 (1.14%) HND
9 2 (1.14%) ISEB
10 1 (0.57%) CISM
10 1 (0.57%) CISSP
10 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
10 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (38.86%) QA
2 10 (5.71%) IFRS
2 10 (5.71%) IFRS 17
3 9 (5.14%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.71%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.71%) WCAG
5 2 (1.14%) Def Stans
5 2 (1.14%) IEC 61508
5 2 (1.14%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 2 (1.14%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) GDPR
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.57%) NIST
6 1 (0.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.14%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.14%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 20 (11.43%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.29%) Grafana
2 4 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.14%) Functional Safety
3 2 (1.14%) Kibana
3 2 (1.14%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.14%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
4 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 23 (13.14%) Microsoft
2 21 (12.00%) Oracle
3 20 (11.43%) HP
4 16 (9.14%) SAP
5 12 (6.86%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.71%) Workday
7 5 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.29%) Micro Focus
8 4 (2.29%) Splunk
9 3 (1.71%) CyberArk
9 3 (1.71%) IBM
9 3 (1.71%) OpenText
10 2 (1.14%) BeyondTrust
10 2 (1.14%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.14%) EMC
10 2 (1.14%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.14%) SmartStream
10 2 (1.14%) Thycotic
11 1 (0.57%) Databricks
11 1 (0.57%) YouTube