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 31 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 363 340 378
Rank change year-on-year -23 +38 -7
Contract jobs citing Test Management 168 180 206
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.58% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.67% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 126 121 146
10th Percentile £312 £370 £396
25th Percentile £383 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £490 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.16% -6.67% +11.70%
75th Percentile £529 £575 £600
90th Percentile £647 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £476 £525
% change year-on-year -5.46% -9.33% +11.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £98.75 £51.25
Median hourly rate £70.00 £102.50 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.71% +95.24% +228.13%
75th Percentile - £106.25 £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £102.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -31.71% +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 26,413 27,015 35,730
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.65% 86.60% 88.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,759 16,483 24,594
10th Percentile £296 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £419 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,704 991 1,495
10th Percentile £14.71 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.85 £20.00 £19.03
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -11.24% +27.14%
75th Percentile £44.94 £66.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £74.87 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -30.14% -17.88% +25.26%

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 31 October 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 31 October 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 +5 71 £500 +3.84% 33
North of England -1 47 £450 +12.50% 18
South East -10 25 £440 -16.19% 27
North West -5 22 £425 +6.25% 13
Yorkshire -10 20 £456 +7.35%
Midlands -25 15 £313 -34.49% 2
West Midlands -19 13 £425 -10.90% 2
North East - 5 £500 - 5
South West -5 3 £438 -16.67% 4
East of England -12 2 £625 +66.67% 10
East Midlands -15 2 £310 -42.73%
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 14 (8.33%) Confluence
2 3 (1.79%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.60%) CMS
3 1 (0.60%) Kentico
3 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (7.74%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.60%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (8.93%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.98%) SAP SD
3 4 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.60%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.60%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.60%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.60%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.60%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.60%) SAP Oil and Gas
Cloud Services
1 57 (33.93%) Azure
2 36 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (7.74%) AWS
4 9 (5.36%) SaaS
5 8 (4.76%) GCP
5 8 (4.76%) Power Platform
5 8 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
6 5 (2.98%) Entra ID
6 5 (2.98%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (2.98%) PowerApps
7 4 (2.38%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (2.38%) OCI
8 3 (1.79%) BrowserStack
8 3 (1.79%) GitHub
8 3 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
9 2 (1.19%) PaaS
9 2 (1.19%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon EC2
10 1 (0.60%) Amazon S3
10 1 (0.60%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.38%) Firewall
2 3 (1.79%) Broadband
2 3 (1.79%) SSL
3 1 (0.60%) HTTP
3 1 (0.60%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (4.17%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.98%) SAP HANA
3 3 (1.79%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.79%) Power BI
3 3 (1.79%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (1.19%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.19%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.60%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.60%) Data Vault
5 1 (0.60%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.60%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 91 (54.17%) JIRA
2 24 (14.29%) Selenium
3 23 (13.69%) Postman
4 19 (11.31%) TestRail
5 17 (10.12%) Zephyr
6 12 (7.14%) Cucumber
6 12 (7.14%) Jenkins
7 9 (5.36%) SoapUI
8 8 (4.76%) Git
9 7 (4.17%) GitLab
10 6 (3.57%) JMeter
10 6 (3.57%) TestNG
11 5 (2.98%) Cypress.io
11 5 (2.98%) LSMW
12 4 (2.38%) JUnit
12 4 (2.38%) REST Assured
12 4 (2.38%) WebDriver
13 3 (1.79%) Gatling
13 3 (1.79%) SpecFlow
14 2 (1.19%) HP UFT
General
1 86 (51.19%) Social Skills
2 40 (23.81%) Finance
3 28 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.69%) Public Sector
5 14 (8.33%) Banking
6 12 (7.14%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (3.57%) Local Government
8 6 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.98%) Publishing
9 5 (2.98%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.38%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.79%) Billing
11 3 (1.79%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.79%) Retail
12 2 (1.19%) Back Office
12 2 (1.19%) Front Office
12 2 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.19%) Legal
13 1 (0.60%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 46 (27.38%) Test Manager
2 37 (22.02%) Analyst
3 36 (21.43%) Test Analyst
4 23 (13.69%) Tester
5 21 (12.50%) Lead
6 19 (11.31%) Test Leader
7 15 (8.93%) Test Engineer
8 9 (5.36%) Automation Tester
8 9 (5.36%) QA Tester
9 8 (4.76%) Consultant
10 7 (4.17%) Programme Test Manager
10 7 (4.17%) Test Programme Manager
11 6 (3.57%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.57%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.57%) SAP Test Analyst
11 6 (3.57%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.98%) QA Automation Tester
12 5 (2.98%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.98%) SAP SD Consultant
12 5 (2.98%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.74%) Playwright
2 7 (4.17%) REST
2 7 (4.17%) SOAP
3 6 (3.57%) WebdriverIO
4 5 (2.98%) BAPI
4 5 (2.98%) EDI
4 5 (2.98%) IDoc
4 5 (2.98%) SAP ALE
4 5 (2.98%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.98%) Web Services
5 4 (2.38%) Gherkin
5 4 (2.38%) RFC 2544
5 4 (2.38%) Spring
6 3 (1.79%) .NET
6 3 (1.79%) ADO
6 3 (1.79%) JSON
6 3 (1.79%) LDAP
6 3 (1.79%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.79%) RESTful
6 3 (1.79%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (7.74%) Product Ownership
2 9 (5.36%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.57%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.98%) Data Centre
4 5 (2.98%) SCADA
5 4 (2.38%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 3 (1.79%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.79%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.19%) Low-Code
7 2 (1.19%) NHS
8 1 (0.60%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.60%) Fibre Optics
8 1 (0.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.60%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (0.60%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (0.60%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 15 (8.93%) Windows
2 3 (1.79%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.60%) Linux
3 1 (0.60%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 77 (45.83%) Test Automation
2 73 (43.45%) Agile
3 58 (34.52%) Test Strategy
4 55 (32.74%) User Acceptance Testing
5 52 (30.95%) DevOps
6 49 (29.17%) Defect Management
7 42 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (24.40%) Test Scripting
9 37 (22.02%) CI/CD
9 37 (22.02%) End-to-End Testing
9 37 (22.02%) Software Testing
10 33 (19.64%) Stakeholder Management
11 31 (18.45%) Test Planning
12 29 (17.26%) SDLC
13 28 (16.67%) Scrum
14 26 (15.48%) System Integration Testing
15 25 (14.88%) API Testing
15 25 (14.88%) Scenario Testing
15 25 (14.88%) Waterfall
16 24 (14.29%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 20 (11.90%) Java
2 15 (8.93%) SQL
3 12 (7.14%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.55%) C#
5 9 (5.36%) Python
6 7 (4.17%) VB
7 5 (2.98%) ABAP
8 3 (1.79%) Ruby
9 2 (1.19%) Korn
9 2 (1.19%) TypeScript
9 2 (1.19%) XPath
10 1 (0.60%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 37 (22.02%) ISTQB
2 30 (17.86%) Security Cleared
3 25 (14.88%) SC Cleared
4 18 (10.71%) Degree
5 8 (4.76%) CISM
5 8 (4.76%) CISSP
5 8 (4.76%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 5 (2.98%) ITIL Certification
7 4 (2.38%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (1.79%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.79%) EMC Certification
8 3 (1.79%) HNC
8 3 (1.79%) HND
9 2 (1.19%) DV Cleared
9 2 (1.19%) ISEB
10 1 (0.60%) Azure Certification
10 1 (0.60%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
10 1 (0.60%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.60%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.60%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (29.76%) QA
2 10 (5.95%) Accessibility
3 7 (4.17%) SLA
4 6 (3.57%) GDPR
4 6 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.57%) NIST
4 6 (3.57%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.98%) WCAG
6 3 (1.79%) Def Stans
6 3 (1.79%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 15288
7 2 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.60%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.60%) GxP
8 1 (0.60%) HL7
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 17
8 1 (0.60%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.60%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.19%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.19%) Docker
2 1 (0.60%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.60%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (13.69%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.79%) Functional Safety
3 2 (1.19%) Grafana
3 2 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.60%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.60%) Kibana
4 1 (0.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.60%) SCCM
4 1 (0.60%) SCOM
4 1 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.60%) Terraform
Vendors
1 38 (22.62%) Microsoft
2 23 (13.69%) HP
3 18 (10.71%) SAP
4 14 (8.33%) Oracle
5 10 (5.95%) CyberArk
5 10 (5.95%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.36%) BeyondTrust
6 9 (5.36%) Thycotic
7 8 (4.76%) Google
8 7 (4.17%) Salesforce
9 5 (2.98%) Workday
10 4 (2.38%) Cisco
10 4 (2.38%) Guidewire
10 4 (2.38%) Micro Focus
11 3 (1.79%) Cerner
11 3 (1.79%) Duck Creek
11 3 (1.79%) EMC
11 3 (1.79%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.79%) OpenText
12 2 (1.19%) Splunk