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 14 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 344 363
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 +12
Contract jobs citing Test Management 183 176 209
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.61% 0.56% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.65% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 138 116 151
10th Percentile £311 £400 £400
25th Percentile £383 £413 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +11.70%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £600
90th Percentile £632 £600 £675
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -10.00% -4.76% +10.53%
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 27,324 27,092 35,025
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.37% 86.76% 88.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,372 16,558 24,038
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £418 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.41% -3.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,791 983 1,478
10th Percentile £14.75 £15.10 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.17 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.46% -18.73% +27.14%
75th Percentile £46.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -19.54% +24.29%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 +16 79 £488 -0.10% 41
North of England -11 47 £450 +12.50% 14
South East -6 30 £455 -17.27% 11
North West -11 22 £438 +9.38% 10
Yorkshire -18 20 £456 +7.35% 1
Midlands -35 16 £313 -37.50% 10
West Midlands -33 14 £425 -15.00% 7
North East - 5 £500 - 3
South West -12 3 £438 -20.45% 3
East of England -15 2 £625 +66.67% 5
East Midlands -17 2 £310 -42.73% 3
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 15 (8.20%) Confluence
2 3 (1.64%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.55%) Kentico
3 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (7.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (6.56%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.55%) Trello
Business Applications
1 15 (8.20%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (2.73%) SAP SD
3 4 (2.19%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (1.09%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.55%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.55%) Cerner Millennium
5 1 (0.55%) NetSuite
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.55%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.55%) SAP ERP
5 1 (0.55%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.55%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 68 (37.16%) Azure
2 41 (22.40%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (8.74%) AWS
4 9 (4.92%) SaaS
5 8 (4.37%) GCP
5 8 (4.37%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (3.83%) Entra ID
7 6 (3.28%) OCI
8 5 (2.73%) GitHub
8 5 (2.73%) Power Platform
9 4 (2.19%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (2.19%) GitHub Actions
10 3 (1.64%) BrowserStack
11 2 (1.09%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.09%) PaaS
11 2 (1.09%) PowerApps
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.55%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.55%) OneDrive
12 1 (0.55%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.64%) Broadband
1 3 (1.64%) Firewall
1 3 (1.64%) SSL
2 2 (1.09%) HTTP
3 1 (0.55%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.83%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.73%) SAP HANA
3 4 (2.19%) Data Warehouse
4 3 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
4 3 (1.64%) Oracle Reports
4 3 (1.64%) Power BI
4 3 (1.64%) Relational Database
5 2 (1.09%) Electronic Patient Records
5 2 (1.09%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.55%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 96 (52.46%) JIRA
2 28 (15.30%) Selenium
3 25 (13.66%) Postman
4 23 (12.57%) TestRail
5 19 (10.38%) Zephyr
6 15 (8.20%) Cucumber
7 13 (7.10%) Jenkins
8 11 (6.01%) Git
9 9 (4.92%) GitLab
9 9 (4.92%) SoapUI
10 8 (4.37%) JMeter
11 6 (3.28%) Cypress.io
11 6 (3.28%) REST Assured
11 6 (3.28%) TestNG
12 5 (2.73%) LSMW
12 5 (2.73%) SpecFlow
13 4 (2.19%) Gatling
13 4 (2.19%) JUnit
13 4 (2.19%) WebDriver
14 2 (1.09%) HP UFT
General
1 93 (50.82%) Social Skills
2 44 (24.04%) Finance
3 35 (19.13%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (13.11%) Public Sector
5 16 (8.74%) Banking
6 14 (7.65%) Documentation Skills
7 10 (5.46%) Influencing Skills
8 9 (4.92%) Presentation Skills
9 6 (3.28%) Local Government
9 6 (3.28%) Telecoms
10 5 (2.73%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.73%) Publishing
11 3 (1.64%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.64%) Retail
12 2 (1.09%) Billing
12 2 (1.09%) Front Office
12 2 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.09%) Legal
12 2 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
13 1 (0.55%) General Ledger
Job Titles
1 51 (27.87%) Test Manager
2 36 (19.67%) Analyst
3 35 (19.13%) Test Analyst
4 29 (15.85%) Tester
5 22 (12.02%) Lead
6 20 (10.93%) Test Leader
7 16 (8.74%) Test Engineer
8 12 (6.56%) Automation Tester
9 10 (5.46%) QA Tester
10 8 (4.37%) Consultant
10 8 (4.37%) Senior
11 6 (3.28%) Programme Manager
11 6 (3.28%) Programme Test Manager
11 6 (3.28%) QA Automation Tester
11 6 (3.28%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.28%) SAP Test Analyst
11 6 (3.28%) Test Automation Engineer
11 6 (3.28%) Test Programme Manager
12 5 (2.73%) QA Engineer
12 5 (2.73%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.74%) Playwright
2 10 (5.46%) REST
3 7 (3.83%) SOAP
3 7 (3.83%) WebdriverIO
4 5 (2.73%) BAPI
4 5 (2.73%) EDI
4 5 (2.73%) IDoc
4 5 (2.73%) JSON
4 5 (2.73%) SAP ALE
4 5 (2.73%) SAP Fiori
4 5 (2.73%) Spring
4 5 (2.73%) Web Services
4 5 (2.73%) XML
5 4 (2.19%) .NET
5 4 (2.19%) Gherkin
6 3 (1.64%) ADO
6 3 (1.64%) LDAP
6 3 (1.64%) Node.js
6 3 (1.64%) Oracle Fusion
6 3 (1.64%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 14 (7.65%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.92%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.28%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.28%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.73%) SCADA
5 4 (2.19%) Data Centre
5 4 (2.19%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.64%) Algorithms
6 3 (1.64%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.64%) Derivative
6 3 (1.64%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (1.09%) NHS
8 1 (0.55%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.55%) Interest Rate Derivative
8 1 (0.55%) Pharmacovigilance
8 1 (0.55%) PKI
8 1 (0.55%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 12 (6.56%) Windows
2 3 (1.64%) Windows Server
3 1 (0.55%) Linux
3 1 (0.55%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 89 (48.63%) Test Automation
2 86 (46.99%) Agile
3 62 (33.88%) User Acceptance Testing
4 59 (32.24%) Test Strategy
5 57 (31.15%) DevOps
6 52 (28.42%) Defect Management
7 48 (26.23%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (25.14%) Software Testing
9 44 (24.04%) Test Scripting
10 42 (22.95%) CI/CD
11 39 (21.31%) Stakeholder Management
12 37 (20.22%) End-to-End Testing
13 34 (18.58%) Scenario Testing
14 33 (18.03%) SDLC
14 33 (18.03%) Test Planning
15 31 (16.94%) API Testing
16 30 (16.39%) Integration Testing
16 30 (16.39%) Scrum
16 30 (16.39%) Waterfall
17 29 (15.85%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 24 (13.11%) Java
2 20 (10.93%) SQL
3 16 (8.74%) JavaScript
4 15 (8.20%) C#
5 11 (6.01%) Python
6 7 (3.83%) VB
7 5 (2.73%) ABAP
7 5 (2.73%) TypeScript
8 4 (2.19%) XPath
9 3 (1.64%) Ruby
10 2 (1.09%) Korn
11 1 (0.55%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 47 (25.68%) ISTQB
2 37 (20.22%) Security Cleared
3 32 (17.49%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.93%) Degree
5 11 (6.01%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 8 (4.37%) CISM
6 8 (4.37%) CISSP
7 5 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
8 4 (2.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
9 3 (1.64%) DV Cleared
9 3 (1.64%) EMC Certification
9 3 (1.64%) HNC
9 3 (1.64%) HND
9 3 (1.64%) Master's Degree
10 2 (1.09%) ISEB
11 1 (0.55%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
11 1 (0.55%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.55%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (34.97%) QA
2 11 (6.01%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.83%) SLA
4 6 (3.28%) GDPR
4 6 (3.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.28%) NIST
4 6 (3.28%) PCI DSS
5 5 (2.73%) WCAG
6 3 (1.64%) Def Stans
6 3 (1.64%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.64%) IFRS
6 3 (1.64%) IFRS 17
6 3 (1.64%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.09%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.55%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.55%) GxP
8 1 (0.55%) HL7
8 1 (0.55%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.09%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.09%) Docker
2 1 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 21 (11.48%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.64%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.64%) Grafana
2 3 (1.64%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.09%) Kibana
4 1 (0.55%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.55%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.55%) SCCM
4 1 (0.55%) SCOM
4 1 (0.55%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 37 (20.22%) Microsoft
2 21 (11.48%) HP
3 20 (10.93%) SAP
4 17 (9.29%) Oracle
5 14 (7.65%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.46%) CyberArk
7 9 (4.92%) BeyondTrust
7 9 (4.92%) Thycotic
8 8 (4.37%) Google
9 7 (3.83%) Salesforce
9 7 (3.83%) Workday
10 4 (2.19%) Micro Focus
11 3 (1.64%) Cisco
11 3 (1.64%) Duck Creek
11 3 (1.64%) EMC
11 3 (1.64%) Guidewire
11 3 (1.64%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.64%) OpenText
11 3 (1.64%) Splunk
12 2 (1.09%) PagerDuty