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 4 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 342 325
Rank change year-on-year -41 -17 +73
Contract jobs citing Test Management 251 171 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.63% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.65% 0.69% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 126 150
10th Percentile £318 £315 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -2.66% -7.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £668 £650 £603
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £485
% change year-on-year -2.70% -4.64% -7.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 1
10th Percentile £56.25 - -
25th Percentile £63.13 £57.50 £98.75
Median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £102.50
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -41.46% +95.24%
75th Percentile - £66.25 £106.25
90th Percentile - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £60.00 £102.50
% change year-on-year +16.67% -41.46% +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 38,742 24,707 27,973
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.90% 90.77% 85.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,892 15,711 17,811
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% -4.55%
75th Percentile £636 £626 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £751
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,598 1,453 1,393
10th Percentile £14.22 £14.25 £14.41
25th Percentile £18.34 £17.87 £20.00
Median hourly rate £43.56 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +73.20% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £68.00 £50.00 £66.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £68.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £41.00 £25.15 £42.50
% change year-on-year +63.02% -40.82% +2.41%

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 4 September 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 4 September 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 4 September 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 -68 99 £500 - 57
Midlands -5 55 £360 -15.29% 8
South East -50 54 £456 -8.75% 10
West Midlands -7 51 £359 -15.53% 6
North of England -80 31 £475 +8.57% 17
North West -50 15 £523 +30.75% 13
South West -40 10 £413 -28.26% 12
Yorkshire -48 9 £474 +5.33% 2
East of England -18 7 £600 - 13
North East -31 7 £313 -40.48% 2
East Midlands - 2 £557 - 2
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 21 (8.37%) Confluence
2 6 (2.39%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.20%) CMS
3 3 (1.20%) Kentico
4 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.80%) SAS
Applications
1 12 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.20%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
5 2 (0.80%) Spreadsheet
6 1 (0.40%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 17 (6.77%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.78%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.59%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.20%) SAP FI-AR
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.80%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.80%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.40%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.40%) Endur
6 1 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.40%) Maximo
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
6 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.40%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.40%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
6 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 79 (31.47%) Azure
2 68 (27.09%) Azure DevOps
3 38 (15.14%) AWS
4 11 (4.38%) Dynamics 365
5 9 (3.59%) GitHub
6 8 (3.19%) GitHub Actions
6 8 (3.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 8 (3.19%) Serverless
7 7 (2.79%) Azure Sentinel
7 7 (2.79%) Entra ID
7 7 (2.79%) Power Platform
7 7 (2.79%) SaaS
8 6 (2.39%) Azure Functions
8 6 (2.39%) Microsoft 365
8 6 (2.39%) Power Automate
8 6 (2.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 3 (1.20%) GCP
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 2 (0.80%) Amazon S3
10 2 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 8 (3.19%) Network Security
2 5 (1.99%) DHCP
2 5 (1.99%) DNS
3 4 (1.59%) Firewall
3 4 (1.59%) Internet
3 4 (1.59%) LAN
3 4 (1.59%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.59%) SSL
3 4 (1.59%) TCP/IP
3 4 (1.59%) VPN
3 4 (1.59%) WAN
4 3 (1.20%) Intranet
4 3 (1.20%) Wireshark
5 2 (0.80%) RTP
5 2 (0.80%) tcpdump
5 2 (0.80%) VoIP
6 1 (0.40%) INAP
6 1 (0.40%) Intelligent Network
Database & Business Intelligence
1 35 (13.94%) Data Warehouse
2 29 (11.55%) Oracle Reports
3 12 (4.78%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.39%) Power BI
4 6 (2.39%) SAP BW
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle Database
5 2 (0.80%) Power Query
5 2 (0.80%) SQL Server Reporting Services
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.40%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Big Data
6 1 (0.40%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.40%) DataStage
6 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.40%) Neo4j
6 1 (0.40%) PowerCenter
6 1 (0.40%) Relational Database
6 1 (0.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
6 1 (0.40%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 119 (47.41%) JIRA
2 50 (19.92%) Postman
3 43 (17.13%) Zephyr
4 37 (14.74%) Selenium
5 20 (7.97%) Git
6 16 (6.37%) TestRail
7 15 (5.98%) Jenkins
8 14 (5.58%) Cypress.io
9 11 (4.38%) GitLab
10 9 (3.59%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.59%) REST Assured
11 8 (3.19%) JMeter
12 7 (2.79%) WebDriver
13 5 (1.99%) HP UFT
14 4 (1.59%) Browser DevTools
15 3 (1.20%) eggPlant
15 3 (1.20%) Ranorex
16 2 (0.80%) MSTest
16 2 (0.80%) NeoLoad
16 2 (0.80%) Robot Framework
General
1 104 (41.43%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.90%) Finance
3 52 (20.72%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (9.56%) Public Sector
5 16 (6.37%) Banking
6 11 (4.38%) Organisational Skills
7 9 (3.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.19%) Documentation Skills
9 6 (2.39%) Retail
10 4 (1.59%) Front Office
10 4 (1.59%) Legal
11 3 (1.20%) Aerospace
11 3 (1.20%) Billing
11 3 (1.20%) General Ledger
12 2 (0.80%) Games
12 2 (0.80%) Law
12 2 (0.80%) Local Government
12 2 (0.80%) Manufacturing
12 2 (0.80%) Marketing
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 76 (30.28%) Test Manager
2 55 (21.91%) Analyst
3 46 (18.33%) Lead
4 44 (17.53%) Test Analyst
5 40 (15.94%) Test Leader
6 30 (11.95%) Tester
7 21 (8.37%) Test Engineer
8 16 (6.37%) Senior
9 14 (5.58%) Consultant
10 12 (4.78%) Programme Manager
10 12 (4.78%) Programme Test Manager
10 12 (4.78%) QA Tester
10 12 (4.78%) Test Programme Manager
11 10 (3.98%) Software Test Engineer
12 9 (3.59%) SAP Consultant
12 9 (3.59%) Senior Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.19%) QA Analyst
14 7 (2.79%) QA Test Analyst
14 7 (2.79%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 23 (9.16%) Playwright
2 21 (8.37%) REST
3 14 (5.58%) Middleware
4 13 (5.18%) .NET
5 8 (3.19%) RESTful
6 7 (2.79%) ADO
6 7 (2.79%) Gherkin
6 7 (2.79%) SOAP
6 7 (2.79%) XML
7 5 (1.99%) Web Services
8 4 (1.59%) SailPoint
8 4 (1.59%) SAML
9 3 (1.20%) HTML
9 3 (1.20%) Oracle Fusion
10 2 (0.80%) .NET Framework
10 2 (0.80%) JSON
10 2 (0.80%) pytest
10 2 (0.80%) Terraform
10 2 (0.80%) XBRL
11 1 (0.40%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 17 (6.77%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.18%) Self-Motivation
3 12 (4.78%) Management Information System
4 7 (2.79%) Legacy Systems
5 6 (2.39%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.39%) SCADA
6 5 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (1.59%) Credit Risk
8 3 (1.20%) EPoS
8 3 (1.20%) PKI
8 3 (1.20%) Public Cloud
9 2 (0.80%) AI Agents
9 2 (0.80%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (0.80%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.80%) Distributed Systems
9 2 (0.80%) Legacy Applications
9 2 (0.80%) Life Science
9 2 (0.80%) Media Streaming
9 2 (0.80%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.80%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 13 (5.18%) Windows
2 12 (4.78%) Linux
3 4 (1.59%) Mac OS
3 4 (1.59%) Unix
4 2 (0.80%) Android
4 2 (0.80%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) CentOS
5 1 (0.40%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (51.39%) Agile
2 125 (49.80%) Test Automation
3 108 (43.03%) User Acceptance Testing
4 94 (37.45%) End-to-End Testing
5 85 (33.86%) Test Strategy
6 83 (33.07%) Defect Management
7 82 (32.67%) DevOps
8 79 (31.47%) Integration Testing
9 72 (28.69%) Scenario Testing
10 71 (28.29%) Stakeholder Management
11 68 (27.09%) Test Scripting
12 63 (25.10%) Migration
13 56 (22.31%) Manual Testing
14 54 (21.51%) Validation
15 47 (18.73%) Regression Testing
15 47 (18.73%) System Integration Testing
16 44 (17.53%) Data Migration
16 44 (17.53%) System Testing
17 42 (16.73%) Problem-Solving
17 42 (16.73%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 61 (24.30%) SQL
2 17 (6.77%) JavaScript
3 15 (5.98%) Python
4 14 (5.58%) C#
5 12 (4.78%) Java
6 7 (2.79%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.80%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.80%) VB
7 2 (0.80%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.80%) VBScript
8 1 (0.40%) C++
8 1 (0.40%) Cypher
8 1 (0.40%) Korn
8 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.40%) Ruby
8 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
8 1 (0.40%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 85 (33.86%) Security Cleared
2 62 (24.70%) SC Cleared
3 61 (24.30%) ISTQB
4 19 (7.57%) DV Cleared
5 16 (6.37%) Degree
6 11 (4.38%) BPSS Clearance
6 11 (4.38%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 10 (3.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.39%) Microsoft Certification
9 4 (1.59%) Azure Certification
9 4 (1.59%) ISEB
10 3 (1.20%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.80%) AWS Certification
11 2 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (0.80%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.80%) IIBA
11 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.80%) MOS
12 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
12 1 (0.40%) ISEB Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (49.40%) QA
2 12 (4.78%) Data Quality
3 9 (3.59%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.79%) GDPR
5 6 (2.39%) WCAG
6 4 (1.59%) IFRS
6 4 (1.59%) IFRS 17
7 3 (1.20%) Software Quality Assurance
8 2 (0.80%) GRC
8 2 (0.80%) ISO 9001
8 2 (0.80%) MiFID
8 2 (0.80%) NIST
9 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
9 1 (0.40%) EMIR
9 1 (0.40%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 12207
9 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.40%) SEPA
9 1 (0.40%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.79%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.99%) Active Directory
2 5 (1.99%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.59%) Docker
4 1 (0.40%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 14 (5.58%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.99%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.59%) Ansible
3 4 (1.59%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.80%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.40%) Argo
5 1 (0.40%) Control-M
5 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 51 (20.32%) Oracle
2 35 (13.94%) Microsoft
3 25 (9.96%) SAP
4 14 (5.58%) HP
5 10 (3.98%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.19%) VMware
7 7 (2.79%) Cisco
8 6 (2.39%) Denodo
9 5 (1.99%) MuleSoft
9 5 (1.99%) Talend
10 4 (1.59%) Ariba
10 4 (1.59%) Citrix
10 4 (1.59%) Google
10 4 (1.59%) ServiceNow
10 4 (1.59%) Zscaler
11 3 (1.20%) Atlassian
11 3 (1.20%) Siemens
12 2 (0.80%) Databricks
12 2 (0.80%) UiPath
13 1 (0.40%) Workday