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 9 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 383 352 326
Rank change year-on-year -31 -26 +69
Contract jobs citing Test Management 262 164 202
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.57% 0.58% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.64% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 121 137
10th Percentile £317 £313 £363
25th Percentile £363 £400 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% -5.23% -7.05%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £657 £663 £601
UK median daily rate £450 £463 £483
% change year-on-year -2.70% -4.15% -8.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 3 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £98.75
Median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £102.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% -41.46% +95.24%
75th Percentile £58.75 £66.25 £106.25
90th Percentile - £68.50 -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 £60.00 £102.50
% change year-on-year -4.17% -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 39,199 25,531 28,009
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.82% 90.87% 86.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,678 16,181 17,100
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £638
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,975 1,587 1,157
10th Percentile £13.69 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.79 £20.19
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -40.82% -4.49%
75th Percentile £67.47 £45.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.25 £74.92
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.13% -8.31%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 -64 98 £500 - 51
Midlands -2 56 £360 -2.37% 13
South East -34 55 £475 +4.40% 20
West Midlands -4 54 £360 -17.71% 9
North of England -66 38 £500 +11.11% 14
North West -47 24 £575 +39.39% 9
Yorkshire -37 13 £470 +2.17% 5
East of England -23 7 £558 -8.86% 4
South West -31 4 £400 -11.11% 3
East Midlands -19 1 £438 +41.29% 4
North East -42 1 - -
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 25 (9.54%) Confluence
2 8 (3.05%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.15%) CMS
3 3 (1.15%) Kentico
3 3 (1.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
3 3 (1.15%) SAS
4 2 (0.76%) CICS
4 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (5.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (3.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 7 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
4 4 (1.53%) MS Visio
5 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
6 1 (0.38%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (6.87%) SAP S/4HANA
2 14 (5.34%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (1.53%) Oracle Receivables
4 3 (1.15%) SAP FI-AR
5 2 (0.76%) NEC Housing
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.76%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.76%) SAP MM
5 2 (0.76%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.76%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.38%) Infor SunSystems
6 1 (0.38%) Maximo
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
6 1 (0.38%) SAP HCM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP PM
6 1 (0.38%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
6 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 83 (31.68%) Azure
2 71 (27.10%) Azure DevOps
3 39 (14.89%) AWS
4 14 (5.34%) Dynamics 365
5 11 (4.20%) Serverless
6 9 (3.44%) GitHub
6 9 (3.44%) GitHub Actions
6 9 (3.44%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.05%) Azure Functions
7 8 (3.05%) Power Automate
7 8 (3.05%) SaaS
8 7 (2.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 7 (2.67%) SuccessFactors
9 6 (2.29%) GCP
9 6 (2.29%) Salesforce Service Cloud
10 5 (1.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Data Factory
11 3 (1.15%) Azure Synapse Analytics
11 3 (1.15%) Snowflake
11 3 (1.15%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.91%) Network Security
2 3 (1.15%) Intranet
2 3 (1.15%) Wireshark
3 2 (0.76%) DHCP
3 2 (0.76%) DNS
3 2 (0.76%) RTP
3 2 (0.76%) tcpdump
3 2 (0.76%) VoIP
4 1 (0.38%) Firewall
4 1 (0.38%) INAP
4 1 (0.38%) Intelligent Network
4 1 (0.38%) Internet
4 1 (0.38%) LAN
4 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.38%) SSL
4 1 (0.38%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.38%) VPN
4 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (14.12%) Data Warehouse
2 27 (10.31%) Oracle Reports
3 15 (5.73%) SQL Server
4 8 (3.05%) Power BI
5 7 (2.67%) SAP BW
6 3 (1.15%) SQL Server Reporting Services
7 2 (0.76%) Db2
7 2 (0.76%) Oracle Database
7 2 (0.76%) Power Query
7 2 (0.76%) PowerCenter
7 2 (0.76%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.38%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.38%) DataStage
8 1 (0.38%) Neo4j
8 1 (0.38%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 116 (44.27%) JIRA
2 50 (19.08%) Postman
3 43 (16.41%) Zephyr
4 40 (15.27%) Selenium
5 21 (8.02%) Git
6 17 (6.49%) Cypress.io
6 17 (6.49%) Jenkins
6 17 (6.49%) TestRail
7 13 (4.96%) GitLab
8 11 (4.20%) Cucumber
8 11 (4.20%) JMeter
8 11 (4.20%) REST Assured
9 9 (3.44%) WebDriver
10 6 (2.29%) LoadRunner
11 5 (1.91%) HP UFT
12 4 (1.53%) eggPlant
12 4 (1.53%) Gatling
13 3 (1.15%) Ranorex
13 3 (1.15%) Robot Framework
13 3 (1.15%) SOAtest
General
1 113 (43.13%) Social Skills
2 60 (22.90%) Finance
3 45 (17.18%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 17 (6.49%) Banking
6 13 (4.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 8 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (3.05%) Organisational Skills
8 7 (2.67%) Retail
9 5 (1.91%) Billing
9 5 (1.91%) General Ledger
10 4 (1.53%) Legal
11 3 (1.15%) Front Office
11 3 (1.15%) Local Government
11 3 (1.15%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.15%) Telecoms
12 2 (0.76%) Aerospace
12 2 (0.76%) Financial Institution
12 2 (0.76%) Marketing
12 2 (0.76%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 65 (24.81%) Test Manager
2 62 (23.66%) Analyst
3 59 (22.52%) Lead
4 52 (19.85%) Test Leader
5 50 (19.08%) Test Analyst
6 34 (12.98%) Tester
7 19 (7.25%) Senior
7 19 (7.25%) Test Engineer
8 14 (5.34%) Programme Manager
8 14 (5.34%) Programme Test Manager
8 14 (5.34%) Test Programme Manager
9 12 (4.58%) Consultant
9 12 (4.58%) QA Tester
10 11 (4.20%) Senior Analyst
11 10 (3.82%) Senior Test Analyst
12 9 (3.44%) Business Analyst
13 8 (3.05%) Lead Test Analyst
13 8 (3.05%) QA Analyst
13 8 (3.05%) SAP Consultant
14 7 (2.67%) QA Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 27 (10.31%) Playwright
2 16 (6.11%) REST
3 15 (5.73%) Middleware
4 13 (4.96%) .NET
5 11 (4.20%) ADO
6 9 (3.44%) Gherkin
7 7 (2.67%) XML
8 5 (1.91%) SOAP
8 5 (1.91%) Web Services
9 4 (1.53%) Terraform
10 3 (1.15%) HTML
10 3 (1.15%) pytest
10 3 (1.15%) RESTful
11 2 (0.76%) .NET Framework
11 2 (0.76%) JSON
11 2 (0.76%) Kafka
11 2 (0.76%) Oracle Fusion
11 2 (0.76%) SailPoint
11 2 (0.76%) XBRL
12 1 (0.38%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (5.73%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.96%) Management Information System
3 8 (3.05%) Onboarding
4 5 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (1.91%) Legacy Systems
4 5 (1.91%) SCADA
5 4 (1.53%) Credit Risk
5 4 (1.53%) Data Protection Act
5 4 (1.53%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (1.15%) Cloud Native
6 3 (1.15%) Data Structures
6 3 (1.15%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.15%) PKI
7 2 (0.76%) AI Agents
7 2 (0.76%) Legacy Applications
7 2 (0.76%) Life Science
7 2 (0.76%) Mainframe
7 2 (0.76%) Media Streaming
7 2 (0.76%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.76%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 13 (4.96%) Windows
2 12 (4.58%) Linux
3 4 (1.53%) Unix
4 2 (0.76%) Android
4 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.76%) zOS
5 1 (0.38%) CentOS
5 1 (0.38%) Mac OS
5 1 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (48.85%) Test Automation
2 120 (45.80%) Agile
3 111 (42.37%) User Acceptance Testing
4 105 (40.08%) End-to-End Testing
5 96 (36.64%) Test Strategy
6 92 (35.11%) Defect Management
7 91 (34.73%) Stakeholder Management
8 88 (33.59%) DevOps
9 83 (31.68%) Integration Testing
10 77 (29.39%) Test Scripting
11 75 (28.63%) Scenario Testing
12 67 (25.57%) Migration
13 61 (23.28%) Validation
14 56 (21.37%) Manual Testing
15 53 (20.23%) System Integration Testing
16 48 (18.32%) Regression Testing
17 46 (17.56%) Data Migration
17 46 (17.56%) Software Testing
18 44 (16.79%) Continuous Improvement
18 44 (16.79%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 60 (22.90%) SQL
2 20 (7.63%) Python
3 19 (7.25%) C#
4 16 (6.11%) JavaScript
5 12 (4.58%) Java
6 10 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 2 (0.76%) COBOL
7 2 (0.76%) JCL
7 2 (0.76%) PowerShell
7 2 (0.76%) VB
7 2 (0.76%) VB.NET
7 2 (0.76%) VBScript
8 1 (0.38%) C++
8 1 (0.38%) Cypher
8 1 (0.38%) Korn
8 1 (0.38%) Ruby
8 1 (0.38%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 91 (34.73%) Security Cleared
2 69 (26.34%) ISTQB
3 62 (23.66%) SC Cleared
4 25 (9.54%) DV Cleared
5 14 (5.34%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 13 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
6 13 (4.96%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 12 (4.58%) Degree
8 8 (3.05%) Microsoft Certification
9 5 (1.91%) ISEB
10 3 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 3 (1.15%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (0.76%) IIBA
11 2 (0.76%) Master's Degree
11 2 (0.76%) MOS
12 1 (0.38%) Azure Certification
12 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
12 1 (0.38%) ISEB Practitioner
12 1 (0.38%) PMI Certification
12 1 (0.38%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 130 (49.62%) QA
2 12 (4.58%) Accessibility
2 12 (4.58%) Data Quality
3 8 (3.05%) GDPR
3 8 (3.05%) WCAG
4 3 (1.15%) IFRS
4 3 (1.15%) IFRS 17
4 3 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (0.76%) GRC
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 20022
5 2 (0.76%) ISO 9001
5 2 (0.76%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.76%) MiFID
5 2 (0.76%) NIST
5 2 (0.76%) PMO
5 2 (0.76%) SEPA
6 1 (0.38%) Dodd-Frank
6 1 (0.38%) EMIR
6 1 (0.38%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.29%) Docker
3 5 (1.91%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (0.76%) Active Directory
4 2 (0.76%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (4.58%) HP ALM
2 6 (2.29%) Ansible
2 6 (2.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.76%) Argo
3 2 (0.76%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.38%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 50 (19.08%) Oracle
2 41 (15.65%) Microsoft
3 34 (12.98%) SAP
4 12 (4.58%) HP
5 9 (3.44%) Salesforce
6 8 (3.05%) VMware
7 7 (2.67%) Cisco
8 6 (2.29%) ServiceNow
9 5 (1.91%) Google
9 5 (1.91%) Talend
10 4 (1.53%) Atlassian
10 4 (1.53%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.15%) Databricks
11 3 (1.15%) Denodo
11 3 (1.15%) Informatica
11 3 (1.15%) Siemens
11 3 (1.15%) Workday
12 2 (0.76%) Ariba
12 2 (0.76%) NEC
12 2 (0.76%) UiPath