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 3 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 345 345 369
Rank change year-on-year 0 +24 +11
Contract jobs citing Test Management 195 168 199
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.63% 0.55% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.63% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 146 114 144
10th Percentile £311 £400 £381
25th Percentile £375 £420 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% +2.56%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £588
90th Percentile £606 £627 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -10.00% - +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
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 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 27,644 26,739 33,894
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.47% 87.82% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,602 16,417 23,106
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,795 955 1,428
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.22 £14.93
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.22 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.75 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.75
% change year-on-year -22.62% -25.71% +25.00%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 +9 90 £456 -8.90% 9
North of England -26 41 £450 +12.50% 2
South East +2 36 £455 -17.27% 22
Yorkshire -16 18 £463 +8.82% 1
North West -25 18 £450 +12.50% 1
Midlands -35 16 £313 -39.47% 3
West Midlands -32 14 £350 -32.20% 3
North East - 5 £500 -
South West -8 4 £444 -19.32% 1
East of England -16 2 £625 -2.72%
East Midlands -20 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 16 (8.21%) Confluence
2 3 (1.54%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.51%) CMS
3 1 (0.51%) Kentico
3 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (6.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.51%) Trello
Business Applications
1 10 (5.13%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (2.05%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.03%) Algo Collateral
3 2 (1.03%) BambooHR
3 2 (1.03%) Maximo
3 2 (1.03%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.03%) SAP SD
4 1 (0.51%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.51%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.51%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.51%) NetSuite
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.51%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
4 1 (0.51%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.51%) SAP Oil and Gas
4 1 (0.51%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 75 (38.46%) Azure
2 47 (24.10%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (8.21%) AWS
4 9 (4.62%) GCP
5 8 (4.10%) SuccessFactors
6 7 (3.59%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.59%) SaaS
7 6 (3.08%) GitHub
7 6 (3.08%) OCI
8 5 (2.56%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (2.05%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (1.54%) BrowserStack
10 3 (1.54%) Power Platform
11 2 (1.03%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (1.03%) PaaS
11 2 (1.03%) WhatsApp
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon EC2
12 1 (0.51%) Amazon S3
12 1 (0.51%) AWS Lambda
12 1 (0.51%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.05%) Firewall
2 3 (1.54%) Broadband
2 3 (1.54%) HTTP
2 3 (1.54%) SSL
3 1 (0.51%) FTP
3 1 (0.51%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.59%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.05%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.54%) Oracle Reports
3 3 (1.54%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.03%) Electronic Patient Records
4 2 (1.03%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.03%) Power BI
4 2 (1.03%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.51%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.51%) Data Mart
5 1 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 98 (50.26%) JIRA
2 29 (14.87%) Selenium
3 27 (13.85%) Postman
4 24 (12.31%) TestRail
5 18 (9.23%) Zephyr
6 15 (7.69%) Cucumber
7 12 (6.15%) SoapUI
8 10 (5.13%) Jenkins
9 9 (4.62%) Git
10 8 (4.10%) GitLab
11 7 (3.59%) JMeter
12 6 (3.08%) Cypress.io
13 5 (2.56%) REST Assured
13 5 (2.56%) SpecFlow
14 4 (2.05%) Gatling
15 3 (1.54%) TestNG
15 3 (1.54%) WebDriver
16 2 (1.03%) Atlassian Bamboo
16 2 (1.03%) LSMW
16 2 (1.03%) TestPartner
General
1 97 (49.74%) Social Skills
2 43 (22.05%) Finance
3 33 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 24 (12.31%) Public Sector
5 15 (7.69%) Banking
6 13 (6.67%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.10%) Influencing Skills
7 8 (4.10%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.08%) Local Government
8 6 (3.08%) Telecoms
9 5 (2.56%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.56%) Retail
10 4 (2.05%) Legal
11 3 (1.54%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.54%) Publishing
12 2 (1.03%) Billing
12 2 (1.03%) Front Office
12 2 (1.03%) Law
12 2 (1.03%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.03%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (27.18%) Test Manager
2 48 (24.62%) Analyst
3 47 (24.10%) Test Analyst
4 30 (15.38%) Tester
5 24 (12.31%) Lead
6 20 (10.26%) Test Leader
7 16 (8.21%) Test Engineer
8 11 (5.64%) Automation Tester
8 11 (5.64%) Senior
9 8 (4.10%) Integration Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) Integration Test Analyst
9 8 (4.10%) QA Tester
10 7 (3.59%) QA Engineer
11 6 (3.08%) SAP Analyst
11 6 (3.08%) SAP Test Analyst
11 6 (3.08%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.56%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
12 5 (2.56%) QA Automation Engineer
12 5 (2.56%) Systems Integration Analyst
12 5 (2.56%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (8.21%) Playwright
2 9 (4.62%) REST
3 7 (3.59%) Middleware
4 6 (3.08%) JSON
4 6 (3.08%) SOAP
4 6 (3.08%) WebdriverIO
4 6 (3.08%) XML
5 5 (2.56%) .NET
5 5 (2.56%) Node.js
6 4 (2.05%) ADO
6 4 (2.05%) Gherkin
6 4 (2.05%) Spring
7 3 (1.54%) JWT
7 3 (1.54%) LDAP
7 3 (1.54%) OAuth
7 3 (1.54%) Oracle Fusion
7 3 (1.54%) RESTful
7 3 (1.54%) RFC 2544
7 3 (1.54%) SAML
7 3 (1.54%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.62%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.08%) Public Cloud
4 4 (2.05%) Data Centre
4 4 (2.05%) Onboarding
4 4 (2.05%) SCADA
5 3 (1.54%) Data Structures
5 3 (1.54%) Derivative
5 3 (1.54%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
6 2 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.03%) NHS
7 1 (0.51%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.51%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (0.51%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 1 (0.51%) IoT
7 1 (0.51%) Pharmacovigilance
7 1 (0.51%) PKI
7 1 (0.51%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 16 (8.21%) Windows
2 4 (2.05%) Linux
3 3 (1.54%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.51%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (47.69%) Agile
2 91 (46.67%) Test Automation
3 67 (34.36%) User Acceptance Testing
4 64 (32.82%) DevOps
5 58 (29.74%) Test Strategy
6 52 (26.67%) Test Scripting
7 51 (26.15%) Defect Management
7 51 (26.15%) Software Testing
8 50 (25.64%) Problem-Solving
9 46 (23.59%) CI/CD
10 43 (22.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 39 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
12 38 (19.49%) Scenario Testing
12 38 (19.49%) Validation
13 35 (17.95%) API Testing
13 35 (17.95%) Defect Tracking
13 35 (17.95%) SDLC
13 35 (17.95%) Test Planning
14 34 (17.44%) Integration Testing
15 33 (16.92%) Continuous Improvement
Programming Languages
1 28 (14.36%) SQL
2 23 (11.79%) Java
3 16 (8.21%) C#
3 16 (8.21%) JavaScript
4 11 (5.64%) Python
5 7 (3.59%) TypeScript
6 6 (3.08%) VB
7 5 (2.56%) XPath
8 3 (1.54%) Ruby
9 2 (1.03%) ABAP
9 2 (1.03%) Korn
10 1 (0.51%) Bicep
10 1 (0.51%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 49 (25.13%) ISTQB
2 42 (21.54%) Security Cleared
3 32 (16.41%) SC Cleared
4 20 (10.26%) Degree
5 12 (6.15%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 8 (4.10%) CISM
6 8 (4.10%) CISSP
7 7 (3.59%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.05%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (2.05%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.54%) EMC Certification
9 3 (1.54%) HNC
9 3 (1.54%) HND
9 3 (1.54%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (1.03%) BPSS Clearance
10 2 (1.03%) ISEB
11 1 (0.51%) Azure Certification
11 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.51%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 71 (36.41%) QA
2 10 (5.13%) Accessibility
3 6 (3.08%) GDPR
3 6 (3.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 6 (3.08%) NIST
3 6 (3.08%) PCI DSS
4 5 (2.56%) IFRS
4 5 (2.56%) IFRS 17
5 4 (2.05%) SLA
5 4 (2.05%) WCAG
6 3 (1.54%) Def Stans
6 3 (1.54%) IEC 61508
6 3 (1.54%) IFRS 9
6 3 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 2 (1.03%) Software Quality Assurance
8 1 (0.51%) Data Quality
8 1 (0.51%) GxP
8 1 (0.51%) HL7
8 1 (0.51%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.03%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.51%) Docker
2 1 (0.51%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.51%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 22 (11.28%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.54%) Functional Safety
2 3 (1.54%) Grafana
2 3 (1.54%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.03%) Kibana
3 2 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.03%) Terraform
4 1 (0.51%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.51%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.51%) SCCM
4 1 (0.51%) SCOM
Vendors
1 35 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 22 (11.28%) HP
3 19 (9.74%) Oracle
4 16 (8.21%) SAP
5 13 (6.67%) ServiceNow
6 10 (5.13%) CyberArk
7 9 (4.62%) BeyondTrust
7 9 (4.62%) Thycotic
7 9 (4.62%) Workday
8 8 (4.10%) Google
9 7 (3.59%) Salesforce
10 4 (2.05%) Micro Focus
11 3 (1.54%) Cisco
11 3 (1.54%) EMC
11 3 (1.54%) IBM
11 3 (1.54%) MuleSoft
11 3 (1.54%) OpenText
11 3 (1.54%) Splunk
12 2 (1.03%) Cerner
12 2 (1.03%) SmartStream