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 17 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 347 334 341
Rank change year-on-year -13 +7 +70
Contract jobs citing Test Management 255 145 207
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.59% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.65% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 102 159
10th Percentile £313 £326 £363
25th Percentile £350 £421 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £513 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £694 £675
UK median daily rate £423 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -15.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 2 3
10th Percentile £25.78 £59.93 -
25th Percentile £48.15 £63.56 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £71.75 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +552.27% -
75th Percentile - £79.56 -
90th Percentile - £82.98 -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £71.75 £11.00
% change year-on-year -2.44% +552.27% -

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 33,609 22,244 32,354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.41% 91.01% 86.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,526 14,625 21,310
10th Percentile £313 £310 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £524 £525
% change year-on-year -4.51% -0.26% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,074 884 2,215
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.27 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £41.90 £31.70 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.17% -6.76% -9.33%
75th Percentile £67.19 £63.94 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.18 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £30.43 £33.07
% change year-on-year +23.25% -7.98% -8.15%

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 17 April 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 17 April 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 17 April 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 -23 107 £400 -13.51% 9
Midlands -44 48 £359 -33.21% 7
West Midlands -35 42 £358 -33.40% 4
North of England -43 42 £395 -16.84% 4
South East -52 38 £461 -7.80% 12
North West -20 27 £393 -17.26% 2
South West -20 15 £475 -17.39% 7
North East - 8 £350 - 1
Yorkshire -48 7 £443 -1.67% 1
East of England -32 5 £450 -25.00% 5
East Midlands - 5 £429 - 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 26 (10.20%) Confluence
2 5 (1.96%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (3.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.57%) Maximo
2 4 (1.57%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.18%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.18%) SAP FI-AR
4 2 (0.78%) Algo Collateral
4 2 (0.78%) BambooHR
4 2 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.78%) NetSuite
4 2 (0.78%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.39%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Cash Management
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.39%) Summit
Cloud Services
1 94 (36.86%) Azure
2 81 (31.76%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (9.02%) AWS
4 12 (4.71%) GitHub
5 9 (3.53%) GitHub Actions
5 9 (3.53%) SuccessFactors
6 8 (3.14%) Dynamics 365
7 7 (2.75%) SaaS
8 6 (2.35%) Entra ID
9 5 (1.96%) GCP
9 5 (1.96%) OCI
10 3 (1.18%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (0.78%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 2 (0.78%) Tricentis Tosca
12 1 (0.39%) Azure AKS
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.39%) ServiceMax
12 1 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.75%) Firewall
2 6 (2.35%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.96%) DNS
3 5 (1.96%) VPN
4 4 (1.57%) DHCP
4 4 (1.57%) Internet
4 4 (1.57%) LAN
4 4 (1.57%) Network Security
4 4 (1.57%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.57%) SSL
4 4 (1.57%) WAN
5 3 (1.18%) HTTP
5 3 (1.18%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.78%) BGP
6 2 (0.78%) FTP
6 2 (0.78%) MPLS
6 2 (0.78%) OSPF
6 2 (0.78%) VLAN
7 1 (0.39%) Broadband
7 1 (0.39%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (9.41%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (9.41%) Oracle Reports
2 5 (1.96%) BigQuery
2 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 4 (1.57%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
4 2 (0.78%) MongoDB
4 2 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.39%) Apache Hive
5 1 (0.39%) Ataccama
5 1 (0.39%) Base SAS
5 1 (0.39%) Big Data
5 1 (0.39%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.39%) Hadoop
5 1 (0.39%) SAS Data Integration Studio
5 1 (0.39%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 119 (46.67%) JIRA
2 42 (16.47%) Zephyr
3 41 (16.08%) Postman
4 37 (14.51%) Selenium
5 23 (9.02%) TestRail
6 20 (7.84%) Git
7 11 (4.31%) Jenkins
8 10 (3.92%) Cucumber
8 10 (3.92%) Cypress.io
9 9 (3.53%) REST Assured
10 8 (3.14%) JMeter
11 7 (2.75%) GitLab
12 6 (2.35%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.57%) Gatling
14 3 (1.18%) Browser DevTools
14 3 (1.18%) SoapUI
14 3 (1.18%) Team Foundation Server
15 2 (0.78%) Atlassian Bamboo
15 2 (0.78%) MSTest
15 2 (0.78%) WebDriver
General
1 120 (47.06%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
3 59 (23.14%) Finance
4 26 (10.20%) Public Sector
5 11 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
6 10 (3.92%) Banking
7 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
8 6 (2.35%) Retail
9 5 (1.96%) Automotive
10 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
10 4 (1.57%) Local Government
10 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.18%) Back Office
11 3 (1.18%) Front Office
11 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
11 3 (1.18%) Law
11 3 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 81 (31.76%) Test Manager
2 59 (23.14%) Analyst
3 55 (21.57%) Test Analyst
4 42 (16.47%) Tester
5 28 (10.98%) Lead
6 21 (8.24%) Senior
7 20 (7.84%) Test Engineer
8 19 (7.45%) Test Leader
9 14 (5.49%) QA Tester
9 14 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
10 12 (4.71%) Integration Analyst
10 12 (4.71%) Integration Test Analyst
10 12 (4.71%) Senior Test Analyst
10 12 (4.71%) Systems Integration Analyst
11 11 (4.31%) QA Engineer
12 10 (3.92%) Senior Integration Analyst
12 10 (3.92%) Systems Analyst
12 10 (3.92%) Systems Test Analyst
13 9 (3.53%) Programme Manager
13 9 (3.53%) Programme Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (7.45%) REST
2 16 (6.27%) Middleware
3 15 (5.88%) Playwright
4 9 (3.53%) Node.js
5 7 (2.75%) ADO
6 6 (2.35%) .NET
6 6 (2.35%) RESTful
6 6 (2.35%) SAML
7 5 (1.96%) JSON
7 5 (1.96%) XML
8 4 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (1.18%) JWT
9 3 (1.18%) OAuth
9 3 (1.18%) SailPoint
9 3 (1.18%) SOAP
9 3 (1.18%) Web Services
10 2 (0.78%) FHIR
10 2 (0.78%) Gherkin
10 2 (0.78%) HTML
10 2 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.27%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.53%) Legacy Systems
2 9 (3.53%) Management Information System
2 9 (3.53%) Onboarding
2 9 (3.53%) Public Cloud
2 9 (3.53%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (2.35%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (1.18%) Derivative
4 3 (1.18%) Distributed Systems
5 2 (0.78%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (0.78%) EPoS
5 2 (0.78%) Equities
5 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.78%) SCADA
6 1 (0.39%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.39%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (0.39%) NHS
6 1 (0.39%) Security Posture
6 1 (0.39%) Synthetic Data
6 1 (0.39%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 19 (7.45%) Windows
2 8 (3.14%) Linux
3 3 (1.18%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) VMS
4 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (56.08%) Agile
2 123 (48.24%) Test Automation
3 114 (44.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 93 (36.47%) DevOps
5 84 (32.94%) Test Strategy
6 83 (32.55%) Test Scripting
7 77 (30.20%) Integration Testing
8 75 (29.41%) End-to-End Testing
8 75 (29.41%) Scenario Testing
9 71 (27.84%) Regression Testing
10 69 (27.06%) Stakeholder Management
11 66 (25.88%) Defect Management
11 66 (25.88%) Validation
12 60 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (22.75%) Software Testing
14 54 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (19.22%) Defect Tracking
15 49 (19.22%) Manual Testing
16 46 (18.04%) Migration
17 45 (17.65%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 48 (18.82%) SQL
2 26 (10.20%) Java
3 23 (9.02%) JavaScript
4 15 (5.88%) C#
4 15 (5.88%) Python
5 10 (3.92%) TypeScript
6 5 (1.96%) XPath
7 3 (1.18%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.18%) VB
8 2 (0.78%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.39%) Bash
9 1 (0.39%) Bicep
9 1 (0.39%) Ruby
9 1 (0.39%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.39%) VB6
Qualifications
1 79 (30.98%) Security Cleared
2 62 (24.31%) ISTQB
3 59 (23.14%) SC Cleared
4 22 (8.63%) Degree
5 10 (3.92%) BPSS Clearance
5 10 (3.92%) DV Cleared
6 9 (3.53%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 9 (3.53%) Master's Degree
7 8 (3.14%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (1.18%) Azure Certification
8 3 (1.18%) ISEB
9 2 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
9 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
10 1 (0.39%) CCIE
10 1 (0.39%) CCNP
10 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (0.39%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 121 (47.45%) QA
2 18 (7.06%) IFRS
2 18 (7.06%) IFRS 17
3 9 (3.53%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.57%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.57%) SLA
5 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 12207
5 3 (1.18%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.18%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 2 (0.78%) GDPR
6 2 (0.78%) HL7
6 2 (0.78%) IFRS 9
6 2 (0.78%) MiFID
6 2 (0.78%) Software Quality Assurance
6 2 (0.78%) WCAG
7 1 (0.39%) EMIR
7 1 (0.39%) GRC
7 1 (0.39%) GxP
7 1 (0.39%) NCSC
7 1 (0.39%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 4 (1.57%) Active Directory
2 3 (1.18%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 24 (9.41%) HP ALM
2 5 (1.96%) Single Sign-On
3 4 (1.57%) HP Quality Center
3 4 (1.57%) Kubernetes
4 3 (1.18%) Grafana
5 2 (0.78%) Ansible
5 2 (0.78%) Terraform
6 1 (0.39%) Cisco Prime
6 1 (0.39%) Control-M
6 1 (0.39%) Iperf
6 1 (0.39%) Kibana
6 1 (0.39%) Nmap
Vendors
1 51 (20.00%) Oracle
2 25 (9.80%) HP
2 25 (9.80%) Microsoft
3 24 (9.41%) SAP
4 13 (5.10%) ServiceNow
5 7 (2.75%) Workday
6 6 (2.35%) Talend
7 5 (1.96%) Salesforce
8 3 (1.18%) Ariba
8 3 (1.18%) Citrix
8 3 (1.18%) Denodo
8 3 (1.18%) IBM
8 3 (1.18%) Splunk
8 3 (1.18%) Zscaler
9 2 (0.78%) Cisco
9 2 (0.78%) Fortinet
9 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
9 2 (0.78%) Sage
9 2 (0.78%) Siemens
9 2 (0.78%) SmartStream