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

6 months to
16 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 340 343 340
Rank change year-on-year +3 -3 +69
Contract jobs citing Test Management 255 146 208
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.65% 0.60% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.66% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 103 159
10th Percentile £313 £326 £363
25th Percentile £350 £416 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £505 £575 £600
90th Percentile £600 £688 £675
UK median daily rate £423 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -15.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 1 3
10th Percentile £25.78 - -
25th Percentile £48.15 £81.75 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £83.50 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.17% +659.09% -
75th Percentile - £85.25 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £83.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year -16.17% +659.09% -

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 33,547 22,212 32,344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.44% 91.02% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,492 14,606 21,309
10th Percentile £314 £311 £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 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,069 881 2,207
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.85
25th Percentile £20.09 £18.51 £15.76
Median hourly rate £41.56 £31.76 £34.21
Median % change year-on-year +30.84% -7.16% -8.77%
75th Percentile £66.25 £64.50 £58.69
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.25 £71.75
UK median hourly rate £37.16 £30.45 £33.55
% change year-on-year +22.04% -9.24% -7.45%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -4 111 £400 -11.11% 10
Midlands -42 45 £359 -33.21% 5
North of England -44 42 £395 -16.84% 9
West Midlands -38 39 £350 -34.88% 2
South East -51 36 £461 -7.80% 11
North West -21 27 £393 -17.26% 3
South West -17 15 £475 -17.39% 7
North East - 8 £350 - 5
Yorkshire -50 7 £443 -1.67% 1
East of England -39 5 £450 -25.00% 7
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 27 (10.59%) 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 11 (4.31%) 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%) Endur
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 Subledger Accounting
5 1 (0.39%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.39%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.39%) Summit
5 1 (0.39%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 94 (36.86%) Azure
2 81 (31.76%) Azure DevOps
3 20 (7.84%) 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 Data Factory
12 1 (0.39%) Azure Logic Apps
12 1 (0.39%) Serverless
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%) Intranet
7 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.24%) Data Warehouse
1 21 (8.24%) 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
1 117 (45.88%) JIRA
2 39 (15.29%) Postman
2 39 (15.29%) Zephyr
3 38 (14.90%) Selenium
4 23 (9.02%) TestRail
5 17 (6.67%) Git
6 12 (4.71%) Jenkins
7 11 (4.31%) 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
1 118 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 60 (23.53%) Analytical Skills
2 60 (23.53%) Finance
3 26 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 11 (4.31%) Documentation Skills
5 10 (3.92%) Banking
6 9 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Manufacturing
7 6 (2.35%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (2.35%) Retail
8 5 (1.96%) Automotive
9 4 (1.57%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (1.57%) Local Government
9 4 (1.57%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.18%) Electronics
10 3 (1.18%) Front Office
10 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 3 (1.18%) Investment Banking
10 3 (1.18%) Law
10 3 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 82 (32.16%) Test Manager
2 56 (21.96%) Analyst
3 52 (20.39%) Test Analyst
4 42 (16.47%) Tester
5 28 (10.98%) Lead
6 21 (8.24%) Senior
6 21 (8.24%) Test Engineer
7 19 (7.45%) Test Leader
8 14 (5.49%) QA Tester
8 14 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
9 12 (4.71%) Integration Analyst
9 12 (4.71%) Integration Test Analyst
9 12 (4.71%) Senior Test Analyst
9 12 (4.71%) Systems Integration Analyst
10 11 (4.31%) QA Engineer
11 10 (3.92%) Senior Integration Analyst
11 10 (3.92%) Systems Analyst
11 10 (3.92%) Systems Test Analyst
12 9 (3.53%) Programme Manager
12 9 (3.53%) Programme Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (7.84%) REST
2 16 (6.27%) Middleware
2 16 (6.27%) Playwright
3 9 (3.53%) Node.js
4 7 (2.75%) .NET
4 7 (2.75%) ADO
5 6 (2.35%) RESTful
5 6 (2.35%) SAML
6 5 (1.96%) JSON
6 5 (1.96%) XML
7 4 (1.57%) Oracle Fusion
7 4 (1.57%) SOAP
7 4 (1.57%) Web Services
8 3 (1.18%) JWT
8 3 (1.18%) OAuth
8 3 (1.18%) SailPoint
9 2 (0.78%) FHIR
9 2 (0.78%) Gherkin
9 2 (0.78%) Kafka
9 2 (0.78%) pytest
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%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.78%) Mainframe
5 2 (0.78%) SCADA
6 1 (0.39%) IoT
6 1 (0.39%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.39%) Mobile App
6 1 (0.39%) NHS
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
1 140 (54.90%) Agile
2 121 (47.45%) Test Automation
3 115 (45.10%) User Acceptance Testing
4 94 (36.86%) DevOps
5 85 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 79 (30.98%) Test Scripting
7 74 (29.02%) Integration Testing
8 72 (28.24%) End-to-End Testing
8 72 (28.24%) Scenario Testing
9 71 (27.84%) Regression Testing
9 71 (27.84%) Stakeholder Management
10 66 (25.88%) Validation
11 65 (25.49%) Defect Management
12 60 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
13 58 (22.75%) Software Testing
14 54 (21.18%) Continuous Improvement
15 49 (19.22%) Defect Tracking
16 46 (18.04%) CI/CD
16 46 (18.04%) Manual Testing
17 43 (16.86%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 45 (17.65%) SQL
2 27 (10.59%) 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 76 (29.80%) Security Cleared
2 59 (23.14%) ISTQB
3 56 (21.96%) 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%) BC Cleared
10 1 (0.39%) CCIE
10 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
10 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
10 1 (0.39%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.39%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 119 (46.67%) 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 48 (18.82%) Oracle
2 26 (10.20%) SAP
3 25 (9.80%) HP
3 25 (9.80%) Microsoft
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