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

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 362 351 333
Rank change year-on-year -11 -18 +64
Contract jobs citing Test Management 185 150 216
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.53% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 97 158
10th Percentile £311 £400 £386
25th Percentile £369 £419 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -16.19% - +5.00%
75th Percentile £525 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £601 £629
UK median daily rate £450 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -14.29% +2.44% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
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 & 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 28,004 25,033 32,231
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.55% 88.72% 88.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,835 15,427 21,866
10th Percentile £303 £312 £306
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £645 £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 1,779 821 1,411
10th Percentile £15.18 £15.62 £14.41
25th Percentile £17.96 £20.30 £19.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%
75th Percentile £56.83 £64.73 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.99 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £43.95
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.05% +25.57%

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 30 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 30 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 +19 91 £425 -19.05% 43
North of England -39 37 £400 - 53
South East -14 32 £481 -12.64% 77
North West -27 17 £400 - 22
Yorkshire -32 15 £443 +4.12% 29
Midlands -51 13 £359 -33.26% 45
West Midlands -36 9 £400 -25.58% 24
North East - 5 £500 - 2
South West -11 4 £525 - 28
East Midlands -19 4 £340 -51.41% 17
East of England -16 2 £625 -31.32% 37
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 (8.65%) Confluence
2 3 (1.62%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.54%) CMS
3 1 (0.54%) Kentico
3 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (3.24%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.54%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (3.24%) Oracle EBS
1 6 (3.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.08%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.08%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.08%) Maximo
2 2 (1.08%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.08%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.54%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.54%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.54%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.54%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.54%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 77 (41.62%) Azure
2 47 (25.41%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (9.19%) AWS
4 12 (6.49%) GCP
5 8 (4.32%) OCI
6 7 (3.78%) Entra ID
6 7 (3.78%) GitHub
7 6 (3.24%) SuccessFactors
8 5 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
8 5 (2.70%) GitHub Actions
8 5 (2.70%) SaaS
9 3 (1.62%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.08%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.08%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (1.08%) PaaS
10 2 (1.08%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.54%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.54%) OneDrive
11 1 (0.54%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.54%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.16%) Firewall
2 3 (1.62%) HTTP
2 3 (1.62%) SSL
3 2 (1.08%) Broadband
3 2 (1.08%) FTP
4 1 (0.54%) DNS
4 1 (0.54%) TCP/IP
4 1 (0.54%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (3.24%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.16%) BigQuery
2 4 (2.16%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.62%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.62%) MongoDB
3 3 (1.62%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.08%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.08%) Power BI
5 1 (0.54%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 85 (45.95%) JIRA
2 30 (16.22%) Selenium
3 26 (14.05%) Postman
4 21 (11.35%) TestRail
5 15 (8.11%) Zephyr
6 14 (7.57%) Cucumber
7 12 (6.49%) SoapUI
8 10 (5.41%) Jenkins
9 9 (4.86%) Git
9 9 (4.86%) GitLab
10 6 (3.24%) Cypress.io
10 6 (3.24%) JMeter
11 5 (2.70%) REST Assured
11 5 (2.70%) SpecFlow
12 4 (2.16%) Gatling
13 2 (1.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
13 2 (1.08%) HP UFT
13 2 (1.08%) TestNG
13 2 (1.08%) WebDriver
14 1 (0.54%) LoadRunner
General
1 94 (50.81%) Social Skills
2 40 (21.62%) Finance
3 30 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 21 (11.35%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.49%) Banking
6 10 (5.41%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.32%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.24%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.70%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.70%) Retail
9 5 (2.70%) Telecoms
10 4 (2.16%) Legal
11 3 (1.62%) Back Office
11 3 (1.62%) Local Government
11 3 (1.62%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.08%) Billing
12 2 (1.08%) Front Office
12 2 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 2 (1.08%) Law
12 2 (1.08%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (28.11%) Test Manager
2 42 (22.70%) Analyst
3 41 (22.16%) Test Analyst
4 29 (15.68%) Tester
5 26 (14.05%) Lead
6 21 (11.35%) Test Leader
7 14 (7.57%) Senior
7 14 (7.57%) Test Engineer
8 11 (5.95%) Automation Tester
9 8 (4.32%) QA Engineer
9 8 (4.32%) QA Tester
10 7 (3.78%) Integration Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) Integration Test Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) Programme Manager
10 7 (3.78%) Programme Test Manager
10 7 (3.78%) Senior Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) Senior Test Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) Systems Integration Analyst
10 7 (3.78%) Test Programme Manager
11 6 (3.24%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (7.57%) Playwright
2 9 (4.86%) Middleware
3 8 (4.32%) REST
4 7 (3.78%) Node.js
5 6 (3.24%) JSON
5 6 (3.24%) XML
6 5 (2.70%) .NET
6 5 (2.70%) ADO
6 5 (2.70%) SOAP
7 4 (2.16%) Gherkin
7 4 (2.16%) JWT
7 4 (2.16%) OAuth
7 4 (2.16%) SAML
7 4 (2.16%) Spring
7 4 (2.16%) Web Services
8 3 (1.62%) LDAP
8 3 (1.62%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.62%) RESTful
8 3 (1.62%) WebdriverIO
9 2 (1.08%) Spring Batch
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.86%) Product Ownership
2 7 (3.78%) Management Information System
3 6 (3.24%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.16%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (2.16%) Public Cloud
6 3 (1.62%) Data Centre
6 3 (1.62%) Derivative
6 3 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.08%) Equities
7 2 (1.08%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.08%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.08%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.08%) SCADA
8 1 (0.54%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.54%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.54%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.54%) IoT
8 1 (0.54%) Tandem
8 1 (0.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 14 (7.57%) Windows
2 5 (2.70%) Linux
3 3 (1.62%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.54%) Unix
4 1 (0.54%) VMS
4 1 (0.54%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 95 (51.35%) Agile
2 92 (49.73%) Test Automation
3 64 (34.59%) User Acceptance Testing
4 63 (34.05%) DevOps
5 60 (32.43%) Test Strategy
6 55 (29.73%) Problem-Solving
7 50 (27.03%) Software Testing
8 45 (24.32%) CI/CD
8 45 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
8 45 (24.32%) Test Scripting
9 43 (23.24%) Defect Management
10 40 (21.62%) Validation
11 38 (20.54%) Integration Testing
12 37 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
13 36 (19.46%) API Testing
14 35 (18.92%) Defect Tracking
15 34 (18.38%) Scenario Testing
15 34 (18.38%) Waterfall
16 33 (17.84%) System Integration Testing
16 33 (17.84%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 29 (15.68%) SQL
2 26 (14.05%) Java
3 17 (9.19%) JavaScript
4 13 (7.03%) C#
5 10 (5.41%) Python
6 9 (4.86%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.70%) XPath
8 3 (1.62%) Ruby
8 3 (1.62%) VB
9 1 (0.54%) Bicep
9 1 (0.54%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 45 (24.32%) ISTQB
2 42 (22.70%) Security Cleared
3 31 (16.76%) SC Cleared
4 18 (9.73%) Degree
5 12 (6.49%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 8 (4.32%) CISM
6 8 (4.32%) CISSP
7 6 (3.24%) DV Cleared
8 4 (2.16%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 4 (2.16%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.62%) EMC Certification
9 3 (1.62%) HNC
9 3 (1.62%) HND
10 2 (1.08%) ISEB
11 1 (0.54%) ITIL Certification
11 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Certification
11 1 (0.54%) PMI Certification
11 1 (0.54%) PMP
11 1 (0.54%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (37.30%) QA
2 9 (4.86%) Accessibility
3 7 (3.78%) IFRS
3 7 (3.78%) IFRS 17
4 6 (3.24%) GDPR
4 6 (3.24%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 6 (3.24%) NIST
4 6 (3.24%) PCI DSS
5 3 (1.62%) Def Stans
5 3 (1.62%) IEC 61508
5 3 (1.62%) IFRS 9
5 3 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 15288
5 3 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (1.62%) SLA
5 3 (1.62%) WCAG
6 2 (1.08%) Software Quality Assurance
7 1 (0.54%) Data Quality
7 1 (0.54%) GxP
7 1 (0.54%) HL7
7 1 (0.54%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.08%) Docker
2 1 (0.54%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 23 (12.43%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.16%) Grafana
2 4 (2.16%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.62%) Functional Safety
4 2 (1.08%) Kibana
4 2 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (1.08%) Terraform
5 1 (0.54%) Ansible
5 1 (0.54%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.54%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.54%) SCCM
5 1 (0.54%) SCOM
Vendors
1 32 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 23 (12.43%) HP
2 23 (12.43%) Oracle
3 15 (8.11%) SAP
4 12 (6.49%) ServiceNow
5 10 (5.41%) CyberArk
5 10 (5.41%) Workday
6 9 (4.86%) BeyondTrust
6 9 (4.86%) Thycotic
7 8 (4.32%) Google
8 6 (3.24%) Salesforce
9 4 (2.16%) Micro Focus
9 4 (2.16%) Splunk
10 3 (1.62%) EMC
10 3 (1.62%) IBM
10 3 (1.62%) OpenText
11 2 (1.08%) Cisco
11 2 (1.08%) Dynatrace
11 2 (1.08%) PagerDuty
11 2 (1.08%) SmartStream