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 23 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 364 310 341
Rank change year-on-year -54 +31 +82
Contract jobs citing Test Management 252 171 218
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.58% 0.68% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.75% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 122 164
10th Percentile £315 £325 £363
25th Percentile £357 £402 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £475 £489
Median % change year-on-year -11.32% -2.86% -11.09%
75th Percentile £511 £575 £595
90th Percentile £631 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £430 £475 £489
% change year-on-year -9.47% -2.86% -10.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 4
10th Percentile £26.04 - -
25th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 -
Median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £11.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +490.91% -79.05%
75th Percentile - £73.81 £34.81
90th Percentile - £80.68 £77.68
UK median hourly rate £70.00 £65.00 £11.00
% change year-on-year +7.69% +490.91% -79.34%

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 36,943 22,820 31,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.26% 91.36% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,357 14,745 20,676
10th Percentile £325 £300 £303
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% -4.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,312 1,098 2,392
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £21.00 £18.13 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.06 £37.63
Median % change year-on-year +73.67% -28.07% +7.07%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £74.13 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +7.14%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 -57 92 £425 -15.00% 6
Midlands -11 55 £358 -30.15% 4
West Midlands -21 50 £358 -24.63% 2
South East -47 50 £475 +1.33% 7
North of England -59 41 £395 -12.22% 6
North West -30 30 £393 -12.67% 5
South West -25 15 £450 -11.11%
North East - 7 £313 - 1
East of England -30 4 £450 -25.00%
Yorkshire -55 4 £509 -3.10% 1
East Midlands - 3 £578 - 2
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 22 (8.73%) Confluence
2 5 (1.98%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.19%) CMS
3 3 (1.19%) Kentico
4 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 8 (3.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (2.38%) Microsoft Office
3 5 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 2 (0.79%) MS Visio
4 2 (0.79%) Spreadsheet
5 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 12 (4.76%) SAP S/4HANA
2 6 (2.38%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (1.19%) Oracle Receivables
3 3 (1.19%) SAP FI-AR
4 2 (0.79%) Maximo
4 2 (0.79%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.40%) Endur
5 1 (0.40%) Infor SunSystems
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
5 1 (0.40%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.40%) SAP FI-GL
5 1 (0.40%) SAP Oil and Gas
5 1 (0.40%) SAP PM
5 1 (0.40%) SAP QM
5 1 (0.40%) Summit
5 1 (0.40%) Unit4 Business World
5 1 (0.40%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 79 (31.35%) Azure
2 70 (27.78%) Azure DevOps
3 36 (14.29%) AWS
4 9 (3.57%) GitHub
4 9 (3.57%) SaaS
5 8 (3.17%) Dynamics 365
6 7 (2.78%) Azure Sentinel
6 7 (2.78%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (2.38%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (1.59%) Entra ID
8 4 (1.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
9 3 (1.19%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (1.19%) Power Platform
10 2 (0.79%) GCP
10 2 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Functions
11 1 (0.40%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (0.40%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.40%) Serverless
11 1 (0.40%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.78%) Network Security
2 6 (2.38%) Firewall
2 6 (2.38%) TCP/IP
3 5 (1.98%) DNS
3 5 (1.98%) VPN
4 4 (1.59%) DHCP
4 4 (1.59%) Internet
4 4 (1.59%) LAN
4 4 (1.59%) SD-WAN
4 4 (1.59%) WAN
5 3 (1.19%) SSL
5 3 (1.19%) Wireshark
6 2 (0.79%) BGP
6 2 (0.79%) Intranet
6 2 (0.79%) MPLS
6 2 (0.79%) OSPF
6 2 (0.79%) VLAN
7 1 (0.40%) Cisco ASA
7 1 (0.40%) tcpdump
7 1 (0.40%) WPA2
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (12.70%) Data Warehouse
2 31 (12.30%) Oracle Reports
3 4 (1.59%) SQL Server
4 3 (1.19%) Power BI
4 3 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 2 (0.79%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.40%) Apache Hive
6 1 (0.40%) Ataccama
6 1 (0.40%) Base SAS
6 1 (0.40%) Big Data
6 1 (0.40%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.40%) DataStage
6 1 (0.40%) Hadoop
6 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
6 1 (0.40%) SAS Data Integration Studio
6 1 (0.40%) SAS Enterprise Guide
Development Applications
1 118 (46.83%) JIRA
2 43 (17.06%) Postman
2 43 (17.06%) Zephyr
3 23 (9.13%) Selenium
4 17 (6.75%) Git
5 16 (6.35%) TestRail
6 13 (5.16%) Jenkins
7 9 (3.57%) Cypress.io
7 9 (3.57%) REST Assured
8 7 (2.78%) GitLab
9 6 (2.38%) JMeter
10 4 (1.59%) Cucumber
11 3 (1.19%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (1.19%) Gatling
12 2 (0.79%) Appium
12 2 (0.79%) MSTest
12 2 (0.79%) Team Foundation Server
13 1 (0.40%) NUnit
13 1 (0.40%) QADirector
13 1 (0.40%) Xcode
General
1 118 (46.83%) Social Skills
2 70 (27.78%) Finance
3 54 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (9.13%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (3.97%) Banking
7 7 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
7 7 (2.78%) Manufacturing
8 4 (1.59%) Aerospace
8 4 (1.59%) Automotive
8 4 (1.59%) Front Office
8 4 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Local Government
8 4 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (1.59%) Retail
8 4 (1.59%) Telecoms
9 3 (1.19%) Electronics
9 3 (1.19%) Military
9 3 (1.19%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 83 (32.94%) Test Manager
2 53 (21.03%) Analyst
3 42 (16.67%) Test Analyst
4 39 (15.48%) Tester
5 30 (11.90%) Lead
6 22 (8.73%) Test Leader
7 18 (7.14%) QA Tester
7 18 (7.14%) Test Engineer
8 17 (6.75%) Senior
9 10 (3.97%) Consultant
9 10 (3.97%) Senior Analyst
10 9 (3.57%) Business Analyst
10 9 (3.57%) Software Test Engineer
11 8 (3.17%) Programme Manager
11 8 (3.17%) Programme Test Manager
11 8 (3.17%) Test Programme Manager
12 7 (2.78%) Senior Test Analyst
13 6 (2.38%) Integration Test Analyst
13 6 (2.38%) QA Analyst
13 6 (2.38%) Systems Integration Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (6.75%) REST
2 11 (4.37%) Playwright
3 9 (3.57%) ADO
4 7 (2.78%) Middleware
4 7 (2.78%) RESTful
5 6 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (1.98%) SailPoint
7 4 (1.59%) .NET
8 3 (1.19%) Gherkin
8 3 (1.19%) SAML
8 3 (1.19%) SOAP
9 2 (0.79%) Node.js
9 2 (0.79%) pytest
10 1 (0.40%) 802.1X
10 1 (0.40%) FHIR
10 1 (0.40%) Lightning Web Components
10 1 (0.40%) SAP Basis
10 1 (0.40%) Vuetify.js
10 1 (0.40%) Web Services
10 1 (0.40%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (6.35%) Product Ownership
2 12 (4.76%) Self-Motivation
3 10 (3.97%) Management Information System
4 9 (3.57%) Public Cloud
5 8 (3.17%) Legacy Systems
5 8 (3.17%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
6 3 (1.19%) EPoS
6 3 (1.19%) SCADA
7 2 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (0.79%) Credit Risk
7 2 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.79%) Derivative
7 2 (0.79%) Market Risk
7 2 (0.79%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.79%) NHS
7 2 (0.79%) PKI
8 1 (0.40%) Operational Technology
8 1 (0.40%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.40%) Synthetic Data
Operating Systems
1 15 (5.95%) Windows
2 7 (2.78%) Linux
3 3 (1.19%) Mac OS
4 2 (0.79%) Android
4 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 131 (51.98%) Agile
2 118 (46.83%) User Acceptance Testing
3 113 (44.84%) Test Automation
4 84 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
5 83 (32.94%) Test Strategy
6 81 (32.14%) DevOps
7 78 (30.95%) Integration Testing
8 74 (29.37%) Test Scripting
9 73 (28.97%) Scenario Testing
10 72 (28.57%) Defect Management
11 63 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 62 (24.60%) Migration
13 60 (23.81%) Regression Testing
13 60 (23.81%) Validation
14 53 (21.03%) Manual Testing
15 49 (19.44%) ETL
16 46 (18.25%) Data Migration
16 46 (18.25%) Software Testing
17 45 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
18 44 (17.46%) System Testing
Programming Languages
1 55 (21.83%) SQL
2 15 (5.95%) JavaScript
3 14 (5.56%) Python
4 12 (4.76%) Java
5 7 (2.78%) C#
6 6 (2.38%) TypeScript
7 3 (1.19%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.19%) VB
8 2 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 1 (0.40%) Bash
9 1 (0.40%) SAS Macro
9 1 (0.40%) VB6
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 86 (34.13%) Security Cleared
2 67 (26.59%) ISTQB
3 59 (23.41%) SC Cleared
4 19 (7.54%) Degree
5 15 (5.95%) DV Cleared
6 13 (5.16%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 10 (3.97%) BPSS Clearance
7 10 (3.97%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 6 (2.38%) Master's Degree
9 3 (1.19%) Azure Certification
9 3 (1.19%) ISEB
10 2 (0.79%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.79%) ITIL Certification
10 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
10 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 1 (0.40%) BC Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
11 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
11 1 (0.40%) CTC Cleared
11 1 (0.40%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 124 (49.21%) QA
2 17 (6.75%) IFRS
2 17 (6.75%) IFRS 17
3 9 (3.57%) Accessibility
4 7 (2.78%) Data Quality
5 4 (1.59%) MiFID
5 4 (1.59%) SLA
6 3 (1.19%) GDPR
6 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 12207
6 3 (1.19%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 3 (1.19%) Software Quality Assurance
6 3 (1.19%) WCAG
7 2 (0.79%) EMIR
8 1 (0.40%) Dodd-Frank
8 1 (0.40%) GRC
8 1 (0.40%) HL7
8 1 (0.40%) NCSC
8 1 (0.40%) NIST
8 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.98%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (1.59%) Active Directory
4 3 (1.19%) Docker
5 2 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 18 (7.14%) HP ALM
2 4 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
2 4 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (1.19%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.79%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Cisco Prime
5 1 (0.40%) Control-M
5 1 (0.40%) Grafana
5 1 (0.40%) Iperf
5 1 (0.40%) Nmap
5 1 (0.40%) Tivoli
Vendors
1 52 (20.63%) Oracle
2 30 (11.90%) Microsoft
3 20 (7.94%) SAP
4 19 (7.54%) HP
5 9 (3.57%) Cisco
6 8 (3.17%) ServiceNow
6 8 (3.17%) VMware
7 6 (2.38%) Denodo
7 6 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 6 (2.38%) Talend
8 4 (1.59%) Ariba
9 3 (1.19%) Citrix
9 3 (1.19%) Zscaler
10 2 (0.79%) Fortinet
10 2 (0.79%) MuleSoft
10 2 (0.79%) Murex
10 2 (0.79%) Sage
10 2 (0.79%) Siemens
10 2 (0.79%) Workday
11 1 (0.40%) Tagetik