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 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 373 346 336
Rank change year-on-year -27 -10 +48
Contract jobs citing Test Management 174 140 222
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.55% 0.52% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.62% 0.59% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 131 89 161
10th Percentile £308 £385 £381
25th Percentile £362 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +1.94% +3.00%
75th Percentile £521 £588 £588
90th Percentile £600 £610 £625
UK median daily rate £438 £507 £513
% change year-on-year -13.79% -0.98% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
UK median hourly rate - - £11.00
% change year-on-year - - -31.25%

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 27,954 23,866 31,707
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 88.33% 89.11% 87.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,831 14,651 21,413
10th Percentile £304 £310 £305
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £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 1,737 769 1,474
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.60 £14.23
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%
75th Percentile £57.50 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -19.75% +15.71%

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 14 January 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
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 14 January 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 89 £425 -17.07% 16
North of England -38 33 £395 -1.25% 29
South East -23 27 £461 -16.27% 48
North West -19 21 £395 -1.25% 11
Midlands -50 12 £359 -33.26% 23
Yorkshire -42 7 £443 +4.12% 14
West Midlands -45 7 £400 -25.58% 10
East Midlands -22 5 £340 -51.41% 13
South West -25 5 £525 -8.70% 19
North East - 5 £500 - 4
East of England -15 2 £625 -31.32% 28
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 (9.20%) Confluence
2 2 (1.15%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.57%) CMS
3 1 (0.57%) Kentico
3 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.30%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.57%) Trello
Business Applications
1 8 (4.60%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.15%) Algo Collateral
2 2 (1.15%) BambooHR
2 2 (1.15%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (1.15%) Maximo
2 2 (1.15%) NetSuite
2 2 (1.15%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.57%) Aladdin
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Cash Management
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.57%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
3 1 (0.57%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.57%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 66 (37.93%) Azure
2 44 (25.29%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (5.17%) AWS
4 8 (4.60%) SuccessFactors
5 7 (4.02%) GitHub
6 6 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 5 (2.87%) GitHub Actions
7 5 (2.87%) OCI
8 4 (2.30%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (2.30%) GCP
8 4 (2.30%) SaaS
9 3 (1.72%) Power Platform
10 2 (1.15%) BrowserStack
10 2 (1.15%) PaaS
10 2 (1.15%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon EC2
11 1 (0.57%) Amazon S3
11 1 (0.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 1 (0.57%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
11 1 (0.57%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.72%) HTTP
1 3 (1.72%) SSL
2 2 (1.15%) Firewall
2 2 (1.15%) FTP
3 1 (0.57%) Broadband
3 1 (0.57%) DNS
3 1 (0.57%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.57%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.87%) BigQuery
1 5 (2.87%) SQL Server
2 4 (2.30%) Relational Database
3 3 (1.72%) Amazon RDS
3 3 (1.72%) MongoDB
4 2 (1.15%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.15%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.15%) Power BI
5 1 (0.57%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 67 (38.51%) JIRA
2 27 (15.52%) Selenium
3 21 (12.07%) TestRail
4 19 (10.92%) Postman
5 12 (6.90%) Cucumber
5 12 (6.90%) Zephyr
6 10 (5.75%) Jenkins
7 9 (5.17%) Git
7 9 (5.17%) GitLab
8 6 (3.45%) Cypress.io
8 6 (3.45%) JMeter
9 5 (2.87%) REST Assured
9 5 (2.87%) SpecFlow
10 4 (2.30%) Gatling
10 4 (2.30%) SoapUI
11 2 (1.15%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 2 (1.15%) HP UFT
11 2 (1.15%) TestNG
11 2 (1.15%) WebDriver
12 1 (0.57%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 86 (49.43%) Social Skills
2 41 (23.56%) Finance
3 31 (17.82%) Analytical Skills
4 23 (13.22%) Public Sector
5 12 (6.90%) Banking
6 10 (5.75%) Documentation Skills
7 8 (4.60%) Presentation Skills
8 6 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
9 5 (2.87%) Investment Banking
10 4 (2.30%) Retail
10 4 (2.30%) Telecoms
11 3 (1.72%) Back Office
11 3 (1.72%) Local Government
11 3 (1.72%) Manufacturing
11 3 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.15%) Front Office
12 2 (1.15%) Law
12 2 (1.15%) Legal
12 2 (1.15%) Military
12 2 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 55 (31.61%) Test Manager
2 39 (22.41%) Analyst
3 38 (21.84%) Test Analyst
4 28 (16.09%) Tester
5 22 (12.64%) Lead
6 18 (10.34%) Test Leader
7 16 (9.20%) Senior
8 12 (6.90%) Test Engineer
9 11 (6.32%) Integration Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) Integration Test Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) Senior Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) Senior Test Analyst
9 11 (6.32%) Systems Integration Analyst
10 9 (5.17%) Automation Tester
10 9 (5.17%) Senior Integration Analyst
10 9 (5.17%) Systems Analyst
10 9 (5.17%) Systems Test Analyst
11 8 (4.60%) QA Engineer
12 7 (4.02%) QA Tester
12 7 (4.02%) Senior Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (7.47%) Playwright
2 12 (6.90%) Middleware
3 8 (4.60%) REST
4 7 (4.02%) Node.js
5 6 (3.45%) JSON
5 6 (3.45%) XML
6 5 (2.87%) .NET
6 5 (2.87%) ADO
7 4 (2.30%) JWT
7 4 (2.30%) OAuth
7 4 (2.30%) SAML
7 4 (2.30%) Spring
7 4 (2.30%) Web Services
8 3 (1.72%) LDAP
8 3 (1.72%) Oracle Fusion
8 3 (1.72%) SOAP
9 2 (1.15%) .NET Framework
9 2 (1.15%) FHIR
9 2 (1.15%) HTML
9 2 (1.15%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 8 (4.60%) Management Information System
2 7 (4.02%) Product Ownership
3 6 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
3 6 (3.45%) Public Cloud
4 5 (2.87%) Onboarding
5 4 (2.30%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (1.72%) Derivative
7 2 (1.15%) Equities
7 2 (1.15%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 2 (1.15%) Mainframe
7 2 (1.15%) SCADA
8 1 (0.57%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.57%) Cloud Native
8 1 (0.57%) Data Centre
8 1 (0.57%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.57%) IoT
8 1 (0.57%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (0.57%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 13 (7.47%) Windows
2 5 (2.87%) Linux
3 3 (1.72%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.57%) Unix
4 1 (0.57%) VMS
4 1 (0.57%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (48.85%) Agile
1 85 (48.85%) Test Automation
2 68 (39.08%) User Acceptance Testing
3 62 (35.63%) Test Strategy
4 58 (33.33%) DevOps
5 51 (29.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 47 (27.01%) Validation
7 46 (26.44%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (26.44%) Test Scripting
8 40 (22.99%) Integration Testing
8 40 (22.99%) Software Testing
9 39 (22.41%) Regression Testing
10 38 (21.84%) Defect Management
11 37 (21.26%) CI/CD
11 37 (21.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 37 (21.26%) Scenario Testing
12 35 (20.11%) Defect Tracking
12 35 (20.11%) End-to-End Testing
13 32 (18.39%) Waterfall
14 29 (16.67%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 29 (16.67%) SQL
2 26 (14.94%) Java
3 17 (9.77%) JavaScript
4 11 (6.32%) C#
5 10 (5.75%) Python
6 9 (5.17%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.87%) XPath
8 1 (0.57%) Bicep
8 1 (0.57%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.57%) Ruby
8 1 (0.57%) VB
Qualifications
1 40 (22.99%) Security Cleared
2 37 (21.26%) ISTQB
3 26 (14.94%) SC Cleared
4 16 (9.20%) Degree
5 12 (6.90%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 6 (3.45%) DV Cleared
6 6 (3.45%) Master's Degree
7 4 (2.30%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (2.30%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 3 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
8 3 (1.72%) ISEB
9 1 (0.57%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.57%) EMC Certification
9 1 (0.57%) HNC
9 1 (0.57%) HND
9 1 (0.57%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.57%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.57%) PMP
9 1 (0.57%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 70 (40.23%) QA
2 12 (6.90%) IFRS
2 12 (6.90%) IFRS 17
3 9 (5.17%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.72%) IFRS 9
4 3 (1.72%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (1.72%) WCAG
5 2 (1.15%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (0.57%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.57%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.57%) GxP
6 1 (0.57%) HL7
6 1 (0.57%) IEC 61508
6 1 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 15288
6 1 (0.57%) SLA
6 1 (0.57%) SNOMED CT
System Software
1 2 (1.15%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.15%) Docker
2 1 (0.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 18 (10.34%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.30%) Grafana
2 4 (2.30%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.15%) Kibana
3 2 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.15%) Terraform
4 1 (0.57%) Ansible
4 1 (0.57%) Functional Safety
4 1 (0.57%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.57%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.57%) SCCM
4 1 (0.57%) SCOM
Vendors
1 20 (11.49%) Oracle
2 19 (10.92%) Microsoft
3 18 (10.34%) HP
4 16 (9.20%) SAP
5 13 (7.47%) ServiceNow
6 9 (5.17%) Workday
7 5 (2.87%) Salesforce
8 4 (2.30%) Micro Focus
8 4 (2.30%) Splunk
9 3 (1.72%) IBM
9 3 (1.72%) OpenText
10 2 (1.15%) Dynatrace
10 2 (1.15%) PagerDuty
10 2 (1.15%) SmartStream
11 1 (0.57%) AppDynamics
11 1 (0.57%) BeyondTrust
11 1 (0.57%) CyberArk
11 1 (0.57%) Databricks
11 1 (0.57%) MuleSoft
11 1 (0.57%) Thycotic