Test Management Contracts in England

Test Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 329 419 413
Rank change year-on-year +90 -6 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Management 216 253 407
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.50% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.55% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 184 325
10th Percentile £363 £400 £340
25th Percentile £411 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £555
90th Percentile £665 £716 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - +46.15%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,985 45,619 64,566
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.53% 90.25% 90.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,974 32,022 45,804
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +9.69%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £749
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,225 1,607 1,769
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.94 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.31 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.50 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -5.33% +54.00% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.15
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.27% +49.36% -

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in England.

Hourly rate trend 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 27 April 2024. 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 +70 98 £500 -9.09% 23
South East +18 52 £550 +10.00% 17
North of England +28 17 £450 -18.18% 4
East of England +26 15 £375 -42.31% 3
South West +25 14 £425 -19.05% 4
Midlands +22 11 £485 -1.62% 4
North West +18 10 £425 -15.00% 4
West Midlands +28 8 £485 -1.62% 1
Yorkshire +14 6 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands +19 3 £620 +29.17% 3
North East +19 1 - -
Test Management
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Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.78%) Confluence
2 2 (0.93%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.46%) CMS
3 1 (0.46%) nginx
3 1 (0.46%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.46%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.46%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.46%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.09%) Oracle EBS
2 10 (4.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (3.70%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.39%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.93%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.46%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 38 (17.59%) Azure
2 21 (9.72%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.87%) AWS
4 8 (3.70%) BrowserStack
5 7 (3.24%) OCI
6 6 (2.78%) Firebase
7 5 (2.31%) BlazeMeter
7 5 (2.31%) Power Platform
8 4 (1.85%) PowerApps
8 4 (1.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 3 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (1.39%) GitHub
10 2 (0.93%) Figma
10 2 (0.93%) Microsoft 365
10 2 (0.93%) OneDrive
10 2 (0.93%) Power Automate
10 2 (0.93%) SaaS
10 2 (0.93%) Tricentis Tosca
11 1 (0.46%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (0.46%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.78%) Firewall
2 2 (0.93%) Internet
2 2 (0.93%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.46%) 3G
3 1 (0.46%) 4G
3 1 (0.46%) 5G
3 1 (0.46%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.46%) DNS
3 1 (0.46%) MQTT
3 1 (0.46%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.46%) WAN
3 1 (0.46%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (0.46%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.78%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.85%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.39%) Power BI
4 2 (0.93%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.46%) Data Lake
5 1 (0.46%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.46%) GIS
5 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.46%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.46%) Oracle BI EE
5 1 (0.46%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (27.31%) JIRA
2 28 (12.96%) TestRail
3 25 (11.57%) Selenium
4 21 (9.72%) JMeter
5 12 (5.56%) Cucumber
5 12 (5.56%) Jenkins
6 10 (4.63%) Cypress.io
7 9 (4.17%) GitLab
8 8 (3.70%) Postman
9 7 (3.24%) Appium
9 7 (3.24%) SpecFlow
10 6 (2.78%) Git
11 4 (1.85%) FitNesse
11 4 (1.85%) Gatling
11 4 (1.85%) JUnit
11 4 (1.85%) LoadRunner
12 3 (1.39%) Zephyr
13 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.93%) Bitbucket Server
13 2 (0.93%) TestDirector
General
1 52 (24.07%) Social Skills
2 29 (13.43%) Finance
3 16 (7.41%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.48%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.02%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
7 10 (4.63%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.70%) Games
8 8 (3.70%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.78%) Banking
10 6 (2.78%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.31%) Electronics
11 5 (2.31%) Marketing
12 4 (1.85%) Back Office
12 4 (1.85%) Legal
12 4 (1.85%) Military
13 3 (1.39%) Front Office
13 3 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.39%) Retail
Job Titles
1 69 (31.94%) Test Manager
2 47 (21.76%) Analyst
3 43 (19.91%) Test Analyst
4 24 (11.11%) Lead
5 23 (10.65%) Senior
5 23 (10.65%) Tester
6 22 (10.19%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 22 (10.19%) Test Leader
7 15 (6.94%) Test Engineer
8 12 (5.56%) QA Tester
9 10 (4.63%) SAP Manager
10 8 (3.70%) Consultant
10 8 (3.70%) SAP Test Manager
10 8 (3.70%) Senior Test Engineer
10 8 (3.70%) Testing Manager
11 7 (3.24%) QA Analyst
11 7 (3.24%) QA Test Analyst
12 6 (2.78%) Project Manager
12 6 (2.78%) SAP Consultant
13 5 (2.31%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.72%) ADO
2 9 (4.17%) Middleware
2 9 (4.17%) REST
3 7 (3.24%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.24%) WebdriverIO
4 5 (2.31%) Gherkin
5 3 (1.39%) Playwright
6 2 (0.93%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.93%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.93%) Jest
6 2 (0.93%) RESTful
7 1 (0.46%) Kafka
7 1 (0.46%) SOAP
7 1 (0.46%) Web Services
7 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.17%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.31%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.31%) PKI
3 4 (1.85%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.39%) FMCG
4 3 (1.39%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.39%) Life Science
5 2 (0.93%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.93%) Equities
5 2 (0.93%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.93%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.93%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.93%) Private Cloud
5 2 (0.93%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.46%) EPoS
6 1 (0.46%) IVR
6 1 (0.46%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (0.46%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.46%) PMI
6 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.24%) Linux
2 2 (0.93%) Windows
3 1 (0.46%) Android
3 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.46%) CentOS
3 1 (0.46%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.46%) Unix
3 1 (0.46%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (40.74%) Agile
2 75 (34.72%) Test Automation
3 49 (22.69%) Test Strategy
4 43 (19.91%) DevOps
5 40 (18.52%) Test Planning
6 39 (18.06%) User Acceptance Testing
7 38 (17.59%) Scenario Testing
8 37 (17.13%) Continuous Integration
9 34 (15.74%) Defect Management
10 31 (14.35%) End-to-End Testing
11 28 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
12 27 (12.50%) Project Management
13 26 (12.04%) Test Scripting
14 24 (11.11%) Stakeholder Management
15 20 (9.26%) CI/CD
16 19 (8.80%) Non-Functional Testing
16 19 (8.80%) Software Testing
17 18 (8.33%) Performance Testing
17 18 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 17 (7.87%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 17 (7.87%) Python
3 15 (6.94%) Java
4 5 (2.31%) SQL
5 4 (1.85%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.93%) C#
7 1 (0.46%) Bash
7 1 (0.46%) ProC
Qualifications
1 60 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.83%) ISTQB
3 31 (14.35%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 27 (12.50%) DV Cleared
5 24 (11.11%) SC Cleared
6 20 (9.26%) Degree
7 6 (2.78%) ISEB
8 4 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
9 3 (1.39%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.93%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (25.93%) QA
2 4 (1.85%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.39%) GDPR
3 3 (1.39%) PMO
4 2 (0.93%) GxP
4 2 (0.93%) SLA
5 1 (0.46%) HL7
5 1 (0.46%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.24%) Docker
2 5 (2.31%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.46%) iptables
3 1 (0.46%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.31%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.39%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.93%) Terraform
4 1 (0.46%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 29 (13.43%) Oracle
2 24 (11.11%) SAP
3 13 (6.02%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.31%) HP
4 5 (2.31%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.85%) Workday
6 2 (0.93%) Adobe
6 2 (0.93%) Genesys
6 2 (0.93%) Qualtrics
6 2 (0.93%) Splunk
7 1 (0.46%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.46%) Citrix
7 1 (0.46%) Cognizant
7 1 (0.46%) FIS
7 1 (0.46%) Google
7 1 (0.46%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.46%) Informatica
7 1 (0.46%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.46%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.46%) ScienceLogic