Test Management Contracts in England

Test Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 330 403
Rank change year-on-year 0 +73 -19
Contract jobs citing Test Management 146 218 242
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.59% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.69% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 101 165 176
10th Percentile £319 £363 £403
25th Percentile £400 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £546
Median % change year-on-year - -8.47% +9.36%
75th Percentile £588 £596 £623
90th Percentile £725 £625 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.19% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +490.91% - -
75th Percentile £73.81 £34.81 -
90th Percentile £80.68 £77.68 -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +490.91% - -

All Process and 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 21,947 31,578 42,765
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.31% 85.86% 89.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,275 20,635 30,003
10th Percentile £305 £300 £325
25th Percentile £410 £413 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £766
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 956 2,303 1,521
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.84 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.87 £16.00 £15.81
Median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.89% - +50.00%
75th Percentile £59.93 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

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 30 May 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 +21 68 £500 -2.91% 23
South East +33 34 £475 -13.64% 56
North of England +13 17 £450 +2.86% 40
North West +15 14 £450 +5.88% 20
Midlands +18 12 £550 +13.40% 40
West Midlands +19 11 £513 +5.67% 26
East of England +27 8 £600 +60.00% 25
South West +38 6 £575 +37.72% 29
Yorkshire +16 3 £373 -17.22% 15
Test Management
UK

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 9 (6.16%) Confluence
2 3 (2.05%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.68%) MS Project Server
Applications
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 9 (6.16%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (3.42%) SAP ERP
3 3 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (2.05%) SAP SD
4 2 (1.37%) Aladdin
4 2 (1.37%) NEC Housing
4 2 (1.37%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.68%) Finacle
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle EBS
5 1 (0.68%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 31 (21.23%) Azure
2 30 (20.55%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (6.16%) Power Platform
4 8 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
4 8 (5.48%) PowerApps
5 5 (3.42%) GitHub
5 5 (3.42%) Power Automate
6 3 (2.05%) AWS
6 3 (2.05%) Azure API Management
6 3 (2.05%) Azure Functions
6 3 (2.05%) GCP
6 3 (2.05%) Serverless
7 2 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (1.37%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.37%) OCI
7 2 (1.37%) SaaS
8 1 (0.68%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.68%) Sauce Labs
8 1 (0.68%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.68%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.74%) Firewall
2 1 (0.68%) Converged Networks
2 1 (0.68%) Internet
2 1 (0.68%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.05%) Azure SQL Database
1 3 (2.05%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.68%) Big Data
2 1 (0.68%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.68%) Data Vault
2 1 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.68%) IDMS
2 1 (0.68%) Oracle Database
2 1 (0.68%) Power BI
2 1 (0.68%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 69 (47.26%) JIRA
2 16 (10.96%) Selenium
3 15 (10.27%) TestRail
4 9 (6.16%) Jenkins
5 8 (5.48%) Zephyr
6 7 (4.79%) Postman
7 6 (4.11%) LoadRunner
8 5 (3.42%) JMeter
8 5 (3.42%) JUnit
8 5 (3.42%) NeoLoad
9 4 (2.74%) Appium
10 3 (2.05%) Git
10 3 (2.05%) LSMW
10 3 (2.05%) Team Foundation Server
10 3 (2.05%) TestNG
11 2 (1.37%) Cypress.io
11 2 (1.37%) GitLab
11 2 (1.37%) Maven
11 2 (1.37%) REST Assured
11 2 (1.37%) WebDriver
General
1 67 (45.89%) Social Skills
2 27 (18.49%) Analytical Skills
3 25 (17.12%) Finance
4 14 (9.59%) Documentation Skills
5 9 (6.16%) Banking
6 7 (4.79%) Public Sector
7 6 (4.11%) Billing
8 5 (3.42%) Pharmaceutical
9 4 (2.74%) Back Office
9 4 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
10 3 (2.05%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.05%) Telecoms
11 2 (1.37%) Aerospace
11 2 (1.37%) Avionics
11 2 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (1.37%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.37%) Military
11 2 (1.37%) Retail
12 1 (0.68%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 43 (29.45%) Test Manager
2 23 (15.75%) Analyst
3 21 (14.38%) Test Analyst
3 21 (14.38%) Tester
4 20 (13.70%) Test Engineer
5 19 (13.01%) Lead
6 14 (9.59%) Test Leader
7 11 (7.53%) Consultant
8 7 (4.79%) Programme Test Manager
8 7 (4.79%) Test Programme Manager
8 7 (4.79%) Transformation Manager
9 6 (4.11%) Project Manager
9 6 (4.11%) QA Tester
10 5 (3.42%) QA Leader
10 5 (3.42%) Test Consultant
11 4 (2.74%) Change and Release Manager
11 4 (2.74%) Microsoft 365 Manager
11 4 (2.74%) QA Test Manager
11 4 (2.74%) SAP Manager
11 4 (2.74%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (4.79%) Middleware
2 4 (2.74%) RFC 2544
3 3 (2.05%) BAPI
3 3 (2.05%) EDI
3 3 (2.05%) IDoc
3 3 (2.05%) REST
3 3 (2.05%) SAP ALE
3 3 (2.05%) SAP Fiori
4 2 (1.37%) ADO
4 2 (1.37%) Playwright
4 2 (1.37%) SOAP
4 2 (1.37%) Web Services
5 1 (0.68%) JavaFX
5 1 (0.68%) Kafka
5 1 (0.68%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.68%) pytest
5 1 (0.68%) SAP PI
5 1 (0.68%) Spring
5 1 (0.68%) Swing
5 1 (0.68%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (9.59%) Product Ownership
2 10 (6.85%) SCADA
3 6 (4.11%) Mobile App
4 5 (3.42%) Data Centre
4 5 (3.42%) FMCG
4 5 (3.42%) Life Science
4 5 (3.42%) Low-Code
5 4 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (1.37%) Algorithms
7 2 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.37%) Derivative
7 2 (1.37%) EPoS
7 2 (1.37%) Equities
7 2 (1.37%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (1.37%) Housing Association
7 2 (1.37%) Onboarding
7 2 (1.37%) OTC Derivatives
7 2 (1.37%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.68%) PDA
Operating Systems
1 14 (9.59%) Windows
2 5 (3.42%) Android
2 5 (3.42%) Apple iOS
2 5 (3.42%) Linux
3 1 (0.68%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 68 (46.58%) Agile
2 61 (41.78%) Test Automation
3 59 (40.41%) Test Strategy
4 39 (26.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 37 (25.34%) DevOps
5 37 (25.34%) Problem-Solving
6 35 (23.97%) User Acceptance Testing
7 31 (21.23%) Defect Management
8 23 (15.75%) Validation
9 22 (15.07%) Test Scripting
10 21 (14.38%) Integration Testing
10 21 (14.38%) System Integration Testing
11 19 (13.01%) Non-Functional Testing
12 18 (12.33%) Test Planning
13 17 (11.64%) End-to-End Testing
13 17 (11.64%) Software Testing
13 17 (11.64%) Waterfall
14 16 (10.96%) CI/CD
14 16 (10.96%) Manual Testing
15 15 (10.27%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 16 (10.96%) SQL
2 11 (7.53%) Java
3 6 (4.11%) Python
4 4 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 4 (2.74%) Perl
4 4 (2.74%) PL/SQL
5 3 (2.05%) ABAP
6 2 (1.37%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.37%) SOQL
7 1 (0.68%) C#
7 1 (0.68%) COBOL
7 1 (0.68%) VB
Qualifications
1 30 (20.55%) Security Cleared
2 25 (17.12%) ISTQB
3 19 (13.01%) SC Cleared
4 10 (6.85%) DV Cleared
5 9 (6.16%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 7 (4.79%) Degree
7 5 (3.42%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (2.05%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 3 (2.05%) PMI Certification
9 2 (1.37%) ISEB
9 2 (1.37%) PMP
10 1 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 31 (21.23%) QA
2 4 (2.74%) Accessibility
3 3 (2.05%) GDPR
3 3 (2.05%) GxP
3 3 (2.05%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 3 (2.05%) SLA
4 2 (1.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (0.68%) Software Quality Assurance
5 1 (0.68%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (2.05%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (1.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.68%) Docker
Systems Management
1 22 (15.07%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.37%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (0.68%) Grafana
3 1 (0.68%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.68%) OPNET
Vendors
1 22 (15.07%) HP
2 14 (9.59%) SAP
3 12 (8.22%) Oracle
4 11 (7.53%) Microsoft
5 7 (4.79%) Workday
6 5 (3.42%) MuleSoft
7 4 (2.74%) Cisco
7 4 (2.74%) Salesforce
7 4 (2.74%) ServiceNow
8 3 (2.05%) Guidewire
9 2 (1.37%) Ariba
9 2 (1.37%) CheckPoint
9 2 (1.37%) Cramer
9 2 (1.37%) Duck Creek
9 2 (1.37%) Google
9 2 (1.37%) Infoblox
9 2 (1.37%) Micro Focus
9 2 (1.37%) NEC
9 2 (1.37%) Remedy
9 2 (1.37%) SimCorp