Test Manager Contracts in England

Test Manager
UK > England

The median Test Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 344 348 377
Rank change year-on-year +4 +29 +52
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 141 196 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.58% 0.53% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.57% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 139 214
10th Percentile £364 £342 £425
25th Percentile £456 £444 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% +2.86%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £614
90th Percentile £674 £738 £775
UK median daily rate £520 £544 £538
% change year-on-year -4.50% +1.26% +2.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £75.68 - -
25th Percentile £76.69 - -
Median hourly rate £79.25 £55.00 £62.00
Median % change year-on-year +44.09% -11.29% +37.23%
75th Percentile £82.69 - -
90th Percentile £84.23 - -
UK median hourly rate £79.25 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +44.09% -11.29% +37.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 22,549 34,488 47,741
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.59% 92.73% 94.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,007 22,894 33,903
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 900 2,432 1,409
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.35
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £76.60
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in England

Test Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 1 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 +8 65 £588 -2.08% 18
North of England +33 34 £478 -4.50% 10
North West +31 26 £478 +3.24% 8
South East +32 15 £469 -10.71% 15
Midlands +10 12 £531 +93.18% 8
West Midlands +8 9 £538 +13.16% 7
South West +41 8 £630 +29.57% 2
Yorkshire +10 8 £485 -11.84% 2
East of England +26 2 £600 +33.33% 4
East Midlands +3 2 £413 +52.78% 1
Test Manager
UK

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 66 (46.81%) Test Strategy
2 44 (31.21%) Test Automation
3 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
4 37 (26.24%) Test Management
5 35 (24.82%) User Acceptance Testing
5 35 (24.82%) Finance
6 34 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
7 33 (23.40%) DevOps
8 30 (21.28%) Security Cleared
8 30 (21.28%) QA
9 28 (19.86%) Agile
10 26 (18.44%) Azure
11 25 (17.73%) Defect Management
12 24 (17.02%) SC Cleared
13 22 (15.60%) JIRA
13 22 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
14 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (12.06%) Risk Management
15 16 (11.35%) System Integration Testing
15 16 (11.35%) Test Planning
15 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
16 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
16 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
17 14 (9.93%) Test Scripting
17 14 (9.93%) Banking
17 14 (9.93%) Migration
18 13 (9.22%) ISTQB
18 13 (9.22%) Software Testing
18 13 (9.22%) SAP
18 13 (9.22%) ERP

Test Manager Skill Set
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 5 (3.55%) Confluence
2 3 (2.13%) Mendix
3 1 (0.71%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.71%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 5 (3.55%) Unit4 Business World
2 3 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.13%) Teamcenter
3 2 (1.42%) NetSuite
3 2 (1.42%) SAP HR
3 2 (1.42%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.71%) Cerner Millennium
4 1 (0.71%) Finacle
4 1 (0.71%) SAP ERP
4 1 (0.71%) SAP IBP
Cloud Services
1 26 (18.44%) Azure
2 22 (15.60%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.26%) Dynamics 365
3 6 (4.26%) Power Automate
4 5 (3.55%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (3.55%) Power Platform
4 5 (3.55%) PowerApps
5 4 (2.84%) Azure Pipelines
5 4 (2.84%) GitHub
6 3 (2.13%) AWS
6 3 (2.13%) OCI
6 3 (2.13%) SaaS
6 3 (2.13%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (1.42%) Tricentis Tosca
7 2 (1.42%) Twilio
8 1 (0.71%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.71%) GCP
8 1 (0.71%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.71%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.42%) Firewall
2 1 (0.71%) Cisco Wireless
2 1 (0.71%) LAN
2 1 (0.71%) Network Security
2 1 (0.71%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.71%) WAN
2 1 (0.71%) WebEx
2 1 (0.71%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.42%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.71%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (0.71%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 22 (15.60%) JIRA
2 9 (6.38%) Selenium
3 8 (5.67%) Jenkins
4 5 (3.55%) Git
5 4 (2.84%) Cucumber
5 4 (2.84%) JUnit
5 4 (2.84%) Postman
6 3 (2.13%) GitLab
6 3 (2.13%) Gradle
6 3 (2.13%) HP UFT
6 3 (2.13%) IntelliJ
6 3 (2.13%) JMeter
6 3 (2.13%) Maven
7 2 (1.42%) Cypress.io
7 2 (1.42%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.71%) Bugzilla
8 1 (0.71%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.71%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.71%) TestDirector
8 1 (0.71%) Zephyr
General
1 41 (29.08%) Social Skills
2 35 (24.82%) Finance
3 16 (11.35%) Public Sector
4 15 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (9.93%) Banking
6 7 (4.96%) Telecoms
7 5 (3.55%) Military
8 4 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
8 4 (2.84%) Retail
9 2 (1.42%) Automotive
9 2 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.42%) Local Government
9 2 (1.42%) Private Banking
10 1 (0.71%) Avionics
10 1 (0.71%) Back Office
10 1 (0.71%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (0.71%) Legal
10 1 (0.71%) Manufacturing
10 1 (0.71%) Marketing
10 1 (0.71%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.71%) ADO
1 1 (0.71%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (0.71%) Playwright
1 1 (0.71%) RAML
1 1 (0.71%) REST
1 1 (0.71%) RFC 2544
1 1 (0.71%) SailPoint
1 1 (0.71%) SAP PI
Miscellaneous
1 9 (6.38%) Data Centre
2 3 (2.13%) Low-Code
3 2 (1.42%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.42%) Fixed Income
3 2 (1.42%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.42%) Online Banking
3 2 (1.42%) Virtual Team
4 1 (0.71%) AS400
4 1 (0.71%) CMDB
4 1 (0.71%) Derivative
4 1 (0.71%) EMV
4 1 (0.71%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.71%) iSeries
4 1 (0.71%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.71%) NHS
4 1 (0.71%) OTC Derivatives
4 1 (0.71%) Product Ownership
4 1 (0.71%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.71%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 4 (2.84%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (46.81%) Test Strategy
2 44 (31.21%) Test Automation
3 37 (26.24%) Test Management
4 35 (24.82%) User Acceptance Testing
5 34 (24.11%) Stakeholder Management
6 33 (23.40%) DevOps
7 28 (19.86%) Agile
8 25 (17.73%) Defect Management
9 17 (12.06%) Problem-Solving
9 17 (12.06%) Risk Management
10 16 (11.35%) System Integration Testing
10 16 (11.35%) Test Planning
11 15 (10.64%) Continuous Improvement
12 14 (9.93%) Migration
12 14 (9.93%) Test Scripting
13 13 (9.22%) ERP
13 13 (9.22%) Software Testing
13 13 (9.22%) Waterfall
14 12 (8.51%) Validation
15 11 (7.80%) End-to-End Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (3.55%) Java
2 4 (2.84%) JavaScript
3 3 (2.13%) Python
4 1 (0.71%) SOQL
4 1 (0.71%) SQL
Qualifications
1 30 (21.28%) Security Cleared
2 24 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 13 (9.22%) ISTQB
4 6 (4.26%) Degree
5 5 (3.55%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
8 1 (0.71%) CISM
8 1 (0.71%) CISSP
8 1 (0.71%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.71%) ISEB
8 1 (0.71%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.71%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (21.28%) QA
2 2 (1.42%) Accessibility
3 1 (0.71%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.71%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.71%) GDPR
3 1 (0.71%) IFRS
3 1 (0.71%) IFRS 17
3 1 (0.71%) IFRS 9
3 1 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.71%) NIST
3 1 (0.71%) PMO
3 1 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (0.71%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (0.71%) Docker
1 1 (0.71%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (4.26%) HP ALM
2 2 (1.42%) Ansible
2 2 (1.42%) Terraform
3 1 (0.71%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.71%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.71%) OPNET
Vendors
1 13 (9.22%) SAP
2 10 (7.09%) Microsoft
3 9 (6.38%) Oracle
4 6 (4.26%) HP
4 6 (4.26%) Murex
4 6 (4.26%) ServiceNow
4 6 (4.26%) Workday
5 4 (2.84%) Cisco
5 4 (2.84%) Virgin Media
6 3 (2.13%) CheckPoint
6 3 (2.13%) Salesforce
6 3 (2.13%) Snow
7 2 (1.42%) Avaya
7 2 (1.42%) Databricks
7 2 (1.42%) Google
7 2 (1.42%) Informatica
7 2 (1.42%) Micro Focus
7 2 (1.42%) OpenText
8 1 (0.71%) Genesys
8 1 (0.71%) Mitel