Test Manager Contracts in England

Test Manager
UK > England

The median Test Manager daily rate in England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

 6 months to
13 May 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 384 407
Rank change year-on-year +38 +23 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 200 277 420
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.55% 0.56% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.60% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 142 191 316
10th Percentile £316 £425 £413
25th Percentile £438 £475 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £625 £609 £588
90th Percentile £738 £720 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £45.18
Median % change year-on-year +0.81% +37.23% -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year +0.81% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 33,898 46,550 67,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.63% 95.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,460 33,060 48,164
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £760 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,372 1,874
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.50 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.51
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.06 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.88% +91.54% +2.59%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

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 13 May 2024.

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 13 May 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 +47 96 £575 +2.22% 7
South East +19 33 £525 +10.53% 9
Midlands +32 22 £275 -45.00% 3
North of England -6 19 £481 -12.50% 3
South West +21 13 £486 -7.38% 1
West Midlands +20 13 £475 -5.00% 2
North West +17 12 £463 -17.78% 2
East Midlands +28 9 £270 -44.62% 1
East of England +7 8 £450 -9.09% 6
Yorkshire -2 6 £550 -
North East - 1 - - 1
Test Manager
UK

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

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, 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 83 (41.50%) Test Strategy
2 77 (38.50%) Test Management
3 63 (31.50%) Social Skills
4 59 (29.50%) Test Automation
5 43 (21.50%) Agile
6 41 (20.50%) Finance
7 40 (20.00%) QA
8 36 (18.00%) JIRA
9 35 (17.50%) Azure
10 34 (17.00%) User Acceptance Testing
11 29 (14.50%) DevOps
12 27 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (13.00%) Software Testing
14 25 (12.50%) Waterfall
14 25 (12.50%) Defect Management
15 24 (12.00%) SAP
16 22 (11.00%) ISTQB
16 22 (11.00%) End-to-End Testing
17 21 (10.50%) Test Scripting
18 19 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
18 19 (9.50%) Migration
18 19 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
19 18 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
19 18 (9.00%) Selenium
20 17 (8.50%) Security Cleared
20 17 (8.50%) Integration Testing
20 17 (8.50%) Test Planning
21 16 (8.00%) Project Management
22 15 (7.50%) Regression Testing
22 15 (7.50%) Oracle

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 6 (3.00%) SharePoint
2 4 (2.00%) Confluence
2 4 (2.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.00%) Apache
4 1 (0.50%) CMS
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.50%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.00%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.50%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (1.50%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (1.00%) iTrent
3 2 (1.00%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.50%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.50%) SAP HCM
4 1 (0.50%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.50%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 35 (17.50%) Azure
2 19 (9.50%) Azure DevOps
3 10 (5.00%) Dynamics 365
4 6 (3.00%) OCI
5 5 (2.50%) Power Platform
6 4 (2.00%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (2.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (1.50%) AWS
8 2 (1.00%) GCP
8 2 (1.00%) OneDrive
8 2 (1.00%) Oracle CX
8 2 (1.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (1.00%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.50%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.50%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.50%) Contentful
9 1 (0.50%) SaaS
9 1 (0.50%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.50%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.00%) Firewall
2 2 (1.00%) HTTP
3 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.50%) Power BI
2 2 (1.00%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.50%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.50%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.50%) GIS
3 1 (0.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (18.00%) JIRA
2 18 (9.00%) Selenium
3 11 (5.50%) JMeter
4 5 (2.50%) Postman
5 4 (2.00%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.50%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.00%) JUnit
7 2 (1.00%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.50%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.50%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.50%) Gatling
8 1 (0.50%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.50%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.50%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 63 (31.50%) Social Skills
2 41 (20.50%) Finance
3 14 (7.00%) Public Sector
4 13 (6.50%) Banking
5 11 (5.50%) Legal
6 10 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
7 9 (4.50%) Manufacturing
7 9 (4.50%) Retail
8 8 (4.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.50%) Investment Banking
10 6 (3.00%) Presentation Skills
10 6 (3.00%) Prime Brokerage
10 6 (3.00%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 5 (2.50%) Electronics
11 5 (2.50%) Marketing
11 5 (2.50%) Military
11 5 (2.50%) Telecoms
12 3 (1.50%) Organisational Skills
12 3 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (5.00%) Web Services
2 9 (4.50%) ADO
3 5 (2.50%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (2.00%) Gherkin
5 2 (1.00%) FHIR
5 2 (1.00%) JSON
5 2 (1.00%) Middleware
5 2 (1.00%) REST
5 2 (1.00%) SOAP
5 2 (1.00%) XML
6 1 (0.50%) .NET
6 1 (0.50%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.50%) Node.js
6 1 (0.50%) Playwright
6 1 (0.50%) React
6 1 (0.50%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.50%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.50%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 10 (5.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.50%) Life Science
3 8 (4.00%) Equities
4 6 (3.00%) NHS
5 5 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 4 (2.00%) Derivative
6 4 (2.00%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.50%) FMCG
7 3 (1.50%) Public Cloud
8 2 (1.00%) Data Centre
8 2 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.00%) Distributed Architecture
8 2 (1.00%) Hedge funds
8 2 (1.00%) Mobile App
8 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
8 2 (1.00%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.50%) EPoS
9 1 (0.50%) Fixed Income
9 1 (0.50%) PACS
9 1 (0.50%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 10 (5.00%) Windows
2 7 (3.50%) Linux
3 2 (1.00%) Unix
3 2 (1.00%) VMS
3 2 (1.00%) Windows 2000
3 2 (1.00%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (41.50%) Test Strategy
2 77 (38.50%) Test Management
3 59 (29.50%) Test Automation
4 43 (21.50%) Agile
5 34 (17.00%) User Acceptance Testing
6 29 (14.50%) DevOps
7 27 (13.50%) Problem-Solving
8 26 (13.00%) Software Testing
9 25 (12.50%) Defect Management
9 25 (12.50%) Waterfall
10 22 (11.00%) End-to-End Testing
11 21 (10.50%) Test Scripting
12 19 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
12 19 (9.50%) Migration
13 18 (9.00%) Stakeholder Management
14 17 (8.50%) Integration Testing
14 17 (8.50%) Test Planning
15 16 (8.00%) Project Management
16 15 (7.50%) Regression Testing
16 15 (7.50%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (1.50%) Python
1 3 (1.50%) SQL
2 2 (1.00%) C++
2 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (1.00%) Shell Script
3 1 (0.50%) C#
3 1 (0.50%) Java
3 1 (0.50%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.50%) Scala
3 1 (0.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 22 (11.00%) ISTQB
2 17 (8.50%) Security Cleared
3 13 (6.50%) Degree
4 11 (5.50%) SC Cleared
5 8 (4.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (3.50%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.50%) HNC
6 7 (3.50%) HND
7 5 (2.50%) ISEB
8 2 (1.00%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (1.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
9 1 (0.50%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.50%) GIAC
9 1 (0.50%) GPEN
9 1 (0.50%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.50%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.50%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.50%) OSCP
9 1 (0.50%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (20.00%) QA
2 9 (4.50%) HL7
3 2 (1.00%) GDPR
3 2 (1.00%) GxP
4 1 (0.50%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.50%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.50%) ISO 20022
4 1 (0.50%) NIST
4 1 (0.50%) PMO
4 1 (0.50%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.50%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (1.50%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.00%) Ansible
2 2 (1.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.00%) Terraform
3 1 (0.50%) Grafana
3 1 (0.50%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 24 (12.00%) SAP
2 15 (7.50%) Oracle
3 13 (6.50%) Microsoft
4 7 (3.50%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.00%) Fortinet
5 2 (1.00%) Juniper
5 2 (1.00%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.00%) VMware
6 1 (0.50%) Citrix
6 1 (0.50%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.50%) Databricks
6 1 (0.50%) Dataiku
6 1 (0.50%) eFront
6 1 (0.50%) Finsemble
6 1 (0.50%) Guidewire
6 1 (0.50%) HP
6 1 (0.50%) Informatica
6 1 (0.50%) ScienceLogic
6 1 (0.50%) Temenos
6 1 (0.50%) Workday
26 Test Manager jobs Nationwide