Test Programme Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Test Programme Manager
UK > England

The median Test Programme Manager daily rate in England is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 December 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 529 500 532
Rank change year-on-year -29 +32 +163
Contract jobs requiring a Test Programme Manager 20 11 25
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.064% 0.038% 0.067%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.070% 0.041% 0.072%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 16
10th Percentile £527 £440 £541
25th Percentile £568 £500 £598
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £608 £700
Median % change year-on-year +7.00% -13.21% +12.00%
75th Percentile £709 £650 £848
90th Percentile £775 £763 £888
UK median daily rate £650 £608 £700
% change year-on-year +7.00% -13.21% +12.00%

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 28,658 27,111 34,658
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.91% 93.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,308 16,895 23,809
10th Percentile £290 £300 £288
25th Percentile £405 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -1.50% -3.09%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £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 1,754 870 1,350
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £15.31
25th Percentile £18.20 £21.25 £19.62
Median hourly rate £26.30 £36.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.94% -20.00% +38.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.85 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.52 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.97% -25.51% +50.00%

Test Programme Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Programme Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Test Programme Manager job vacancy trend in England

Test Programme Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Programme Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Programme Manager job vacancies in England

Test Programme Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Programme Manager in England over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Programme Manager in England

Test Programme Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Programme Manager job vacancies in England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Programme Manager job vacancies in England

Test Programme 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 Programme Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 17 December 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 -3 9 £650 +9.94% 1
North of England -43 5 £575 -
North West -26 3 £550 -
South East -13 2 £650 +4.00%
East of England - 2 £675 -
Yorkshire - 2 £750 -
South West -2 1 £750 +70.45%
Midlands -31 1 - -
West Midlands -34 1 - -
Test Programme Manager
UK

Test Programme Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 17 December 2025, Test Programme Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Test Programme Manager in the job title.

1 16 (80.00%) Test Strategy
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) QA
3 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (35.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Test Management
6 6 (30.00%) Azure
7 5 (25.00%) JIRA
7 5 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (25.00%) Test Planning
8 4 (20.00%) Agile
8 4 (20.00%) Test Assurance
9 3 (15.00%) AWS
9 3 (15.00%) C#
9 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
9 3 (15.00%) Contingency Planning
9 3 (15.00%) Contract Management
9 3 (15.00%) DevOps
9 3 (15.00%) GitLab
9 3 (15.00%) Java
9 3 (15.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
9 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
10 2 (10.00%) AI
10 2 (10.00%) Dashboard Development
10 2 (10.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 2 (10.00%) GCP
10 2 (10.00%) Generative AI

Test Programme Manager Skill Set
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 1 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 6 (30.00%) Azure
2 3 (15.00%) AWS
3 2 (10.00%) GCP
4 1 (5.00%) SaaS
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 5 (25.00%) JIRA
2 3 (15.00%) GitLab
3 2 (10.00%) REST Assured
General
1 9 (45.00%) Finance
2 6 (30.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Investment Banking
5 1 (5.00%) Marketing
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (5.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
2 1 (5.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.00%) Data Centre
1 2 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) AI Agents
2 1 (5.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (80.00%) Test Strategy
2 11 (55.00%) Test Automation
3 10 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (45.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 7 (35.00%) End-to-End Testing
5 7 (35.00%) Migration
5 7 (35.00%) Test Management
6 5 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (25.00%) Test Planning
7 4 (20.00%) Agile
7 4 (20.00%) Test Assurance
8 3 (15.00%) CI/CD
8 3 (15.00%) Contingency Planning
8 3 (15.00%) Contract Management
8 3 (15.00%) DevOps
8 3 (15.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
8 3 (15.00%) Waterfall
9 2 (10.00%) Mentoring
9 2 (10.00%) Process Improvement
9 2 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (15.00%) C#
1 3 (15.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (50.00%) QA
2 3 (15.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (5.00%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (5.00%) Avaloq
2 1 (5.00%) CheckPoint
2 1 (5.00%) Oracle
2 1 (5.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (5.00%) Workday