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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 336 409 414
Rank change year-on-year +73 +5 -22
Contract jobs citing Test Management 213 263 417
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.51% 0.58%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.57% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 192 331
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £413 £454 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £550
90th Percentile £668 £719 £625
UK median daily rate £510 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -2.86% +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 32,221 46,232 65,229
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.24% 90.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,198 32,361 46,326
10th Percentile £300 £325 £329
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £533
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £649
90th Percentile £750 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,221 1,634 1,784
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.90 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.89 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.04
90th Percentile £72.33 £75.00 £63.09
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £36.31 £25.00
% change year-on-year -3.59% +45.22% -

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 19 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 19 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 +74 97 £525 -4.55% 15
South East -1 49 £550 +10.00% 12
North of England +30 17 £450 -14.29% 8
South West +29 15 £425 -19.05% 2
East of England +24 14 £375 -42.31% 3
Midlands +34 11 £485 -1.62% 5
North West +25 11 £453 -3.21% 8
West Midlands +25 8 £485 -1.62% 2
Yorkshire +12 5 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands +15 3 £620 +29.17% 3
North East +22 1 - -
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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 4 (1.88%) Confluence
2 1 (0.47%) CMS
2 1 (0.47%) nginx
2 1 (0.47%) OpenStack
2 1 (0.47%) SharePoint
2 1 (0.47%) WebSphere
2 1 (0.47%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.47%) Trello
Business Applications
1 11 (5.16%) Oracle EBS
2 9 (4.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (3.76%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.41%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.94%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.47%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.47%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 37 (17.37%) Azure
2 20 (9.39%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (8.92%) AWS
4 5 (2.35%) BrowserStack
4 5 (2.35%) GitHub
4 5 (2.35%) OCI
5 4 (1.88%) Firebase
5 4 (1.88%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
6 3 (1.41%) BlazeMeter
6 3 (1.41%) PowerApps
7 2 (0.94%) Figma
7 2 (0.94%) Rubrik
7 2 (0.94%) SaaS
7 2 (0.94%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 2 (0.94%) Tricentis Tosca
8 1 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.47%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (0.47%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.47%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.82%) Firewall
2 4 (1.88%) Internet
3 3 (1.41%) DNS
4 2 (0.94%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.47%) 3G
5 1 (0.47%) 4G
5 1 (0.47%) 5G
5 1 (0.47%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.47%) MQTT
5 1 (0.47%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.47%) WAN
5 1 (0.47%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.47%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.88%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.88%) SAP BW
3 2 (0.94%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (0.94%) Power BI
4 1 (0.47%) GIS
4 1 (0.47%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.47%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.47%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.47%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 60 (28.17%) JIRA
2 28 (13.15%) TestRail
3 24 (11.27%) Selenium
4 19 (8.92%) JMeter
5 14 (6.57%) Cucumber
6 12 (5.63%) Jenkins
7 8 (3.76%) Cypress.io
7 8 (3.76%) Git
8 7 (3.29%) GitLab
8 7 (3.29%) SpecFlow
9 6 (2.82%) Postman
10 5 (2.35%) Appium
10 5 (2.35%) LoadRunner
10 5 (2.35%) Zephyr
11 4 (1.88%) FitNesse
11 4 (1.88%) JUnit
12 3 (1.41%) Gatling
12 3 (1.41%) TestDirector
13 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.94%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 50 (23.47%) Social Skills
2 32 (15.02%) Finance
3 16 (7.51%) Public Sector
4 15 (7.04%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (6.10%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (5.63%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (5.16%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.76%) Banking
8 8 (3.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 8 (3.76%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.29%) Games
10 6 (2.82%) Telecoms
11 5 (2.35%) Electronics
11 5 (2.35%) Marketing
12 4 (1.88%) Back Office
13 3 (1.41%) Front Office
13 3 (1.41%) Legal
13 3 (1.41%) Military
13 3 (1.41%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.41%) Retail
Job Titles
1 68 (31.92%) Test Manager
2 48 (22.54%) Analyst
3 44 (20.66%) Test Analyst
4 23 (10.80%) Lead
5 22 (10.33%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
5 22 (10.33%) Tester
6 21 (9.86%) Senior
6 21 (9.86%) Test Leader
7 14 (6.57%) Test Engineer
8 10 (4.69%) QA Tester
8 10 (4.69%) SAP Manager
9 8 (3.76%) SAP Test Manager
9 8 (3.76%) Testing Manager
10 7 (3.29%) Consultant
10 7 (3.29%) QA Analyst
10 7 (3.29%) QA Test Analyst
10 7 (3.29%) Senior Test Engineer
11 6 (2.82%) Project Manager
11 6 (2.82%) SAP Consultant
12 5 (2.35%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (9.86%) ADO
2 9 (4.23%) REST
3 7 (3.29%) Middleware
3 7 (3.29%) Oracle Fusion
3 7 (3.29%) WebdriverIO
4 5 (2.35%) Gherkin
4 5 (2.35%) Playwright
5 4 (1.88%) RESTful
6 2 (0.94%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.94%) GraphQL
6 2 (0.94%) Jest
6 2 (0.94%) XML
7 1 (0.47%) Kafka
7 1 (0.47%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.23%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.35%) PKI
3 4 (1.88%) Mobile App
3 4 (1.88%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.88%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.41%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.94%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.94%) Equities
5 2 (0.94%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.94%) FMCG
5 2 (0.94%) Life Science
5 2 (0.94%) Management Information System
5 2 (0.94%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.94%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.47%) EPoS
6 1 (0.47%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.47%) IVR
6 1 (0.47%) PMI
6 1 (0.47%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.47%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (3.29%) Linux
2 2 (0.94%) Windows
3 1 (0.47%) Android
3 1 (0.47%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.47%) CentOS
3 1 (0.47%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.47%) Unix
3 1 (0.47%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (38.50%) Agile
2 76 (35.68%) Test Automation
3 44 (20.66%) Test Strategy
4 41 (19.25%) DevOps
5 40 (18.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 38 (17.84%) Scenario Testing
7 37 (17.37%) Test Planning
8 36 (16.90%) Continuous Integration
9 33 (15.49%) Defect Management
10 32 (15.02%) End-to-End Testing
11 27 (12.68%) Problem-Solving
11 27 (12.68%) Test Scripting
12 26 (12.21%) Project Management
13 23 (10.80%) Stakeholder Management
14 19 (8.92%) CI/CD
14 19 (8.92%) Software Testing
15 18 (8.45%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 17 (7.98%) Functional Testing
16 17 (7.98%) Non-Functional Testing
17 16 (7.51%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.45%) JavaScript
1 18 (8.45%) Python
2 16 (7.51%) Java
3 6 (2.82%) SQL
3 6 (2.82%) TypeScript
4 2 (0.94%) C#
5 1 (0.47%) Bash
5 1 (0.47%) ProC
Qualifications
1 62 (29.11%) Security Cleared
2 44 (20.66%) ISTQB
3 31 (14.55%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 27 (12.68%) DV Cleared
5 26 (12.21%) SC Cleared
6 19 (8.92%) Degree
7 7 (3.29%) ISEB
8 3 (1.41%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (0.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (25.35%) QA
2 4 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.41%) GDPR
3 3 (1.41%) PMO
4 2 (0.94%) GxP
4 2 (0.94%) SLA
5 1 (0.47%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.47%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.29%) Docker
2 5 (2.35%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.47%) iptables
3 1 (0.47%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 5 (2.35%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.41%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.41%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.94%) Terraform
4 1 (0.47%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 27 (12.68%) Oracle
2 24 (11.27%) SAP
3 12 (5.63%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.35%) HP
5 4 (1.88%) Workday
6 3 (1.41%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.94%) Adobe
7 2 (0.94%) Genesys
7 2 (0.94%) Qualtrics
7 2 (0.94%) Splunk
8 1 (0.47%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.47%) Citrix
8 1 (0.47%) Cognizant
8 1 (0.47%) Dynatrace
8 1 (0.47%) FIS
8 1 (0.47%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.47%) Informatica
8 1 (0.47%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.47%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.47%) ScienceLogic