Test Manager Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Test Manager
Scotland > Glasgow

The median Test Manager daily rate in Glasgow is £470, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 83 79 -
Rank change year-on-year -4 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 4 2 0
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 0.41% 0.25% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.26% -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £432 - -
25th Percentile £443 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £500 -
Median % change year-on-year -6.00% - -
75th Percentile £485 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
Scotland median daily rate £525 £550 £551
% change year-on-year -4.55% -0.09% -8.25%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Glasgow

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Glasgow. 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 Glasgow with a recognized job title 926 761 727
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.82% 95.36% 94.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 516 476 508
10th Percentile £288 £300 £244
25th Percentile £358 £367 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +3.89% - -9.27%
75th Percentile £580 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £600 £628
Scotland median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 18 33
10th Percentile £13.50 - £11.68
25th Percentile £16.17 £16.84 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.32 £19.90 £40.94
Median % change year-on-year +102.61% -51.39% +154.13%
75th Percentile £60.91 £26.21 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £59.75 £72.50
Scotland median hourly rate £35.00 £19.83 £18.38
% change year-on-year +76.50% +7.92% +3.70%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Test Manager job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in Glasgow

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

For the 6 months to 7 July 2026, Test 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 Glasgow region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
2 2 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub
2 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (50.00%) Java
2 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
3 1 (25.00%) OCI
3 1 (25.00%) Playwright
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) QA
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub
1 2 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (25.00%) OCI
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (50.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (50.00%) MySQL
2 1 (25.00%) MariaDB
2 1 (25.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) BDD
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Programme Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) SDET
3 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) Java
1 2 (50.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle