Test Management Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Test Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 81 58 70
Rank change year-on-year -23 +12 +37
Contract jobs citing Test Management 7 28 24
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.56% 2.77% 1.82%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 3.33% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 22 15
10th Percentile £428 £419 £518
25th Percentile £450 £516 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £593
90th Percentile £573 - £619
South East median daily rate £455 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -17.27% +10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

Test Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,059 840 1,158
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 85.33% 83.09% 87.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 698 563 635
10th Percentile £311 £357 £311
25th Percentile £447 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +3.33%
75th Percentile £613 £638 £639
90th Percentile £700 £700 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 62 84
10th Percentile £16.17 £21.13 £16.25
25th Percentile £18.87 £30.10 £21.20
Median hourly rate £20.71 £62.50 £50.71
Median % change year-on-year -66.86% +23.25% +12.69%
75th Percentile £25.15 £74.69 £62.81
90th Percentile £49.25 £75.00 £70.00
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £56.75 £52.50
% change year-on-year -61.23% +8.09% +20.69%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Test Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Hampshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 28 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Hampshire

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 28 November 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
Havant -4 5 £506 +6.58%
Basingstoke -11 1 £550 +7.32% 4
Southampton - 1 - -
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 5 (71.43%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) OCI
4 2 (28.57%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 5 (71.43%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) HP UFT
2 1 (14.29%) JIRA Agile
2 1 (14.29%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Test Leader
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) ADO
2 1 (14.29%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) Manual Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Technology Transformation
2 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
3 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 1 (14.29%) BDD
4 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (14.29%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Matrix Organization
4 1 (14.29%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (14.29%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) DV Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
System Software
1 1 (14.29%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 3 (42.86%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) HP
1 3 (42.86%) Oracle