Test Management Contracts in London

Test Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 300 364
Rank change year-on-year +7 +64 +72
Contract jobs citing Test Management 60 95 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.48% 0.53% 0.50%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.60% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 79 98
10th Percentile £318 £350 £400
25th Percentile £356 £411 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £515 £550
Median % change year-on-year -12.62% -6.36% +4.76%
75th Percentile £556 £618 £675
90th Percentile £745 £726 £800
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,594 15,775 24,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.13% 88.57% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,860 11,304 17,662
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £438 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 165 326 275
10th Percentile £16.10 £16.00 £18.63
25th Percentile £22.66 £20.00 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £50.75 £46.77 £63.22
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.88 £77.30
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in London

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in London.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in London

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in London over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in London

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in London

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
Central London +10 9 £485 -11.82% 3
West London +14 3 £338 -40.48% 1
South London +5 1 £413 +40.43%
North London -5 1 £440 -14.15%
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 2 (3.33%) Confluence
1 2 (3.33%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (3.33%) Aladdin
2 2 (3.33%) NEC Housing
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.33%) SimCorp Dimension
3 1 (1.67%) Finacle
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.67%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.67%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 16 (26.67%) Azure
2 15 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (6.67%) Power Platform
3 4 (6.67%) PowerApps
4 3 (5.00%) Azure API Management
4 3 (5.00%) Azure Functions
4 3 (5.00%) GCP
4 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
4 3 (5.00%) Serverless
5 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
5 2 (3.33%) SuccessFactors
6 1 (1.67%) AWS
6 1 (1.67%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.67%) GitHub
6 1 (1.67%) OCI
6 1 (1.67%) SaaS
6 1 (1.67%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.67%) Tricentis Tosca
6 1 (1.67%) Veeva
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.00%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.67%) BigQuery
2 1 (1.67%) Data Vault
2 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (40.00%) JIRA
2 7 (11.67%) Selenium
3 6 (10.00%) Postman
4 4 (6.67%) Appium
5 3 (5.00%) Team Foundation Server
5 3 (5.00%) TestRail
5 3 (5.00%) Zephyr
6 2 (3.33%) Jenkins
6 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio Team System
7 1 (1.67%) GitLab
7 1 (1.67%) HP UFT
7 1 (1.67%) JUnit
7 1 (1.67%) REST Assured
7 1 (1.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 31 (51.67%) Social Skills
2 17 (28.33%) Finance
3 10 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (10.00%) Banking
5 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Back Office
7 3 (5.00%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.33%) Billing
9 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.67%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.67%) Local Government
9 1 (1.67%) Marketing
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 9 (15.00%) Test Engineer
3 7 (11.67%) Analyst
3 7 (11.67%) Lead
4 6 (10.00%) Test Analyst
4 6 (10.00%) Test Leader
4 6 (10.00%) Tester
5 5 (8.33%) Transformation Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Programme Test Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Test Programme Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Azure Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365 Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Project Manager
7 3 (5.00%) QA Manager
7 3 (5.00%) Radio Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Solutions Architect
7 3 (5.00%) Test Consultant
7 3 (5.00%) Workday Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) Oracle Fusion
2 2 (3.33%) ADO
2 2 (3.33%) Middleware
3 1 (1.67%) Kafka
3 1 (1.67%) Playwright
3 1 (1.67%) pytest
3 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.67%) Management Information System
1 4 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
2 3 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
3 2 (3.33%) Derivative
3 2 (3.33%) Housing Association
3 2 (3.33%) OTC Derivatives
3 2 (3.33%) Public Cloud
3 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.67%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.67%) Equities
4 1 (1.67%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.67%) PDA
4 1 (1.67%) SWIFT Messaging Network
4 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.00%) Windows
2 4 (6.67%) Android
2 4 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (53.33%) Test Automation
2 20 (33.33%) Agile
2 20 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 18 (30.00%) Test Strategy
4 17 (28.33%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (26.67%) DevOps
6 14 (23.33%) Integration Testing
6 14 (23.33%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (18.33%) Defect Management
8 10 (16.67%) Test Planning
8 10 (16.67%) Validation
9 9 (15.00%) Manual Testing
9 9 (15.00%) Non-Functional Testing
9 9 (15.00%) Software Testing
10 8 (13.33%) API Testing
10 8 (13.33%) CI/CD
10 8 (13.33%) System Integration Testing
11 7 (11.67%) Regression Testing
12 6 (10.00%) ERP
12 6 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (6.67%) Java
3 3 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 2 (3.33%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 6 (10.00%) Degree
2 5 (8.33%) ISTQB
3 4 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (6.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.67%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.67%) ISEB
4 1 (1.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (25.00%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 3 (5.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (3.33%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 7 (11.67%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.67%) Grafana
Vendors
1 7 (11.67%) HP
2 6 (10.00%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.00%) Workday
3 5 (8.33%) Oracle
3 5 (8.33%) Salesforce
4 4 (6.67%) SAP
5 2 (3.33%) Google
5 2 (3.33%) NEC
5 2 (3.33%) SimCorp
6 1 (1.67%) Charles River
6 1 (1.67%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.67%) Concur
6 1 (1.67%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.67%) Virgin Media