Test Management Contract Job Trends in London

Test Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 286 309 292
Rank change year-on-year +23 -17 +63
Contract jobs citing Test Management 90 55 103
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.63% 0.37% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.42% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 29 84
10th Percentile £311 £393 £391
25th Percentile £375 £456 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% - -0.94%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £600
90th Percentile £605 £608 £671
England median daily rate £443 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -15.71% - +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £51.25
Median hourly rate - - £52.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £52.50
% change year-on-year - - +228.13%

All Process & 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 13,087 13,251 16,363
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.34% 90.11% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,629 8,493 11,734
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £676
90th Percentile £757 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 163 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.13 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £35.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -11.30% +9.23% -13.33%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.13 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.35%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in London

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in London over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in London

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

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 29 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
Central London +8 16 £469 -14.77% 11
South London -3 4 £500 +6.38% 3
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 11 (12.22%) Confluence
2 1 (1.11%) CMS
2 1 (1.11%) Kentico
2 1 (1.11%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.22%) Algo Collateral
1 2 (2.22%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (2.22%) NetSuite
1 2 (2.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.11%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.11%) BambooHR
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (1.11%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
2 1 (1.11%) SAP ERP
2 1 (1.11%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (1.11%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (46.67%) Azure
2 30 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (6.67%) AWS
4 4 (4.44%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (4.44%) GitHub
5 3 (3.33%) GCP
5 3 (3.33%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (3.33%) OCI
6 2 (2.22%) BrowserStack
6 2 (2.22%) PaaS
6 2 (2.22%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.22%) SaaS
6 2 (2.22%) WhatsApp
7 1 (1.11%) Azure AKS
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.11%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.11%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.11%) Serverless
7 1 (1.11%) ServiceMax
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.22%) FTP
1 2 (2.22%) HTTP
2 1 (1.11%) Firewall
2 1 (1.11%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.56%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.44%) BigQuery
3 3 (3.33%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.22%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
5 1 (1.11%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (1.11%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.11%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 41 (45.56%) JIRA
2 12 (13.33%) Zephyr
3 11 (12.22%) Selenium
4 10 (11.11%) TestRail
5 8 (8.89%) Postman
6 6 (6.67%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.67%) GitLab
7 4 (4.44%) Cypress.io
7 4 (4.44%) Git
7 4 (4.44%) Jenkins
8 3 (3.33%) REST Assured
8 3 (3.33%) SpecFlow
9 2 (2.22%) JMeter
10 1 (1.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
10 1 (1.11%) LoadRunner
10 1 (1.11%) TestNG
General
1 44 (48.89%) Social Skills
2 26 (28.89%) Finance
3 15 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.89%) Banking
5 6 (6.67%) Public Sector
6 5 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 3 (3.33%) Back Office
8 2 (2.22%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Front Office
8 2 (2.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.22%) Law
8 2 (2.22%) Legal
8 2 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (2.22%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.11%) Billing
9 1 (1.11%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.11%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 25 (27.78%) Test Manager
2 17 (18.89%) Analyst
3 16 (17.78%) Test Analyst
3 16 (17.78%) Tester
4 9 (10.00%) Lead
4 9 (10.00%) Senior
4 9 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 8 (8.89%) Automation Tester
6 7 (7.78%) Integration Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Integration Test Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Programme Manager
6 7 (7.78%) Programme Test Manager
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Senior Test Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Systems Integration Analyst
6 7 (7.78%) Test Leader
6 7 (7.78%) Test Programme Manager
7 6 (6.67%) QA Engineer
7 6 (6.67%) Systems Analyst
7 6 (6.67%) Systems Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.00%) Middleware
2 7 (7.78%) Node.js
3 5 (5.56%) ADO
3 5 (5.56%) Playwright
4 4 (4.44%) JSON
4 4 (4.44%) REST
4 4 (4.44%) XML
5 3 (3.33%) RESTful
5 3 (3.33%) SOAP
5 3 (3.33%) Web Services
6 2 (2.22%) .NET
6 2 (2.22%) Gherkin
6 2 (2.22%) Kafka
6 2 (2.22%) Oracle Fusion
6 2 (2.22%) WebdriverIO
7 1 (1.11%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.11%) CSS
7 1 (1.11%) pytest
7 1 (1.11%) React
7 1 (1.11%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.44%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.33%) Derivative
2 3 (3.33%) Onboarding
2 3 (3.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.22%) Equities
4 1 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.11%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (1.11%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.11%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 1 (1.11%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.11%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (54.44%) Test Automation
2 42 (46.67%) Agile
3 39 (43.33%) DevOps
4 33 (36.67%) User Acceptance Testing
5 31 (34.44%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (34.44%) Test Strategy
6 25 (27.78%) Defect Tracking
6 25 (27.78%) Software Testing
7 24 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 24 (26.67%) Test Scripting
8 23 (25.56%) Validation
9 21 (23.33%) CI/CD
10 20 (22.22%) Integration Testing
11 19 (21.11%) Defect Management
11 19 (21.11%) System Integration Testing
11 19 (21.11%) Waterfall
12 18 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
13 17 (18.89%) Regression Testing
14 16 (17.78%) API Testing
14 16 (17.78%) Scenario Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.89%) SQL
2 14 (15.56%) JavaScript
3 12 (13.33%) Java
4 9 (10.00%) C#
5 8 (8.89%) Python
5 8 (8.89%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.33%) VB
6 3 (3.33%) XPath
7 2 (2.22%) Ruby
8 1 (1.11%) Bicep
8 1 (1.11%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (18.89%) SC Cleared
3 16 (17.78%) ISTQB
4 11 (12.22%) Degree
5 4 (4.44%) Master's Degree
6 3 (3.33%) EMC Certification
6 3 (3.33%) HNC
6 3 (3.33%) HND
7 2 (2.22%) ISEB
8 1 (1.11%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 1 (1.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.11%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (42.22%) QA
2 5 (5.56%) IFRS
2 5 (5.56%) IFRS 17
3 4 (4.44%) Accessibility
4 3 (3.33%) Def Stans
4 3 (3.33%) IEC 61508
4 3 (3.33%) IFRS 9
4 3 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 15288
4 3 (3.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 3 (3.33%) WCAG
5 2 (2.22%) SLA
5 2 (2.22%) Software Quality Assurance
6 1 (1.11%) Data Quality
6 1 (1.11%) GxP
System Software
1 1 (1.11%) Docker
1 1 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 10 (11.11%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.33%) Functional Safety
3 2 (2.22%) Terraform
4 1 (1.11%) Grafana
4 1 (1.11%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (1.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (15.56%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.33%) Oracle
3 10 (11.11%) HP
4 5 (5.56%) SAP
5 4 (4.44%) Workday
6 3 (3.33%) EMC
6 3 (3.33%) Salesforce
7 2 (2.22%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.22%) SmartStream
8 1 (1.11%) Bloomberg
8 1 (1.11%) Databricks
8 1 (1.11%) IBM
8 1 (1.11%) Pega
8 1 (1.11%) Tradeweb
8 1 (1.11%) VMware