Test Management Contracts in London

Test Management
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 296 364 428
Rank change year-on-year +68 +64 -64
Contract jobs citing Test Management 98 125 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.56% 0.48% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.63% 0.52% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 90 149
10th Percentile £350 £400 £363
25th Percentile £411 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.36% +4.76% +15.07%
75th Percentile £611 £675 £575
90th Percentile £700 £760 £638
England median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,656 23,861 35,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.73% 90.97% 92.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,212 17,181 25,922
10th Percentile £340 £375 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 313 269 419
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.40 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +5.41% +12.63%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.25 £51.00
90th Percentile £66.40 £80.45 £69.45
England median hourly rate £37.18 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.85% +50.00% +6.38%

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 10 May 2024.

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 10 May 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
Central London +41 10 £550 +12.82% 1
West London +20 5 £567 -12.77%
South London +9 4 £294 -50.00%
North London - 2 £513 -
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 5 (5.10%) Confluence
2 2 (2.04%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.02%) CMS
3 1 (1.02%) nginx
3 1 (1.02%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.02%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.02%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.02%) Spreadsheet
1 1 (1.02%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (7.14%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (3.06%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (2.04%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (1.02%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 21 (21.43%) Azure
2 10 (10.20%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (9.18%) AWS
4 8 (8.16%) BrowserStack
5 6 (6.12%) Firebase
6 5 (5.10%) BlazeMeter
6 5 (5.10%) Power Platform
7 4 (4.08%) PowerApps
8 3 (3.06%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (3.06%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 2 (2.04%) Datadog
9 2 (2.04%) GitHub
9 2 (2.04%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (2.04%) OneDrive
9 2 (2.04%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.04%) Sauce Labs
10 1 (1.02%) Figma
10 1 (1.02%) OCI
10 1 (1.02%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (1.02%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.04%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.02%) 3G
2 1 (1.02%) 4G
2 1 (1.02%) 5G
2 1 (1.02%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (1.02%) MQTT
2 1 (1.02%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.12%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.06%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.06%) Power BI
3 1 (1.02%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.02%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.02%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.02%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 41 (41.84%) JIRA
2 20 (20.41%) Selenium
3 19 (19.39%) JMeter
4 11 (11.22%) Cucumber
5 9 (9.18%) GitLab
6 7 (7.14%) Appium
6 7 (7.14%) Jenkins
6 7 (7.14%) SpecFlow
6 7 (7.14%) TestRail
7 6 (6.12%) Cypress.io
7 6 (6.12%) Git
7 6 (6.12%) Postman
8 4 (4.08%) FitNesse
8 4 (4.08%) Gatling
8 4 (4.08%) JUnit
9 3 (3.06%) LoadRunner
10 2 (2.04%) Bugzilla
10 2 (2.04%) Maven
10 2 (2.04%) TestNG
11 1 (1.02%) Bitbucket
General
1 24 (24.49%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.47%) Finance
3 10 (10.20%) Public Sector
4 7 (7.14%) Banking
5 6 (6.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.12%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.10%) Manufacturing
6 5 (5.10%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.08%) Analytical Skills
7 4 (4.08%) Back Office
7 4 (4.08%) Electronics
7 4 (4.08%) Marketing
8 3 (3.06%) Front Office
8 3 (3.06%) Legal
9 2 (2.04%) Games
9 2 (2.04%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.04%) Prime Brokerage
9 2 (2.04%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.02%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (36.73%) Test Manager
2 18 (18.37%) Tester
3 13 (13.27%) Lead
4 12 (12.24%) QA Tester
5 11 (11.22%) Test Leader
6 8 (8.16%) Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) Test Analyst
6 8 (8.16%) Test Engineer
7 7 (7.14%) Senior
8 5 (5.10%) Testing Manager
9 4 (4.08%) Integration Manager
9 4 (4.08%) QA Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) ERP Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Java Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) Junior
10 3 (3.06%) Oracle Analyst
10 3 (3.06%) QA Test Engineer
10 3 (3.06%) SAP Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Manager
10 3 (3.06%) Senior Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (18.37%) ADO
2 8 (8.16%) Middleware
2 8 (8.16%) REST
3 7 (7.14%) WebdriverIO
4 6 (6.12%) Oracle Fusion
5 3 (3.06%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.06%) Playwright
6 2 (2.04%) Jest
7 1 (1.02%) AngularJS
7 1 (1.02%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.02%) SAP Basis
7 1 (1.02%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.18%) Product Ownership
2 6 (6.12%) Mobile App
3 4 (4.08%) FMCG
4 3 (3.06%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.06%) Reinsurance
4 3 (3.06%) Virtual Team
5 2 (2.04%) Equities
5 2 (2.04%) Fixed Income
5 2 (2.04%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.02%) EPoS
6 1 (1.02%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.02%) Life Science
6 1 (1.02%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (1.02%) NHS
6 1 (1.02%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.02%) Reference Data
6 1 (1.02%) Robotics
6 1 (1.02%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.14%) Linux
2 2 (2.04%) Windows
3 1 (1.02%) Android
3 1 (1.02%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.02%) CentOS
3 1 (1.02%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.02%) Unix
3 1 (1.02%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (45.92%) Agile
2 39 (39.80%) Test Automation
3 30 (30.61%) Test Strategy
4 28 (28.57%) DevOps
5 24 (24.49%) End-to-End Testing
6 19 (19.39%) User Acceptance Testing
7 17 (17.35%) CI/CD
7 17 (17.35%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (16.33%) Defect Management
8 16 (16.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (13.27%) Continuous Integration
9 13 (13.27%) Project Management
9 13 (13.27%) Scenario Testing
9 13 (13.27%) Test Scripting
9 13 (13.27%) Waterfall
10 12 (12.24%) Programme Management
10 12 (12.24%) Test Planning
11 11 (11.22%) Non-Functional Testing
11 11 (11.22%) Software Testing
12 10 (10.20%) BDD
Programming Languages
1 13 (13.27%) Python
2 11 (11.22%) Java
2 11 (11.22%) JavaScript
3 6 (6.12%) SQL
4 4 (4.08%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.02%) Bash
5 1 (1.02%) C#
5 1 (1.02%) ProC
Qualifications
1 16 (16.33%) ISTQB
2 15 (15.31%) Security Cleared
3 11 (11.22%) SC Cleared
4 10 (10.20%) Degree
5 7 (7.14%) ISEB
6 6 (6.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 4 (4.08%) DV Cleared
8 3 (3.06%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 34 (34.69%) QA
2 2 (2.04%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.02%) HL7
3 1 (1.02%) SLA
3 1 (1.02%) WCAG
System Software
1 6 (6.12%) Docker
2 1 (1.02%) iptables
2 1 (1.02%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.04%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.02%) Docker Swarm
2 1 (1.02%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.02%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.02%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (13.27%) Oracle
2 9 (9.18%) SAP
3 4 (4.08%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.06%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.04%) Adobe
5 2 (2.04%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.04%) Qualtrics
5 2 (2.04%) Splunk
6 1 (1.02%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.02%) Citrix
6 1 (1.02%) Cognizant
6 1 (1.02%) Google
6 1 (1.02%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.02%) HP
6 1 (1.02%) Informatica
6 1 (1.02%) Workday