Test Manager Contracts in London

Test Manager
England > London

The median Test Manager daily rate in London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 347 429
Rank change year-on-year +42 +82 -62
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 96 152 169
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.54% 0.57% 0.43%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.58% 0.59% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 114 133
10th Percentile £406 £450 £430
25th Percentile £494 £509 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.22% +2.27% +10.55%
75th Percentile £675 £654 £613
90th Percentile £788 £800 £685
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
Median hourly rate - £62.00 £45.18
Median % change year-on-year - +37.23% -
England median hourly rate £62.50 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year +0.81% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,596 25,593 37,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.26% 95.28% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,994 18,537 27,104
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £441 £463 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +9.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 338 292 449
10th Percentile £16.01 £18.00 £16.45
25th Percentile £20.02 £22.60 £22.03
Median hourly rate £27.66 £35.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.55% +0.71% +11.13%
75th Percentile £43.75 £62.13 £49.25
90th Percentile £65.00 £78.72 £67.50
England median hourly rate £36.50 £44.53 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.03% +97.91% +2.27%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in London over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
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 Manager within the London region over the 6 months to 3 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 +38 11 £545 -5.22% 1
West London +18 3 £475 -
South London +10 1 £575 -2.13% 1
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 40 (41.67%) Test Strategy
2 37 (38.54%) Test Management
3 29 (30.21%) Test Automation
4 28 (29.17%) QA
5 26 (27.08%) Agile
6 24 (25.00%) JIRA
6 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
7 23 (23.96%) Finance
8 16 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
9 15 (15.63%) Selenium
10 14 (14.58%) Test Scripting
10 14 (14.58%) End-to-End Testing
11 13 (13.54%) Waterfall
12 12 (12.50%) Azure
12 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
12 12 (12.50%) Programme Management
13 11 (11.46%) Banking
13 11 (11.46%) SAP
13 11 (11.46%) DevOps
14 10 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
14 10 (10.42%) JMeter
14 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
14 10 (10.42%) ISTQB
15 9 (9.38%) Software Testing
15 9 (9.38%) Defect Management
15 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
16 8 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
16 8 (8.33%) SDLC
16 8 (8.33%) Equities
16 8 (8.33%) Integration Testing

Test Manager Skill Set
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 (5.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.08%) Apache
3 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 1 (1.04%) CMS
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
4 1 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
1 1 (1.04%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.08%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (1.04%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 12 (12.50%) Azure
2 7 (7.29%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (5.21%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.17%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.17%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.08%) Oracle CX
6 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.04%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.04%) AWS
7 1 (1.04%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.04%) Contentful
7 1 (1.04%) SaaS
7 1 (1.04%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) HTTP
2 1 (1.04%) Firewall
2 1 (1.04%) Internet
2 1 (1.04%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.04%) WAN
2 1 (1.04%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.21%) Power BI
2 1 (1.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.04%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 24 (25.00%) JIRA
2 15 (15.63%) Selenium
3 10 (10.42%) JMeter
4 2 (2.08%) JUnit
4 2 (2.08%) Postman
4 2 (2.08%) SpecFlow
5 1 (1.04%) Bitbucket
5 1 (1.04%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.04%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.04%) Gatling
5 1 (1.04%) Jenkins
5 1 (1.04%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.04%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.04%) WebDriver
General
1 24 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.96%) Finance
3 11 (11.46%) Banking
4 9 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 8 (8.33%) Legal
6 7 (7.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 7 (7.29%) Investment Banking
7 6 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
7 6 (6.25%) Manufacturing
7 6 (6.25%) Prime Brokerage
7 6 (6.25%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
8 5 (5.21%) Retail
9 4 (4.17%) Analytical Skills
9 4 (4.17%) Electronics
9 4 (4.17%) Marketing
9 4 (4.17%) Telecoms
10 3 (3.13%) Presentation Skills
11 2 (2.08%) Front Office
12 1 (1.04%) General Ledger
12 1 (1.04%) Pharmaceutical
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) ADO
2 2 (2.08%) FHIR
2 2 (2.08%) Gherkin
2 2 (2.08%) JSON
2 2 (2.08%) REST
2 2 (2.08%) SOAP
2 2 (2.08%) XML
3 1 (1.04%) .NET
3 1 (1.04%) FIX Protocol
3 1 (1.04%) Middleware
3 1 (1.04%) Node.js
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.04%) Playwright
3 1 (1.04%) React
3 1 (1.04%) Web Services
3 1 (1.04%) WebSockets
3 1 (1.04%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.33%) Equities
1 8 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.17%) Derivative
3 2 (2.08%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.08%) FMCG
3 2 (2.08%) Hedge funds
3 2 (2.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.08%) NHS
3 2 (2.08%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.04%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.04%) EPoS
4 1 (1.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.04%) Life Science
4 1 (1.04%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.04%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.04%) PACS
4 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.25%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (41.67%) Test Strategy
2 37 (38.54%) Test Management
3 29 (30.21%) Test Automation
4 26 (27.08%) Agile
5 16 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (14.58%) End-to-End Testing
6 14 (14.58%) Test Scripting
7 13 (13.54%) Waterfall
8 12 (12.50%) Programme Management
9 11 (11.46%) DevOps
10 10 (10.42%) Business Intelligence
10 10 (10.42%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (9.38%) Defect Management
11 9 (9.38%) Software Testing
12 8 (8.33%) Collaborative Working
12 8 (8.33%) Integration Testing
12 8 (8.33%) SDLC
13 7 (7.29%) Project Management
13 7 (7.29%) Regression Testing
13 7 (7.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.13%) SQL
2 2 (2.08%) C#
2 2 (2.08%) Python
3 1 (1.04%) C++
3 1 (1.04%) Java
3 1 (1.04%) Scala
3 1 (1.04%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.42%) ISTQB
3 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared
4 6 (6.25%) Degree
4 6 (6.25%) SC Cleared
5 5 (5.21%) ISEB
6 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.04%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.04%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.04%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (29.17%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) HL7
3 2 (2.08%) GDPR
4 1 (1.04%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.04%) ISO 20022
4 1 (1.04%) PMO
4 1 (1.04%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.04%) Grafana
1 1 (1.04%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.04%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 11 (11.46%) SAP
2 7 (7.29%) Microsoft
3 5 (5.21%) Oracle
4 4 (4.17%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.04%) Cognizant
5 1 (1.04%) Dataiku
5 1 (1.04%) eFront
5 1 (1.04%) Finsemble
5 1 (1.04%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.04%) Informatica
5 1 (1.04%) Temenos
5 1 (1.04%) VMware
5 1 (1.04%) Workday