Test Manager Contracts in London

Test Manager
England > London

The median Test Manager daily rate in London is £588, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 296 342
Rank change year-on-year +8 +46 +93
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 65 95 155
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.53% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.57% 0.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 75 118
10th Percentile £440 £406 £450
25th Percentile £491 £504 £507
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.08% +9.09% -
75th Percentile £650 £675 £638
90th Percentile £700 £790 £800
England median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £62.00
England median hourly rate £79.25 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +44.09% -11.29% +37.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies 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 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 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 +4 13 £500 -9.09% 2
West London +10 1 £455 -4.21%
South London - 1 £413 -
East London - 1 £495 -
Test Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 31 (47.69%) Test Strategy
2 24 (36.92%) Test Automation
3 22 (33.85%) Finance
4 21 (32.31%) DevOps
5 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
5 20 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
6 19 (29.23%) Test Management
7 18 (27.69%) Azure
8 14 (21.54%) Agile
8 14 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
9 12 (18.46%) Defect Management
10 11 (16.92%) QA
11 10 (15.38%) JIRA
11 10 (15.38%) Banking
12 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
13 8 (12.31%) SAP
14 7 (10.77%) Waterfall
14 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
14 7 (10.77%) Test Planning
14 7 (10.77%) System Integration Testing
15 6 (9.23%) API Testing
15 6 (9.23%) Workday
15 6 (9.23%) Test Scripting
15 6 (9.23%) Integration Testing
15 6 (9.23%) Murex
16 5 (7.69%) ITIL
16 5 (7.69%) Regression Testing
16 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
16 5 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement

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 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Unit4 Business World
2 2 (3.08%) NetSuite
3 1 (1.54%) Finacle
3 1 (1.54%) SAP IBP
3 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (27.69%) Azure
2 14 (21.54%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (7.69%) Power Platform
3 5 (7.69%) PowerApps
4 4 (6.15%) Power Automate
5 3 (4.62%) SaaS
6 2 (3.08%) Twilio
7 1 (1.54%) AWS
7 1 (1.54%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.54%) GCP
7 1 (1.54%) OCI
7 1 (1.54%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.54%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.54%) Tricentis Tosca
7 1 (1.54%) Veeva
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) Firewall
1 1 (1.54%) LAN
1 1 (1.54%) Unified Communications
1 1 (1.54%) WAN
1 1 (1.54%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.08%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.54%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (15.38%) JIRA
2 4 (6.15%) Jenkins
2 4 (6.15%) Postman
2 4 (6.15%) Selenium
3 3 (4.62%) GitLab
3 3 (4.62%) JMeter
4 2 (3.08%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.54%) Eclipse
5 1 (1.54%) Git
5 1 (1.54%) JUnit
5 1 (1.54%) LoadRunner
5 1 (1.54%) REST Assured
5 1 (1.54%) TestDirector
General
1 22 (33.85%) Finance
2 20 (30.77%) Social Skills
3 10 (15.38%) Banking
4 4 (6.15%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.15%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (3.08%) Local Government
5 2 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.08%) Private Banking
6 1 (1.54%) Back Office
6 1 (1.54%) Legal
6 1 (1.54%) Marketing
6 1 (1.54%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.54%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.54%) ADO
1 1 (1.54%) RAML
1 1 (1.54%) REST
1 1 (1.54%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 3 (4.62%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.08%) Fixed Income
2 2 (3.08%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.54%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.54%) Derivative
3 1 (1.54%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.54%) OTC Derivatives
3 1 (1.54%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.54%) Public Cloud
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (6.15%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (47.69%) Test Strategy
2 24 (36.92%) Test Automation
3 21 (32.31%) DevOps
4 20 (30.77%) Stakeholder Management
4 20 (30.77%) User Acceptance Testing
5 19 (29.23%) Test Management
6 14 (21.54%) Agile
7 12 (18.46%) Defect Management
8 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
9 7 (10.77%) System Integration Testing
9 7 (10.77%) Test Planning
9 7 (10.77%) Waterfall
10 6 (9.23%) API Testing
10 6 (9.23%) Integration Testing
10 6 (9.23%) Test Scripting
11 5 (7.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (7.69%) Functional Testing
11 5 (7.69%) ITIL
11 5 (7.69%) Regression Testing
12 4 (6.15%) ERP
Programming Languages
1 2 (3.08%) Java
1 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
1 2 (3.08%) Python
2 1 (1.54%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 7 (10.77%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.15%) ISTQB
2 4 (6.15%) SC Cleared
3 3 (4.62%) Degree
4 2 (3.08%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.54%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (16.92%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.54%) GDPR
3 1 (1.54%) IFRS
3 1 (1.54%) IFRS 17
3 1 (1.54%) IFRS 9
3 1 (1.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.54%) NIST
3 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.54%) Docker
1 1 (1.54%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) HP ALM
2 2 (3.08%) Ansible
2 2 (3.08%) Terraform
3 1 (1.54%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.31%) SAP
2 6 (9.23%) Murex
2 6 (9.23%) Workday
3 4 (6.15%) HP
3 4 (6.15%) Oracle
4 3 (4.62%) ServiceNow
5 2 (3.08%) Avaya
5 2 (3.08%) Google
5 2 (3.08%) Informatica
5 2 (3.08%) Microsoft
5 2 (3.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.08%) Snow
6 1 (1.54%) Calypso
6 1 (1.54%) CheckPoint
6 1 (1.54%) Cisco
6 1 (1.54%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.54%) Genesys
6 1 (1.54%) Mitel
6 1 (1.54%) Okta
6 1 (1.54%) Virgin Media