Test Management Contracts in Manchester

Test Management
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 95 110 125
Rank change year-on-year +15 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Test Management 6 8 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.39% 0.42% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.46% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 5 12
10th Percentile £404 - -
25th Percentile £409 £303 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £500 £294
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% +70.21% -
75th Percentile £463 £600 £494
90th Percentile £508 £660 £544
North West median daily rate £425 £468 £388
% change year-on-year -9.09% +20.65% +2.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,325 1,758 2,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.00% 92.24% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 908 1,289 1,790
10th Percentile £313 £313 £260
25th Percentile £406 £413 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year - +2.56% +8.33%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £665 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 64 50
10th Percentile £12.40 £15.31 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £11.75
Median hourly rate £24.10 £35.00 £15.25
Median % change year-on-year -31.14% +129.51% -3.17%
75th Percentile £57.50 £45.66 £23.69
90th Percentile £72.50 £68.80 £33.88
North West median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year -40.00% +66.67% +15.21%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in Manchester

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in Manchester

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in Manchester

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
1 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Lake
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) JIRA
1 2 (33.33%) Zephyr
2 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
2 1 (16.67%) Postman
2 1 (16.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (33.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Aviation
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Tester
2 2 (33.33%) QA Manager
2 2 (33.33%) QA Test Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Business Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Data Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Digital Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) UAT Manager
3 1 (16.67%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AngularJS
1 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
1 1 (16.67%) GraphQL
1 1 (16.67%) Kafka
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 1 (16.67%) Agile Testing
4 1 (16.67%) BDD
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
4 1 (16.67%) CRM
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) Deployment Automation
4 1 (16.67%) E-Commerce
4 1 (16.67%) ERP
4 1 (16.67%) Logistics
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
4 1 (16.67%) Requirements Workshops
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Task Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) C#
1 1 (16.67%) Java
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) MuleSoft
1 1 (16.67%) SAP