Test Management Contracts in Manchester

Test Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 89 97
Rank change year-on-year +21 +8 +33
Contract jobs citing Test Management 7 6 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.78% 0.42% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.87% 0.48% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 3
10th Percentile £384 £404 £500
25th Percentile £425 £409 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -29.17% +74.55%
75th Percentile £475 £463 £650
90th Percentile £483 £508 £680
North West median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
North West median hourly rate £76.75 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +597.73% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 803 1,248 1,622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.93% 86.49% 90.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 848 1,195
10th Percentile £312 £321 £319
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.40 £26.39 £35.02
% change year-on-year +15.20% -24.63% +53.91%

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
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 31 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
Stockport - 1 - -
Test Management
North West

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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) SuccessFactors
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Artifactory
1 1 (14.29%) Bitbucket
1 1 (14.29%) Git
1 1 (14.29%) Gradle
1 1 (14.29%) Jenkins
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
1 1 (14.29%) JUnit
1 1 (14.29%) Maven
1 1 (14.29%) Rational DOORS
1 1 (14.29%) Rational Rhapsody
1 1 (14.29%) SonarQube
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Finance
2 3 (42.86%) Public Sector
3 2 (28.57%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Test Manager
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Manager
2 2 (28.57%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Change and Release Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Change Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Java Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Java Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Release Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Service Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Software Engineer
3 1 (14.29%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JavaFX
1 1 (14.29%) Spring
1 1 (14.29%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (14.29%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) Defect Management
3 3 (42.86%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) ITIL
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Release Management
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) System Integration Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Traceability Matrix
4 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) UML
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) ISTQB
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) HP
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
2 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow