Test Management Contracts in the Midlands

Test Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 122 154
Rank change year-on-year +30 +32 +8
Contract jobs citing Test Management 19 11 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.99% 0.40% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.13% 0.49% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 10
10th Percentile £463 £447 £362
25th Percentile £504 £468 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £485 £493
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -1.62% -1.40%
75th Percentile £594 £601 £519
90th Percentile £663 £621 £600
England median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the Midlands

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the Midlands

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands 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
West Midlands +24 18 £538 +10.82% 9
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 2 (10.53%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.26%) OCI
1 1 (5.26%) SaaS
1 1 (5.26%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.26%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (57.89%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (10.53%) Bitbucket
2 2 (10.53%) CA Gen
3 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.26%) LoadRunner
3 1 (5.26%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (26.32%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (26.32%) Social Skills
2 3 (15.79%) Retail
3 2 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.26%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 6 (31.58%) Test Manager
2 5 (26.32%) Tester
3 4 (21.05%) Lead
4 3 (15.79%) ERP Manager
4 3 (15.79%) QA Leader
5 2 (10.53%) Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) JIRA Consultant
5 2 (10.53%) QA Manager
5 2 (10.53%) Telecoms Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Applications Tester
6 1 (5.26%) Oracle Payroll Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Payroll Manager
6 1 (5.26%) SAP Manager
6 1 (5.26%) SAP Test Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Test Leader
6 1 (5.26%) UAT Manager
6 1 (5.26%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (26.32%) Middleware
2 1 (5.26%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (26.32%) Product Ownership
1 5 (26.32%) SCADA
2 1 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (68.42%) Test Strategy
2 12 (63.16%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) Defect Management
4 7 (36.84%) Scrum
4 7 (36.84%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (31.58%) Test Automation
6 5 (26.32%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (26.32%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (26.32%) Test Assurance
6 5 (26.32%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (26.32%) User Stories
7 4 (21.05%) Change Management
7 4 (21.05%) Integration Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (15.79%) ERP
8 3 (15.79%) Performance Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Regression Testing
8 3 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (10.53%) Scalability Testing
9 2 (10.53%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) COBOL
1 2 (10.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) ISTQB
2 2 (10.53%) ISEB
2 2 (10.53%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (31.58%) QA
2 1 (5.26%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (36.84%) Oracle
2 5 (26.32%) HP
2 5 (26.32%) MuleSoft
3 2 (10.53%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) Micro Focus
4 1 (5.26%) Microsoft