Test Management Contract Job Trends in the North East

Test Management
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 - 35
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs citing Test Management 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.59% - 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% - 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £315 - -
25th Percentile £328 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 - -
75th Percentile £438 - -
90th Percentile £490 - -
England median daily rate £401 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -19.80% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £11.00
England median hourly rate £25.80 £83.50 £11.00
% change year-on-year -69.10% +659.09% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 424 265 263
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 83.79% 83.33% 81.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 178 130
10th Percentile £187 £300 £187
25th Percentile £371 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £457 £465
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% -1.61% -13.98%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £575
90th Percentile £596 £650 £639
England median daily rate £504 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 7 49
10th Percentile £17.09 - £11.50
25th Percentile £49.56 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £60.58 £16.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +267.15% -5.71% -57.06%
75th Percentile £72.50 £32.22 £46.18
90th Percentile - £47.21 £50.00
England median hourly rate £31.45 £33.40 £32.50
% change year-on-year -5.84% +2.77% -10.41%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Test Management job vacancy trend in the North East

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Management

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the North East over the 6 months to 19 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the North East

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 19 March 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear - 2 £331 - 3
Durham - 1 £500 -
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
2 1 (33.33%) Cypress.io
2 1 (33.33%) Gatling
2 1 (33.33%) JMeter
2 1 (33.33%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) TestRail
General
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) UAT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Gherkin
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) BDD
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) ERP
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java
1 2 (66.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
1 2 (66.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (33.33%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft