Test Management Contracts in the North of England

Test Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 151 173 197
Rank change year-on-year +22 +24 +10
Contract jobs citing Test Management 15 16 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.45% 0.34% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.51% 0.39% 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 8 13
10th Percentile £351 £397 £368
25th Percentile £434 £409 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £438 £550
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% -20.45% +33.33%
75th Percentile £497 £481 £575
90th Percentile £503 £562 £620
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 3 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +659.09% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +445.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,970 4,081 5,270
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.97% 85.83% 90.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,907 2,497 3,663
10th Percentile £263 £300 £304
25th Percentile £380 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £684
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 151 357 205
10th Percentile £13.70 £11.04 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.31 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £28.75 £17.72 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +62.25% -36.03% +49.73%
75th Percentile £55.59 £44.74 £45.05
90th Percentile £83.41 £55.40 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the North of England

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 2 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
North West +18 13 £475 +11.76% 13
Yorkshire +3 2 £450 - 2
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.67%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Cisco Firepower
1 1 (6.67%) Firewall
1 1 (6.67%) Network Security
Development Applications
1 5 (33.33%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
3 1 (6.67%) Katalon Studio
3 1 (6.67%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 5 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (26.67%) Finance
4 3 (20.00%) Banking
4 3 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 2 (13.33%) Financial Institution
5 2 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (6.67%) Local Government
6 1 (6.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Change and Release Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Change Manager
2 4 (26.67%) Release Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Designer
3 3 (20.00%) Service Designer
4 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Change Manager
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Manager
4 1 (6.67%) ITIL Release Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Programme Change Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
4 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (6.67%) Driving Licence
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (46.67%) Agile
1 7 (46.67%) Defect Management
2 6 (40.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (26.67%) Change Management
3 4 (26.67%) ITIL
3 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (26.67%) Release Management
3 4 (26.67%) Roadmaps
3 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
4 3 (20.00%) DevOps
4 3 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
4 3 (20.00%) Service Design
4 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (20.00%) Test Scripting
4 3 (20.00%) Waterfall
5 2 (13.33%) Performance Testing
5 2 (13.33%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (46.67%) SC Cleared
3 4 (26.67%) ISTQB
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
4 1 (6.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (20.00%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (20.00%) HP
1 3 (20.00%) Oracle
2 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
3 1 (6.67%) Ariba
3 1 (6.67%) Cisco
3 1 (6.67%) SAP