Test Manager Contracts in the North of England

Test Manager
England > North of England

The median Test Manager daily rate in the North of England is £478, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 132 165 178
Rank change year-on-year +33 +13 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 34 20 42
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.03% 0.42% 0.72%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.10% 0.45% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 16 19
10th Percentile £360 £413 £423
25th Percentile £422 £447 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.50% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £527 £541 £581
90th Percentile £557 £638 £640
England median daily rate £525 £535 £540
% change year-on-year -1.87% -0.93% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £79.25 £55.00 £62.00
% change year-on-year +44.09% -11.29% +37.23%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North of England with a recognized job title 3,078 4,441 5,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.14% 95.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,038 2,789 3,920
10th Percentile £230 £263 £285
25th Percentile £364 £385 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £600
90th Percentile £646 £673 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 163 394 162
10th Percentile £12.86 £11.02 £13.96
25th Percentile £16.16 £12.53 £18.82
Median hourly rate £24.50 £19.34 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +26.68% -36.67% +65.08%
75th Percentile £49.38 £45.97 £49.40
90th Percentile £80.22 £60.00 £65.68
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the North of England

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the North of England

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the North of England

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the North of England

Test Manager
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 Manager within the North of England 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
North West +31 26 £478 +3.24% 8
Yorkshire +10 8 £485 -11.84% 2
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the North of England region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
1 12 (35.29%) Test Automation
1 12 (35.29%) Test Strategy
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) QA
3 8 (23.53%) CAD
4 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
4 7 (20.59%) Test Planning
4 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
4 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
5 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (17.65%) Finance
5 6 (17.65%) Migration
5 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
5 6 (17.65%) JIRA
6 5 (14.71%) Agile
6 5 (14.71%) Test Management
6 5 (14.71%) ISTQB
6 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (14.71%) DevOps
7 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
7 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
7 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 4 (11.76%) Git
7 4 (11.76%) Selenium
7 4 (11.76%) Banking
7 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
8 3 (8.82%) HP UFT
8 3 (8.82%) Java
8 3 (8.82%) JUnit

Test Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 3 (8.82%) Confluence
1 3 (8.82%) Mendix
Business Applications
1 3 (8.82%) Teamcenter
2 2 (5.88%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (5.88%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 3 (8.82%) GitHub
2 2 (5.88%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (5.88%) Power Automate
3 1 (2.94%) AWS
3 1 (2.94%) Azure
3 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 6 (17.65%) JIRA
2 4 (11.76%) Git
2 4 (11.76%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.76%) Selenium
3 3 (8.82%) Cucumber
3 3 (8.82%) Gradle
3 3 (8.82%) HP UFT
3 3 (8.82%) IntelliJ
3 3 (8.82%) JUnit
3 3 (8.82%) Maven
4 1 (2.94%) Bugzilla
4 1 (2.94%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (2.94%) Zephyr
General
1 7 (20.59%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.65%) Finance
3 5 (14.71%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (11.76%) Banking
5 2 (5.88%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 7 (20.59%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.94%) AS400
2 1 (2.94%) CMDB
2 1 (2.94%) EMV
2 1 (2.94%) iSeries
2 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (35.29%) Test Automation
1 12 (35.29%) Test Strategy
2 8 (23.53%) CAD
3 7 (20.59%) Risk Management
3 7 (20.59%) Test Planning
4 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
4 6 (17.65%) Migration
4 6 (17.65%) Software Testing
5 5 (14.71%) Agile
5 5 (14.71%) DevOps
5 5 (14.71%) Test Management
6 4 (11.76%) Code Quality
6 4 (11.76%) User Acceptance Testing
7 3 (8.82%) BDD
7 3 (8.82%) Case Management
7 3 (8.82%) Cybersecurity
7 3 (8.82%) Due Diligence
7 3 (8.82%) Exploratory Testing
7 3 (8.82%) Portfolio Management
7 3 (8.82%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) Java
Qualifications
1 12 (35.29%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) SC Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) ISTQB
4 3 (8.82%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.94%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (29.41%) QA
2 1 (2.94%) Software Quality Assurance
Systems Management
1 1 (2.94%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 4 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.94%) Ariba
2 1 (2.94%) HP
2 1 (2.94%) IBM
2 1 (2.94%) Oracle
2 1 (2.94%) SAP
2 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.94%) Virgin Media