Test Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Test Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Test Management skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 103 131
Rank change year-on-year -8 +28 +52
Contract jobs citing Test Management 19 16 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.88% 0.68% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.81% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 12 6
10th Percentile £269 - £475
25th Percentile £327 - £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -20.00% +73.91%
75th Percentile £475 £463 £525
90th Percentile - £571 £563
England median daily rate £470 £488 £525
% change year-on-year -3.69% -7.05% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 £102.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year -41.46% +95.24% +228.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,908 1,966 2,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.66% 83.59% 88.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,251 1,175 1,705
10th Percentile £300 £308 £283
25th Percentile £375 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - -
75th Percentile £560 £588 £594
90th Percentile £663 £688 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 123 113 160
10th Percentile £13.51 £16.57 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.44 £26.25 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +18.60% +52.81%
75th Percentile £52.50 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £72.29 £70.90 £63.88
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +47.06%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the North West over the 6 months to 8 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North West citing Test Management

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 8 September 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
Manchester -3 8 £450 +12.50% 3
Cheshire -14 8 £367 -36.20% 3
Lancashire - 2 £400 - 4
Merseyside - 1 £300 - 1
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (5.26%) Confluence
1 1 (5.26%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (31.58%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (31.58%) SuccessFactors
2 4 (21.05%) SaaS
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 9 (47.37%) JIRA
2 3 (15.79%) TestRail
3 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
3 2 (10.53%) Zephyr
4 1 (5.26%) Appium
4 1 (5.26%) Artifactory
4 1 (5.26%) Bitbucket
4 1 (5.26%) Cucumber
4 1 (5.26%) Git
4 1 (5.26%) Gradle
4 1 (5.26%) HP UFT
4 1 (5.26%) JUnit
4 1 (5.26%) Maven
4 1 (5.26%) Rational DOORS
4 1 (5.26%) Rational Rhapsody
4 1 (5.26%) Selenium
4 1 (5.26%) SonarQube
General
1 10 (52.63%) Finance
1 10 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (31.58%) Public Sector
4 4 (21.05%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Local Government
4 4 (21.05%) Presentation Skills
4 4 (21.05%) Publishing
5 2 (10.53%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (47.37%) Analyst
1 9 (47.37%) Test Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) SAP Analyst
2 4 (21.05%) SAP Test Analyst
3 3 (15.79%) Service Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Service Transition Manager
3 3 (15.79%) Tester
3 3 (15.79%) Transition Manager
3 3 (15.79%) UAT Tester
4 2 (10.53%) SAP Manager
4 2 (10.53%) SAP Test Manager
4 2 (10.53%) Test Manager
4 2 (10.53%) UAT Analyst
4 2 (10.53%) UAT Test Analyst
5 1 (5.26%) Java Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Java Software Engineer
5 1 (5.26%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.26%) JavaFX
1 1 (5.26%) SailPoint
1 1 (5.26%) Spring
1 1 (5.26%) Swing
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Management Information System
1 4 (21.05%) Public Cloud
2 3 (15.79%) Data Structures
3 2 (10.53%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.26%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (73.68%) Test Scripting
2 13 (68.42%) User Acceptance Testing
3 8 (42.11%) Agile
3 8 (42.11%) End-to-End Testing
4 7 (36.84%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (36.84%) Project Delivery
5 6 (31.58%) Computer Science
5 6 (31.58%) Defect Management
5 6 (31.58%) Regression Testing
6 5 (26.32%) DevOps
6 5 (26.32%) Test Strategy
7 4 (21.05%) Architectural Patterns
7 4 (21.05%) Programme Delivery
7 4 (21.05%) Programme Governance
7 4 (21.05%) Release Management
7 4 (21.05%) SAP Implementation
7 4 (21.05%) Service Design
7 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (21.05%) System Integration Testing
7 4 (21.05%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Java
2 1 (5.26%) C#
Qualifications
1 6 (31.58%) Degree
1 6 (31.58%) ISTQB
2 4 (21.05%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (10.53%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (26.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft
1 6 (31.58%) SAP
2 5 (26.32%) HP
3 4 (21.05%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.26%) Atlassian
4 1 (5.26%) CyberArk