Testing Manager Contracts in the North West

Testing Manager
England > North West

The median Testing Manager daily rate in the North West is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 August 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
13 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 131 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Manager 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.045% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.049% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 - -
England median daily rate £719 - £488
% change year-on-year - - -12.36%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 West with a recognized job title 2,033 2,251 2,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.03% 94.30% 93.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,313 1,361 1,960
10th Percentile £259 £268 £287
25th Percentile £363 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £563 £586 £588
90th Percentile £659 £675 £673
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 158 201 166
10th Percentile £13.00 £11.07 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.58 £17.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% +14.60% +32.02%
75th Percentile £49.69 £55.79 £46.18
90th Percentile £73.40 £71.90 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.80
% change year-on-year -44.11% +7.66% +62.77%

Testing Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Testing Manager in the North West

Testing Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Testing Manager in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Testing Manager in the North West

Testing Manager Skill Set
Top 25 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 13 August 2025, Testing 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 West region featuring Testing Manager in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) QA
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality

Testing Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
1 1 (100.00%) Jenkins
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Configuration Management
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) ITIL
1 1 (100.00%) Process Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Release Management
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Ansible
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform