Test Management Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Test Management
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 27 21
Rank change year-on-year -43 -6 +55
Contract jobs citing Test Management 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 0.82% 2.96% 3.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 3.15% 5.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 3
10th Percentile - £482 -
25th Percentile - £489 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £410
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +21.95% -16.84%
75th Percentile - £504 £433
90th Percentile - £506 £443
West Midlands median daily rate £450 £507 £430
% change year-on-year -11.32% +18.02% -12.51%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 415 127 51
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 85.57% 94.07% 57.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 314 81 30
10th Percentile £400 £225 £292
25th Percentile £430 £360 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year +3.58% +15.85% -24.07%
75th Percentile £537 £529 £490
90th Percentile £566 £567 £534
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £505 £488
% change year-on-year -0.94% +3.54% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 7
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile - £21.32 £12.20
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.46 £20.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year +7.30% -13.04% +29.94%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 20 February 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
Telford -46 4 £490 -2.00% 3
Test Management
West Midlands

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) AWS
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
2 2 (50.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (50.00%) MongoDB
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 3 (75.00%) Gatling
1 3 (75.00%) GitLab
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
3 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (25.00%) Selenium
3 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) QA Leader
1 2 (50.00%) Senior
1 2 (50.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Specialist
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
1 2 (50.00%) Spring
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Batch
1 2 (50.00%) Spring Boot
1 2 (50.00%) WireMock
2 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Integration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Migration
1 3 (75.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
1 3 (75.00%) OWASP
1 3 (75.00%) System Integration Testing
1 3 (75.00%) System Testing
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Coaching
2 2 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
2 2 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
3 1 (25.00%) ETL
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Penetration Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Java
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Python
2 1 (25.00%) VB
2 1 (25.00%) VB6
Qualifications
1 2 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 2 (50.00%) Grafana
1 2 (50.00%) Kibana
1 2 (50.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle
2 2 (50.00%) Dynatrace
2 2 (50.00%) PagerDuty
2 2 (50.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Actian