Test Management Contracts in the South West

Test Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 104 139 159
Rank change year-on-year +35 +20 -11
Contract jobs citing Test Management 6 14 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.36% 0.44% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.53% 0.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 8
10th Percentile £313 £397 £374
25th Percentile £375 £405 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -19.05% +16.67%
75th Percentile £668 £600 £597
90th Percentile £716 - £666
England median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the South West over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Wiltshire - 4 £575 -
Bristol +26 2 £525 - 1
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (16.67%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (16.67%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Test Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Manual Tester
2 1 (16.67%) QA Tester
2 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Specialist
2 1 (16.67%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Data Centre
1 1 (16.67%) EPoS
1 1 (16.67%) Equities
1 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
1 1 (16.67%) Pricing Data
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 3 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Defect Tracking
3 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 2 (33.33%) System Integration Testing
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 1 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
4 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
4 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
4 1 (16.67%) NsoIT
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (16.67%) SDLC
4 1 (16.67%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) ISEB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) OPNET