Test Manager Contracts in the South West

Test Manager
England > South West

The median Test Manager daily rate in the South West is £486 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 139 164 149
Rank change year-on-year +25 -15 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 13 10 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.41% 0.27% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.44% 0.30% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 8 16
10th Percentile £377 £478 £381
25th Percentile £405 £509 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £486 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -7.38% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £591 £668 £508
90th Percentile £600 £873 £563
England median daily rate £550 £539 £525
% change year-on-year +2.09% +2.62% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South West

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South 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 South West with a recognized job title 2,978 3,385 3,553
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 92.33% 95.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,914 2,526 2,533
10th Percentile £210 £263 £225
25th Percentile £381 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £588
90th Percentile £700 £713 £661
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 389 277 202
10th Percentile £14.00 £18.09 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.75 £51.25 £17.25
Median hourly rate £49.00 £65.00 £45.60
Median % change year-on-year -24.62% +42.54% +7.29%
75th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £63.33
90th Percentile £77.60 £85.00 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.65 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -20.78% +100.00% +0.36%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the South West

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the South West

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the South West over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the South West

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the South West

Test Manager
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 Manager within the South West region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
Devon - 8 £575 -
Bristol +18 2 - -
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, 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 South West region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 9 (69.23%) Test Strategy
2 7 (53.85%) Test Planning
3 6 (46.15%) Windows
3 6 (46.15%) Test Management
3 6 (46.15%) Test Scripting
4 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
4 5 (38.46%) Azure
4 5 (38.46%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Requirements Management
5 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
5 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
5 4 (30.77%) Finance
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
6 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
6 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
6 2 (15.38%) VMS
6 2 (15.38%) Juniper
6 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
6 2 (15.38%) Firewall
6 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
6 2 (15.38%) JIRA
6 2 (15.38%) Ansible
6 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
6 2 (15.38%) Terraform
6 2 (15.38%) Virtual Environments

Test Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) Azure
1 5 (38.46%) Dynamics 365
2 4 (30.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 6 (46.15%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Unix
2 2 (15.38%) VMS
2 2 (15.38%) Windows 2000
2 2 (15.38%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (69.23%) Test Strategy
2 7 (53.85%) Test Planning
3 6 (46.15%) Test Management
3 6 (46.15%) Test Scripting
4 5 (38.46%) Software Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Data Migration
5 4 (30.77%) DevOps
5 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
5 4 (30.77%) Migration
5 4 (30.77%) Non-Functional Testing
5 4 (30.77%) Requirements Management
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure as Code
6 2 (15.38%) Infrastructure Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Test Automation
6 2 (15.38%) Virtual Environments
7 1 (7.69%) Agile
7 1 (7.69%) Business Process Modelling
7 1 (7.69%) Functional Testing
7 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
7 1 (7.69%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
1 2 (15.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (7.69%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Ansible
1 2 (15.38%) Terraform
2 1 (7.69%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (15.38%) Fortinet
1 2 (15.38%) Juniper
2 1 (7.69%) VMware