Test Management Contract Job Trends in Telford

Test Management
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford 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 24 18
Rank change year-on-year -46 -6 +56
Contract jobs citing Test Management 4 4 3
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 0.94% 3.64% 4.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.06% 3.81% 6.98%
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
Shropshire median daily rate £490 £500 £410
% change year-on-year -2.00% +21.95% -16.84%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 376 105 43
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 88.06% 95.45% 58.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 297 71 25
10th Percentile £400 £313 £358
25th Percentile £445 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £477 £448
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% +6.47% -17.04%
75th Percentile £537 £530 £500
90th Percentile £566 £567 £535
Shropshire median daily rate £492 £475 £410
% change year-on-year +3.58% +15.85% -24.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 6
10th Percentile £22.81 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - £10.42
Median % change year-on-year - - -81.05%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 £10.42
% change year-on-year +106.49% +16.89% -71.59%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Telford

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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