Test Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Test Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 129 130
Rank change year-on-year +46 +1 +15
Contract jobs citing Test Management 19 16 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.26% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.35% 0.68% 0.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 14 11
10th Percentile £325 £436 -
25th Percentile £450 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £506 £500
Median % change year-on-year -8.64% +1.25% +4.71%
75th Percentile £500 £523 £515
90th Percentile - £564 £519
South East median daily rate £500 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £62.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

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Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 1 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
Berkshire +27 11 £481 -6.10% 1
Buckinghamshire +21 6 £450 -5.26%
Oxfordshire - 2 £525 -
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (15.79%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.53%) Azure
1 2 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.26%) Oracle Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.79%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 10 (52.63%) JIRA
2 1 (5.26%) Selenium
General
1 3 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (15.79%) Documentation Skills
1 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
1 3 (15.79%) Telecoms
2 2 (10.53%) Aerospace
2 2 (10.53%) Avionics
2 2 (10.53%) Billing
2 2 (10.53%) Manufacturing
3 1 (5.26%) Automotive
3 1 (5.26%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (21.05%) Lead
1 4 (21.05%) Test Leader
1 4 (21.05%) Tester
2 3 (15.79%) Consultant
2 3 (15.79%) Test Engineer
2 3 (15.79%) Test Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA Administrator
3 2 (10.53%) JIRA Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) OSS Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Project Manager
3 2 (10.53%) Test and Integration Engineer
3 2 (10.53%) Test Consultant
3 2 (10.53%) Verification Engineer
4 1 (5.26%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Governance Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Infrastructure Test Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (15.79%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
1 4 (21.05%) SCADA
2 3 (15.79%) Data Centre
3 1 (5.26%) EPoS
3 1 (5.26%) Fibre Optics
Operating Systems
1 4 (21.05%) Linux
1 4 (21.05%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (84.21%) Test Strategy
2 7 (36.84%) Validation
3 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (26.32%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (21.05%) Agile
5 4 (21.05%) Defect Management
5 4 (21.05%) Test Assurance
5 4 (21.05%) Test Scripting
6 3 (15.79%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (15.79%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
6 3 (15.79%) Project Management
6 3 (15.79%) Service Management
7 2 (10.53%) Data Governance
7 2 (10.53%) DevOps
7 2 (10.53%) Operational Acceptance Testing
7 2 (10.53%) Project Governance
7 2 (10.53%) Resource Allocation
7 2 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 2 (10.53%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (21.05%) Perl
1 4 (21.05%) PL/SQL
1 4 (21.05%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) PMI Certification
2 2 (10.53%) PMP
3 1 (5.26%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (26.32%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Amdocs OSS
2 1 (5.26%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Cisco
2 2 (10.53%) Cramer
2 2 (10.53%) Infoblox
2 2 (10.53%) Remedy
3 1 (5.26%) HP
3 1 (5.26%) Oracle