QA Test Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Quality Assurance Test Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Quality Assurance Test Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £425 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 385 444 503
Rank change year-on-year +59 +59 -68
Contract jobs requiring a QA Test Manager 3 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.015% 0.013% 0.023%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.013% 0.024%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £431
25th Percentile £413 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £456
Median % change year-on-year - - +9.61%
75th Percentile £438 - £488
90th Percentile - - £495
UK median daily rate £425 £533 £480
% change year-on-year -20.26% +11.04% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,104 22,515 29,589
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 94.27% 95.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,669 15,787 20,737
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £597 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,253 1,161 1,465
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

QA Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured QA Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for QA Test Manager in the UK excluding London

QA Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing QA Test Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for QA Test Manager in the UK excluding London

QA Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing QA Test Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 May 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
North of England +27 2 £425 -
North West - 2 £425 -
South East - 1 - -
QA Test Manager
UK

QA Test Manager Skill Set
Top 10 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, QA 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 UK excluding London region featuring QA Test Manager in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 2 (66.67%) Retail
2 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Management
2 2 (66.67%) Zephyr
2 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix

QA Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
1 2 (66.67%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Test Management
1 2 (66.67%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix