Test Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 24 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 323 282
Rank change year-on-year +69 -41 +15
Contract jobs citing Test Management 135 111 239
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.66% 0.48% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.54% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 81 189
10th Percentile £363 £400 £315
25th Percentile £409 £429 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% +9.47% +7.04%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £525
90th Percentile £610 £629 £565
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 1
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £26.13
% change year-on-year - - -34.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Test Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,124 20,462 27,110
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 83.83% 89.37% 89.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,216 14,060 18,912
10th Percentile £250 £260 £235
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £485
Median % change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £658
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,098 1,246 1,350
10th Percentile £12.38 £10.63 £12.31
25th Percentile £15.31 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.73 £62.28
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
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 Test Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 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
South East +27 60 £550 +9.13% 13
North of England +24 16 £438 -20.45% 3
South West +19 16 £425 -29.41% 6
East of England +22 15 £375 -11.76% 4
Scotland +33 11 £539 +3.06% 1
Midlands +31 11 £485 -3.00% 6
North West +29 9 £425 -15.00% 2
West Midlands +15 8 £485 -3.00% 4
Yorkshire +7 6 £450 -18.18% 1
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +23 3 £620 +29.17% 2
Wales - 2 £210 - 1
North East +11 1 - -
Test Management
UK

Test Management
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:

Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (2.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.74%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (7.41%) Oracle EBS
2 8 (5.93%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 2 (1.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Cash Management
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Financials
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.74%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.74%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 24 (17.78%) Azure
2 20 (14.81%) Azure DevOps
3 8 (5.93%) AWS
4 5 (3.70%) SaaS
5 4 (2.96%) OCI
6 3 (2.22%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.48%) PowerApps
8 1 (0.74%) Figma
8 1 (0.74%) GCP
8 1 (0.74%) GitHub
8 1 (0.74%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.70%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (2.96%) SAP BW
2 3 (2.22%) Big Data
3 1 (0.74%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.74%) GIS
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (0.74%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (0.74%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 21 (15.56%) TestRail
2 20 (14.81%) JIRA
3 11 (8.15%) Selenium
4 6 (4.44%) Cypress.io
4 6 (4.44%) JMeter
5 4 (2.96%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.22%) LoadRunner
7 2 (1.48%) Cucumber
7 2 (1.48%) JUnit
7 2 (1.48%) Tricentis qTest
7 2 (1.48%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.74%) Bitbucket Server
8 1 (0.74%) Postman
8 1 (0.74%) SoapUI
8 1 (0.74%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.74%) Visual Studio
General
1 42 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 16 (11.85%) Finance
3 13 (9.63%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (9.63%) Organisational Skills
4 9 (6.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (4.44%) Games
6 4 (2.96%) Banking
7 3 (2.22%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.22%) Military
7 3 (2.22%) Retail
8 2 (1.48%) Aviation
8 2 (1.48%) Law
8 2 (1.48%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.74%) Automotive
9 1 (0.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.74%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 42 (31.11%) Test Manager
2 40 (29.63%) Analyst
3 34 (25.19%) Test Analyst
4 20 (14.81%) Lead
5 19 (14.07%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 18 (13.33%) Senior
6 18 (13.33%) Test Leader
7 9 (6.67%) Test Engineer
8 7 (5.19%) Senior Test Engineer
9 6 (4.44%) Consultant
9 6 (4.44%) QA Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) QA Test Analyst
9 6 (4.44%) SAP Consultant
10 5 (3.70%) Business Analyst
11 4 (2.96%) Coordinator
11 4 (2.96%) SAP Security Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Security Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Senior Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Senior SAP Consultant
11 4 (2.96%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.19%) Web Services
2 5 (3.70%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.48%) Gherkin
3 2 (1.48%) XML
4 1 (0.74%) AngularJS
4 1 (0.74%) GraphQL
4 1 (0.74%) Kafka
4 1 (0.74%) Playwright
4 1 (0.74%) REST
4 1 (0.74%) SailPoint
4 1 (0.74%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (4.44%) Life Science
2 5 (3.70%) PKI
3 4 (2.96%) NHS
4 3 (2.22%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.48%) Algorithms
5 2 (1.48%) Equities
5 2 (1.48%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (1.48%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.48%) Product Ownership
6 1 (0.74%) IVR
6 1 (0.74%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.74%) PMI
6 1 (0.74%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.74%) Windows
1 1 (0.74%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (40.00%) Agile
2 44 (32.59%) Test Automation
3 37 (27.41%) Test Strategy
4 29 (21.48%) Test Planning
5 25 (18.52%) DevOps
6 23 (17.04%) Scenario Testing
7 22 (16.30%) Continuous Integration
8 21 (15.56%) Defect Management
8 21 (15.56%) User Acceptance Testing
9 20 (14.81%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (11.85%) Test Scripting
11 15 (11.11%) Functional Testing
12 14 (10.37%) Non-Functional Testing
12 14 (10.37%) Project Management
12 14 (10.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 14 (10.37%) Software Testing
13 13 (9.63%) Requirements Analysis
13 13 (9.63%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (8.89%) Waterfall
15 11 (8.15%) Performance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (4.44%) JavaScript
2 4 (2.96%) Java
2 4 (2.96%) Python
3 3 (2.22%) C#
3 3 (2.22%) SQL
4 1 (0.74%) ProC
4 1 (0.74%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 42 (31.11%) Security Cleared
2 36 (26.67%) ISTQB
3 24 (17.78%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 20 (14.81%) DV Cleared
5 18 (13.33%) Degree
6 12 (8.89%) SC Cleared
7 6 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (2.96%) ISEB
9 2 (1.48%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (1.48%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.74%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (18.52%) QA
2 5 (3.70%) HL7
2 5 (3.70%) PMO
3 4 (2.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.48%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.74%) Disclosure Scotland
System Software
1 5 (3.70%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.74%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (5.19%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.48%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.74%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.74%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (13.33%) Oracle
2 10 (7.41%) Microsoft
2 10 (7.41%) SAP
3 4 (2.96%) HP
4 2 (1.48%) Genesys
4 2 (1.48%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.74%) FIS
5 1 (0.74%) Google
5 1 (0.74%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.74%) Salesforce
5 1 (0.74%) ScienceLogic