Test Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 258 265 335
Rank change year-on-year +7 +70 -52
Contract jobs citing Test Management 82 129 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.63% 0.62% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.75% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 94 80
10th Percentile £315 £363 £400
25th Percentile £400 £407 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £516
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -3.15% +8.68%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £588
90th Percentile £600 £610 £634
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £539
% change year-on-year -5.00% -7.19% +7.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57.50 - -
Median hourly rate £65.00 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +490.91% - -
75th Percentile £73.81 - -
90th Percentile £80.68 - -
UK median hourly rate £65.00 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +490.91% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

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 30 May 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram 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 30 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
South East +33 34 £475 -13.64% 54
North of England +13 17 £450 +2.86% 40
North West +15 14 £450 +5.88% 20
Midlands +18 12 £550 +13.40% 39
West Midlands +19 11 £513 +5.67% 25
East of England +27 8 £600 +60.00% 25
South West +38 6 £575 +37.72% 29
Yorkshire +16 3 £373 -17.22% 15
Scotland -2 3 £241 -55.25% 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £550 - 3
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (7.32%) Confluence
2 1 (1.22%) MS Project Server
2 1 (1.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.22%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (7.32%) SAP S/4HANA
2 5 (6.10%) SAP ERP
3 1 (1.22%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.22%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 9 (10.98%) Azure
1 9 (10.98%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (4.88%) GitHub
3 2 (2.44%) AWS
3 2 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.44%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (1.22%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.22%) OCI
4 1 (1.22%) Oracle Service Cloud
4 1 (1.22%) PowerApps
4 1 (1.22%) SaaS
4 1 (1.22%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.88%) Firewall
2 1 (1.22%) Converged Networks
2 1 (1.22%) Internet
2 1 (1.22%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.22%) Big Data
1 1 (1.22%) IDMS
1 1 (1.22%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (1.22%) Power BI
1 1 (1.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 41 (50.00%) JIRA
2 9 (10.98%) TestRail
3 7 (8.54%) Selenium
4 6 (7.32%) LoadRunner
5 5 (6.10%) Jenkins
5 5 (6.10%) JMeter
5 5 (6.10%) NeoLoad
6 4 (4.88%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.44%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.44%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.44%) JUnit
7 2 (2.44%) Maven
8 1 (1.22%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 1 (1.22%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.22%) Git
8 1 (1.22%) Gradle
8 1 (1.22%) Rational DOORS
8 1 (1.22%) Rational Rhapsody
8 1 (1.22%) SpecFlow
8 1 (1.22%) TestNG
General
1 32 (39.02%) Social Skills
2 16 (19.51%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (13.41%) Documentation Skills
4 7 (8.54%) Finance
5 5 (6.10%) Pharmaceutical
6 4 (4.88%) Banking
6 4 (4.88%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.66%) Billing
7 3 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (3.66%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.44%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.44%) Avionics
8 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.44%) Manufacturing
8 2 (2.44%) Military
9 1 (1.22%) Automotive
9 1 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.22%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (23.17%) Test Manager
2 16 (19.51%) Analyst
3 15 (18.29%) Test Analyst
4 14 (17.07%) Tester
5 13 (15.85%) Lead
6 11 (13.41%) Test Engineer
7 9 (10.98%) Test Leader
8 5 (6.10%) Consultant
8 5 (6.10%) Project Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Change and Release Manager
9 4 (4.88%) Change Manager
9 4 (4.88%) JIRA Consultant
9 4 (4.88%) QA Leader
9 4 (4.88%) Release Manager
10 3 (3.66%) QA Tester
10 3 (3.66%) SAP Manager
10 3 (3.66%) SAP Test Manager
11 2 (2.44%) OSS Project Manager
11 2 (2.44%) Strategy Manager
11 2 (2.44%) Test and Integration Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.10%) Middleware
2 4 (4.88%) RFC 2544
3 1 (1.22%) JavaFX
3 1 (1.22%) Playwright
3 1 (1.22%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.22%) Spring
3 1 (1.22%) Swing
3 1 (1.22%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 10 (12.20%) SCADA
2 9 (10.98%) Product Ownership
3 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 5 (6.10%) FMCG
3 5 (6.10%) Life Science
4 2 (2.44%) EPoS
4 2 (2.44%) Fibre Optics
4 2 (2.44%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.22%) Driving Licence
5 1 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.22%) Equities
5 1 (1.22%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.22%) IoT
5 1 (1.22%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.22%) PMI
5 1 (1.22%) Pricing Data
5 1 (1.22%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.10%) Linux
1 5 (6.10%) Windows
2 1 (1.22%) Android
2 1 (1.22%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (56.10%) Agile
2 37 (45.12%) Test Strategy
3 24 (29.27%) Test Automation
4 21 (25.61%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (25.61%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (24.39%) Defect Management
6 15 (18.29%) User Acceptance Testing
7 14 (17.07%) System Integration Testing
7 14 (17.07%) Waterfall
8 13 (15.85%) DevOps
8 13 (15.85%) Test Scripting
8 13 (15.85%) Validation
9 12 (14.63%) Scrum
10 11 (13.41%) End-to-End Testing
11 10 (12.20%) Defect Tracking
11 10 (12.20%) Integration Testing
11 10 (12.20%) Performance Testing
11 10 (12.20%) Scenario Testing
11 10 (12.20%) Test Assurance
12 9 (10.98%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (8.54%) SQL
2 4 (4.88%) Java
2 4 (4.88%) Perl
2 4 (4.88%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.22%) C#
4 1 (1.22%) COBOL
4 1 (1.22%) VB
Qualifications
1 26 (31.71%) Security Cleared
2 19 (23.17%) ISTQB
3 15 (18.29%) SC Cleared
4 10 (12.20%) DV Cleared
5 9 (10.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (4.88%) Degree
7 3 (3.66%) PMI Certification
8 2 (2.44%) ISEB
8 2 (2.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (2.44%) PMP
9 1 (1.22%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (17.07%) QA
2 3 (3.66%) GxP
2 3 (3.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (2.44%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.22%) Software Quality Assurance
4 1 (1.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (1.22%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.44%) Amdocs OSS
3 1 (1.22%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.22%) OPNET
Vendors
1 12 (14.63%) HP
2 10 (12.20%) SAP
3 9 (10.98%) Oracle
4 5 (6.10%) Microsoft
4 5 (6.10%) MuleSoft
5 4 (4.88%) Cisco
6 3 (3.66%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.44%) Ariba
7 2 (2.44%) Cramer
7 2 (2.44%) Infoblox
7 2 (2.44%) Micro Focus
7 2 (2.44%) Remedy
8 1 (1.22%) Atlassian