Test Management Contracts

Test Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 432 422
Rank change year-on-year +89 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing Test Management 249 296 529
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.49% 0.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.55% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 207 418
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £411 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £550
90th Percentile £645 £703 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £488
% change year-on-year +2.50% +2.56% +8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £37.50
25th Percentile - - £41.25
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £47.50
75th Percentile - - £53.75
90th Percentile - - £57.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +140.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,651 54,096 80,844
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.29% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,333 37,469 56,726
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,430 1,787 1,945
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.66 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.34 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 24 April 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
England +79 216 £513 -2.38% 61
UK excluding London +55 123 £513 +2.50% 35
London +74 101 £515 -6.36% 23
Work from Home +104 94 £525 +5.00% 29
South East 0 51 £550 +10.00% 17
North of England +32 16 £438 -16.67% 5
East of England +23 14 £375 -42.31% 3
South West +21 14 £425 -19.05% 3
Midlands +37 11 £485 -1.62% 4
Scotland +32 11 £539 +3.56% 3
North West +20 10 £425 -9.09% 5
West Midlands +30 8 £485 -1.62% 1
Yorkshire +18 5 £450 -18.18%
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +14 3 £620 +29.17% 3
Wales +16 2 £210 -47.50%
North East +17 1 - -

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.21%) Confluence
2 2 (0.80%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (4.02%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.22%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.82%) Oracle EBS
3 8 (3.21%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.20%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.80%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.40%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle 11i
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS R12
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.40%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (19.28%) Azure
2 28 (11.24%) Azure DevOps
3 19 (7.63%) AWS
4 8 (3.21%) BrowserStack
5 6 (2.41%) Firebase
5 6 (2.41%) OCI
5 6 (2.41%) Power Platform
6 5 (2.01%) BlazeMeter
7 4 (1.61%) PowerApps
7 4 (1.61%) SaaS
7 4 (1.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 3 (1.20%) Azure Monitor
8 3 (1.20%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.20%) GitHub
9 2 (0.80%) Figma
9 2 (0.80%) GCP
9 2 (0.80%) Microsoft 365
9 2 (0.80%) OneDrive
9 2 (0.80%) Power Automate
9 2 (0.80%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 6 (2.41%) Firewall
2 4 (1.61%) Internet
3 3 (1.20%) DNS
4 2 (0.80%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.40%) 3G
5 1 (0.40%) 4G
5 1 (0.40%) 5G
5 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
5 1 (0.40%) MQTT
5 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.40%) WAN
5 1 (0.40%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.81%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (1.61%) Relational Database
2 4 (1.61%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.20%) Big Data
3 3 (1.20%) Power BI
4 2 (0.80%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle Reports
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
5 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 65 (26.10%) JIRA
2 33 (13.25%) Selenium
3 29 (11.65%) TestRail
4 27 (10.84%) JMeter
5 12 (4.82%) Cucumber
5 12 (4.82%) Jenkins
6 11 (4.42%) Cypress.io
7 10 (4.02%) Postman
8 9 (3.61%) GitLab
9 7 (2.81%) Appium
9 7 (2.81%) Git
9 7 (2.81%) LoadRunner
9 7 (2.81%) SpecFlow
10 4 (1.61%) FitNesse
10 4 (1.61%) Gatling
10 4 (1.61%) JUnit
10 4 (1.61%) SoapUI
11 3 (1.20%) Team Foundation Server
11 3 (1.20%) Zephyr
12 2 (0.80%) Bitbucket
General
1 67 (26.91%) Social Skills
2 38 (15.26%) Finance
3 22 (8.84%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.62%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.82%) Presentation Skills
7 11 (4.42%) Influencing Skills
8 10 (4.02%) Banking
9 8 (3.21%) Manufacturing
10 7 (2.81%) Games
10 7 (2.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 6 (2.41%) Telecoms
12 5 (2.01%) Electronics
12 5 (2.01%) Marketing
13 4 (1.61%) Back Office
13 4 (1.61%) Legal
13 4 (1.61%) Military
13 4 (1.61%) Retail
14 3 (1.20%) Front Office
14 3 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 84 (33.73%) Test Manager
2 52 (20.88%) Analyst
3 47 (18.88%) Test Analyst
4 32 (12.85%) Lead
5 28 (11.24%) Test Leader
6 25 (10.04%) Senior
7 23 (9.24%) Tester
8 22 (8.84%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 15 (6.02%) Test Engineer
10 13 (5.22%) SAP Manager
11 12 (4.82%) QA Tester
12 10 (4.02%) SAP Test Manager
13 9 (3.61%) Consultant
14 8 (3.21%) Senior Test Engineer
14 8 (3.21%) Testing Manager
15 7 (2.81%) Project Manager
15 7 (2.81%) QA Analyst
15 7 (2.81%) QA Engineer
15 7 (2.81%) QA Test Analyst
16 6 (2.41%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (8.43%) ADO
2 9 (3.61%) Middleware
2 9 (3.61%) REST
2 9 (3.61%) WebdriverIO
3 8 (3.21%) Oracle Fusion
4 6 (2.41%) Playwright
5 5 (2.01%) Gherkin
5 5 (2.01%) XML
6 4 (1.61%) RESTful
6 4 (1.61%) SOAP
7 2 (0.80%) AngularJS
7 2 (0.80%) GraphQL
7 2 (0.80%) Jest
8 1 (0.40%) Kafka
8 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.42%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.01%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.01%) PKI
3 4 (1.61%) Equities
3 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
3 4 (1.61%) Private Cloud
3 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
3 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.20%) FMCG
4 3 (1.20%) Greenfield Project
4 3 (1.20%) Onboarding
5 2 (0.80%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.80%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (0.80%) Life Science
5 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.40%) EPoS
6 1 (0.40%) IVR
6 1 (0.40%) NHS
6 1 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.81%) Linux
2 3 (1.20%) Windows
3 2 (0.80%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) CentOS
4 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 97 (38.96%) Agile
2 89 (35.74%) Test Automation
3 62 (24.90%) Test Strategy
4 53 (21.29%) DevOps
5 50 (20.08%) User Acceptance Testing
6 44 (17.67%) Defect Management
6 44 (17.67%) Test Planning
7 40 (16.06%) Test Scripting
8 39 (15.66%) Scenario Testing
9 38 (15.26%) End-to-End Testing
9 38 (15.26%) Problem-Solving
10 37 (14.86%) Continuous Integration
11 33 (13.25%) Project Management
12 30 (12.05%) Stakeholder Management
13 29 (11.65%) Non-Functional Testing
14 26 (10.44%) Software Testing
15 23 (9.24%) CI/CD
16 21 (8.43%) Functional Testing
16 21 (8.43%) Performance Testing
17 20 (8.03%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 21 (8.43%) JavaScript
2 19 (7.63%) Python
3 17 (6.83%) Java
4 9 (3.61%) SQL
5 5 (2.01%) TypeScript
6 2 (0.80%) C#
7 1 (0.40%) Bash
7 1 (0.40%) ProC
Qualifications
1 67 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 53 (21.29%) ISTQB
3 33 (13.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 30 (12.05%) SC Cleared
5 27 (10.84%) Degree
5 27 (10.84%) DV Cleared
6 12 (4.82%) ISEB
7 5 (2.01%) Computer Science Degree
8 4 (1.61%) PMI Certification
9 3 (1.20%) PMP
10 2 (0.80%) ISEB Practitioner
10 2 (0.80%) Master's Degree
11 1 (0.40%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (25.70%) QA
2 6 (2.41%) Accessibility
3 5 (2.01%) PMO
4 4 (1.61%) GDPR
5 3 (1.20%) GxP
6 2 (0.80%) SLA
7 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
7 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.81%) Docker
2 5 (2.01%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 11 (4.42%) HP ALM
2 7 (2.81%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.20%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.80%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Ansible
5 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 33 (13.25%) Oracle
2 27 (10.84%) SAP
3 16 (6.43%) Microsoft
4 13 (5.22%) HP
5 5 (2.01%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.61%) Workday
7 3 (1.20%) Citrix
8 2 (0.80%) Adobe
8 2 (0.80%) Ariba
8 2 (0.80%) Genesys
8 2 (0.80%) Google
8 2 (0.80%) Qualtrics
8 2 (0.80%) Splunk
8 2 (0.80%) UiPath
9 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.40%) Dynatrace
9 1 (0.40%) FIS
9 1 (0.40%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.40%) ScienceLogic