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 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 344 436 404
Rank change year-on-year +92 -32 +32
Contract jobs citing Test Management 256 274 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.47% 0.62%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.69% 0.53% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 192 187 429
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 £625 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £504 £480
% change year-on-year -0.79% +5.00% +7.87%
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 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
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% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

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 11 May 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 11 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
England +89 226 £500 -4.76% 49
UK excluding London +79 135 £500 -0.79% 32
London +71 98 £515 -6.36% 12
Work from Home +104 95 £519 +2.12% 16
South East +23 60 £550 +10.00% 12
North of England +28 16 £438 -20.45% 4
South West +17 16 £425 -19.05% 4
East of England +25 15 £375 -11.76% 4
Scotland +45 11 £539 +3.06% 1
Midlands +28 11 £485 -1.62% 7
North West +19 9 £425 -22.73% 4
West Midlands +14 8 £485 -1.62% 4
Yorkshire +10 6 £450 -18.18%
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +21 3 £620 +29.17% 3
Wales - 2 £210 - 1
North East +15 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 9 (3.52%) Confluence
2 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.39%) CMS
3 1 (0.39%) nginx
3 1 (0.39%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.39%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.39%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (3.91%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.08%) Oracle EBS
1 13 (5.08%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.52%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.17%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.78%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.39%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 48 (18.75%) Azure
2 30 (11.72%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.64%) AWS
4 11 (4.30%) BrowserStack
5 9 (3.52%) Firebase
6 8 (3.13%) BlazeMeter
7 7 (2.73%) OCI
8 6 (2.34%) Power Platform
8 6 (2.34%) SaaS
8 6 (2.34%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 4 (1.56%) PowerApps
10 3 (1.17%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (1.17%) GitHub
11 2 (0.78%) Datadog
11 2 (0.78%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (0.78%) GCP
11 2 (0.78%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.78%) OneDrive
11 2 (0.78%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.78%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.95%) Firewall
2 2 (0.78%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.39%) 3G
3 1 (0.39%) 4G
3 1 (0.39%) 5G
3 1 (0.39%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.39%) MQTT
3 1 (0.39%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.56%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (1.56%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.17%) Big Data
3 3 (1.17%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.17%) Power BI
4 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.39%) GIS
4 1 (0.39%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 66 (25.78%) JIRA
2 36 (14.06%) Selenium
3 31 (12.11%) JMeter
4 30 (11.72%) TestRail
5 16 (6.25%) Cypress.io
6 14 (5.47%) Jenkins
7 13 (5.08%) Cucumber
8 12 (4.69%) GitLab
8 12 (4.69%) Postman
9 10 (3.91%) Appium
10 7 (2.73%) Git
10 7 (2.73%) SpecFlow
11 6 (2.34%) JUnit
11 6 (2.34%) LoadRunner
12 4 (1.56%) FitNesse
12 4 (1.56%) Gatling
12 4 (1.56%) SoapUI
13 3 (1.17%) Team Foundation Server
13 3 (1.17%) Zephyr
14 2 (0.78%) Bitbucket
General
1 74 (28.91%) Social Skills
2 42 (16.41%) Finance
3 22 (8.59%) Public Sector
4 21 (8.20%) Analytical Skills
5 14 (5.47%) Organisational Skills
6 12 (4.69%) Banking
7 9 (3.52%) Presentation Skills
8 8 (3.13%) Games
8 8 (3.13%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (2.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 7 (2.73%) Manufacturing
10 5 (1.95%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.56%) Back Office
11 4 (1.56%) Electronics
11 4 (1.56%) Legal
11 4 (1.56%) Marketing
11 4 (1.56%) Military
11 4 (1.56%) Retail
12 3 (1.17%) Aviation
12 3 (1.17%) German Language
Job Titles
1 90 (35.16%) Test Manager
2 50 (19.53%) Analyst
3 44 (17.19%) Test Analyst
4 35 (13.67%) Lead
5 31 (12.11%) Test Leader
6 25 (9.77%) Senior
7 24 (9.38%) Tester
8 20 (7.81%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 17 (6.64%) Test Engineer
10 14 (5.47%) QA Tester
11 13 (5.08%) SAP Manager
12 9 (3.52%) Consultant
12 9 (3.52%) SAP Test Manager
13 8 (3.13%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (2.73%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.73%) QA Analyst
14 7 (2.73%) QA Test Analyst
15 6 (2.34%) Coordinator
15 6 (2.34%) SAP Consultant
16 5 (1.95%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.03%) ADO
2 12 (4.69%) WebdriverIO
3 11 (4.30%) Middleware
3 11 (4.30%) Oracle Fusion
4 9 (3.52%) REST
5 8 (3.13%) Web Services
6 7 (2.73%) Playwright
7 5 (1.95%) Gherkin
7 5 (1.95%) XML
8 4 (1.56%) SOAP
9 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
9 2 (0.78%) GraphQL
9 2 (0.78%) Jest
10 1 (0.39%) Kafka
10 1 (0.39%) SailPoint
10 1 (0.39%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.30%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.52%) Life Science
3 6 (2.34%) Mobile App
4 5 (1.95%) NHS
4 5 (1.95%) PKI
5 4 (1.56%) Equities
5 4 (1.56%) FMCG
5 4 (1.56%) Management Information System
5 4 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 4 (1.56%) Public Cloud
5 4 (1.56%) Virtual Team
6 3 (1.17%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.17%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.78%) Algorithms
7 2 (0.78%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 1 (0.39%) EPoS
8 1 (0.39%) PMI
8 1 (0.39%) Reference Data
8 1 (0.39%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.73%) Linux
2 3 (1.17%) Windows
3 2 (0.78%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.39%) CentOS
4 1 (0.39%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (41.41%) Agile
2 96 (37.50%) Test Automation
3 70 (27.34%) Test Strategy
4 53 (20.70%) DevOps
5 46 (17.97%) Test Planning
6 44 (17.19%) User Acceptance Testing
7 42 (16.41%) Problem-Solving
8 41 (16.02%) Defect Management
9 39 (15.23%) Continuous Integration
10 37 (14.45%) Scenario Testing
11 34 (13.28%) Test Scripting
12 33 (12.89%) End-to-End Testing
13 30 (11.72%) Non-Functional Testing
13 30 (11.72%) Software Testing
13 30 (11.72%) Stakeholder Management
14 29 (11.33%) Project Management
15 25 (9.77%) Waterfall
16 24 (9.38%) CI/CD
17 23 (8.98%) Performance Testing
18 21 (8.20%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (8.98%) JavaScript
2 17 (6.64%) Python
3 15 (5.86%) Java
4 12 (4.69%) SQL
5 6 (2.34%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.56%) C#
7 2 (0.78%) ProC
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
Qualifications
1 64 (25.00%) Security Cleared
2 57 (22.27%) ISTQB
3 31 (12.11%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 30 (11.72%) Degree
5 29 (11.33%) SC Cleared
6 25 (9.77%) DV Cleared
7 13 (5.08%) ISEB
8 9 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.56%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.17%) PMP
11 2 (0.78%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.78%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.39%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (25.39%) QA
2 6 (2.34%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.34%) HL7
3 5 (1.95%) PMO
4 4 (1.56%) GDPR
5 3 (1.17%) GxP
6 1 (0.39%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.39%) SLA
6 1 (0.39%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.73%) Docker
2 5 (1.95%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.39%) iptables
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 9 (3.52%) HP ALM
2 8 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
3 3 (1.17%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.78%) Terraform
5 1 (0.39%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 36 (14.06%) Oracle
2 26 (10.16%) SAP
3 16 (6.25%) Microsoft
4 11 (4.30%) HP
5 5 (1.95%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.17%) Citrix
7 2 (0.78%) Adobe
7 2 (0.78%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.78%) Genesys
7 2 (0.78%) Google
7 2 (0.78%) Qualtrics
7 2 (0.78%) Splunk
7 2 (0.78%) UiPath
8 1 (0.39%) Ariba
8 1 (0.39%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.39%) FIS
8 1 (0.39%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.39%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.39%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.39%) Workday