Testing Manager Contracts

Testing Manager
UK

The median Testing Manager daily rate in the UK is £437 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 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
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 571 699 848
Rank change year-on-year +128 +149 -177
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Manager 8 1 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% 0.002% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.002% 0.014%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 0 7
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile £411 - £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £437 - £550
75th Percentile £464 - £575
90th Percentile - - £720
UK excluding London median daily rate - - £563

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,413 56,730 84,732
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.61% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,320 39,605 59,435
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £726
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,653 1,602 2,109
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.28 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.50 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £42.37 £19.50
% change year-on-year -10.30% +117.26% +2.47%

Testing Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Testing Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Testing Manager in the UK

Testing Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Testing Manager.

Daily rate trend for Testing Manager in the UK

Testing Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Testing Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Testing Manager in the UK

Testing Manager
Top 2 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Testing Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 26 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 +121 8 £437 - 4
London - 8 £437 - 2

Testing Manager Skill Set
Top 12 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Testing 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 featuring Testing Manager in the job title.

1 8 (100.00%) ADO
1 8 (100.00%) Project Management
1 8 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
1 8 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Test Management
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 8 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 8 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 8 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing

Testing Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 8 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 8 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (100.00%) ADO
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Architectural Design
1 8 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 8 (100.00%) DevOps
1 8 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 8 (100.00%) Project Management
1 8 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 8 (100.00%) Test Management
1 8 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing