Testing Manager Contracts

Testing Manager
UK

The median Testing Manager daily rate in the UK is £719, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 545 - 653
Rank change year-on-year - - +201
Contract jobs requiring a Testing Manager 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.018% - 0.006%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% - 0.006%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £623 - £401
25th Percentile £656 - £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £719 - £488
Median % change year-on-year - - -12.36%
75th Percentile £751 - £547
90th Percentile £795 - £564
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 30,132 36,077 49,221
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.30% 92.88% 94.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,016 23,240 33,998
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,536 2,025 1,461
10th Percentile £13.60 £14.25 £14.42
25th Percentile £17.21 £20.30 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%
75th Percentile £53.78 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +20.00% +75.32%

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
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Testing Manager over the 6 months to 15 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 5 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 15 August 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
England - 6 £719 - 6
London - 5 £726 - 4
North West - 1 £600 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £600 - 6
North of England - 1 £600 - 1

Testing Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 August 2025, 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 4 (66.67%) ITIL
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (50.00%) Legal
2 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
3 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (33.33%) International Banking
4 1 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) QA
4 1 (16.67%) Release Management
4 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (16.67%) Ansible
4 1 (16.67%) DevOps
4 1 (16.67%) Azure

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 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Hub
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) GitLab
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (66.67%) Finance
2 3 (50.00%) Banking
2 3 (50.00%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Financial Institution
3 2 (33.33%) International Banking
3 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Replication
2 2 (33.33%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (66.67%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (50.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (50.00%) PRINCE2
2 3 (50.00%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Regulatory Compliance
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Configuration Management
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Process Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
1 2 (33.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Certification
2 1 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CREST Certified
2 1 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 2 (33.33%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow