Test Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 103 128
Rank change year-on-year +24 +25 +1
Contract jobs citing Test Management 18 8 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.34% 0.41% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.49% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile £459 £427 £371
25th Percentile £502 £468 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £485 £493
Median % change year-on-year +10.82% -1.62% -1.40%
75th Percentile £584 £503 £506
90th Percentile £606 - £548
England median daily rate £500 £514 £525
% change year-on-year -2.68% -2.14% +5.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,188 1,636 2,114
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.33% 84.03% 88.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 786 1,083 1,452
10th Percentile £195 £275 £263
25th Percentile £381 £375 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £512
Median % change year-on-year - -2.34% +5.03%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £675 £750 £694
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 115 45
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.09 £12.20
25th Percentile £14.14 £14.00 £13.31
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +26.98% +4.24%
75th Percentile £23.99 £41.13 £23.75
90th Percentile £38.19 £57.75 £51.25
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
Birmingham +27 11 £550 +37.50% 4
Warwickshire +5 5 £463 -
Shropshire -5 2 £507 +4.63%
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 2 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.56%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.56%) Azure
1 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (5.56%) SaaS
1 1 (5.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (11.11%) IDMS
Development Applications
1 11 (61.11%) JIRA
2 2 (11.11%) Atlassian Bamboo
2 2 (11.11%) Bitbucket
2 2 (11.11%) CA Gen
3 1 (5.56%) Cucumber
3 1 (5.56%) LoadRunner
3 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (27.78%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (27.78%) Social Skills
2 3 (16.67%) Retail
3 2 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Advertising
Job Titles
1 5 (27.78%) Test Manager
1 5 (27.78%) Tester
2 4 (22.22%) Lead
3 3 (16.67%) ERP Manager
3 3 (16.67%) QA Leader
4 2 (11.11%) Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) JIRA Consultant
4 2 (11.11%) QA Manager
4 2 (11.11%) Telecoms Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Applications Tester
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Manager
5 1 (5.56%) SAP Test Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Test Leader
5 1 (5.56%) UAT Manager
5 1 (5.56%) UAT Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Middleware
2 1 (5.56%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 5 (27.78%) Product Ownership
1 5 (27.78%) SCADA
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.11%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (72.22%) Test Strategy
2 12 (66.67%) Agile
3 8 (44.44%) Defect Management
4 7 (38.89%) Scrum
4 7 (38.89%) System Integration Testing
5 6 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 5 (27.78%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (27.78%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (27.78%) Test Assurance
6 5 (27.78%) User Acceptance Testing
6 5 (27.78%) User Stories
7 4 (22.22%) Change Management
7 4 (22.22%) Integration Testing
7 4 (22.22%) Network Monitoring
8 3 (16.67%) ERP
8 3 (16.67%) Performance Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Regression Testing
8 3 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 2 (11.11%) Scalability Testing
9 2 (11.11%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) COBOL
1 2 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 2 (11.11%) ISEB
2 2 (11.11%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (5.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) Oracle
2 5 (27.78%) HP
2 5 (27.78%) MuleSoft
3 2 (11.11%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) Micro Focus
4 1 (5.56%) Microsoft