Test Manager Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Test Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Test Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 115 97 121
Rank change year-on-year -18 +24 +19
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 11 16 10
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.59% 0.85% 0.48%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.91% 0.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 9 6
10th Percentile - £457 £443
25th Percentile £350 £513 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £725 £500
Median % change year-on-year -44.83% +45.00% +9.89%
75th Percentile £563 £756 £538
90th Percentile £623 £763 £575
England median daily rate £525 £507 £550
% change year-on-year +3.65% -7.91% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £35.00 -
England median hourly rate - £62.50 £52.50
% change year-on-year - +19.05% +2.94%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,654 1,757 1,964
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.16% 93.01% 95.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,067 1,106 1,343
10th Percentile £237 £213 £226
25th Percentile £380 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £588 £613 £600
90th Percentile £675 £713 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -2.86% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 62 66
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.60 £15.19
25th Percentile £15.53 £14.44 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £22.05 £22.65
Median % change year-on-year +14.08% -2.65% +26.79%
75th Percentile £40.07 £33.23 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £48.43 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £45.88
% change year-on-year -42.71% -4.32% +73.82%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Test Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Test Manager job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 7 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Test Manager
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 Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 October 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
Warwickshire 0 5 - -
Walsall - 2 £350 - 1
Birmingham -7 1 £625 -15.25%
West Bromwich - 1 - -
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 7 October 2025, Test Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 5 (45.45%) QA
1 5 (45.45%) Test Management
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
1 5 (45.45%) Defect Management
2 4 (36.36%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
2 4 (36.36%) Validation
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) JIRA
3 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Finance
3 3 (27.27%) Cisco
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Service Management
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) Firewall
3 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
3 3 (27.27%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (27.27%) Use Case
3 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) RFC 2544
3 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (18.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
1 2 (18.18%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (9.09%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Azure
1 4 (36.36%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (9.09%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 3 (27.27%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) LoadRunner
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Data Centre
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (45.45%) Defect Management
1 5 (45.45%) Test Automation
1 5 (45.45%) Test Management
2 4 (36.36%) Agile
2 4 (36.36%) DevOps
2 4 (36.36%) Risk Management
2 4 (36.36%) Test Scripting
2 4 (36.36%) User Acceptance Testing
2 4 (36.36%) Validation
3 3 (27.27%) Configuration Management
3 3 (27.27%) Data Centre Operations
3 3 (27.27%) Disaster Recovery
3 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
3 3 (27.27%) Resource Management
3 3 (27.27%) Service Management
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
3 3 (27.27%) Use Case
4 2 (18.18%) Issue Tracking
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) SC Cleared
1 3 (27.27%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Cisco
2 2 (18.18%) Adobe
3 1 (9.09%) HP
3 1 (9.09%) Micro Focus
3 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (9.09%) Oracle
3 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
3 1 (9.09%) SAP
3 1 (9.09%) Workday