Test Management Contract Job Trends in West Yorkshire

Test Management
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Yorkshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 92 67 72
Rank change year-on-year -25 +5 +16
Contract jobs citing Test Management 3 3 2
As % of all contract jobs in West Yorkshire 0.23% 0.42% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.46% 0.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile £568 - £439
25th Percentile £575 £285 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £295 £450
Median % change year-on-year +103.39% -34.44% -16.28%
75th Percentile £625 £305 £459
90th Percentile £633 - £461
Yorkshire median daily rate £575 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +27.78% - -14.29%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 West Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,136 647 735
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 85.35% 90.36% 85.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 672 412 472
10th Percentile £318 £303 £311
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £492 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -1.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £556 £575
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 21 27
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £16.83 - £12.15
Median hourly rate £24.00 £22.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.40% +80.00% -33.51%
75th Percentile £35.00 £34.46 £22.25
90th Percentile £43.96 £81.25 £33.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.31%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire.

Test Management job vacancy trend in West Yorkshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Test Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Test Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Yorkshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 31 July 2026. 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
Leeds -27 2 £625 +111.86% 2
Bradford - 1 £575 -
Test Management
Yorkshire

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
General
1 2 (66.67%) Retail
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Test Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 3 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (33.33%) Collaborative Culture
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Customer Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Manual Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Order Management
3 1 (33.33%) Performance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Software Delivery
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (66.67%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) Accessibility