Programme Test Manager Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Programme Test Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Programme Test Manager daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 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
6 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 307 345 440
Rank change year-on-year +38 +95 +152
Contract jobs requiring a Programme Test Manager 7 2 16
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.069% 0.014% 0.066%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.073% 0.015% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £392 - £513
25th Percentile £455 £506 £533
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £513 £613
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -16.33% -2.00%
75th Percentile £625 £519 £809
90th Percentile £640 - £838
UK median daily rate £600 £575 £600
% change year-on-year +4.35% -4.17% -4.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,557 13,653 23,058
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.93% 93.71% 95.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,414 9,187 16,273
10th Percentile £325 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £425 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £638 £635 £650
90th Percentile £760 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% +1.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 275 543 550
10th Percentile £13.85 £14.16 £16.98
25th Percentile £17.21 £22.50 £25.00
Median hourly rate £34.48 £43.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -14.00% +25.00%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.13 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £79.02
UK median hourly rate £26.45 £37.50 £43.63
% change year-on-year -29.47% -14.05% +74.52%

Programme Test Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Programme Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Programme Test Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Programme Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Programme Test Manager.

Programme Test Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Programme Test Manager over the 6 months to 6 July 2025.

Programme Test Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Programme Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 July 2025, Programme Test 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Programme Test Manager in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Snow
4 1 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 1 (14.29%) Programme Delivery
4 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
4 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Tricentis qTest
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Roadmaps
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) GCP
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management

Programme Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
1 1 (14.29%) Retail
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) RFC 2544
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Risk Management
1 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
3 2 (28.57%) Service Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Test Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
3 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Waterfall
4 1 (14.29%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Data Centre Operations
4 1 (14.29%) Defect Management
4 1 (14.29%) Line Management
4 1 (14.29%) Mentoring
4 1 (14.29%) Process Improvement
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
1 1 (14.29%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) ServiceNow
1 2 (28.57%) Snow
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco
2 1 (14.29%) HP
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft