Test Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 255 255 368
Rank change year-on-year 0 +113 +21
Contract jobs citing Test Management 49 90 109
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.49% 0.59% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.67% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 64 67
10th Percentile £316 £333 £385
25th Percentile £350 £417 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £523 £603 £581
90th Percentile £643 £633 £800
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -2.44% -2.38% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £81.75 - -
Median hourly rate £83.50 £11.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +659.09% - -
75th Percentile £85.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £60.00 £11.00 -
% change year-on-year +445.45% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Test Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Test Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Test Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Management.

Test Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
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 2 (4.08%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Aladdin
1 2 (4.08%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (4.08%) SimCorp Dimension
2 1 (2.04%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 11 (22.45%) Azure
1 11 (22.45%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (12.24%) GitHub
3 4 (8.16%) BrowserStack
4 3 (6.12%) Sauce Labs
5 2 (4.08%) Azure API Management
5 2 (4.08%) Azure Functions
5 2 (4.08%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (4.08%) Entra ID
5 2 (4.08%) GCP
5 2 (4.08%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.08%) OCI
5 2 (4.08%) Serverless
6 1 (2.04%) AWS
6 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.04%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.04%) PowerApps
6 1 (2.04%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) Firewall
2 1 (2.04%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 24 (48.98%) JIRA
2 7 (14.29%) Postman
3 5 (10.20%) Jenkins
3 5 (10.20%) REST Assured
4 4 (8.16%) Cypress.io
4 4 (8.16%) JMeter
5 3 (6.12%) Git
5 3 (6.12%) GitLab
5 3 (6.12%) Selenium
6 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
6 2 (4.08%) LoadRunner
6 2 (4.08%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (4.08%) TestRail
7 1 (2.04%) Appium
7 1 (2.04%) HP UFT
7 1 (2.04%) JUnit
7 1 (2.04%) NeoLoad
7 1 (2.04%) Oracle APEX
7 1 (2.04%) Robot Framework
7 1 (2.04%) Zephyr
General
1 20 (40.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (10.20%) Documentation Skills
4 3 (6.12%) Banking
4 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 2 (4.08%) Back Office
5 2 (4.08%) Finance
5 2 (4.08%) Local Government
5 2 (4.08%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Automotive
6 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.04%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.04%) Marketing
6 1 (2.04%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (2.04%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (2.04%) Retail
6 1 (2.04%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 15 (30.61%) Test Manager
2 13 (26.53%) Tester
3 9 (18.37%) Lead
4 8 (16.33%) Test Leader
5 4 (8.16%) Analyst
5 4 (8.16%) Automation Tester
5 4 (8.16%) Test Analyst
6 2 (4.08%) Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Azure Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Designer
6 2 (4.08%) Programme Test Manager
6 2 (4.08%) Project Manager
6 2 (4.08%) QA Leader
6 2 (4.08%) QA Manager
6 2 (4.08%) QA Test Manager
6 2 (4.08%) QA Tester
6 2 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (4.08%) Test Consultant
6 2 (4.08%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (12.24%) Playwright
2 4 (8.16%) Middleware
2 4 (8.16%) RFC 2544
3 3 (6.12%) REST
4 2 (4.08%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.04%) Kafka
5 1 (2.04%) Node.js
5 1 (2.04%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.20%) Product Ownership
2 4 (8.16%) Data Centre
3 2 (4.08%) Management Information System
3 2 (4.08%) SCADA
3 2 (4.08%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.04%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.04%) Derivative
4 1 (2.04%) EPoS
4 1 (2.04%) Equities
4 1 (2.04%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.04%) FMCG
4 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.04%) Life Science
4 1 (2.04%) Pricing Data
4 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (51.02%) Agile
2 20 (40.82%) Test Automation
3 18 (36.73%) Test Strategy
4 12 (24.49%) DevOps
4 12 (24.49%) End-to-End Testing
4 12 (24.49%) Integration Testing
5 11 (22.45%) Performance Testing
5 11 (22.45%) Test Scripting
5 11 (22.45%) User Acceptance Testing
6 10 (20.41%) Defect Management
6 10 (20.41%) Non-Functional Testing
6 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
6 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (20.41%) System Integration Testing
6 10 (20.41%) Test Planning
7 8 (16.33%) CI/CD
8 7 (14.29%) API Testing
8 7 (14.29%) Regression Testing
8 7 (14.29%) Security Testing
8 7 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 5 (10.20%) JavaScript
1 5 (10.20%) SQL
1 5 (10.20%) TypeScript
2 2 (4.08%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 10 (20.41%) Security Cleared
2 8 (16.33%) SC Cleared
3 6 (12.24%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.08%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.08%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 1 (2.04%) Degree
5 1 (2.04%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.04%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (26.53%) QA
2 4 (8.16%) Accessibility
3 3 (6.12%) GDPR
4 2 (4.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (2.04%) EMIR
5 1 (2.04%) GxP
5 1 (2.04%) MiFID
5 1 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (4.08%) Active Directory
1 2 (4.08%) Docker
1 2 (4.08%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (16.33%) HP ALM
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
Vendors
1 9 (18.37%) Oracle
2 8 (16.33%) HP
3 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
4 4 (8.16%) Cisco
4 4 (8.16%) SAP
5 2 (4.08%) Google
5 2 (4.08%) MuleSoft
5 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 2 (4.08%) ServiceNow
5 2 (4.08%) SimCorp
6 1 (2.04%) Ariba
6 1 (2.04%) Calypso
6 1 (2.04%) Micro Focus
6 1 (2.04%) Snow