Test Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Manager daily rate in Work from Home is £561 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 333 372
Rank change year-on-year +79 +39 -24
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 92 139 267
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.60% 0.54% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.56% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 86 198
10th Percentile £428 £419 £413
25th Percentile £500 £471 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £561 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +6.90% - +10.53%
75th Percentile £716 £588 £597
90th Percentile £796 £730 £670
UK median daily rate £550 £538 £523
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.87% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.18
UK median hourly rate £55.00 £62.00 £45.18
% change year-on-year -11.29% +37.23% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,287 24,650 42,700
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 95.33% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,551 17,415 30,835
10th Percentile £325 £360 £356
25th Percentile £425 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.69% +2.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £748 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 568 564 611
10th Percentile £14.27 £18.50 £13.12
25th Percentile £22.84 £26.19 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.03
% change year-on-year -20.10% +95.42% +0.12%

Test Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Manager
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Manager.

Test Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Manager over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Test Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Manager
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Manager.

Test Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 28 April 2024, 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 Test Manager in the job title.

1 37 (40.22%) Test Strategy
2 29 (31.52%) Test Management
3 25 (27.17%) Test Automation
4 24 (26.09%) Finance
5 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
6 20 (21.74%) Agile
7 19 (20.65%) Test Scripting
7 19 (20.65%) Azure
8 18 (19.57%) Test Planning
9 16 (17.39%) Security Cleared
9 16 (17.39%) QA
9 16 (17.39%) ISTQB
10 14 (15.22%) SAP
11 13 (14.13%) Migration
11 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
11 13 (14.13%) User Acceptance Testing
11 13 (14.13%) Defect Management
11 13 (14.13%) End-to-End Testing
12 12 (13.04%) DevOps
13 11 (11.96%) Waterfall
13 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
13 11 (11.96%) Integration Testing
14 10 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
14 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
15 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
15 9 (9.78%) DV Cleared
15 9 (9.78%) Functional Testing
15 9 (9.78%) JIRA
15 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
15 9 (9.78%) Project Management

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 4 (4.35%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.17%) Confluence
3 1 (1.09%) CICS
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.09%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.17%) Cerner Millennium
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (1.09%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.09%) iTrent
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (1.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 19 (20.65%) Azure
2 10 (10.87%) Dynamics 365
3 9 (9.78%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
5 3 (3.26%) OCI
6 2 (2.17%) AWS
6 2 (2.17%) GCP
6 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.09%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.26%) Power BI
2 2 (2.17%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.09%) DB2
3 1 (1.09%) IDMS
3 1 (1.09%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (9.78%) JIRA
2 6 (6.52%) Selenium
3 3 (3.26%) JMeter
3 3 (3.26%) Postman
3 3 (3.26%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.17%) SoapUI
5 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
5 1 (1.09%) JIRA Agile
5 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 24 (26.09%) Finance
2 22 (23.91%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.70%) Banking
5 5 (5.43%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.43%) Legal
5 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.35%) Electronics
6 4 (4.35%) Investment Banking
6 4 (4.35%) Marketing
6 4 (4.35%) Prime Brokerage
6 4 (4.35%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
6 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.17%) Retail
8 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.09%) Front Office
8 1 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.09%) Military
8 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.17%) Middleware
1 2 (2.17%) Oracle Fusion
1 2 (2.17%) SOAP
1 2 (2.17%) XML
2 1 (1.09%) Gherkin
2 1 (1.09%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (6.52%) Equities
2 4 (4.35%) Derivative
2 4 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 3 (3.26%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.17%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.17%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.17%) NHS
4 2 (2.17%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.17%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.09%) EPoS
5 1 (1.09%) FMCG
5 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.09%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.52%) Windows
2 5 (5.43%) Linux
3 2 (2.17%) Unix
3 2 (2.17%) VMS
3 2 (2.17%) Windows 2000
3 2 (2.17%) Windows XP
4 1 (1.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (40.22%) Test Strategy
2 29 (31.52%) Test Management
3 25 (27.17%) Test Automation
4 20 (21.74%) Agile
5 19 (20.65%) Test Scripting
6 18 (19.57%) Test Planning
7 13 (14.13%) Defect Management
7 13 (14.13%) End-to-End Testing
7 13 (14.13%) Migration
7 13 (14.13%) Software Testing
7 13 (14.13%) User Acceptance Testing
8 12 (13.04%) DevOps
9 11 (11.96%) Integration Testing
9 11 (11.96%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (11.96%) Waterfall
10 9 (9.78%) Functional Testing
10 9 (9.78%) Project Management
10 9 (9.78%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (8.70%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (8.70%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (3.26%) SQL
2 2 (2.17%) PowerShell
2 2 (2.17%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.09%) Assembly Language
3 1 (1.09%) COBOL
3 1 (1.09%) JCL
3 1 (1.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (17.39%) ISTQB
1 16 (17.39%) Security Cleared
2 9 (9.78%) DV Cleared
3 8 (8.70%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.61%) Degree
5 4 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (4.35%) ISEB
6 2 (2.17%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 2 (2.17%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.17%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.17%) PMP
7 1 (1.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (17.39%) QA
2 1 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 1 (1.09%) Def Stans
2 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
2 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.09%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (1.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (5.43%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.26%) Ansible
3 2 (2.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (15.22%) SAP
2 9 (9.78%) Microsoft
2 9 (9.78%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) HP
4 3 (3.26%) Ariba
5 2 (2.17%) Cerner
5 2 (2.17%) Fortinet
5 2 (2.17%) Juniper
5 2 (2.17%) VMware
6 1 (1.09%) Blue Prism
6 1 (1.09%) IBM
6 1 (1.09%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.09%) Temenos
6 1 (1.09%) Workday