Test Management Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Test Management
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 86 103
Rank change year-on-year -32 +17 +31
Contract jobs citing Test Management 15 3 7
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 0.82% 0.25% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.29% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 4
10th Percentile £315 - £451
25th Percentile £355 £413 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £417 £425 £563
Median % change year-on-year -1.88% -24.44% +12.50%
75th Percentile £488 £438 £650
90th Percentile £530 - £740
England median daily rate £450 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -14.29% - +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,637 1,024 1,634
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.60% 86.05% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,097 612 1,041
10th Percentile £250 £235 £300
25th Percentile £385 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £483 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.10% -3.50% -2.44%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £640 £687 £688
England median daily rate £506 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -3.62% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 30 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £15.69
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £21.75 £21.31
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% +2.06% +1.48%
75th Percentile £43.59 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £59.65 £60.29 £38.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.25
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.90% +18.63%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 14 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in Yorkshire

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

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

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 14 December 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
South Yorkshire -35 10 £450 - 1
North Yorkshire - 3 £375 - 2
West Yorkshire -15 2 - -
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 12 (80.00%) Azure
2 8 (53.33%) AWS
2 8 (53.33%) GCP
3 3 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub
4 2 (13.33%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (86.67%) JIRA
2 12 (80.00%) Postman
3 9 (60.00%) SoapUI
4 4 (26.67%) TestRail
4 4 (26.67%) Zephyr
5 2 (13.33%) Cucumber
5 2 (13.33%) Git
5 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 2 (13.33%) Selenium
5 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 9 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Banking
3 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (53.33%) Analyst
1 8 (53.33%) Test Analyst
2 3 (20.00%) Tester
3 2 (13.33%) Manual Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Test Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Automation Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support
4 1 (6.67%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead
4 1 (6.67%) Security Analyst
4 1 (6.67%) Senior
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Manual Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
4 1 (6.67%) Support Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) Playwright
2 2 (13.33%) JSON
2 2 (13.33%) REST
2 2 (13.33%) XML
3 1 (6.67%) .NET
3 1 (6.67%) FHIR
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) NHS
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
1 13 (86.67%) API Testing
2 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
3 11 (73.33%) Software Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Identity Access Management
4 9 (60.00%) Privileged Access Management
4 9 (60.00%) Scrum
5 8 (53.33%) Cloud Security
5 8 (53.33%) DevSecOps
5 8 (53.33%) Kanban
5 8 (53.33%) Security Testing
6 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (26.67%) Defect Management
7 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
7 4 (26.67%) Validation
8 3 (20.00%) DevOps
8 3 (20.00%) Process Improvement
9 2 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
9 2 (13.33%) Cybersecurity
9 2 (13.33%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
1 2 (13.33%) Java
1 2 (13.33%) Python
1 2 (13.33%) XPath
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 8 (53.33%) CISM
1 8 (53.33%) CISSP
1 8 (53.33%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (40.00%) GDPR
1 6 (40.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (40.00%) NIST
1 6 (40.00%) PCI DSS
2 4 (26.67%) QA
3 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 12 (80.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (60.00%) BeyondTrust
2 9 (60.00%) CyberArk
2 9 (60.00%) Thycotic
3 8 (53.33%) Google
4 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
4 1 (6.67%) Splunk