Test Management Jobs in England

Test Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 541 689 688
Rank change year-on-year +148 -1 -55
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 138 161 222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.18% 0.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.21% 0.27%
Number of salaries quoted 54 118 151
10th Percentile £40,375 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,125 £43,125 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,249 £50,000 £56,549
Median % change year-on-year +6.50% -11.58% +13.10%
75th Percentile £75,000 £70,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,625 £72,500 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 46,342 75,409 81,364
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 93.97% 83.96% 95.53%
Number of salaries quoted 23,102 54,812 48,959
10th Percentile £29,250 £29,000 £34,452
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £46,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £82,500
90th Percentile £97,528 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,000 £55,000 £60,899
% change year-on-year +3.64% -9.69% +1.50%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Management in England.

Salary trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the England region over the 6 months to 31 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +90 42 £51,000 +2.00% 20
London +103 36 £62,500 -2.43% 40
Midlands +68 29 £45,000 -10.00% 18
East of England +57 18 £55,000 +37.50% 6
East Midlands +58 16 £45,000 -35.71% 4
West Midlands +44 13 £51,250 +2.50% 14
North of England +22 13 £82,500 +50.00% 12
North West -13 9 £46,999 -24.80% 8
South West +95 6 £40,000 -20.00% 15
Yorkshire +55 4 £82,500 +50.00% 3
Test Management
UK

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 5 (3.62%) Confluence
2 1 (0.72%) Apache
2 1 (0.72%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.72%) Appian
2 1 (0.72%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.72%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.45%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.72%) Magento
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.72%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.72%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.72%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (14.49%) Azure
2 8 (5.80%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.07%) AWS
4 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.90%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.45%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.72%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.72%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 64 (46.38%) TCP/IP
1 64 (46.38%) VPN
2 2 (1.45%) Firewall
3 1 (0.72%) Bluetooth
3 1 (0.72%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.17%) Power BI
2 2 (1.45%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.72%) Airbyte
3 1 (0.72%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (47.10%) Robot Framework
2 64 (46.38%) Cucumber
3 34 (24.64%) JIRA
4 18 (13.04%) Selenium
5 9 (6.52%) TestRail
6 8 (5.80%) Cypress.io
6 8 (5.80%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.80%) Postman
7 7 (5.07%) JMeter
8 6 (4.35%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.62%) Appium
9 5 (3.62%) JUnit
10 4 (2.90%) Gatling
10 4 (2.90%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.17%) GitLab
11 3 (2.17%) MSTest
11 3 (2.17%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.45%) Git
12 2 (1.45%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.45%) Zephyr
General
1 91 (65.94%) Social Skills
2 65 (47.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (46.38%) Telecoms
4 20 (14.49%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (12.32%) Finance
6 13 (9.42%) Law
7 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.62%) Banking
9 4 (2.90%) Legal
9 4 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
10 3 (2.17%) Private Banking
10 3 (2.17%) Retail
10 3 (2.17%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.45%) Military
11 2 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.72%) Games
12 1 (0.72%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 76 (55.07%) Test Engineer
2 66 (47.83%) Test Automation Engineer
3 11 (7.97%) Tester
4 10 (7.25%) Analyst
4 10 (7.25%) Test Manager
5 9 (6.52%) Lead
5 9 (6.52%) Test Leader
6 6 (4.35%) QA Analyst
6 6 (4.35%) QA Engineer
6 6 (4.35%) Senior
7 5 (3.62%) SCADA Engineer
7 5 (3.62%) Software Tester
8 4 (2.90%) Head of Engineering
8 4 (2.90%) Head of Software Engineering
8 4 (2.90%) Senior Manager
8 4 (2.90%) Test Analyst
9 3 (2.17%) Automation Tester
9 3 (2.17%) Migration Manager
9 3 (2.17%) QA Leader
10 2 (1.45%) QA Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.52%) Node.js
2 7 (5.07%) HTML
2 7 (5.07%) React
3 6 (4.35%) Bootstrap
3 6 (4.35%) Middleware
3 6 (4.35%) Redux
4 5 (3.62%) CSS
5 4 (2.90%) Playwright
6 3 (2.17%) .NET
6 3 (2.17%) Kafka
6 3 (2.17%) REST
6 3 (2.17%) RESTful
7 2 (1.45%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.45%) FreeMarker
7 2 (1.45%) JWT
7 2 (1.45%) OAuth
7 2 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.45%) SAML
8 1 (0.72%) Apache NiFi
8 1 (0.72%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 64 (46.38%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (5.07%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.35%) SCADA
4 4 (2.90%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.17%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.45%) Low-Code
6 2 (1.45%) PKI
7 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.72%) BBC
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.72%) e-Learning
7 1 (0.72%) IoT
7 1 (0.72%) Life Science
7 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.72%) Renewable Energy
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 66 (47.83%) Windows
2 65 (47.10%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 98 (71.01%) Test Automation
2 83 (60.14%) Problem-Solving
3 80 (57.97%) DevOps
4 67 (48.55%) Mentoring
5 65 (47.10%) System Testing
6 64 (46.38%) Coaching
7 44 (31.88%) Agile
8 24 (17.39%) Manual Testing
9 20 (14.49%) Regression Testing
9 20 (14.49%) Software Testing
9 20 (14.49%) Test Strategy
10 19 (13.77%) Defect Management
11 18 (13.04%) User Acceptance Testing
12 17 (12.32%) Performance Testing
12 17 (12.32%) Scrum
13 15 (10.87%) CI/CD
14 14 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
14 14 (10.14%) Test Scripting
15 11 (7.97%) Integration Testing
16 10 (7.25%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 84 (60.87%) JavaScript
2 75 (54.35%) Python
3 64 (46.38%) Bash
3 64 (46.38%) PowerShell
4 17 (12.32%) SQL
5 11 (7.97%) Java
6 7 (5.07%) C#
7 6 (4.35%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.72%) C
8 1 (0.72%) C++
8 1 (0.72%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.72%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 72 (52.17%) Degree
2 16 (11.59%) ISTQB
3 9 (6.52%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 4 (2.90%) BPSS Clearance
5 4 (2.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (2.90%) ISEB
5 4 (2.90%) SC Cleared
6 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.17%) CISSP
6 3 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
7 2 (1.45%) DV Cleared
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 107 (77.54%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.45%) SLA
4 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) MiFID
4 1 (0.72%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.35%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.17%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.45%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.72%) Ansible
4 1 (0.72%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) Oracle
2 6 (4.35%) HP
2 6 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 4 (2.90%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.17%) Aderant
4 3 (2.17%) iManage
4 3 (2.17%) Intapp
4 3 (2.17%) SAP
5 2 (1.45%) UiPath
6 1 (0.72%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (0.72%) Black Duck
6 1 (0.72%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.72%) Cognos
6 1 (0.72%) Concur
6 1 (0.72%) Coverity
6 1 (0.72%) VMware