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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 554 682 692
Rank change year-on-year +128 +10 -82
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 138 162 224
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.19% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of salaries quoted 57 121 150
10th Percentile £40,750 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £56,549
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -11.58% +16.60%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,250 £73,410 £85,000
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +10.00%

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 46,314 73,328 84,833
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 94.13% 85.41% 95.62%
Number of salaries quoted 23,693 53,833 50,206
10th Percentile £30,000 £29,000 £34,324
25th Percentile £42,000 £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 £76,000 £73,250 £82,500
90th Percentile £98,474 £93,750 £102,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,180
% change year-on-year +4.55% -10.10% +1.97%

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 16 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 16 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 +110 41 £55,000 +10.00% 22
London +103 36 £65,000 - 41
Midlands +66 28 £52,500 +5.00% 18
East of England +50 18 £55,000 +37.50% 9
East Midlands +46 15 £70,000 - 4
North of England +37 15 £51,498 -6.37% 10
West Midlands +45 13 £51,250 +2.50% 14
North West -7 11 £43,250 -30.80% 9
South West +93 6 £40,000 -20.00% 9
Yorkshire +67 4 £82,500 +50.00%
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%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.35%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.45%) Microsoft Office
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 S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (15.22%) Azure
2 9 (6.52%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (4.35%) AWS
4 5 (3.62%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.17%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.45%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.45%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.72%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.72%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.72%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.72%) GitHub
7 1 (0.72%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (46.38%) TCP/IP
1 64 (46.38%) VPN
2 1 (0.72%) Bluetooth
2 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%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.72%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (47.10%) Cucumber
2 64 (46.38%) Robot Framework
3 35 (25.36%) JIRA
4 18 (13.04%) Selenium
5 13 (9.42%) TestRail
6 9 (6.52%) Cypress.io
6 9 (6.52%) Jenkins
6 9 (6.52%) Postman
7 7 (5.07%) JMeter
7 7 (5.07%) JUnit
8 6 (4.35%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.62%) Appium
10 4 (2.90%) Gatling
10 4 (2.90%) WebDriver
11 3 (2.17%) Git
11 3 (2.17%) GitLab
11 3 (2.17%) MSTest
11 3 (2.17%) REST Assured
11 3 (2.17%) Zephyr
12 2 (1.45%) Locust
General
1 92 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 65 (47.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (46.38%) Telecoms
4 19 (13.77%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (13.04%) Finance
6 13 (9.42%) Law
7 6 (4.35%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.62%) Banking
9 4 (2.90%) Games
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
12 1 (0.72%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 78 (56.52%) Test Engineer
2 66 (47.83%) Test Automation Engineer
3 12 (8.70%) Tester
4 11 (7.97%) Test Manager
5 10 (7.25%) Analyst
6 9 (6.52%) Lead
7 8 (5.80%) Test Leader
8 7 (5.07%) QA Engineer
9 6 (4.35%) QA Analyst
9 6 (4.35%) Software Tester
10 5 (3.62%) SCADA Engineer
11 4 (2.90%) Head of Engineering
11 4 (2.90%) Head of Software Engineering
11 4 (2.90%) QA Leader
11 4 (2.90%) Senior
11 4 (2.90%) Senior Manager
11 4 (2.90%) Test Analyst
12 3 (2.17%) Automation Tester
12 3 (2.17%) QA Manager
12 3 (2.17%) Quality Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.52%) Node.js
2 7 (5.07%) React
3 6 (4.35%) Bootstrap
3 6 (4.35%) HTML
3 6 (4.35%) Middleware
3 6 (4.35%) Redux
4 5 (3.62%) Playwright
5 4 (2.90%) CSS
6 3 (2.17%) .NET
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%) Kafka
7 2 (1.45%) OAuth
7 2 (1.45%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.45%) SAML
8 1 (0.72%) pytest
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 5 (3.62%) Product Ownership
5 4 (2.90%) Mobile App
6 2 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.72%) BBC
7 1 (0.72%) Client/Server
7 1 (0.72%) IoT
7 1 (0.72%) Low-Code
7 1 (0.72%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.72%) Online Games
7 1 (0.72%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.72%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (0.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 65 (47.10%) Windows
2 64 (46.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 102 (73.91%) Test Automation
2 85 (61.59%) Problem-Solving
3 82 (59.42%) DevOps
4 66 (47.83%) Coaching
4 66 (47.83%) Mentoring
4 66 (47.83%) System Testing
5 43 (31.16%) Agile
6 26 (18.84%) Manual Testing
7 24 (17.39%) Software Testing
8 20 (14.49%) Regression Testing
9 19 (13.77%) Test Strategy
10 18 (13.04%) Defect Management
10 18 (13.04%) Performance Testing
10 18 (13.04%) Scrum
11 16 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
12 15 (10.87%) CI/CD
12 15 (10.87%) Defect Tracking
13 14 (10.14%) Test Scripting
14 13 (9.42%) Continuous Improvement
15 11 (7.97%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 85 (61.59%) JavaScript
2 74 (53.62%) Python
3 64 (46.38%) Bash
3 64 (46.38%) PowerShell
4 16 (11.59%) SQL
5 12 (8.70%) Java
6 10 (7.25%) C#
7 7 (5.07%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 73 (52.90%) Degree
2 16 (11.59%) ISTQB
3 8 (5.80%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 5 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (3.62%) Security Cleared
5 4 (2.90%) ISEB
6 3 (2.17%) Azure Certification
6 3 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 3 (2.17%) CISSP
6 3 (2.17%) DBS Check
6 3 (2.17%) Numerate Degree
6 3 (2.17%) SC Cleared
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.72%) AWS Certified Developer
7 1 (0.72%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 111 (80.43%) QA
2 4 (2.90%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.72%) GDPR
4 1 (0.72%) MiFID
4 1 (0.72%) PSD2
4 1 (0.72%) SLA
System Software
1 2 (1.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (4.35%) HP ALM
2 4 (2.90%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (5.07%) HP
1 7 (5.07%) Oracle
2 6 (4.35%) MuleSoft
3 5 (3.62%) Microsoft
4 3 (2.17%) Aderant
4 3 (2.17%) iManage
4 3 (2.17%) Intapp
5 2 (1.45%) SAP
6 1 (0.72%) CheckPoint
6 1 (0.72%) Cognos
6 1 (0.72%) Concur
6 1 (0.72%) UiPath