Test Management Job Trends in Hampshire

Test Management
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Test Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 151 123
Rank change year-on-year +58 -28 +55
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 25 4 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Hampshire 1.00% 0.15% 0.46%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.25% 0.18% 0.52%
Number of salaries quoted 21 3 8
10th Percentile £33,750 £53,500 £46,625
25th Percentile £45,000 £56,875 £56,563
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £78,000 £65,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -3.70% -
75th Percentile £97,500 £67,500 £72,500
90th Percentile - - -
South East median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year -5.00% -24.53% +25.59%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,003 2,181 1,721
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Hampshire 80.15% 81.87% 88.71%
Number of salaries quoted 1,408 1,291 1,149
10th Percentile £27,250 £32,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £45,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,921 £52,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.16% +9.46% -5.45%
75th Percentile £63,750 £72,500 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £58,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year -13.79% +10.37% -4.45%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Test Management
Salary Trend in Hampshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Test Management

Test Management
Salary Histogram in Hampshire

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in Hampshire over the 6 months to 9 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Management in Hampshire

Test Management
Job Locations in Hampshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the Hampshire region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Basingstoke +27 22 £80,750 +24.23% 2
Farnborough - 2 £37,500 -
Southampton +12 1 £90,000 +71.43% 1
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (16.00%) Apache
1 4 (16.00%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (16.00%) Appian
Cloud Services
1 21 (84.00%) Azure
1 21 (84.00%) Azure DevOps
2 17 (68.00%) AWS
3 4 (16.00%) Amazon S3
3 4 (16.00%) MinIO
3 4 (16.00%) Power Platform
4 2 (8.00%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 12 (48.00%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (16.00%) Airbyte
Development Applications
1 23 (92.00%) Selenium
2 21 (84.00%) Robot Framework
3 19 (76.00%) Snyk
4 16 (64.00%) Git
5 4 (16.00%) JIRA
6 2 (8.00%) GitLab
6 2 (8.00%) Jenkins
6 2 (8.00%) Postman
6 2 (8.00%) SoapUI
6 2 (8.00%) Team Foundation Server
6 2 (8.00%) TestRail
6 2 (8.00%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (68.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (60.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (4.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 10 (40.00%) Lead
2 8 (32.00%) DevSecOps Engineer
3 4 (16.00%) Applications Architect
3 4 (16.00%) Architect
4 2 (8.00%) Lead DevOps
4 2 (8.00%) Manual Tester
4 2 (8.00%) Test Engineer
4 2 (8.00%) Tester
5 1 (4.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Tester
5 1 (4.00%) Junior
5 1 (4.00%) Junior DevOps
5 1 (4.00%) Junior DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Lead DevOps Engineer
5 1 (4.00%) Senior
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Senior Test Manager
5 1 (4.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (16.00%) Apache NiFi
1 4 (16.00%) Kafka
2 2 (8.00%) .NET
2 2 (8.00%) Elastic Stack
2 2 (8.00%) HTML
2 2 (8.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (44.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (16.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (16.00%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 12 (48.00%) Linux
1 12 (48.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (92.00%) Test Automation
2 22 (88.00%) CI/CD
3 21 (84.00%) Agile
3 21 (84.00%) DevOps
3 21 (84.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 20 (80.00%) DevSecOps
4 20 (80.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
4 20 (80.00%) Interactive Application Security Testing
4 20 (80.00%) Secrets Management
5 18 (72.00%) Scrum
6 15 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (48.00%) Build Automation
7 12 (48.00%) Roadmaps
8 11 (44.00%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (32.00%) Mentoring
10 7 (28.00%) Dependency Management
10 7 (28.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 6 (24.00%) Security Testing
11 6 (24.00%) User Stories
12 5 (20.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (24.00%) Python
2 2 (8.00%) Bash
2 2 (8.00%) C#
2 2 (8.00%) Java
2 2 (8.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (84.00%) Security Cleared
2 18 (72.00%) DV Cleared
3 5 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 5 (20.00%) SC Cleared
4 3 (12.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
5 2 (8.00%) Degree
5 2 (8.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (4.00%) PMI Certification
6 1 (4.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (8.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 21 (84.00%) Terraform
2 19 (76.00%) Ansible
3 2 (8.00%) Grafana
3 2 (8.00%) Kubernetes
3 2 (8.00%) Nessus
3 2 (8.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 19 (76.00%) Black Duck
1 19 (76.00%) Coverity
2 4 (16.00%) BiZZdesign
2 4 (16.00%) Blue Prism
2 4 (16.00%) UiPath
2 4 (16.00%) VMware