Test Management Job Trends in London

Test Management
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London requiring Test Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 328 405 417
Rank change year-on-year +77 +12 +131
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 43 30 33
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.30% 0.19% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.20% 0.20%
Number of salaries quoted 23 20 21
10th Percentile £50,000 £50,000 £51,250
25th Percentile £52,750 £63,265 £62,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,047 £71,750 £74,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -3.04% +10.86%
75th Percentile £76,123 £87,438 £87,500
90th Percentile £77,500 £96,000 -
England median annual salary £50,000 £60,000 £61,250
% change year-on-year -16.67% -2.04% +17.79%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,403 14,702 16,737
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.67% 94.61% 92.38%
Number of salaries quoted 7,935 8,102 13,389
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £52,500 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,000 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.33% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,000 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in London

Test Management
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Test Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Test Management

Test Management
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in London over the 6 months to 15 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Management in London

Test Management
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the London region over the 6 months to 15 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
Central London +38 2 £73,000 -2.67% 1
West London - 2 £32,500 -
South London - 1 - - 4
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 2 (4.65%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (13.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (4.65%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (9.30%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (9.30%) Elite 3E
2 3 (6.98%) SAP CX
3 2 (4.65%) IBM Planning Analytics
3 2 (4.65%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (4.65%) Workday HCM
4 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
4 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 19 (44.19%) Azure
2 15 (34.88%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (13.95%) AWS
4 5 (11.63%) BrowserStack
4 5 (11.63%) Tricentis Tosca
5 4 (9.30%) Azure Data Factory
5 4 (9.30%) Dynamics 365
5 4 (9.30%) Microsoft Purview
6 3 (6.98%) Adobe Analytics
6 3 (6.98%) Datadog
6 3 (6.98%) Power Platform
7 2 (4.65%) BlazeMeter
7 2 (4.65%) GCP
7 2 (4.65%) SaaS
7 2 (4.65%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (2.33%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (2.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (2.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (13.95%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (9.30%) Metadata
3 3 (6.98%) Mixpanel
3 3 (6.98%) Relational Database
4 2 (4.65%) Oracle Database
4 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (2.33%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (2.33%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 34 (79.07%) JIRA
2 17 (39.53%) Selenium
3 10 (23.26%) Postman
4 8 (18.60%) Jenkins
5 7 (16.28%) JMeter
5 7 (16.28%) WebDriver
6 6 (13.95%) Cucumber
6 6 (13.95%) Team Foundation Server
6 6 (13.95%) Zephyr
7 5 (11.63%) GitLab
7 5 (11.63%) LoadRunner
7 5 (11.63%) SoapUI
7 5 (11.63%) SpecFlow
7 5 (11.63%) TestRail
8 3 (6.98%) Cypress.io
8 3 (6.98%) Fiddler
8 3 (6.98%) Git
8 3 (6.98%) NUnit
8 3 (6.98%) TestNG
8 3 (6.98%) Visual Studio
General
1 23 (53.49%) Social Skills
2 18 (41.86%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (37.21%) Finance
4 7 (16.28%) Law
5 5 (11.63%) Banking
6 4 (9.30%) Legal
7 3 (6.98%) Electronics
7 3 (6.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
8 2 (4.65%) Retail
9 1 (2.33%) Investment Banking
9 1 (2.33%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Lead
1 11 (25.58%) Test Leader
2 10 (23.26%) Senior
2 10 (23.26%) Test Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Data Engineer
4 5 (11.63%) Tester
5 4 (9.30%) Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) IT Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Senior Manager
5 4 (9.30%) Test Analyst
5 4 (9.30%) Test Automation Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Product Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
6 3 (6.98%) Senior IT Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Product Manager
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Quality Engineer
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Tester
6 3 (6.98%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) REST
2 6 (13.95%) Playwright
2 6 (13.95%) XML
3 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 3 (6.98%) ADO
3 3 (6.98%) JSON
3 3 (6.98%) Middleware
3 3 (6.98%) SOAP
4 2 (4.65%) HTML
4 2 (4.65%) Kafka
4 2 (4.65%) Spring
4 2 (4.65%) Swagger
5 1 (2.33%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.33%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 4 (9.30%) Algorithms
1 4 (9.30%) Reference Data
2 3 (6.98%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) W3C
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.65%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (4.65%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (65.12%) Agile
1 28 (65.12%) Test Automation
2 18 (41.86%) CI/CD
3 17 (39.53%) Software Testing
4 16 (37.21%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (34.88%) DevOps
5 15 (34.88%) ETL
5 15 (34.88%) Validation
6 14 (32.56%) Non-Functional Testing
6 14 (32.56%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (32.56%) Test Strategy
7 12 (27.91%) System Testing
8 11 (25.58%) Scrum
8 11 (25.58%) Waterfall
9 10 (23.26%) API Testing
9 10 (23.26%) Data Validation
10 9 (20.93%) BDD
10 9 (20.93%) Functional Testing
11 8 (18.60%) Performance Testing
11 8 (18.60%) Regression Testing
Programming Languages
1 17 (39.53%) SQL
2 9 (20.93%) Python
3 8 (18.60%) Java
4 7 (16.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 22 (51.16%) ISTQB
2 7 (16.28%) Degree
3 4 (9.30%) ISEB
3 4 (9.30%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 4 (9.30%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.30%) Security Cleared
4 3 (6.98%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 2 (4.65%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (30.23%) QA
2 10 (23.26%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.65%) Accessibility
3 2 (4.65%) SEPA
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS
4 1 (2.33%) IFRS 17
4 1 (2.33%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 2 (4.65%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 7 (16.28%) Microsoft
1 7 (16.28%) SAP
2 4 (9.30%) iManage
2 4 (9.30%) Oracle
3 3 (6.98%) Adobe
3 3 (6.98%) HP
3 3 (6.98%) Siebel
3 3 (6.98%) Tealium
4 2 (4.65%) CA Agile Central
4 2 (4.65%) CODA
4 2 (4.65%) Cognos
4 2 (4.65%) Workday
5 1 (2.33%) Ariba
5 1 (2.33%) Micro Focus
5 1 (2.33%) OpenText