Test Management Job Trends in Merseyside

Test Management
North West > Merseyside

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

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -10 -3 -
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 2 1 2
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 0.15% 0.17% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.19% 0.34%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile - - £20,650
25th Percentile £77,500 - £21,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £80,000 - £23,000
75th Percentile £82,500 - £24,250
90th Percentile - - £24,550
North West median annual salary £70,000 - £51,674
% change year-on-year - - +14.83%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,013 520 593
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 75.54% 90.12% 72.94%
Number of salaries quoted 660 241 400
10th Percentile £30,000 £25,750 £31,155
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £53,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +6.00% +1.52%
75th Percentile £71,250 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £75,000 £83,750
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,500
% change year-on-year +10.00% -0.99% -8.18%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Test Management
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Test Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing Test Management

Test Management
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 15 September 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
Liverpool -20 2 £80,000 - 2
Test Management
North West

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 2 (100.00%) Azure
1 2 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) TestRail
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (50.00%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) AI
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA