Test Management Job Trends in the North East

Test Management
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Test Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 89 59
Rank change year-on-year +12 -30 +17
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 1 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in the North East 0.10% 0.15% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.19% 0.19%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £46,073 £32,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £47,148 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +27.26% +34.71% -
75th Percentile - £48,222 £37,500
90th Percentile - - -
England median annual salary £51,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.40% +4.17% +9.09%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 819 1,040 521
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 81.98% 79.45% 95.07%
Number of salaries quoted 522 511 427
10th Percentile £25,084 £25,000 £29,500
25th Percentile £28,250 £35,500 £37,199
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,375 £49,274 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -1.45% -
75th Percentile £56,875 £65,000 £62,500
90th Percentile £75,000 £80,000 £72,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Test Management job vacancy trend in the North East

Test Management
Salary Trend in the North East

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Test Management

Test Management
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the North East region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Tyne and Wear +13 1 £60,000 +27.26% 3
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Appium
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) JMeter
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA