Test Management Jobs in the North West

Test Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 280 273 298
Rank change year-on-year -7 +25 -22
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 11 24 5
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.14% 0.24% 0.064%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.29% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 5 23 2
10th Percentile £41,400 £36,250 £69,950
25th Percentile £41,625 £41,875 £72,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £43,250 £62,500 £79,000
Median % change year-on-year -30.80% -20.89% +83.72%
75th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £86,375
90th Percentile £52,948 £75,000 £90,050
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,549
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.58% +16.60%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,677 8,179 7,410
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 95.83% 82.75% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 3,992 6,212 3,861
10th Percentile £25,895 £27,500 £30,831
25th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,055 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +0.11% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £61,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £80,000 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Salary Trend in the North West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the North West.

Salary trend for Test Management in the North West

Test Management
Job Locations in the North West

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 West 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
Lancashire - 6 £51,498 - 7
Manchester +45 4 £43,250 -16.30% 5
Merseyside +35 1 - -
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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:

Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (9.09%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (9.09%) Azure
2 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 4 (36.36%) TCP/IP
1 4 (36.36%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) Cucumber
1 4 (36.36%) Robot Framework
2 3 (27.27%) Postman
2 3 (27.27%) TestRail
General
1 10 (90.91%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Finance
3 4 (36.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 4 (36.36%) Telecoms
4 3 (27.27%) Games
5 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (18.18%) Military
6 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (36.36%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (36.36%) Test Engineer
2 3 (27.27%) Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) QA Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Quality Analyst
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Manager
3 1 (9.09%) SAP Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Software Tester
3 1 (9.09%) Test Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 4 (36.36%) Linux Command Line
2 3 (27.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (36.36%) Linux
1 4 (36.36%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Problem-Solving
1 9 (81.82%) Test Automation
2 5 (45.45%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Coaching
3 4 (36.36%) Manual Testing
3 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 4 (36.36%) Software Testing
3 4 (36.36%) System Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Defect Management
4 3 (27.27%) Defect Tracking
4 3 (27.27%) Functional Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (27.27%) PRINCE2
4 3 (27.27%) Project Management
4 3 (27.27%) Security Testing
4 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
5 2 (18.18%) Contract Management
5 2 (18.18%) Project Delivery
5 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (18.18%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Bash
1 4 (36.36%) JavaScript
1 4 (36.36%) PowerShell
1 4 (36.36%) Python
2 1 (9.09%) C#
Qualifications
1 5 (45.45%) Degree
2 3 (27.27%) DBS Check
3 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (81.82%) QA
2 2 (18.18%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP