Test Management Jobs in the South East

Test Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 271 365 356
Rank change year-on-year +94 -9 +22
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 41 31 43
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 0.43% 0.18% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.22% 0.32%
Number of salaries quoted 5 16 28
10th Percentile £45,500 £36,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,938 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £66,250
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -24.53% +26.19%
75th Percentile £67,000 £65,938 £72,500
90th Percentile £67,300 £69,375 £75,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,775
% change year-on-year +10.00% -10.35% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,818 14,215 13,529
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South East 91.86% 84.35% 94.54%
Number of salaries quoted 4,316 9,870 7,861
10th Percentile £29,750 £27,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £41,188 £36,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £70,000 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £77,500 £86,250
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the South East

Test Management
Salary Trend in the South East

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the South East.

Salary trend for Test Management in the South East

Test Management
Salary Histogram in the South East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the South East over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Management in the South East

Test Management
Job Locations in the South 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 South East region over the 6 months to 17 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
Thames Valley +74 37 £55,000 +10.00% 1
Buckinghamshire +60 26 £64,000 +28.00%
Oxfordshire - 9 - -
Hampshire +66 3 £65,000 +13.04% 9
Berkshire +15 2 £51,250 +2.50% 1
Kent +33 1 £45,000 +28.57%
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.44%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.44%) AWS
1 1 (2.44%) Azure
1 1 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.44%) Cloud Computing
1 1 (2.44%) GitHub
1 1 (2.44%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (82.93%) TCP/IP
1 34 (82.93%) VPN
2 1 (2.44%) Bluetooth
2 1 (2.44%) ZigBee
Development Applications
1 35 (85.37%) Cucumber
2 34 (82.93%) Robot Framework
3 3 (7.32%) JIRA
4 2 (4.88%) Jenkins
5 1 (2.44%) Bugzilla
5 1 (2.44%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.44%) Git
5 1 (2.44%) GitLab
5 1 (2.44%) JUnit
5 1 (2.44%) Selenium
5 1 (2.44%) TestNG
5 1 (2.44%) TestRail
5 1 (2.44%) Zephyr
General
1 38 (92.68%) Social Skills
2 34 (82.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (82.93%) Telecoms
3 4 (9.76%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.44%) Finance
4 1 (2.44%) Games
Job Titles
1 38 (92.68%) Test Engineer
2 34 (82.93%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) IT Engineer
3 2 (4.88%) Lead
3 2 (4.88%) QA Manager
4 1 (2.44%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) QA Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) QA Leader
4 1 (2.44%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (2.44%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (2.44%) Test Leader
4 1 (2.44%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.44%) Playwright
1 1 (2.44%) pytest
Miscellaneous
1 34 (82.93%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.44%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (2.44%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.44%) IoT
2 1 (2.44%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.44%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.44%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 34 (82.93%) Linux
1 34 (82.93%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (90.24%) Test Automation
2 36 (87.80%) Coaching
2 36 (87.80%) DevOps
2 36 (87.80%) Problem-Solving
3 35 (85.37%) Mentoring
3 35 (85.37%) System Testing
4 3 (7.32%) Agile
5 2 (4.88%) CI/CD
5 2 (4.88%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (4.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (4.88%) Defect Tracking
5 2 (4.88%) Regression Testing
5 2 (4.88%) Scrum
5 2 (4.88%) Software Architecture
5 2 (4.88%) Software Testing
6 1 (2.44%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 1 (2.44%) End-to-End Testing
6 1 (2.44%) Performance Optimisation
6 1 (2.44%) SDET
6 1 (2.44%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 36 (87.80%) Python
2 35 (85.37%) JavaScript
3 34 (82.93%) Bash
3 34 (82.93%) PowerShell
4 3 (7.32%) Java
5 1 (2.44%) C#
5 1 (2.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 35 (85.37%) Degree
2 2 (4.88%) ISTQB
3 1 (2.44%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.44%) ISEB
3 1 (2.44%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 40 (97.56%) QA
2 1 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
Systems Management
1 1 (2.44%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (2.44%) Cognos
1 1 (2.44%) Concur
1 1 (2.44%) HP
1 1 (2.44%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.44%) Oracle
1 1 (2.44%) SAP