Test Management Jobs in the South West

Test Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South 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 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 173 268 242
Rank change year-on-year +95 -26 -28
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 6 22 21
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.17% 0.24% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.28% 0.33%
Number of salaries quoted 5 10 13
10th Percentile £31,650 £42,185 £45,500
25th Percentile £34,500 £43,750 £51,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -9.09% +22.22%
75th Percentile - £67,813 £67,500
90th Percentile £47,500 £72,500 £72,050
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 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 South West.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,350 7,751 6,345
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 93.21% 83.02% 94.53%
Number of salaries quoted 1,927 5,589 3,517
10th Percentile £27,250 £28,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,600 £51,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +3.14% -2.86% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,750 £80,000 £81,250
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the South West

Test Management
Salary Trend in the South West

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

Salary trend for Test Management in the South West

Test Management
Salary Histogram in the South West

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

Salary histogram for Test Management in the South West

Test Management
Job Locations in the South 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 South West 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
Devon +20 2 £40,000 -19.60% 1
Wiltshire - 2 £35,000 -
Bristol +53 1 £50,000 +5.26% 2
Dorset +41 1 £31,500 - 1
Test Management
England

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

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Magento
Cloud Services
1 4 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) TCP/IP
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 4 (66.67%) Selenium
2 3 (50.00%) Cypress.io
2 3 (50.00%) TestRail
3 2 (33.33%) CircleCI
3 2 (33.33%) Gatling
3 2 (33.33%) Git
3 2 (33.33%) Jenkins
3 2 (33.33%) JIRA
3 2 (33.33%) LoadRunner
3 2 (33.33%) Locust
3 2 (33.33%) Zephyr
4 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
4 1 (16.67%) JUnit
4 1 (16.67%) Robot Framework
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Analyst
1 3 (50.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) QA Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) QA Test Analyst
2 2 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Release Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Test Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Linux
1 1 (16.67%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 4 (66.67%) Manual Testing
2 4 (66.67%) Regression Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Integration Testing
3 3 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
4 2 (33.33%) Exploratory Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Microservices
4 2 (33.33%) Performance Testing
4 2 (33.33%) System Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
4 2 (33.33%) Test Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 4 (66.67%) JavaScript
1 4 (66.67%) SQL
2 3 (50.00%) Python
3 2 (33.33%) Java
4 1 (16.67%) Bash
4 1 (16.67%) C#
4 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 2 (33.33%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (16.67%) Degree
3 1 (16.67%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (83.33%) QA