Test Management Jobs in the Thames Valley

Test Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 147 221 220
Rank change year-on-year +74 -1 +41
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 37 21 36
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 1.08% 0.31% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 0.37% 0.64%
Number of salaries quoted 3 11 24
10th Percentile £47,300 £40,000 £36,250
25th Percentile £48,875 £45,625 £41,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -25.93% +22.73%
75th Percentile £62,750 £61,875 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,300 £68,750 £75,000
South East median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £66,250
% change year-on-year +10.00% -24.53% +26.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,221 5,681 5,597
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 94.04% 84.54% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,220 3,876 3,044
10th Percentile £28,250 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,500 £37,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £88,750
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

Test Management
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Test Management in the Thames Valley

Test Management
Salary Histogram in the Thames Valley

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

Salary histogram for Test Management in the Thames Valley

Test Management
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the Thames Valley 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
Buckinghamshire +60 26 £64,000 +28.00%
Oxfordshire - 9 - -
Berkshire +15 2 £51,250 +2.50% 1
Test Management
South East

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (2.70%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle Financials
Cloud Services
1 1 (2.70%) Azure
1 1 (2.70%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (2.70%) GitHub
1 1 (2.70%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 34 (91.89%) TCP/IP
1 34 (91.89%) VPN
Development Applications
1 34 (91.89%) Cucumber
1 34 (91.89%) Robot Framework
2 1 (2.70%) Bugzilla
2 1 (2.70%) Cypress.io
2 1 (2.70%) Git
2 1 (2.70%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.70%) JIRA
2 1 (2.70%) Zephyr
General
1 35 (94.59%) Social Skills
2 34 (91.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 34 (91.89%) Telecoms
3 1 (2.70%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (2.70%) Finance
3 1 (2.70%) Games
Job Titles
1 35 (94.59%) Test Engineer
2 34 (91.89%) Test Automation Engineer
3 2 (5.41%) Lead
4 1 (2.70%) Lead Test Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) QA Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) QA Leader
4 1 (2.70%) QA Manager
4 1 (2.70%) QA Test Engineer
4 1 (2.70%) QA Test Manager
4 1 (2.70%) Test Leader
4 1 (2.70%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.70%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 34 (91.89%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (2.70%) Client/Server
2 1 (2.70%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 34 (91.89%) Linux
1 34 (91.89%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (97.30%) DevOps
2 35 (94.59%) Coaching
2 35 (94.59%) Mentoring
2 35 (94.59%) Problem-Solving
2 35 (94.59%) Test Automation
3 34 (91.89%) System Testing
4 1 (2.70%) Agile
4 1 (2.70%) API Testing
4 1 (2.70%) Business Intelligence
4 1 (2.70%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (2.70%) ERP
4 1 (2.70%) Functional Testing
4 1 (2.70%) SDET
4 1 (2.70%) Software Testing
4 1 (2.70%) Technical Leadership
4 1 (2.70%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 35 (94.59%) JavaScript
2 34 (91.89%) Bash
2 34 (91.89%) PowerShell
2 34 (91.89%) Python
3 1 (2.70%) C#
3 1 (2.70%) Java
3 1 (2.70%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 34 (91.89%) Degree
2 1 (2.70%) ISEB
2 1 (2.70%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 36 (97.30%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (2.70%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (2.70%) Cognos
1 1 (2.70%) Concur
1 1 (2.70%) HP
1 1 (2.70%) Microsoft
1 1 (2.70%) Oracle
1 1 (2.70%) SAP