Test Management Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 468 612 621
Rank change year-on-year +144 +9 -79
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 103 153 138
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.26% 0.21% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.25% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 27 112 79
10th Percentile £40,000 £37,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £45,000 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £78,250 £64,963 £67,500
90th Percentile £87,750 £72,500 £72,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,047 60,812 55,780
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 92.70% 82.57% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 17,118 41,900 28,987
10th Percentile £26,338 £27,300 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,000 £36,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £70,000
90th Percentile £77,500 £77,500 £82,500
UK median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
% change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Management in the UK excluding London

Test Management
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East +100 41 £53,000 +6.00% 17
Midlands +63 29 £45,000 -10.00% 16
East of England +50 18 £55,000 +37.50% 7
East Midlands +54 16 £45,000 -35.71% 4
West Midlands +52 13 £51,250 +2.50% 12
North of England +25 13 £82,500 +50.00% 13
North West -14 9 £46,999 -24.80% 9
South West +102 6 £40,000 -20.00% 14
Yorkshire +61 4 £82,500 +50.00% 3
Scotland +95 1 £55,000 +15.79% 6
Wales +44 1 £68,500 +52.22% 2
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 2
Test Management
UK

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.97%) Apache
1 1 (0.97%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (0.97%) Appian
1 1 (0.97%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (5.83%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.94%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.97%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 1 (0.97%) Magento
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (0.97%) Oracle Financials
1 1 (0.97%) SAP EWM
1 1 (0.97%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 1 (0.97%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.68%) Azure
2 4 (3.88%) AWS
3 2 (1.94%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (1.94%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (0.97%) Amazon S3
4 1 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (0.97%) MinIO
4 1 (0.97%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 62 (60.19%) TCP/IP
1 62 (60.19%) VPN
2 1 (0.97%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.97%) Firewall
2 1 (0.97%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.97%) Airbyte
1 1 (0.97%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 63 (61.17%) Robot Framework
2 62 (60.19%) Cucumber
3 16 (15.53%) JIRA
4 8 (7.77%) Selenium
5 4 (3.88%) Cypress.io
6 3 (2.91%) Appium
6 3 (2.91%) Jenkins
6 3 (2.91%) LoadRunner
6 3 (2.91%) TestRail
6 3 (2.91%) WebDriver
7 2 (1.94%) CircleCI
7 2 (1.94%) Gatling
7 2 (1.94%) Git
7 2 (1.94%) Locust
7 2 (1.94%) Postman
7 2 (1.94%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.97%) GitLab
8 1 (0.97%) JMeter
8 1 (0.97%) Snyk
8 1 (0.97%) TestComplete
General
1 75 (72.82%) Social Skills
2 62 (60.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 62 (60.19%) Telecoms
3 12 (11.65%) Finance
4 11 (10.68%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (8.74%) Law
6 3 (2.91%) Retail
7 2 (1.94%) Military
7 2 (1.94%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (1.94%) Public Sector
8 1 (0.97%) Games
8 1 (0.97%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 70 (67.96%) Test Engineer
2 62 (60.19%) Test Automation Engineer
3 7 (6.80%) Analyst
4 5 (4.85%) Lead
4 5 (4.85%) QA Analyst
4 5 (4.85%) Test Leader
5 4 (3.88%) Head of Engineering
5 4 (3.88%) Head of Software Engineering
5 4 (3.88%) SCADA Engineer
5 4 (3.88%) Test Analyst
5 4 (3.88%) Test Manager
5 4 (3.88%) Tester
6 3 (2.91%) Senior
6 3 (2.91%) Software Tester
7 2 (1.94%) Automation Tester
7 2 (1.94%) IT Engineer
7 2 (1.94%) QA Test Analyst
8 1 (0.97%) Applications Architect
8 1 (0.97%) Integration Specialist
8 1 (0.97%) SAP Functional Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.83%) Bootstrap
1 6 (5.83%) Node.js
1 6 (5.83%) React
1 6 (5.83%) Redux
2 5 (4.85%) Middleware
3 4 (3.88%) Playwright
4 3 (2.91%) .NET
5 1 (0.97%) Apache NiFi
5 1 (0.97%) CSS
5 1 (0.97%) HTML
5 1 (0.97%) Kafka
5 1 (0.97%) pytest
5 1 (0.97%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 62 (60.19%) Linux Command Line
2 5 (4.85%) SCADA
3 4 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.91%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.94%) Low-Code
5 2 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.97%) BBC
6 1 (0.97%) Blog
6 1 (0.97%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.97%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.97%) IoT
6 1 (0.97%) Life Science
6 1 (0.97%) PKI
6 1 (0.97%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.97%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 64 (62.14%) Windows
2 63 (61.17%) Linux
3 1 (0.97%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (75.73%) Test Automation
2 70 (67.96%) Problem-Solving
3 69 (66.99%) DevOps
4 64 (62.14%) Mentoring
5 63 (61.17%) System Testing
6 62 (60.19%) Coaching
7 24 (23.30%) Agile
8 12 (11.65%) Regression Testing
9 10 (9.71%) Defect Management
9 10 (9.71%) Software Testing
10 9 (8.74%) Test Scripting
10 9 (8.74%) Test Strategy
10 9 (8.74%) User Acceptance Testing
11 8 (7.77%) Artificial Intelligence
11 8 (7.77%) Functional Testing
11 8 (7.77%) Manual Testing
11 8 (7.77%) Sprint Planning
12 7 (6.80%) Roadmaps
12 7 (6.80%) Scrum
12 7 (6.80%) System Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 75 (72.82%) JavaScript
2 70 (67.96%) Python
3 62 (60.19%) Bash
3 62 (60.19%) PowerShell
4 7 (6.80%) Java
4 7 (6.80%) SQL
5 6 (5.83%) TypeScript
6 3 (2.91%) C#
7 1 (0.97%) C
7 1 (0.97%) C++
7 1 (0.97%) MATLAB
7 1 (0.97%) Shell Script
7 1 (0.97%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 64 (62.14%) Degree
2 7 (6.80%) ISTQB
3 5 (4.85%) Security Cleared
4 3 (2.91%) DBS Check
4 3 (2.91%) ISEB
5 2 (1.94%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (0.97%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (0.97%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.97%) CSQA
6 1 (0.97%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.97%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (86.41%) QA
2 2 (1.94%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.97%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (0.97%) SLA
3 1 (0.97%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (0.97%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (4.85%) HP ALM
2 1 (0.97%) Ansible
2 1 (0.97%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (5.83%) Oracle
2 5 (4.85%) HP
2 5 (4.85%) MuleSoft
3 3 (2.91%) SAP
4 2 (1.94%) Microsoft
4 2 (1.94%) UiPath
5 1 (0.97%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.97%) Black Duck
5 1 (0.97%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.97%) Cognos
5 1 (0.97%) Concur
5 1 (0.97%) Coverity
5 1 (0.97%) VMware