Test Manager Jobs in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Manager salary in the UK excluding London is £63,250 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 14 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 557 684 669
Rank change year-on-year +127 -15 -4
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Manager 22 79 87
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.056% 0.11% 0.14%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.062% 0.12% 0.16%
Number of salaries quoted 20 62 50
10th Percentile £37,500 £46,250 £49,500
25th Percentile £52,477 £48,094 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,250 £56,250 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year +12.44% -13.46% +8.33%
75th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £76,875 £75,000 £73,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,324 67,152 53,648
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.60% 94.79% 89.25%
Number of salaries quoted 18,511 47,504 30,595
10th Percentile £27,000 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,574 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,645 £50,000 £53,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.29% -5.66% +5.64%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £56,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +7.62% -12.50% -

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Salary trend for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 14 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
North of England +41 11 £72,500 +31.82% 2
North West -1 10 £72,500 +34.88%
West Midlands +46 7 £68,750 -1.79% 1
Midlands +41 7 £68,750 +25.00% 2
South West +107 2 £52,141 +7.68% 5
South East +90 2 £62,250 -2.35% 15
Yorkshire +71 1 - - 1
Test Manager
UK

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 14 May 2025, Test Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 13 (59.09%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 11 (50.00%) Finance
4 10 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (45.45%) QA
5 7 (31.82%) Agile
5 7 (31.82%) Test Strategy
6 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
7 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
7 5 (22.73%) Test Management
7 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
7 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
8 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
8 4 (18.18%) Mandarin Language
8 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
8 4 (18.18%) Fintech
8 4 (18.18%) DevOps
8 4 (18.18%) User Experience
9 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
9 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
9 3 (13.64%) JIRA
9 3 (13.64%) Azure
9 3 (13.64%) ITSM
9 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
9 3 (13.64%) ITIL
9 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
9 3 (13.64%) Service Management
9 3 (13.64%) Validation
10 2 (9.09%) Law
10 2 (9.09%) Project Planning

Test Manager Skill Set
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:

Applications
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (4.55%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (9.09%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.09%) PaaS
3 1 (4.55%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.55%) Bluetooth
1 1 (4.55%) Ethernet
1 1 (4.55%) FlexRay
1 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) BusinessObjects
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
General
1 11 (50.00%) Finance
2 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Financial Institution
3 4 (18.18%) Mandarin Language
4 3 (13.64%) Public Sector
5 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Law
5 2 (9.09%) Retail
6 1 (4.55%) Automotive
6 1 (4.55%) Back Office
6 1 (4.55%) Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Electronics
6 1 (4.55%) Front Office
6 1 (4.55%) Games
6 1 (4.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.55%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.55%) Police
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Client/Server
1 1 (4.55%) Embedded Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Infotainment
1 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
1 1 (4.55%) Online Games
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (59.09%) User Acceptance Testing
2 12 (54.55%) Test Automation
3 10 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (31.82%) Agile
4 7 (31.82%) Test Strategy
5 6 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (22.73%) Test Management
6 5 (22.73%) Test Scripting
7 4 (18.18%) DevOps
7 4 (18.18%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (18.18%) Fintech
7 4 (18.18%) User Experience
8 3 (13.64%) Integration Testing
8 3 (13.64%) ITIL
8 3 (13.64%) ITSM
8 3 (13.64%) Service Management
8 3 (13.64%) Validation
9 2 (9.09%) Defect Management
9 2 (9.09%) Project Planning
9 2 (9.09%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) C#
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (13.64%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (4.55%) AWS Certification
2 1 (4.55%) DBS Check
2 1 (4.55%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (45.45%) QA
2 1 (4.55%) Data Quality
2 1 (4.55%) JTAG
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.55%) SAP