Test Management Job Trends

Test Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs requiring Test Management skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 634 524 678
Rank change year-on-year -110 +154 -43
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 127 160 206
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.13% 0.33% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.36% 0.25%
Number of salaries quoted 84 68 152
10th Percentile £35,000 £41,250 £36,250
25th Percentile £46,250 £45,000 £45,805
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £62,500 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +10.00% -10.35%
75th Percentile £75,325 £75,000 £67,188
90th Percentile £98,000 £90,750 £72,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year +8.91% +1.00% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,826 44,439 83,222
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 73.81% 90.30% 82.24%
Number of salaries quoted 50,337 24,847 58,274
10th Percentile £30,250 £28,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £41,250 £38,250 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +4.55% -8.71%
75th Percentile £78,750 £77,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £100,000 £98,750 £92,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% - -9.09%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Test Management relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised.

Test Management job vacancy trend in the UK

Test Management
Salary Trend

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Test Management.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Test Management

Test Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Salary histogram for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Top 16 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 12 July 2026. 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
England -97 113 £65,000 +26.22% 37
UK excluding London -108 76 £55,000 +8.91% 30
Work from Home -6 45 £55,000 -8.33% 21
London -14 40 £75,000 +15.38% 9
South West -40 25 £55,000 +37.50% 4
North of England -15 17 £52,500 -36.36% 7
Midlands -45 15 £62,500 +19.05% 5
West Midlands -18 13 £55,000 -8.33% 4
North West -13 9 £70,000 +48.94% 2
South East -71 7 £39,500 -21.00% 11
East of England -26 6 £65,000 - 1
North East - 5 £47,500 -
Scotland +13 4 £62,500 +13.64% 1
Wales -44 4 £47,500 -19.83%
Yorkshire -32 3 £50,000 -39.39% 5
East Midlands -42 2 £75,000 +66.67% 1

Test Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 4 (3.15%) Confluence
2 2 (1.57%) WordPress
3 1 (0.79%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.57%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 1 (0.79%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (3.15%) Elite 3E
1 4 (3.15%) Oracle ERP
1 4 (3.15%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (2.36%) Workday HCM
3 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.79%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.79%) SAP PM
3 1 (0.79%) SAP QM
Cloud Services
1 30 (23.62%) Azure
2 23 (18.11%) Azure DevOps
3 21 (16.54%) AWS
4 11 (8.66%) SaaS
5 9 (7.09%) OpenShift
6 7 (5.51%) BrowserStack
7 6 (4.72%) GitHub
7 6 (4.72%) GitHub Actions
7 6 (4.72%) Serverless
8 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
8 5 (3.94%) GCP
9 4 (3.15%) Power Platform
9 4 (3.15%) Tricentis Tosca
10 3 (2.36%) Siteimprove
11 2 (1.57%) Azure Monitor
11 2 (1.57%) Canva
11 2 (1.57%) Dynamics 365
12 1 (0.79%) Azure Functions
12 1 (0.79%) BlazeMeter
12 1 (0.79%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.09%) InfluxDB
1 9 (7.09%) Oracle Database
2 5 (3.94%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.36%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.79%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.79%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.79%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) ZAP BI
Development Applications
1 46 (36.22%) JIRA
2 26 (20.47%) Selenium
3 24 (18.90%) TestRail
4 23 (18.11%) Zephyr
5 21 (16.54%) Postman
6 19 (14.96%) Jenkins
7 15 (11.81%) GitLab
8 13 (10.24%) Git
9 12 (9.45%) Cypress.io
10 9 (7.09%) REST Assured
10 9 (7.09%) Robot Framework
11 8 (6.30%) Cucumber
11 8 (6.30%) JUnit
11 8 (6.30%) SoapUI
12 6 (4.72%) Gatling
12 6 (4.72%) JMeter
13 4 (3.15%) Burp Suite
14 3 (2.36%) Newman
14 3 (2.36%) Team Foundation Server
14 3 (2.36%) Toad
General
1 55 (43.31%) Social Skills
2 41 (32.28%) Finance
3 19 (14.96%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (11.81%) Public Sector
5 14 (11.02%) Retail
6 13 (10.24%) Manufacturing
7 5 (3.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 4 (3.15%) Law
8 4 (3.15%) Legal
9 3 (2.36%) Documentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Automotive
10 2 (1.57%) Billing
10 2 (1.57%) Marketing
10 2 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.57%) Publishing
11 1 (0.79%) Advertising
11 1 (0.79%) Aerospace
11 1 (0.79%) iGaming
11 1 (0.79%) Local Government
11 1 (0.79%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 34 (26.77%) Lead
2 25 (19.69%) Test Manager
3 23 (18.11%) Test Leader
4 21 (16.54%) Senior
5 17 (13.39%) Test Engineer
6 16 (12.60%) Analyst
6 16 (12.60%) Tester
7 10 (7.87%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 10 (7.87%) Test Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Senior Analyst
8 8 (6.30%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.51%) QA Analyst
9 7 (5.51%) QA Engineer
10 6 (4.72%) Consultant
10 6 (4.72%) QA Tester
10 6 (4.72%) Senior Consultant
11 5 (3.94%) QA Leader
12 4 (3.15%) Head of Engineering
12 4 (3.15%) Senior Manager
12 4 (3.15%) SEO Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (22.05%) Playwright
2 9 (7.09%) Elastic Stack
3 8 (6.30%) pytest
4 7 (5.51%) .NET
4 7 (5.51%) Node.js
5 6 (4.72%) React
6 5 (3.94%) HTML
6 5 (3.94%) Oracle Fusion
6 5 (3.94%) SOAP
7 4 (3.15%) Ruby on Rails
7 4 (3.15%) SailPoint
7 4 (3.15%) Spring Boot
8 3 (2.36%) ADO
8 3 (2.36%) Jest
8 3 (2.36%) REST
8 3 (2.36%) Spring
9 2 (1.57%) CSS
9 2 (1.57%) RESTful
9 2 (1.57%) Swagger
10 1 (0.79%) Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 23 (18.11%) Product Ownership
2 10 (7.87%) Virtual Team
3 8 (6.30%) Hybrid Cloud
4 5 (3.94%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (3.15%) Low-Code
6 3 (2.36%) Cloud Native
6 3 (2.36%) Legacy Systems
6 3 (2.36%) Mainframe
6 3 (2.36%) Management Information System
6 3 (2.36%) Mobile App
7 2 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
7 2 (1.57%) Blog
7 2 (1.57%) Embedded Systems
7 2 (1.57%) Podcast
7 2 (1.57%) Social Media
7 2 (1.57%) Taxonomies
7 2 (1.57%) Web Conferencing
8 1 (0.79%) AI Agents
8 1 (0.79%) Blockchain
8 1 (0.79%) Virtual Reality
Operating Systems
1 13 (10.24%) Linux
2 12 (9.45%) Windows
3 9 (7.09%) CentOS
4 1 (0.79%) Android
4 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.79%) Kali Linux
4 1 (0.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 85 (66.93%) Agile
2 79 (62.20%) Test Automation
3 52 (40.94%) Test Strategy
4 50 (39.37%) CI/CD
5 40 (31.50%) Software Testing
6 34 (26.77%) DevOps
7 33 (25.98%) User Acceptance Testing
8 31 (24.41%) Continuous Improvement
9 28 (22.05%) Stakeholder Management
10 27 (21.26%) End-to-End Testing
11 26 (20.47%) API Testing
12 25 (19.69%) Defect Management
13 24 (18.90%) ERP
13 24 (18.90%) Regression Testing
13 24 (18.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 24 (18.90%) Validation
14 23 (18.11%) Waterfall
15 21 (16.54%) Test Scripting
16 19 (14.96%) Scrum
17 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 19 (14.96%) Java
1 19 (14.96%) JavaScript
2 17 (13.39%) Python
3 13 (10.24%) SQL
4 12 (9.45%) C#
5 9 (7.09%) Bash
5 9 (7.09%) PowerShell
6 8 (6.30%) Clojure
7 7 (5.51%) TypeScript
8 4 (3.15%) Ruby
9 2 (1.57%) Go
10 1 (0.79%) C
10 1 (0.79%) C++
10 1 (0.79%) Groovy
10 1 (0.79%) JCL
Qualifications
1 31 (24.41%) ISTQB
2 20 (15.75%) Security Cleared
3 18 (14.17%) Degree
4 9 (7.09%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
5 7 (5.51%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (3.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 5 (3.94%) DV Cleared
6 5 (3.94%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 4 (3.15%) SC Cleared
8 3 (2.36%) ISEB
8 3 (2.36%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
9 1 (0.79%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (45.67%) QA
2 15 (11.81%) Accessibility
3 6 (4.72%) WCAG
4 5 (3.94%) GDPR
4 5 (3.94%) Software Quality Assurance
5 2 (1.57%) IFRS
5 2 (1.57%) IFRS 17
5 2 (1.57%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.79%) PMO
6 1 (0.79%) Solvency II
System Software
1 11 (8.66%) Docker
2 7 (5.51%) Virtual Machines
2 7 (5.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.79%) Embedded Firmware
3 1 (0.79%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 12 (9.45%) Grafana
2 11 (8.66%) Kubernetes
3 7 (5.51%) Ansible
3 7 (5.51%) Kibana
3 7 (5.51%) logstash
3 7 (5.51%) Terraform
3 7 (5.51%) vCenter Server
4 3 (2.36%) HP ALM
5 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
5 1 (0.79%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 24 (18.90%) Oracle
2 10 (7.87%) Splunk
3 9 (7.09%) Red Hat
3 9 (7.09%) SAP
4 8 (6.30%) IFS
5 7 (5.51%) Atlassian
5 7 (5.51%) VMware
6 6 (4.72%) Microsoft
7 3 (2.36%) HP
7 3 (2.36%) Workday
8 2 (1.57%) Adobe
8 2 (1.57%) Facebook
8 2 (1.57%) HubSpot
9 1 (0.79%) Aderant
9 1 (0.79%) AppDynamics
9 1 (0.79%) Pega
9 1 (0.79%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.79%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.79%) Veracode