Test Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 682 702 661
Rank change year-on-year +20 -41 -15
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 201 279 696
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.28% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.29% 0.46%
Number of salaries quoted 153 171 320
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £41,250 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -15.97%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £80,000 £85,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £46,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +7.53% +3.33% -10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Test Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,735 96,775 152,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.57% 95.60% 95.70%
Number of salaries quoted 59,708 57,079 82,921
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,740
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Top 15 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 13 May 2024. 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 +38 162 £50,000 -11.58% 51
UK excluding London +1 153 £50,000 +7.53% 30
Work from Home +83 71 £50,000 -18.37% 16
London +66 40 £65,000 -3.70% 16
South East -2 30 £50,000 -14.89% 12
Scotland -27 30 £47,500 - 1
North of England +44 29 £55,000 +27.91% 4
Midlands -12 26 £50,000 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +18 25 £50,000 +32.45% 3
North West +23 24 £62,500 -20.89% 4
South West -15 23 £50,000 -13.04% 4
East of England +24 11 £40,000 -15.79% 3
Yorkshire +58 5 £55,000 +29.41%
Wales - 4 £45,000 - 1
East Midlands -18 1 £70,000 +86.67% 2

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 30 (14.93%) Confluence
2 1 (0.50%) CMS
2 1 (0.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (0.50%) Umbraco
Applications
1 8 (3.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (2.49%) Trello
3 3 (1.49%) Microsoft Excel
4 2 (1.00%) MS Visio
5 1 (0.50%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 22 (10.95%) Azure
2 14 (6.97%) Azure DevOps
2 14 (6.97%) GitHub
3 12 (5.97%) AWS
3 12 (5.97%) SaaS
4 8 (3.98%) Dynamics 365
5 5 (2.49%) ClickUp
6 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
7 2 (1.00%) BrowserStack
8 1 (0.50%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Bluetooth
1 4 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (1.99%) ZigBee
2 1 (0.50%) Broadband
2 1 (0.50%) Firewall
2 1 (0.50%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (1.00%) Power BI
2 2 (1.00%) SAP HANA
3 1 (0.50%) DynamoDB
3 1 (0.50%) MongoDB
3 1 (0.50%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 90 (44.78%) JIRA
2 33 (16.42%) Selenium
3 29 (14.43%) Cucumber
4 28 (13.93%) Cypress.io
5 26 (12.94%) Bitbucket
6 19 (9.45%) Git
7 16 (7.96%) Zephyr
8 15 (7.46%) TestRail
9 14 (6.97%) Jenkins
10 10 (4.98%) Appium
10 10 (4.98%) SoapUI
11 9 (4.48%) Bitbucket Server
11 9 (4.48%) Serenity BDD
12 8 (3.98%) JMeter
12 8 (3.98%) TeamCity
13 7 (3.48%) Bugzilla
14 6 (2.99%) JUnit
14 6 (2.99%) MSTest
14 6 (2.99%) TestNG
14 6 (2.99%) Visual Studio
General
1 86 (42.79%) Social Skills
2 37 (18.41%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.93%) Finance
3 30 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (6.47%) Law
5 10 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.98%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.98%) Retail
7 5 (2.49%) Aviation
7 5 (2.49%) Games
7 5 (2.49%) Legal
7 5 (2.49%) Police
8 4 (1.99%) Banking
8 4 (1.99%) Electronics
9 3 (1.49%) German Language
9 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.00%) Automotive
10 2 (1.00%) Local Government
10 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
10 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 39 (19.40%) Test Manager
2 34 (16.92%) Senior
2 34 (16.92%) Test Engineer
3 29 (14.43%) Analyst
4 26 (12.94%) Tester
5 22 (10.95%) Test Analyst
6 17 (8.46%) QA Engineer
7 10 (4.98%) Developer
7 10 (4.98%) Lead
8 8 (3.98%) Developer in Test
8 8 (3.98%) Hardware Engineer
8 8 (3.98%) Hardware Test Engineer
8 8 (3.98%) Junior
8 8 (3.98%) Software Tester
9 7 (3.48%) Automation Tester
9 7 (3.48%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 7 (3.48%) Programme Manager
9 7 (3.48%) Programme Test Manager
9 7 (3.48%) Software Test Engineer
9 7 (3.48%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (8.46%) Gherkin
1 17 (8.46%) Web Services
2 12 (5.97%) RESTful
2 12 (5.97%) SOAP
3 6 (2.99%) Playwright
4 4 (1.99%) ADO
4 4 (1.99%) REST
5 3 (1.49%) .NET
5 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
5 3 (1.49%) Celery
5 3 (1.49%) Kafka
5 3 (1.49%) WireMock
5 3 (1.49%) WPF
5 3 (1.49%) XML
6 2 (1.00%) JSON
7 1 (0.50%) Jest
7 1 (0.50%) Middleware
7 1 (0.50%) React
7 1 (0.50%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.95%) Self-Motivation
3 17 (8.46%) Mobile App
4 14 (6.97%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.98%) IoT
6 7 (3.48%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.49%) BBC
7 5 (2.49%) SCADA
8 4 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.99%) Management Information System
8 4 (1.99%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Hackathon
9 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.50%) Analytical Mindset
10 1 (0.50%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.50%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 13 (6.47%) Linux
2 7 (3.48%) Ubuntu
2 7 (3.48%) Windows
3 5 (2.49%) Android
3 5 (2.49%) Debian
4 3 (1.49%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (65.67%) Test Automation
2 119 (59.20%) Agile
3 90 (44.78%) Software Testing
4 84 (41.79%) Test Strategy
5 54 (26.87%) Problem-Solving
5 54 (26.87%) Test Scripting
6 45 (22.39%) Regression Testing
7 40 (19.90%) CI/CD
7 40 (19.90%) User Acceptance Testing
8 38 (18.91%) Performance Testing
8 38 (18.91%) Scrum
9 34 (16.92%) Test Planning
10 32 (15.92%) Functional Testing
10 32 (15.92%) Mentoring
11 31 (15.42%) DevOps
12 29 (14.43%) Continuous Integration
13 28 (13.93%) Defect Management
13 28 (13.93%) SDLC
14 25 (12.44%) Waterfall
15 24 (11.94%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 29 (14.43%) SQL
2 24 (11.94%) JavaScript
3 19 (9.45%) Python
4 16 (7.96%) Java
5 8 (3.98%) C#
6 6 (2.99%) PL/SQL
6 6 (2.99%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.49%) Ruby
8 2 (1.00%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.50%) VB
9 1 (0.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 47 (23.38%) Degree
2 36 (17.91%) Security Cleared
3 35 (17.41%) ISTQB
4 19 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (9.45%) SC Cleared
5 15 (7.46%) DV Cleared
5 15 (7.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 11 (5.47%) ISEB
7 5 (2.49%) CAPM
7 5 (2.49%) PMI Certification
7 5 (2.49%) PMP
8 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
8 4 (1.99%) HND
9 1 (0.50%) CEH
9 1 (0.50%) CISM
9 1 (0.50%) CISSP
9 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
9 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (43.28%) QA
2 13 (6.47%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.00%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Firmware
3 1 (0.50%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (2.99%) HP ALM
1 6 (2.99%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.49%) Ansible
2 3 (1.49%) Kubernetes
3 2 (1.00%) Consul
Vendors
1 25 (12.44%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.97%) HP
3 8 (3.98%) SAP
4 6 (2.99%) Oracle
5 2 (1.00%) Google
5 2 (1.00%) PeopleSoft
6 1 (0.50%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.50%) BT
6 1 (0.50%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.50%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.50%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.50%) Workday