Test Management Jobs

Test Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 568 712 701
Rank change year-on-year +144 -11 -45
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 145 200 268
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.27% 0.20% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.28% 0.23% 0.29%
Number of salaries quoted 59 150 163
10th Percentile £41,000 £36,250 £33,750
25th Percentile £43,750 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,250 £72,500
90th Percentile £89,000 £72,500 £84,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% +11.11% -

All Process and 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 51,242 86,144 93,565
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 93.71% 84.33% 95.55%
Number of salaries quoted 25,211 60,433 55,406
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £34,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £45,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £55,000 £61,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% -9.84% +1.67%
75th Percentile £75,000 £72,500 £81,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £92,500 £100,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £51,645 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +3.29% -9.09% +4.76%

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 28 May 2025.

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 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
England +135 137 £55,000 +10.00% 330
UK excluding London +144 103 £55,000 +10.00% 312
South East +100 41 £53,000 +6.00% 85
Work from Home +90 39 £61,250 +22.50% 129
London +119 36 £62,500 -2.43% 59
Midlands +63 29 £45,000 -10.00% 60
East of England +50 18 £55,000 +37.50% 43
East Midlands +54 16 £45,000 -35.71% 22
West Midlands +52 13 £51,250 +2.50% 35
North of England +25 13 £82,500 +50.00% 61
North West -14 9 £46,999 -24.80% 29
South West +102 6 £40,000 -20.00% 41
Yorkshire +61 4 £82,500 +50.00% 24
Scotland +95 1 £55,000 +15.79% 20
Wales +44 1 £68,500 +52.22% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 - - 5

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 5 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (0.69%) Apache
2 1 (0.69%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (0.69%) Appian
2 1 (0.69%) CMS
Applications
1 6 (4.14%) Chatbot
2 2 (1.38%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.38%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.69%) Simulink
Business Applications
1 2 (1.38%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.69%) Magento
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.69%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.69%) SAP EWM
2 1 (0.69%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.69%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 22 (15.17%) Azure
2 10 (6.90%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (4.83%) AWS
4 5 (3.45%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (2.76%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.38%) Amazon SQS
6 2 (1.38%) iPaaS
7 1 (0.69%) Amazon S3
7 1 (0.69%) BrowserStack
7 1 (0.69%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.69%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (0.69%) MinIO
Communications & Networking
1 64 (44.14%) TCP/IP
1 64 (44.14%) VPN
2 1 (0.69%) Bluetooth
2 1 (0.69%) Firewall
2 1 (0.69%) ZigBee
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.07%) Power BI
2 2 (1.38%) NoSQL
2 2 (1.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (0.69%) Airbyte
3 1 (0.69%) BusinessObjects
3 1 (0.69%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 65 (44.83%) Robot Framework
2 64 (44.14%) Cucumber
3 36 (24.83%) JIRA
4 22 (15.17%) Selenium
5 9 (6.21%) Cypress.io
5 9 (6.21%) TestRail
6 8 (5.52%) Jenkins
6 8 (5.52%) Postman
7 7 (4.83%) JMeter
8 6 (4.14%) Appium
8 6 (4.14%) LoadRunner
9 5 (3.45%) JUnit
9 5 (3.45%) WebDriver
10 4 (2.76%) Gatling
11 3 (2.07%) GitLab
11 3 (2.07%) MSTest
11 3 (2.07%) REST Assured
12 2 (1.38%) Git
12 2 (1.38%) SoapUI
12 2 (1.38%) Zephyr
General
1 93 (64.14%) Social Skills
2 65 (44.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 64 (44.14%) Telecoms
4 21 (14.48%) Analytical Skills
5 20 (13.79%) Finance
6 16 (11.03%) Law
7 7 (4.83%) Public Sector
8 5 (3.45%) Banking
9 4 (2.76%) Legal
9 4 (2.76%) Organisational Skills
9 4 (2.76%) Retail
10 3 (2.07%) Private Banking
10 3 (2.07%) Retail Banking
11 2 (1.38%) Military
11 2 (1.38%) Presentation Skills
12 1 (0.69%) Games
12 1 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 77 (53.10%) Test Engineer
2 66 (45.52%) Test Automation Engineer
3 14 (9.66%) Tester
4 11 (7.59%) Analyst
4 11 (7.59%) Test Manager
5 10 (6.90%) Lead
5 10 (6.90%) Test Leader
6 7 (4.83%) QA Engineer
6 7 (4.83%) Senior
7 6 (4.14%) Automation Tester
7 6 (4.14%) QA Analyst
7 6 (4.14%) Software Tester
8 5 (3.45%) SCADA Engineer
8 5 (3.45%) Test Analyst
9 4 (2.76%) Head of Engineering
9 4 (2.76%) Head of Software Engineering
9 4 (2.76%) Senior Manager
10 3 (2.07%) Migration Manager
10 3 (2.07%) QA Leader
10 3 (2.07%) QA Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (6.21%) HTML
1 9 (6.21%) Node.js
2 7 (4.83%) CSS
2 7 (4.83%) React
3 6 (4.14%) Bootstrap
3 6 (4.14%) Middleware
3 6 (4.14%) Redux
4 5 (3.45%) Playwright
5 4 (2.76%) .NET
6 3 (2.07%) Kafka
6 3 (2.07%) REST
6 3 (2.07%) RESTful
7 2 (1.38%) AngularJS
7 2 (1.38%) FreeMarker
7 2 (1.38%) JSON
7 2 (1.38%) JWT
7 2 (1.38%) OAuth
7 2 (1.38%) RabbitMQ
7 2 (1.38%) SAML
8 1 (0.69%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 64 (44.14%) Linux Command Line
2 7 (4.83%) Virtual Team
3 6 (4.14%) Product Ownership
3 6 (4.14%) SCADA
4 4 (2.76%) Mobile App
5 2 (1.38%) BBC
5 2 (1.38%) Client/Server
5 2 (1.38%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.38%) Low-Code
6 1 (0.69%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.69%) Blog
6 1 (0.69%) Cloud Native
6 1 (0.69%) e-Learning
6 1 (0.69%) IoT
6 1 (0.69%) Life Science
6 1 (0.69%) PKI
6 1 (0.69%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.69%) Renewable Energy
6 1 (0.69%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (0.69%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 68 (46.90%) Windows
2 65 (44.83%) Linux
3 1 (0.69%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (72.41%) Test Automation
2 83 (57.24%) DevOps
2 83 (57.24%) Problem-Solving
3 68 (46.90%) Mentoring
4 65 (44.83%) System Testing
5 64 (44.14%) Coaching
6 50 (34.48%) Agile
7 27 (18.62%) Manual Testing
8 23 (15.86%) Regression Testing
9 22 (15.17%) Software Testing
9 22 (15.17%) Test Strategy
10 20 (13.79%) User Acceptance Testing
11 19 (13.10%) Defect Management
12 17 (11.72%) Performance Testing
12 17 (11.72%) Scrum
12 17 (11.72%) Test Scripting
13 15 (10.34%) CI/CD
14 14 (9.66%) Continuous Improvement
15 13 (8.97%) Functional Testing
15 13 (8.97%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 86 (59.31%) JavaScript
2 76 (52.41%) Python
3 64 (44.14%) Bash
3 64 (44.14%) PowerShell
4 21 (14.48%) SQL
5 14 (9.66%) Java
6 10 (6.90%) C#
7 6 (4.14%) TypeScript
8 1 (0.69%) C
8 1 (0.69%) C++
8 1 (0.69%) MATLAB
8 1 (0.69%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.69%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 73 (50.34%) Degree
2 18 (12.41%) ISTQB
3 9 (6.21%) Security Cleared
4 8 (5.52%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 5 (3.45%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (3.45%) ISEB
5 5 (3.45%) SC Cleared
6 4 (2.76%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (2.07%) Azure Certification
7 3 (2.07%) CISSP
7 3 (2.07%) DBS Check
7 3 (2.07%) Numerate Degree
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certification
8 1 (0.69%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (0.69%) CSQA
8 1 (0.69%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 113 (77.93%) QA
2 5 (3.45%) Software Quality Assurance
3 2 (1.38%) Data Quality
3 2 (1.38%) SLA
4 1 (0.69%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.69%) GDPR
4 1 (0.69%) MiFID
4 1 (0.69%) PSD2
System Software
1 2 (1.38%) Docker
2 1 (0.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (4.14%) HP ALM
2 3 (2.07%) HP Quality Center
3 2 (1.38%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.69%) Ansible
4 1 (0.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (4.83%) Oracle
2 6 (4.14%) HP
2 6 (4.14%) Microsoft
2 6 (4.14%) MuleSoft
3 3 (2.07%) Aderant
3 3 (2.07%) iManage
3 3 (2.07%) Intapp
3 3 (2.07%) SAP
4 2 (1.38%) UiPath
5 1 (0.69%) BiZZdesign
5 1 (0.69%) Black Duck
5 1 (0.69%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.69%) CheckPoint
5 1 (0.69%) Cognos
5 1 (0.69%) Concur
5 1 (0.69%) Coverity
5 1 (0.69%) VMware