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 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 694 683 650
Rank change year-on-year -11 -33 -17
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 201 321 664
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.20% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.32% 0.45%
Number of salaries quoted 153 187 327
10th Percentile £36,250 £33,750 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,184 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £66,250 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile £72,500 £85,000 £82,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £44,250 £45,000
% change year-on-year +12.99% -1.67% -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 84,460 100,219 147,325
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 86.03% 95.64% 95.59%
Number of salaries quoted 59,759 58,822 83,132
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £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 26 April 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 26 April 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 +19 163 £50,000 -11.58% 59
UK excluding London -22 157 £50,000 +12.99% 34
Work from Home +71 71 £50,000 -20.00% 25
London +83 36 £65,000 -3.70% 22
South East +11 35 £50,000 -14.89% 16
Scotland -33 30 £47,500 - 3
North of England +33 28 £55,000 +29.41% 5
Midlands -13 27 £50,000 +33.33% 5
West Midlands +24 26 £50,000 +42.86% 1
North West +24 23 £62,500 -8.09% 5
South West -27 23 £50,000 -6.98% 3
East of England +29 11 £40,000 -40.74% 3
Yorkshire +68 5 £55,000 +29.41%
Wales - 3 £45,000 -
East Midlands -34 1 £70,000 +86.67% 4

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%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (1.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 19 (9.45%) Azure
2 16 (7.96%) GitHub
3 15 (7.46%) SaaS
4 13 (6.47%) AWS
4 13 (6.47%) Azure DevOps
5 9 (4.48%) Dynamics 365
6 5 (2.49%) ClickUp
7 3 (1.49%) Power Platform
8 2 (1.00%) BrowserStack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.99%) Bluetooth
1 4 (1.99%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (1.99%) ZigBee
2 1 (0.50%) Broadband
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 92 (45.77%) JIRA
2 32 (15.92%) Selenium
3 29 (14.43%) Cucumber
4 28 (13.93%) Bitbucket
5 26 (12.94%) Cypress.io
6 19 (9.45%) Git
7 16 (7.96%) Jenkins
7 16 (7.96%) Zephyr
8 13 (6.47%) TestRail
9 11 (5.47%) Bitbucket Server
9 11 (5.47%) Serenity BDD
10 10 (4.98%) JMeter
10 10 (4.98%) SoapUI
11 8 (3.98%) TeamCity
12 7 (3.48%) Appium
12 7 (3.48%) Bugzilla
13 6 (2.99%) MSTest
13 6 (2.99%) Visual Studio
14 4 (1.99%) JUnit
14 4 (1.99%) TestNG
General
1 84 (41.79%) Social Skills
2 36 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 30 (14.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 28 (13.93%) Finance
5 14 (6.97%) Law
6 10 (4.98%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.48%) Retail
8 6 (2.99%) Games
8 6 (2.99%) Public Sector
9 5 (2.49%) Aviation
9 5 (2.49%) Police
10 4 (1.99%) Electronics
11 3 (1.49%) Banking
11 3 (1.49%) German Language
11 3 (1.49%) Manufacturing
12 2 (1.00%) Automotive
12 2 (1.00%) Legal
12 2 (1.00%) Local Government
12 2 (1.00%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 36 (17.91%) Test Manager
2 31 (15.42%) Senior
3 30 (14.93%) Analyst
3 30 (14.93%) Test Engineer
3 30 (14.93%) Tester
4 22 (10.95%) Test Analyst
5 16 (7.96%) QA Engineer
6 11 (5.47%) Lead
7 10 (4.98%) Developer
8 9 (4.48%) Automation Tester
8 9 (4.48%) Software Tester
9 8 (3.98%) Developer in Test
9 8 (3.98%) Hardware Engineer
9 8 (3.98%) Hardware Test Engineer
9 8 (3.98%) Junior
10 7 (3.48%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
10 7 (3.48%) Junior QA Engineer
10 7 (3.48%) Programme Manager
10 7 (3.48%) Software Test Engineer
10 7 (3.48%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 19 (9.45%) Web Services
2 15 (7.46%) Gherkin
3 14 (6.97%) RESTful
3 14 (6.97%) SOAP
4 6 (2.99%) Playwright
5 4 (1.99%) .NET
5 4 (1.99%) ADO
5 4 (1.99%) REST
6 3 (1.49%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.49%) Celery
6 3 (1.49%) Kafka
6 3 (1.49%) WireMock
6 3 (1.49%) WPF
6 3 (1.49%) XML
7 2 (1.00%) JSON
8 1 (0.50%) Jest
8 1 (0.50%) Middleware
8 1 (0.50%) React
8 1 (0.50%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 21 (10.45%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.95%) Self-Motivation
3 16 (7.96%) Mobile App
4 13 (6.47%) Enterprise Software
5 10 (4.98%) IoT
6 8 (3.98%) Client/Server
7 5 (2.49%) SCADA
8 4 (1.99%) BBC
8 4 (1.99%) Embedded Systems
8 4 (1.99%) Operational Technology
9 2 (1.00%) Management Information System
9 2 (1.00%) Reinsurance
10 1 (0.50%) Cyberattack
10 1 (0.50%) Data Protection Act
10 1 (0.50%) e-Learning
10 1 (0.50%) Hackathon
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%) Debian
4 3 (1.49%) Android
5 2 (1.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (64.18%) Test Automation
2 116 (57.71%) Agile
3 92 (45.77%) Software Testing
4 77 (38.31%) Test Strategy
5 57 (28.36%) Test Scripting
6 51 (25.37%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (22.39%) Regression Testing
8 42 (20.90%) CI/CD
9 39 (19.40%) Scrum
10 36 (17.91%) Performance Testing
11 35 (17.41%) User Acceptance Testing
12 33 (16.42%) Test Planning
13 32 (15.92%) DevOps
13 32 (15.92%) SDLC
14 31 (15.42%) Functional Testing
15 29 (14.43%) Mentoring
16 27 (13.43%) Defect Management
17 26 (12.94%) Continuous Integration
18 24 (11.94%) Computer Science
19 23 (11.44%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 34 (16.92%) SQL
2 26 (12.94%) JavaScript
3 18 (8.96%) Java
4 15 (7.46%) Python
5 7 (3.48%) 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 38 (18.91%) Security Cleared
3 36 (17.91%) ISTQB
4 21 (10.45%) SC Cleared
5 19 (9.45%) Computer Science Degree
6 16 (7.96%) DV Cleared
7 15 (7.46%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 13 (6.47%) ISEB
9 5 (2.49%) CAPM
9 5 (2.49%) PMI Certification
9 5 (2.49%) PMP
10 4 (1.99%) DBS Check
10 4 (1.99%) HND
11 1 (0.50%) CEH
11 1 (0.50%) CISM
11 1 (0.50%) CISSP
11 1 (0.50%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.50%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (43.28%) QA
2 12 (5.97%) ISO 9001
3 2 (1.00%) PMO
System Software
1 5 (2.49%) Docker
2 2 (1.00%) Firmware
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 27 (13.43%) Microsoft
2 12 (5.97%) HP
3 7 (3.48%) 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