Test Management Jobs in the West Midlands

Test Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 181 229 245
Rank change year-on-year +48 +16 +19
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 13 25 23
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.30% 0.33% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.40% 0.38%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 5
10th Percentile - - £31,434
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £31,710
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 £50,000 £35,000
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% +42.86% -19.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £68,725 £41,250
90th Percentile £76,250 £72,500 £55,650
England median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £56,549
% change year-on-year +10.00% -11.58% +14.24%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 in the West Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,935 6,173 6,062
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the West Midlands 91.21% 82.47% 96.79%
Number of salaries quoted 1,636 4,565 3,157
10th Percentile £28,911 £26,250 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £35,700 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £67,500 £64,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £79,525 £77,500 £78,750
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

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

Salary trend for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Salary Histogram in the West Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Test Management in the West Midlands

Test Management
Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Warwickshire -7 7 - - 2
Birmingham +27 2 £66,250 +32.50% 4
Solihull +3 2 £60,000 +20.00% 2
Test Management
England

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.69%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) TCP/IP
1 2 (15.38%) VPN
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
2 3 (23.08%) Appium
2 3 (23.08%) Selenium
2 3 (23.08%) WebDriver
3 2 (15.38%) Cucumber
3 2 (15.38%) Robot Framework
4 1 (7.69%) TestComplete
General
1 4 (30.77%) Law
2 2 (15.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
2 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Test Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) SCADA Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Tester
3 3 (23.08%) Software Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Automation Tester
4 2 (15.38%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Test Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Engineering
5 1 (7.69%) Head of Software Engineering
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (38.46%) Middleware
2 3 (23.08%) .NET
2 3 (23.08%) Playwright
3 1 (7.69%) Bootstrap
3 1 (7.69%) Node.js
3 1 (7.69%) React
3 1 (7.69%) Redux
Miscellaneous
1 5 (38.46%) SCADA
2 3 (23.08%) Mobile App
3 2 (15.38%) Linux Command Line
4 1 (7.69%) Low-Code
4 1 (7.69%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (23.08%) Windows
2 2 (15.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (61.54%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) Test Automation
3 5 (38.46%) Defect Management
3 5 (38.46%) Network Monitoring
3 5 (38.46%) System Integration Testing
3 5 (38.46%) User Stories
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
5 3 (23.08%) API Testing
5 3 (23.08%) B2B
5 3 (23.08%) Exploratory Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Non-Functional Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Regression Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Software Testing
5 3 (23.08%) Test Scripting
6 2 (15.38%) Coaching
6 2 (15.38%) DevOps
6 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 6 (46.15%) JavaScript
2 5 (38.46%) Python
3 3 (23.08%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Java
4 2 (15.38%) Bash
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (61.54%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (38.46%) HP
1 5 (38.46%) MuleSoft
1 5 (38.46%) Oracle
2 1 (7.69%) UiPath