Test Manager Job Trends in the West Midlands

Test Manager
England > West Midlands

As of 31 December 2025, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Test Manager salary in the West Midlands.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 168 197 171
Rank change year-on-year +29 -26 +110
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Manager 4 5 4
As % of all permanent jobs in the West Midlands 0.076% 0.11% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.085% 0.12% 0.13%
Number of salaries quoted 0 4 3
10th Percentile - £57,750 £60,800
25th Percentile - £60,000 £62,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) - £62,500 £65,000
Median % change year-on-year - -3.85% -
75th Percentile - £64,688 £78,875
90th Percentile - £66,375 £87,050
England median annual salary £65,000 £64,000 £70,000
% change year-on-year +1.56% -8.57% -

All Permanent IT Job Roles
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 4,702 4,062 3,120
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 89.49% 93.36% 93.64%
Number of salaries quoted 2,700 1,970 2,649
10th Percentile £28,750 £31,250 £26,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,000 £35,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £67,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £82,500 £80,000 £75,772
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -1.64%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings featuring 'Test Manager' in the job title relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Test Manager job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Salary Trend in the West Midlands

Salary distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Salary distribution trend for Test Manager job vacancies in the West Midlands

Test Manager
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 Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 December 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 +25 2 - - 1
Shropshire - 2 - - 1
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 December 2025, Test Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the West Midlands region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) QA
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) Azure
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (25.00%) AWS
4 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
4 1 (25.00%) Gatling
4 1 (25.00%) GitLab
4 1 (25.00%) Grafana
4 1 (25.00%) IBM
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
4 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (25.00%) Java
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
4 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
4 1 (25.00%) Maximo

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) AWS
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Gatling
1 1 (25.00%) GitLab
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) LoadRunner
1 1 (25.00%) SoapUI
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Finance
1 2 (50.00%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) Spring
1 1 (25.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (50.00%) Mentoring
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
3 2 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Migration
4 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 1 (25.00%) OWASP
4 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Traceability Matrix
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Grafana
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Dynatrace
1 1 (25.00%) IBM
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (25.00%) Oracle
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk