Test Manager Jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Test Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Test Manager salary for remote or hybrid work is £72,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 6 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 406 566 571
Rank change year-on-year +160 +5 +142
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Manager 24 19 88
As % of all permanent jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.056% 0.21%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.059% 0.22%
Number of salaries quoted 19 11 54
10th Percentile £57,500 £40,750 £56,250
25th Percentile £61,000 £44,980 £58,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £55,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year +31.82% -21.43% +27.27%
75th Percentile £76,250 £69,375 £85,000
90th Percentile £84,000 £88,750 £89,750
UK median annual salary £72,500 £62,500 £70,000
% change year-on-year +16.00% -10.71% +16.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,296 32,437 40,695
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 91.01% 96.00% 96.02%
Number of salaries quoted 9,941 24,889 28,911
10th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,626
25th Percentile £43,750 £42,500 £47,411
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £56,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% -10.40% +4.17%
75th Percentile £77,500 £75,000 £81,250
90th Percentile £100,000 £92,500 £100,000
UK median annual salary £57,500 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +9.52% -12.50% -

Test Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Manager trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Test Manager
Salary Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average salary quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Test Manager.

Test Manager salary trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Manager
Salary Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Salary distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Test Manager over the 6 months to 6 May 2025.

Test Manager salary histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 6 May 2025, Test Manager job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent jobs with hybrid or remote work options featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 15 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 13 (54.17%) User Acceptance Testing
3 12 (50.00%) QA
3 12 (50.00%) Finance
4 10 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 10 (41.67%) Test Strategy
5 8 (33.33%) Test Management
5 8 (33.33%) Agile
6 7 (29.17%) Banking
6 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
7 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
8 5 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
9 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
9 4 (16.67%) DevOps
10 3 (12.50%) Coaching
10 3 (12.50%) User Experience
10 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
10 3 (12.50%) Fintech
10 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
10 3 (12.50%) Private Banking
10 3 (12.50%) Migration
10 3 (12.50%) Java
10 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
10 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
10 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
10 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
10 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
10 3 (12.50%) Wealth Management
10 3 (12.50%) Mandarin Language

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (4.17%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) SaaS
2 1 (4.17%) AWS
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub
2 1 (4.17%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (4.17%) Tricentis Tosca
Development Applications
1 2 (8.33%) JIRA
1 2 (8.33%) Selenium
2 1 (4.17%) JMeter
2 1 (4.17%) LoadRunner
2 1 (4.17%) Postman
General
1 12 (50.00%) Finance
2 7 (29.17%) Banking
2 7 (29.17%) Social Skills
3 4 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (12.50%) Financial Institution
4 3 (12.50%) Mandarin Language
4 3 (12.50%) Private Banking
4 3 (12.50%) Retail Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Back Office
5 2 (8.33%) Games
5 2 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Front Office
6 1 (4.17%) Investment Banking
6 1 (4.17%) Law
6 1 (4.17%) Legal
6 1 (4.17%) Police
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.17%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 2 (8.33%) Client/Server
1 2 (8.33%) Online Games
2 1 (4.17%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (4.17%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.17%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 13 (54.17%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (41.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 10 (41.67%) Test Strategy
4 8 (33.33%) Agile
4 8 (33.33%) Test Management
5 6 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (20.83%) End-to-End Testing
7 4 (16.67%) DevOps
8 3 (12.50%) Coaching
8 3 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
8 3 (12.50%) Fintech
8 3 (12.50%) Integration Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Migration
8 3 (12.50%) Performance Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Regression Testing
8 3 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 3 (12.50%) User Experience
8 3 (12.50%) Wealth Management
9 2 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (12.50%) Java
2 2 (8.33%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) SC Cleared
1 3 (12.50%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.17%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (50.00%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (4.17%) Murex
1 1 (4.17%) SAP