Test Management Contracts in England

Test Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Test Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Test Management over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 325 406 396
Rank change year-on-year +81 -10 -9
Contract jobs citing Test Management 221 236 446
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.49% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.55% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 169 169 356
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £623
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £16.06
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £17.25
75th Percentile - - £38.69
90th Percentile - - £51.48
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £26.13
% change year-on-year - - -34.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,369 43,074 63,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.13% 90.02% 90.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,561 30,212 45,513
10th Percentile £300 £325 £333
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,271 1,523 1,744
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.97 £16.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +49.20% +10.23%
75th Percentile £60.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Management in England.

Daily rate trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the England region over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +63 91 £520 -5.45% 16
South East +31 60 £550 +9.13% 3
North of England +18 16 £438 -20.45% 3
South West +14 16 £425 -29.41% 4
East of England +24 15 £375 -11.76% 2
Midlands +34 11 £485 -3.00% 8
North West +21 9 £425 -15.00% 2
West Midlands +16 8 £485 -3.00% 6
Yorkshire +11 6 £450 -18.18% 1
East Midlands +17 3 £620 +29.17% 2
North East +11 1 - -
Test Management
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Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 12 (5.43%) Confluence
2 2 (0.90%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.45%) CMS
3 1 (0.45%) nginx
3 1 (0.45%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.45%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.45%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 9 (4.07%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.45%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.88%) Oracle EBS
2 11 (4.98%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (4.07%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 3 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Assets
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Cash Management
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Financials
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.90%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.45%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.84%) Azure
2 25 (11.31%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (7.69%) AWS
4 13 (5.88%) BrowserStack
5 11 (4.98%) Firebase
6 10 (4.52%) BlazeMeter
7 8 (3.62%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 6 (2.71%) OCI
8 6 (2.71%) Power Platform
9 5 (2.26%) PowerApps
10 4 (1.81%) SaaS
11 3 (1.36%) GitHub
12 2 (0.90%) Datadog
12 2 (0.90%) Figma
12 2 (0.90%) GCP
12 2 (0.90%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.90%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.90%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.90%) Sauce Labs
12 2 (0.90%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.26%) Firewall
2 2 (0.90%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.45%) 3G
3 1 (0.45%) 4G
3 1 (0.45%) 5G
3 1 (0.45%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.45%) MQTT
3 1 (0.45%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.71%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.81%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.36%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.45%) DB2
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.45%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.45%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 59 (26.70%) JIRA
2 29 (13.12%) JMeter
3 28 (12.67%) Selenium
3 28 (12.67%) TestRail
4 19 (8.60%) Cypress.io
5 18 (8.14%) Jenkins
6 16 (7.24%) GitLab
7 14 (6.33%) Postman
8 13 (5.88%) Cucumber
9 12 (5.43%) Appium
10 7 (3.17%) Git
11 6 (2.71%) JUnit
12 5 (2.26%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.81%) FitNesse
14 3 (1.36%) Gatling
14 3 (1.36%) LoadRunner
14 3 (1.36%) Zephyr
15 2 (0.90%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.90%) SoapUI
15 2 (0.90%) TestNG
General
1 63 (28.51%) Social Skills
2 33 (14.93%) Finance
3 17 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 12 (5.43%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.62%) Games
6 8 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.71%) Banking
8 6 (2.71%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.26%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.81%) Back Office
10 4 (1.81%) Electronics
10 4 (1.81%) Marketing
10 4 (1.81%) Military
10 4 (1.81%) Presentation Skills
11 3 (1.36%) Aviation
11 3 (1.36%) Front Office
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
11 3 (1.36%) Retail
Job Titles
1 74 (33.48%) Test Manager
2 49 (22.17%) Analyst
3 43 (19.46%) Test Analyst
4 27 (12.22%) Lead
4 27 (12.22%) Senior
5 25 (11.31%) Test Leader
6 23 (10.41%) Tester
7 19 (8.60%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 18 (8.14%) Test Engineer
9 14 (6.33%) QA Tester
10 11 (4.98%) SAP Manager
11 8 (3.62%) Consultant
11 8 (3.62%) QA Analyst
11 8 (3.62%) SAP Test Manager
11 8 (3.62%) Senior Test Engineer
12 7 (3.17%) QA Test Analyst
13 6 (2.71%) Project Manager
13 6 (2.71%) SAP Consultant
13 6 (2.71%) Senior Analyst
14 5 (2.26%) Coordinator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.24%) Middleware
2 13 (5.88%) ADO
2 13 (5.88%) WebdriverIO
3 10 (4.52%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.62%) Web Services
5 7 (3.17%) REST
6 5 (2.26%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.81%) Playwright
8 2 (0.90%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.90%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.90%) Jest
9 1 (0.45%) Kafka
9 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
9 1 (0.45%) SOAP
9 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.07%) Life Science
1 9 (4.07%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.26%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.26%) PKI
3 4 (1.81%) FMCG
3 4 (1.81%) NHS
3 4 (1.81%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.90%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.90%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.90%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.90%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.45%) EPoS
6 1 (0.45%) Equities
6 1 (0.45%) IVR
6 1 (0.45%) Machine to Machine
6 1 (0.45%) PMI
6 1 (0.45%) Robotics
6 1 (0.45%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.62%) Linux
2 3 (1.36%) Windows
3 1 (0.45%) Android
3 1 (0.45%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) CentOS
3 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.45%) Unix
3 1 (0.45%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (45.25%) Agile
2 85 (38.46%) Test Automation
3 55 (24.89%) Test Strategy
4 43 (19.46%) Test Planning
5 41 (18.55%) Continuous Integration
6 40 (18.10%) DevOps
7 34 (15.38%) Scenario Testing
8 31 (14.03%) Problem-Solving
9 29 (13.12%) User Acceptance Testing
10 27 (12.22%) CI/CD
10 27 (12.22%) Defect Management
11 25 (11.31%) Non-Functional Testing
11 25 (11.31%) Software Testing
11 25 (11.31%) Waterfall
12 24 (10.86%) Performance Testing
12 24 (10.86%) Scrum
13 22 (9.95%) End-to-End Testing
14 20 (9.05%) Test Scripting
15 19 (8.60%) Defect Tracking
15 19 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.41%) JavaScript
2 16 (7.24%) Python
3 15 (6.79%) Java
4 9 (4.07%) SQL
5 5 (2.26%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.81%) C#
7 2 (0.90%) ProC
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 57 (25.79%) Security Cleared
2 47 (21.27%) ISTQB
3 28 (12.67%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 24 (10.86%) DV Cleared
4 24 (10.86%) SC Cleared
5 22 (9.95%) Degree
6 7 (3.17%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.71%) ISEB
8 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.90%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (26.24%) QA
2 6 (2.71%) HL7
3 4 (1.81%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.36%) GDPR
4 3 (1.36%) PMO
5 2 (0.90%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (3.17%) Docker
2 5 (2.26%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.45%) iptables
3 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.81%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.36%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.90%) Terraform
4 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 31 (14.03%) Oracle
2 24 (10.86%) SAP
3 16 (7.24%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.26%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.36%) HP
6 2 (0.90%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.90%) Genesys
6 2 (0.90%) Google
7 1 (0.45%) Adobe
7 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.45%) Citrix
7 1 (0.45%) FIS
7 1 (0.45%) Guidewire
7 1 (0.45%) Informatica
7 1 (0.45%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (0.45%) Splunk
7 1 (0.45%) VMware
7 1 (0.45%) Workday