Test Manager Contracts in the North West

Test Manager
England > North West

The median Test Manager daily rate in the North West is £489, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 October 2024.

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

6 months to
31 Oct 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 98 129 177
Rank change year-on-year +31 +48 -22
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 21 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.90% 0.57% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 0.62% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 7
10th Percentile £324 £413 £354
25th Percentile £369 £475 £418
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% - +14.29%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £528
90th Percentile £613 - £603
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North West

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North West. 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the North West with a recognized job title 2,189 2,586 3,752
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 92.16% 94.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,155 1,808 2,776
10th Percentile £265 £270 £253
25th Percentile £389 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £588
90th Percentile £656 £674 £656
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 156 180 169
10th Percentile £15.42 £15.98 £10.09
25th Percentile £18.00 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £35.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +55.56% +25.00%
75th Percentile £51.91 £46.88 £52.70
90th Percentile £70.90 £63.88 £75.00
England median hourly rate £41.50 £45.94 £30.00
% change year-on-year -9.66% +53.13% +50.00%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the North West

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in the North West.

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the North West

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the North West over the 6 months to 31 October 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the North West

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the North West

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the North West region over the 6 months to 31 October 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
Manchester +34 15 £470 -14.64% 3
Cheshire -1 3 £575 +35.29%
Test Manager
England

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West

For the 6 months to 31 October 2024, Test Manager contract 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 contract job ads across the North West region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 11 (52.38%) Test Strategy
2 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 6 (28.57%) SDLC
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
5 5 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (19.05%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
6 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Android
6 4 (19.05%) Apple iOS
6 4 (19.05%) Coaching
6 4 (19.05%) Appium
6 4 (19.05%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
6 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
6 4 (19.05%) Finance
6 4 (19.05%) Ruby
6 4 (19.05%) QA
7 3 (14.29%) JSON
7 3 (14.29%) Continuous Integration
7 3 (14.29%) Software Testing
7 3 (14.29%) Scrum

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 2 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (14.29%) GitHub
2 2 (9.52%) Azure
2 2 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 5 (23.81%) Jenkins
2 4 (19.05%) Appium
3 3 (14.29%) Bundler
3 3 (14.29%) Cucumber
4 1 (4.76%) JIRA
4 1 (4.76%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (19.05%) Finance
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Pharmaceutical
3 1 (4.76%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (14.29%) JSON
1 3 (14.29%) REST
1 3 (14.29%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Data Centre
2 1 (4.76%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (19.05%) Android
1 4 (19.05%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (52.38%) Test Strategy
2 9 (42.86%) Test Automation
3 7 (33.33%) Migration
4 6 (28.57%) SDLC
4 6 (28.57%) Test Planning
5 5 (23.81%) DevOps
5 5 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
6 4 (19.05%) CI/CD
6 4 (19.05%) Coaching
6 4 (19.05%) Collaborative Culture
6 4 (19.05%) Contingency Planning
6 4 (19.05%) Continuous Improvement
6 4 (19.05%) Decision-Making
6 4 (19.05%) Defect Tracking
6 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (19.05%) Project Delivery
6 4 (19.05%) Risk Management
7 3 (14.29%) BDD
7 3 (14.29%) Dependency Management
7 3 (14.29%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (19.05%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 2 (9.52%) ISTQB
2 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
2 1 (4.76%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (19.05%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) Microsoft
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
1 2 (9.52%) ServiceNow