Test Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Test Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Test Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £500 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 115 134
Rank change year-on-year +18 +19 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 12 15 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.63% 0.66% 1.34%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.69% 0.70% 1.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 41
10th Percentile £275 £474 £450
25th Percentile £325 £481 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £510
Median % change year-on-year - -1.96% -0.24%
75th Percentile £581 £525 £538
90th Percentile £644 £569 £556
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised 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 contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,733 2,146 3,451
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.64% 94.58% 96.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,178 1,467 2,507
10th Percentile £256 £250 £225
25th Percentile £360 £386 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +12.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 64 77
10th Percentile £12.08 £12.50 £12.45
25th Percentile £15.00 £14.47 £14.50
Median hourly rate £22.00 £20.00 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% +17.65% +10.03%
75th Percentile £40.81 £28.50 £20.00
90th Percentile £55.63 £56.38 £22.85
England median hourly rate £37.18 £44.77 £23.00
% change year-on-year -16.94% +94.63% +5.80%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the West Midlands

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 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
Birmingham +10 6 £525 +5.00% 3
Warwickshire +7 3 - -
Solihull - 2 £275 -
Coventry - 1 £675 -
Test Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 May 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 West Midlands region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Test Strategy
3 4 (33.33%) DevOps
3 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) QA
4 3 (25.00%) Test Management
4 3 (25.00%) Azure
4 3 (25.00%) SAP
4 3 (25.00%) Migration
4 3 (25.00%) Scrum
5 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (16.67%) GCP
5 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
5 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
5 2 (16.67%) Salesforce
5 2 (16.67%) Project Management
5 2 (16.67%) Firewall
5 2 (16.67%) AWS
5 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
5 2 (16.67%) Release Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
6 1 (8.33%) JIRA
6 1 (8.33%) Integration Testing
6 1 (8.33%) Test Automation
6 1 (8.33%) Customer Engagement

Test Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) AWS
2 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (16.67%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (16.67%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (58.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (16.67%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 4 (33.33%) DevOps
2 4 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 3 (25.00%) Migration
3 3 (25.00%) Scrum
3 3 (25.00%) Test Management
4 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
4 2 (16.67%) Data Protection
4 2 (16.67%) Project Management
4 2 (16.67%) Release Management
4 2 (16.67%) Requirements Gathering
4 2 (16.67%) Software Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Functional Testing
5 1 (8.33%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (8.33%) Roadmaps
5 1 (8.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (8.33%) Test Planning
5 1 (8.33%) Verification and Validation
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (25.00%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Salesforce