Test Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Test Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 22 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
22 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 249 351 376
Rank change year-on-year +102 +25 -16
Contract jobs citing Test Management 96 112 250
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.66% 0.46% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.75% 0.51% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 72 206
10th Percentile £365 £382 £350
25th Percentile £419 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £512 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.37% +2.35% +11.11%
75th Percentile £603 £625 £558
90th Percentile £623 £792 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £533 £500
% change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.00
25th Percentile - - £20.00
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £25.50
75th Percentile - - £30.50
90th Percentile - - £33.20
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £26.13
% change year-on-year - - -34.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,871 21,938 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.92% 89.66% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,680 15,535 29,175
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £634
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +7.58%
Number of hourly rates quoted 566 510 537
10th Percentile £14.66 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.44 £27.48 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £79.27 £71.00
UK median hourly rate £36.05 £37.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year -2.58% +44.08% +7.00%

Test Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Test Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Management.

Test Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Test Management over the 6 months to 22 May 2024.

Test Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Test Management.

Test Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Test Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 7 (7.29%) Confluence
2 2 (2.08%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.04%) nginx
3 1 (1.04%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.04%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.04%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (4.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (5.21%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (2.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.04%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 13 (13.54%) Azure
1 13 (13.54%) Azure DevOps
2 12 (12.50%) AWS
3 6 (6.25%) Power Platform
4 5 (5.21%) BlazeMeter
4 5 (5.21%) BrowserStack
4 5 (5.21%) Firebase
4 5 (5.21%) PowerApps
4 5 (5.21%) SAP Commerce Cloud
5 3 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (2.08%) GCP
6 2 (2.08%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (2.08%) OCI
6 2 (2.08%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.08%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.08%) SaaS
6 2 (2.08%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.04%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.04%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.08%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.04%) 3G
2 1 (1.04%) 4G
2 1 (1.04%) 5G
2 1 (1.04%) Diameter Protocol
2 1 (1.04%) MQTT
2 1 (1.04%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.17%) Oracle BI EE
2 3 (3.13%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (3.13%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.08%) Power BI
4 1 (1.04%) Big Data
4 1 (1.04%) DB2
4 1 (1.04%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.04%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.04%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 23 (23.96%) JIRA
2 18 (18.75%) JMeter
3 14 (14.58%) Selenium
4 12 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 12 (12.50%) TestRail
5 10 (10.42%) Cypress.io
6 6 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 6 (6.25%) GitLab
6 6 (6.25%) Postman
7 5 (5.21%) Appium
7 5 (5.21%) SoapUI
8 4 (4.17%) JUnit
9 3 (3.13%) Git
9 3 (3.13%) LoadRunner
9 3 (3.13%) SpecFlow
10 2 (2.08%) Bitbucket
10 2 (2.08%) Bugzilla
10 2 (2.08%) FitNesse
10 2 (2.08%) TestNG
10 2 (2.08%) Tricentis qTest
General
1 33 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 23 (23.96%) Finance
3 16 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 10 (10.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Organisational Skills
5 5 (5.21%) Telecoms
6 4 (4.17%) Banking
6 4 (4.17%) Electronics
6 4 (4.17%) Manufacturing
6 4 (4.17%) Marketing
7 3 (3.13%) Legal
8 2 (2.08%) Back Office
8 2 (2.08%) Front Office
8 2 (2.08%) Retail
9 1 (1.04%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.04%) German Language
9 1 (1.04%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.04%) Law
9 1 (1.04%) Polish Language
9 1 (1.04%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 32 (33.33%) Test Manager
2 17 (17.71%) Analyst
3 14 (14.58%) Test Analyst
4 11 (11.46%) Senior
5 10 (10.42%) Test Engineer
5 10 (10.42%) Tester
6 7 (7.29%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
6 7 (7.29%) QA Tester
7 6 (6.25%) Lead
7 6 (6.25%) Senior Test Engineer
8 5 (5.21%) Project Manager
8 5 (5.21%) Test Leader
9 4 (4.17%) Coordinator
10 3 (3.13%) Business Analyst
10 3 (3.13%) Senior Analyst
11 2 (2.08%) Consultant
11 2 (2.08%) Integration Manager
11 2 (2.08%) IT Manager
11 2 (2.08%) Oracle Analyst
11 2 (2.08%) Senior Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.33%) Middleware
2 6 (6.25%) Oracle Fusion
3 5 (5.21%) WebdriverIO
3 5 (5.21%) XML
4 4 (4.17%) SOAP
5 3 (3.13%) Playwright
5 3 (3.13%) REST
5 3 (3.13%) Web Services
6 1 (1.04%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.04%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
2 3 (3.13%) Life Science
3 2 (2.08%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.08%) NHS
3 2 (2.08%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.08%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.04%) EPoS
4 1 (1.04%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Machine to Machine
4 1 (1.04%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.04%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.04%) Reference Data
4 1 (1.04%) Robotics
4 1 (1.04%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.04%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 7 (7.29%) Linux
2 3 (3.13%) Windows
3 1 (1.04%) Android
3 1 (1.04%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.04%) CentOS
3 1 (1.04%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.04%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (47.92%) Agile
2 43 (44.79%) Test Automation
3 29 (30.21%) Test Strategy
4 19 (19.79%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (18.75%) Continuous Integration
5 18 (18.75%) DevOps
5 18 (18.75%) Performance Testing
6 17 (17.71%) Non-Functional Testing
7 16 (16.67%) Functional Testing
8 15 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 15 (15.63%) End-to-End Testing
9 14 (14.58%) Test Planning
9 14 (14.58%) Test Scripting
9 14 (14.58%) Waterfall
10 12 (12.50%) Integration Testing
10 12 (12.50%) Project Management
10 12 (12.50%) Scrum
10 12 (12.50%) Software Testing
11 11 (11.46%) Defect Tracking
11 11 (11.46%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (14.58%) JavaScript
2 10 (10.42%) SQL
3 9 (9.38%) Python
4 7 (7.29%) Java
5 3 (3.13%) TypeScript
6 1 (1.04%) Bash
6 1 (1.04%) C#
Qualifications
1 32 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 24 (25.00%) ISTQB
3 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
4 11 (11.46%) Degree
4 11 (11.46%) DV Cleared
5 9 (9.38%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 4 (4.17%) ISEB
7 3 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (1.04%) PMI Certification
8 1 (1.04%) PMP
8 1 (1.04%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (19.79%) QA
2 4 (4.17%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 3 (3.13%) PMO
4 2 (2.08%) HL7
5 1 (1.04%) GxP
System Software
1 4 (4.17%) Docker
2 1 (1.04%) iptables
2 1 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (6.25%) HP ALM
2 3 (3.13%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (3.13%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.08%) Terraform
4 1 (1.04%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 15 (15.63%) Microsoft
1 15 (15.63%) Oracle
2 8 (8.33%) HP
3 7 (7.29%) SAP
4 3 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.08%) Citrix
5 2 (2.08%) Google
5 2 (2.08%) UiPath
6 1 (1.04%) Ariba
6 1 (1.04%) FIS
6 1 (1.04%) Genesys
6 1 (1.04%) VMware
6 1 (1.04%) Workday