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 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 333 406 394
Rank change year-on-year +73 -12 +2
Contract jobs citing Test Management 220 240 453
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.60% 0.51% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.56% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 163 175 363
10th Percentile £363 £403 £350
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £495
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +11.11% +10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £626 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £613
UK median daily rate £500 £539 £495
% change year-on-year -7.19% +8.84% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £16.06
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £17.25
75th Percentile £34.81 - £38.69
90th Percentile £77.68 - £51.48
UK median hourly rate £11.00 - £17.25
% change year-on-year - - -62.50%

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 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

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 1 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 1 June 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 +66 94 £515 -6.36% 20
South East +25 60 £525 +5.00% 8
North of England +12 16 £438 -20.45% 2
East of England +16 14 £375 -46.43% 3
South West +1 12 £418 -30.66% 4
Midlands +24 11 £485 -3.00% 6
North West +19 9 £425 -15.00% 2
West Midlands +13 8 £485 -3.00% 4
Yorkshire +10 6 £450 -18.18%
East Midlands +14 3 £620 +3.33% 2
North East +11 1 - -
Test Management
UK

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 (5.45%) Confluence
2 2 (0.91%) 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 (4.09%) 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 12 (5.45%) Oracle EBS
1 12 (5.45%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (4.09%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.36%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.91%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.45%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 43 (19.55%) Azure
2 32 (14.55%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (6.36%) AWS
4 13 (5.91%) BrowserStack
5 11 (5.00%) Firebase
6 10 (4.55%) BlazeMeter
7 9 (4.09%) Power Platform
8 8 (3.64%) PowerApps
8 8 (3.64%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 6 (2.73%) OCI
10 4 (1.82%) Azure API Management
10 4 (1.82%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.82%) Figma
10 4 (1.82%) SaaS
11 3 (1.36%) GitHub
12 2 (0.91%) Datadog
12 2 (0.91%) GCP
12 2 (0.91%) Microsoft 365
12 2 (0.91%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.91%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.27%) Firewall
2 2 (0.91%) 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 (2.73%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.82%) 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 58 (26.36%) JIRA
2 30 (13.64%) JMeter
3 28 (12.73%) Selenium
4 26 (11.82%) TestRail
5 20 (9.09%) Postman
6 19 (8.64%) Cypress.io
7 17 (7.73%) Jenkins
8 14 (6.36%) GitLab
9 12 (5.45%) Appium
10 11 (5.00%) Cucumber
11 6 (2.73%) Git
11 6 (2.73%) LoadRunner
12 5 (2.27%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.82%) FitNesse
13 4 (1.82%) JUnit
14 3 (1.36%) Gatling
14 3 (1.36%) Zephyr
15 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.91%) Bitbucket Server
15 2 (0.91%) SoapUI
General
1 64 (29.09%) Social Skills
2 37 (16.82%) Finance
3 18 (8.18%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.45%) Organisational Skills
5 11 (5.00%) Public Sector
6 8 (3.64%) Banking
6 8 (3.64%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (3.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.73%) Games
8 6 (2.73%) Manufacturing
9 5 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.27%) Retail
9 5 (2.27%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.82%) Back Office
10 4 (1.82%) Electronics
10 4 (1.82%) Marketing
10 4 (1.82%) Military
11 3 (1.36%) Aviation
11 3 (1.36%) Front Office
11 3 (1.36%) Legal
Job Titles
1 79 (35.91%) Test Manager
2 48 (21.82%) Analyst
3 42 (19.09%) Test Analyst
4 26 (11.82%) Tester
5 25 (11.36%) Lead
6 24 (10.91%) Senior
7 23 (10.45%) Test Leader
8 18 (8.18%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 14 (6.36%) QA Tester
10 13 (5.91%) Test Engineer
11 11 (5.00%) SAP Manager
12 8 (3.64%) Consultant
12 8 (3.64%) QA Analyst
12 8 (3.64%) SAP Test Manager
13 7 (3.18%) Automation Tester
13 7 (3.18%) QA Test Analyst
14 6 (2.73%) Project Manager
14 6 (2.73%) SAP Consultant
14 6 (2.73%) Senior Analyst
14 6 (2.73%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.27%) Middleware
2 13 (5.91%) ADO
2 13 (5.91%) WebdriverIO
3 9 (4.09%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.64%) Web Services
5 7 (3.18%) REST
6 5 (2.27%) Gherkin
7 4 (1.82%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.82%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.82%) Playwright
7 4 (1.82%) Swagger
8 1 (0.45%) Kafka
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Fiori
8 1 (0.45%) SOAP
8 1 (0.45%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (4.09%) Life Science
1 9 (4.09%) Product Ownership
2 5 (2.27%) Mobile App
2 5 (2.27%) PKI
3 4 (1.82%) FMCG
3 4 (1.82%) NHS
3 4 (1.82%) Virtual Team
4 3 (1.36%) Onboarding
4 3 (1.36%) Reinsurance
5 2 (0.91%) Algorithms
5 2 (0.91%) Fixed Income
5 2 (0.91%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (0.91%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.45%) EPoS
6 1 (0.45%) Equities
6 1 (0.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (0.45%) IVR
6 1 (0.45%) PMI
6 1 (0.45%) Reference Data
6 1 (0.45%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.64%) 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 (45.45%) Agile
2 86 (39.09%) Test Automation
3 59 (26.82%) Test Strategy
4 49 (22.27%) DevOps
5 40 (18.18%) Test Planning
6 38 (17.27%) Continuous Integration
7 31 (14.09%) Problem-Solving
7 31 (14.09%) Scenario Testing
7 31 (14.09%) User Acceptance Testing
8 27 (12.27%) Defect Management
8 27 (12.27%) Scrum
9 26 (11.82%) CI/CD
10 25 (11.36%) Software Testing
10 25 (11.36%) Waterfall
11 24 (10.91%) Non-Functional Testing
12 23 (10.45%) End-to-End Testing
12 23 (10.45%) Test Scripting
13 21 (9.55%) Performance Testing
14 20 (9.09%) Stakeholder Management
15 19 (8.64%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 23 (10.45%) JavaScript
2 14 (6.36%) Python
3 13 (5.91%) Java
4 8 (3.64%) SQL
5 5 (2.27%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.82%) C#
7 2 (0.91%) ProC
8 1 (0.45%) Bash
Qualifications
1 50 (22.73%) Security Cleared
2 45 (20.45%) ISTQB
3 26 (11.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 22 (10.00%) Degree
4 22 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 19 (8.64%) SC Cleared
6 7 (3.18%) Computer Science Degree
7 6 (2.73%) ISEB
8 3 (1.36%) PMI Certification
9 2 (0.91%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (24.55%) QA
2 6 (2.73%) HL7
3 5 (2.27%) Accessibility
4 3 (1.36%) GDPR
4 3 (1.36%) PMO
5 2 (0.91%) GxP
6 1 (0.45%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.27%) Active Directory
1 5 (2.27%) Docker
2 1 (0.45%) iptables
2 1 (0.45%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.82%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.36%) HP ALM
2 3 (1.36%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.91%) Terraform
4 1 (0.45%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 30 (13.64%) Oracle
2 25 (11.36%) SAP
3 22 (10.00%) Microsoft
4 5 (2.27%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.36%) HP
6 2 (0.91%) Dynatrace
6 2 (0.91%) Genesys
6 2 (0.91%) 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%) MuleSoft
7 1 (0.45%) Qualtrics
7 1 (0.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (0.45%) ScienceLogic
7 1 (0.45%) Splunk
7 1 (0.45%) Workday