Test Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Test Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £475 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 317 303
Rank change year-on-year +34 -14 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 109 118 224
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.52% 0.52% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.55% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 68 170
10th Percentile £275 £413 £418
25th Percentile £405 £463 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
75th Percentile £566 £600 £538
90th Percentile £638 £700 £601
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,497 21,400 29,228
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 94.21% 95.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,649 14,865 20,542
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £388 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
75th Percentile £591 £600 £575
90th Percentile £684 £688 £656
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,477 1,094 1,390
10th Percentile £12.53 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.85 £18.08 £15.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £46.42
90th Percentile £74.15 £75.50 £61.71
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Test Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Manager in the UK excluding London

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 9 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
South East +21 30 £513 +7.89% 6
Midlands +23 23 £275 -45.00% 2
North of England -3 23 £481 -14.44% 5
South West +19 15 £500 -11.11% 2
North West +6 14 £463 -15.91% 2
West Midlands +9 13 £475 -5.00% 2
East Midlands +19 10 £270 -47.32%
East of England +6 9 £450 -8.16% 4
Yorkshire -10 8 £525 -14.98% 3
Scotland +41 7 £551 +0.09% 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East - 1 - -
Test Manager
UK

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 UK excluding London region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 50 (45.87%) Test Strategy
2 41 (37.61%) Test Management
3 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
4 31 (28.44%) Test Automation
5 24 (22.02%) User Acceptance Testing
6 21 (19.27%) Software Testing
6 21 (19.27%) Azure
7 19 (17.43%) DevOps
7 19 (17.43%) Defect Management
7 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
8 18 (16.51%) Agile
8 18 (16.51%) Finance
9 16 (14.68%) Test Planning
10 15 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
10 15 (13.76%) Migration
11 14 (12.84%) QA
11 14 (12.84%) Integration Testing
11 14 (12.84%) Non-Functional Testing
12 13 (11.93%) End-to-End Testing
13 12 (11.01%) Functional Testing
13 12 (11.01%) Test Scripting
13 12 (11.01%) ISTQB
13 12 (11.01%) SAP
14 11 (10.09%) JIRA
14 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
15 10 (9.17%) Waterfall
15 10 (9.17%) Data Migration
16 9 (8.26%) Web Services
16 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
17 8 (7.34%) People Management

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (0.92%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (2.75%) Oracle EBS
1 3 (2.75%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (1.83%) iTrent
2 2 (1.83%) NEC Housing
3 1 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.92%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 1 (0.92%) SAP HCM
3 1 (0.92%) SAP Retail
Cloud Services
1 21 (19.27%) Azure
2 11 (10.09%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (6.42%) Dynamics 365
4 4 (3.67%) OCI
5 2 (1.83%) AWS
5 2 (1.83%) GCP
5 2 (1.83%) SaaS
6 1 (0.92%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.67%) Firewall
2 1 (0.92%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (0.92%) Electronic Patient Records
1 1 (0.92%) GIS
1 1 (0.92%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (10.09%) JIRA
2 4 (3.67%) Selenium
3 3 (2.75%) Postman
3 3 (2.75%) SpecFlow
4 2 (1.83%) Cucumber
4 2 (1.83%) Zephyr
5 1 (0.92%) JMeter
5 1 (0.92%) Ranorex
General
1 40 (36.70%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Finance
3 6 (5.50%) Retail
4 5 (4.59%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (4.59%) Public Sector
5 3 (2.75%) Manufacturing
5 3 (2.75%) Military
5 3 (2.75%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Aviation
6 2 (1.83%) Banking
6 2 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (0.92%) Automotive
7 1 (0.92%) Electronics
7 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (0.92%) Law
7 1 (0.92%) Legal
7 1 (0.92%) Local Government
7 1 (0.92%) Marketing
7 1 (0.92%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (8.26%) Web Services
2 4 (3.67%) Oracle Fusion
3 2 (1.83%) Gherkin
4 1 (0.92%) ADO
4 1 (0.92%) Middleware
4 1 (0.92%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.50%) Life Science
2 4 (3.67%) NHS
2 4 (3.67%) Product Ownership
3 2 (1.83%) Data Centre
3 2 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.83%) Equities
3 2 (1.83%) FMCG
3 2 (1.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.83%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (1.83%) Management Information System
3 2 (1.83%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.83%) Operational Technology
3 2 (1.83%) Public Cloud
4 1 (0.92%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.92%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.92%) IoT
4 1 (0.92%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.92%) PMI
4 1 (0.92%) Robotics
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (6.42%) Windows
2 2 (1.83%) Unix
2 2 (1.83%) VMS
2 2 (1.83%) Windows 2000
2 2 (1.83%) Windows XP
3 1 (0.92%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (45.87%) Test Strategy
2 41 (37.61%) Test Management
3 31 (28.44%) Test Automation
4 24 (22.02%) User Acceptance Testing
5 21 (19.27%) Software Testing
6 19 (17.43%) Defect Management
6 19 (17.43%) DevOps
6 19 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (16.51%) Agile
8 16 (14.68%) Test Planning
9 15 (13.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (13.76%) Migration
10 14 (12.84%) Integration Testing
10 14 (12.84%) Non-Functional Testing
11 13 (11.93%) End-to-End Testing
12 12 (11.01%) Functional Testing
12 12 (11.01%) Test Scripting
13 10 (9.17%) Data Migration
13 10 (9.17%) Waterfall
14 9 (8.26%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 2 (1.83%) PowerShell
1 2 (1.83%) Shell Script
2 1 (0.92%) C++
2 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.92%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (11.01%) ISTQB
2 8 (7.34%) Degree
3 7 (6.42%) HNC
3 7 (6.42%) HND
3 7 (6.42%) SC Cleared
3 7 (6.42%) Security Cleared
4 5 (4.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 4 (3.67%) ISEB
6 2 (1.83%) ISEB Practitioner
6 2 (1.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.92%) CEH
7 1 (0.92%) CREST Certified
7 1 (0.92%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.92%) GIAC
7 1 (0.92%) GPEN
7 1 (0.92%) NVQ Level 3
7 1 (0.92%) OSCP
7 1 (0.92%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (12.84%) QA
2 5 (4.59%) HL7
3 2 (1.83%) PMO
4 1 (0.92%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.92%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.92%) NIST
System Software
1 1 (0.92%) Active Directory
1 1 (0.92%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (0.92%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (3.67%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (1.83%) Ansible
2 2 (1.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (11.01%) SAP
2 8 (7.34%) Oracle
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
4 2 (1.83%) Fortinet
4 2 (1.83%) Juniper
4 2 (1.83%) NEC
5 1 (0.92%) Blue Prism
5 1 (0.92%) Citrix
5 1 (0.92%) Databricks
5 1 (0.92%) Northgate
5 1 (0.92%) ScienceLogic
5 1 (0.92%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.92%) VMware