Test Manager Contracts

Test Manager
UK

The median Test Manager daily rate in the UK is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 18 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
18 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 349 389 400
Rank change year-on-year +40 +11 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 225 322 556
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.57% 0.64%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.60% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 213 400
10th Percentile £350 £425 £413
25th Percentile £450 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.25 - -
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
75th Percentile £63.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,507 53,867 83,506
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.79% 94.60% 95.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,718 37,620 58,687
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.40% +3.52% +9.38%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,672 1,498 2,036
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.29 £19.13 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in the UK

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in the UK

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager over the 6 months to 18 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in the UK

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in the UK

Test Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 18 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
England +43 193 £525 -4.55% 30
UK excluding London +31 103 £475 -5.00% 23
London +54 90 £575 +3.37% 9
Work from Home +68 89 £550 +4.76% 10
South East +38 32 £525 +10.53% 10
Midlands +22 21 £275 -45.00% 5
North of England +4 19 £481 -12.50% 3
South West +12 14 £486 -7.38% 1
West Midlands +20 12 £500 - 4
North West +14 12 £463 -15.91% 1
East Midlands +18 9 £270 -44.62% 1
East of England +3 8 £450 -9.09% 5
Scotland +37 7 £551 +0.09% 1
Yorkshire -8 6 £550 - 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East - 1 - - 1

Test Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 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 featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 93 (41.33%) Test Strategy
2 87 (38.67%) Test Management
3 76 (33.78%) Social Skills
4 68 (30.22%) Test Automation
5 49 (21.78%) Agile
6 46 (20.44%) Finance
7 42 (18.67%) User Acceptance Testing
8 41 (18.22%) QA
9 37 (16.44%) Azure
9 37 (16.44%) Defect Management
10 36 (16.00%) JIRA
11 35 (15.56%) Software Testing
12 33 (14.67%) DevOps
13 30 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (12.89%) SAP
15 28 (12.44%) Waterfall
16 27 (12.00%) ISTQB
17 26 (11.56%) Test Scripting
17 26 (11.56%) End-to-End Testing
18 25 (11.11%) Test Planning
18 25 (11.11%) Integration Testing
19 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
20 22 (9.78%) Security Cleared
20 22 (9.78%) Selenium
20 22 (9.78%) Migration
21 21 (9.33%) Oracle
21 21 (9.33%) Non-Functional Testing
21 21 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
22 20 (8.89%) Functional Testing
22 20 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 8 (3.56%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (1.78%) Confluence
4 2 (0.89%) Apache
5 1 (0.44%) CMS
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere
5 1 (0.44%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (0.89%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.44%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.44%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (4.00%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.78%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.33%) iTrent
4 2 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (0.89%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle General Ledger
5 1 (0.44%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.44%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.44%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.44%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 37 (16.44%) Azure
2 21 (9.33%) Azure DevOps
3 13 (5.78%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (3.11%) OCI
4 7 (3.11%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.67%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.67%) PowerApps
6 3 (1.33%) SaaS
7 2 (0.89%) AWS
7 2 (0.89%) GCP
7 2 (0.89%) OneDrive
7 2 (0.89%) Oracle CX
7 2 (0.89%) Power Automate
7 2 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
7 2 (0.89%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.44%) Amazon OpenSearch
8 1 (0.44%) Azure Pipelines
8 1 (0.44%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.78%) Firewall
2 2 (0.89%) HTTP
3 1 (0.44%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.11%) Power BI
2 5 (2.22%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.89%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.44%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.44%) DB2
4 1 (0.44%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.44%) GIS
4 1 (0.44%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 36 (16.00%) JIRA
2 22 (9.78%) Selenium
3 16 (7.11%) JMeter
4 5 (2.22%) Postman
5 4 (1.78%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.33%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.89%) JUnit
7 2 (0.89%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.89%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.44%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.44%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.44%) Gatling
8 1 (0.44%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.44%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.44%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.44%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.44%) WebDriver
General
1 76 (33.78%) Social Skills
2 46 (20.44%) Finance
3 17 (7.56%) Public Sector
4 12 (5.33%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (5.33%) Banking
4 12 (5.33%) Legal
5 10 (4.44%) Retail
6 8 (3.56%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (3.56%) Manufacturing
7 7 (3.11%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.67%) Presentation Skills
9 5 (2.22%) Electronics
9 5 (2.22%) Investment Banking
9 5 (2.22%) Marketing
9 5 (2.22%) Military
9 5 (2.22%) Telecoms
10 4 (1.78%) Prime Brokerage
10 4 (1.78%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
11 3 (1.33%) Organisational Skills
12 2 (0.89%) Aviation
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.44%) Web Services
2 9 (4.00%) ADO
3 6 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.78%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.78%) SOAP
4 4 (1.78%) XML
5 3 (1.33%) Middleware
6 2 (0.89%) FHIR
6 2 (0.89%) JSON
6 2 (0.89%) REST
6 2 (0.89%) SailPoint
7 1 (0.44%) .NET
7 1 (0.44%) FIX Protocol
7 1 (0.44%) Node.js
7 1 (0.44%) Playwright
7 1 (0.44%) React
7 1 (0.44%) WebSockets
7 1 (0.44%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.22%) Product Ownership
2 9 (4.00%) Life Science
3 7 (3.11%) Equities
4 6 (2.67%) Management Information System
4 6 (2.67%) NHS
5 4 (1.78%) Greenfield Project
6 3 (1.33%) Derivative
6 3 (1.33%) FMCG
6 3 (1.33%) Onboarding
6 3 (1.33%) Public Cloud
7 2 (0.89%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (0.89%) Distributed Architecture
7 2 (0.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (0.89%) Mobile App
7 2 (0.89%) Operational Technology
7 2 (0.89%) Reinsurance
7 2 (0.89%) Virtual Team
8 1 (0.44%) Analytical Mindset
8 1 (0.44%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 12 (5.33%) Windows
2 9 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (0.89%) Unix
3 2 (0.89%) VMS
3 2 (0.89%) Windows 2000
3 2 (0.89%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 93 (41.33%) Test Strategy
2 87 (38.67%) Test Management
3 68 (30.22%) Test Automation
4 49 (21.78%) Agile
5 42 (18.67%) User Acceptance Testing
6 37 (16.44%) Defect Management
7 35 (15.56%) Software Testing
8 33 (14.67%) DevOps
9 30 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
10 28 (12.44%) Waterfall
11 26 (11.56%) End-to-End Testing
11 26 (11.56%) Test Scripting
12 25 (11.11%) Integration Testing
12 25 (11.11%) Test Planning
13 23 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 22 (9.78%) Migration
15 21 (9.33%) Non-Functional Testing
16 20 (8.89%) Functional Testing
16 20 (8.89%) Stakeholder Management
17 19 (8.44%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.67%) SQL
2 3 (1.33%) Python
3 2 (0.89%) C++
3 2 (0.89%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.89%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.44%) C#
4 1 (0.44%) Java
4 1 (0.44%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.44%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (12.00%) ISTQB
2 22 (9.78%) Security Cleared
3 16 (7.11%) Degree
4 14 (6.22%) SC Cleared
5 10 (4.44%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 10 (4.44%) ISEB
6 7 (3.11%) HNC
6 7 (3.11%) HND
7 3 (1.33%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.89%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (0.89%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.89%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.89%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.89%) PMP
9 1 (0.44%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.44%) GPEN
9 1 (0.44%) NVQ Level 3
9 1 (0.44%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 41 (18.22%) QA
2 9 (4.00%) HL7
3 3 (1.33%) PMO
4 2 (0.89%) GDPR
4 2 (0.89%) GxP
5 1 (0.44%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.44%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.44%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.44%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.44%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.44%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.89%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.44%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.44%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.22%) HP ALM
1 5 (2.22%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.89%) Ansible
2 2 (0.89%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.89%) Terraform
3 1 (0.44%) Grafana
Vendors
1 29 (12.89%) SAP
2 21 (9.33%) Oracle
3 16 (7.11%) Microsoft
4 8 (3.56%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.22%) HP
6 3 (1.33%) Ariba
6 3 (1.33%) VMware
7 2 (0.89%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.89%) Juniper
8 1 (0.44%) Blue Prism
8 1 (0.44%) Citrix
8 1 (0.44%) Databricks
8 1 (0.44%) eFront
8 1 (0.44%) Finsemble
8 1 (0.44%) Guidewire
8 1 (0.44%) Informatica
8 1 (0.44%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.44%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.44%) Temenos
8 1 (0.44%) Workday