Test Management Contracts

Test Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 364 445 401
Rank change year-on-year +81 -44 +18
Contract jobs citing Test Management 245 259 562
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.57% 0.47% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.52% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 187 446
10th Percentile £363 £404 £343
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £495
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £598 £621 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £620
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £519 £470
% change year-on-year -3.61% +10.37% +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 3
10th Percentile - - £15.43
25th Percentile - - £16.06
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £17.25
75th Percentile - - £38.69
90th Percentile £68.15 - £51.48
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Test Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Management over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Test Management in the UK

Test Management
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England +87 218 £500 -9.09% 50
UK excluding London +66 129 £500 -3.61% 26
London +61 94 £500 -9.09% 22
Work from Home +99 92 £500 -2.91% 24
South East +29 59 £538 +7.50% 8
North of England +17 16 £438 -18.60% 3
East of England +13 14 £375 -46.43% 2
South West +7 12 £418 -30.66% 6
Scotland +44 11 £539 +2.57% 2
Midlands +23 11 £485 -3.00% 5
North West +11 9 £425 -15.00% 3
West Midlands +12 8 £485 -3.00% 3
Yorkshire +6 6 £450 -18.18%
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +14 3 £620 +3.33% 2
Wales - 2 £210 -
North East +13 1 - -

Test Management
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 13 (5.31%) Confluence
2 2 (0.82%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.41%) CMS
3 1 (0.41%) nginx
Applications
1 10 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.41%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 12 (4.90%) Oracle EBS
3 9 (3.67%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.82%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.41%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 50 (20.41%) Azure
2 39 (15.92%) Azure DevOps
3 14 (5.71%) AWS
4 13 (5.31%) BrowserStack
5 11 (4.49%) Firebase
6 10 (4.08%) BlazeMeter
6 10 (4.08%) Power Platform
7 8 (3.27%) PowerApps
7 8 (3.27%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 6 (2.45%) OCI
8 6 (2.45%) SaaS
9 5 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
10 4 (1.63%) Azure API Management
10 4 (1.63%) Figma
11 3 (1.22%) GCP
11 3 (1.22%) GitHub
12 2 (0.82%) Datadog
12 2 (0.82%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.82%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.82%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.04%) Firewall
2 1 (0.41%) MQTT
2 1 (0.41%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.86%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.63%) DB2
2 4 (1.63%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (1.63%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.22%) Big Data
3 3 (1.22%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.22%) Power BI
4 1 (0.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.41%) GIS
4 1 (0.41%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.41%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.41%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 62 (25.31%) JIRA
2 36 (14.69%) JMeter
3 34 (13.88%) Selenium
4 27 (11.02%) TestRail
5 20 (8.16%) Cypress.io
5 20 (8.16%) Postman
6 17 (6.94%) Jenkins
7 14 (5.71%) GitLab
8 12 (4.90%) Appium
9 11 (4.49%) Cucumber
10 9 (3.67%) LoadRunner
11 7 (2.86%) Git
12 5 (2.04%) SoapUI
12 5 (2.04%) SpecFlow
13 4 (1.63%) FitNesse
13 4 (1.63%) JUnit
14 3 (1.22%) Gatling
14 3 (1.22%) Zephyr
15 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket
15 2 (0.82%) Bitbucket Server
General
1 75 (30.61%) Social Skills
2 47 (19.18%) Finance
3 24 (9.80%) Analytical Skills
4 17 (6.94%) Public Sector
5 12 (4.90%) Banking
5 12 (4.90%) Organisational Skills
6 8 (3.27%) Influencing Skills
7 7 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 6 (2.45%) Games
8 6 (2.45%) Manufacturing
8 6 (2.45%) Retail
9 4 (1.63%) Back Office
9 4 (1.63%) Electronics
9 4 (1.63%) Legal
9 4 (1.63%) Marketing
9 4 (1.63%) Military
9 4 (1.63%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (1.63%) Telecoms
10 3 (1.22%) Aviation
10 3 (1.22%) German Language
Job Titles
1 90 (36.73%) Test Manager
2 51 (20.82%) Analyst
3 44 (17.96%) Test Analyst
4 33 (13.47%) Lead
5 29 (11.84%) Test Leader
6 26 (10.61%) Senior
6 26 (10.61%) Tester
7 18 (7.35%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
8 14 (5.71%) QA Tester
9 12 (4.90%) SAP Manager
9 12 (4.90%) Test Engineer
10 9 (3.67%) Consultant
11 8 (3.27%) QA Analyst
11 8 (3.27%) SAP Test Manager
12 7 (2.86%) Automation Tester
12 7 (2.86%) Project Manager
12 7 (2.86%) QA Test Analyst
12 7 (2.86%) Senior Analyst
13 6 (2.45%) Coordinator
13 6 (2.45%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (7.35%) Middleware
2 13 (5.31%) ADO
2 13 (5.31%) WebdriverIO
3 9 (3.67%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.27%) Web Services
5 7 (2.86%) REST
6 5 (2.04%) Gherkin
6 5 (2.04%) Playwright
6 5 (2.04%) XML
7 4 (1.63%) AngularJS
7 4 (1.63%) GraphQL
7 4 (1.63%) SOAP
7 4 (1.63%) Swagger
8 1 (0.41%) Kafka
8 1 (0.41%) SailPoint
8 1 (0.41%) SAP Basis
8 1 (0.41%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.49%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.67%) Life Science
3 5 (2.04%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.04%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.04%) NHS
3 5 (2.04%) PKI
4 4 (1.63%) FMCG
4 4 (1.63%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.63%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.22%) Equities
5 3 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 3 (1.22%) Public Cloud
5 3 (1.22%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.82%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.82%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.82%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.41%) Hybrid Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) IVR
7 1 (0.41%) Legacy Applications
7 1 (0.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.08%) Linux
2 7 (2.86%) Windows
3 2 (0.82%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.41%) Android
4 1 (0.41%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.41%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 106 (43.27%) Agile
2 94 (38.37%) Test Automation
3 72 (29.39%) Test Strategy
4 57 (23.27%) DevOps
5 46 (18.78%) Test Planning
6 41 (16.73%) User Acceptance Testing
7 40 (16.33%) Problem-Solving
8 39 (15.92%) Defect Management
9 38 (15.51%) Continuous Integration
10 34 (13.88%) Test Scripting
11 32 (13.06%) Non-Functional Testing
11 32 (13.06%) Scenario Testing
12 31 (12.65%) Software Testing
13 29 (11.84%) End-to-End Testing
14 28 (11.43%) Scrum
15 27 (11.02%) CI/CD
15 27 (11.02%) Stakeholder Management
16 26 (10.61%) Waterfall
17 24 (9.80%) Performance Testing
18 23 (9.39%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.80%) JavaScript
2 15 (6.12%) SQL
3 14 (5.71%) Python
4 13 (5.31%) Java
5 6 (2.45%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.63%) C#
7 2 (0.82%) ProC
8 1 (0.41%) Bash
Qualifications
1 54 (22.04%) ISTQB
1 54 (22.04%) Security Cleared
2 29 (11.84%) Degree
3 28 (11.43%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 22 (8.98%) DV Cleared
4 22 (8.98%) SC Cleared
5 13 (5.31%) ISEB
6 9 (3.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (1.63%) PMI Certification
8 3 (1.22%) PMP
9 2 (0.82%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (0.82%) Master's Degree
10 1 (0.41%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (24.90%) QA
2 6 (2.45%) HL7
3 5 (2.04%) PMO
4 4 (1.63%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.63%) GDPR
5 3 (1.22%) GxP
6 1 (0.41%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.41%) WCAG
System Software
1 5 (2.04%) Active Directory
2 4 (1.63%) Docker
3 1 (0.41%) iptables
3 1 (0.41%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.41%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (2.86%) HP ALM
1 7 (2.86%) HP Quality Center
2 2 (0.82%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.41%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 34 (13.88%) Oracle
2 28 (11.43%) Microsoft
3 27 (11.02%) SAP
4 9 (3.67%) HP
5 5 (2.04%) ServiceNow
6 4 (1.63%) VMware
7 3 (1.22%) Citrix
7 3 (1.22%) Google
8 2 (0.82%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.82%) Genesys
8 2 (0.82%) UiPath
8 2 (0.82%) Workday
9 1 (0.41%) Ariba
9 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.41%) FIS
9 1 (0.41%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.41%) Qualtrics
9 1 (0.41%) Salesforce
9 1 (0.41%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.41%) Splunk