Test Manager Jobs

Test Manager
UK

The median Test Manager salary in the UK is £63,112 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 810 780 893
Rank change year-on-year -30 +113 -128
Permanent jobs requiring a Test Manager 97 168 380
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.092% 0.18% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.19% 0.23%
Number of salaries quoted 72 112 197
10th Percentile £46,250 £47,975 £45,150
25th Percentile £51,391 £57,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,112 £67,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -6.50% +12.50% -
75th Percentile £75,000 £80,313 £72,500
90th Percentile £78,750 £87,375 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £67,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -18.52% +12.50% +4.80%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent 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 permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 99,552 86,380 162,088
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.85% 91.27% 96.05%
Number of salaries quoted 70,786 55,655 84,889
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,000 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,500 £50,244
% change year-on-year -6.54% +6.48% +5.78%

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
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Test Manager in the UK

Test Manager
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Manager over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Manager in the UK

Test Manager
Top 14 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Manager within the UK 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -16 94 £62,806 -6.95% 29
UK excluding London -43 73 £55,000 -18.52% 19
Midlands 0 26 £55,000 +10.00% 2
London +80 21 £78,750 - 11
Work from Home -15 20 £63,112 -2.90% 18
North of England +33 19 £55,000 -15.38% 4
North West +2 15 £55,000 -25.42% 2
West Midlands 0 15 £70,000 +12.00% 2
East of England -2 13 £70,000 +12.00% 3
South East -13 12 £62,500 +8.70% 8
East Midlands -19 11 £49,329 -1.34%
Yorkshire +57 4 £55,000 -12.00% 2
Wales +10 2 £65,000 +30.00%
South West -43 1 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 1 June 2024, Test Manager 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 permanent job ads featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 49 (50.52%) Test Strategy
2 45 (46.39%) Test Automation
3 42 (43.30%) User Acceptance Testing
4 39 (40.21%) Test Management
5 35 (36.08%) Agile
6 33 (34.02%) QA
7 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
8 26 (26.80%) JIRA
9 21 (21.65%) Software Testing
9 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
10 18 (18.56%) Finance
11 17 (17.53%) Defect Management
12 16 (16.49%) Line Management
12 16 (16.49%) Regression Testing
12 16 (16.49%) Project Management
12 16 (16.49%) ISTQB
13 15 (15.46%) Waterfall
13 15 (15.46%) Mentoring
13 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
13 15 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
13 15 (15.46%) End-to-End Testing
14 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
15 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
15 12 (12.37%) Functional Testing
15 12 (12.37%) Manual Testing
15 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
15 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
16 11 (11.34%) SAP
17 10 (10.31%) Scrum
17 10 (10.31%) Matrix 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 1 (1.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.03%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.15%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 5 (5.15%) Azure
2 4 (4.12%) AWS
2 4 (4.12%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (3.09%) SaaS
4 1 (1.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.03%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.12%) LAN
1 4 (4.12%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (4.12%) Wireless
2 1 (1.03%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.15%) SAP BW
1 5 (5.15%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 26 (26.80%) JIRA
2 10 (10.31%) TestRail
3 8 (8.25%) SoapUI
4 5 (5.15%) Selenium
5 4 (4.12%) Cucumber
6 3 (3.09%) Zephyr
7 2 (2.06%) Appium
7 2 (2.06%) JUnit
7 2 (2.06%) TestNG
7 2 (2.06%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.03%) Git
8 1 (1.03%) Postman
8 1 (1.03%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (1.03%) TeamCity
General
1 31 (31.96%) Social Skills
2 18 (18.56%) Finance
3 15 (15.46%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (13.40%) Public Sector
5 7 (7.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 7 (7.22%) Retail
6 6 (6.19%) Law
7 4 (4.12%) Back Office
8 3 (3.09%) Automotive
8 3 (3.09%) Legal
8 3 (3.09%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.06%) Aerospace
9 2 (2.06%) Fire and Rescue
9 2 (2.06%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Aviation
10 1 (1.03%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.03%) Electronics
10 1 (1.03%) Police
10 1 (1.03%) Tech for Good
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (5.15%) SOAP
2 4 (4.12%) ADO
2 4 (4.12%) Gherkin
3 3 (3.09%) WPF
4 1 (1.03%) .NET
4 1 (1.03%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.28%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (6.19%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (5.15%) BBC
3 5 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.06%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.06%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.06%) Virtual Team
5 1 (1.03%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.03%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.03%) Smart Meter
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 49 (50.52%) Test Strategy
2 45 (46.39%) Test Automation
3 42 (43.30%) User Acceptance Testing
4 39 (40.21%) Test Management
5 35 (36.08%) Agile
6 21 (21.65%) Problem-Solving
6 21 (21.65%) Software Testing
7 17 (17.53%) Defect Management
8 16 (16.49%) Line Management
8 16 (16.49%) Project Management
8 16 (16.49%) Regression Testing
9 15 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
9 15 (15.46%) End-to-End Testing
9 15 (15.46%) Mentoring
9 15 (15.46%) Waterfall
10 12 (12.37%) CI/CD
10 12 (12.37%) Functional Testing
10 12 (12.37%) Manual Testing
10 12 (12.37%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.31%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.15%) SQL
2 4 (4.12%) C#
3 3 (3.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 16 (16.49%) ISTQB
2 12 (12.37%) Security Cleared
3 8 (8.25%) Degree
4 5 (5.15%) CAPM
4 5 (5.15%) Computer Science Degree
4 5 (5.15%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.15%) ISEB
4 5 (5.15%) PMI Certification
4 5 (5.15%) PMP
4 5 (5.15%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.12%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 1 (1.03%) CEH
7 1 (1.03%) CISM
7 1 (1.03%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 33 (34.02%) QA
2 6 (6.19%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.03%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (2.06%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (6.19%) HP ALM
2 2 (2.06%) Ansible
2 2 (2.06%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.06%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (11.34%) SAP
2 6 (6.19%) HP
3 5 (5.15%) UiPath
4 4 (4.12%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.03%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.03%) BT
5 1 (1.03%) Workday