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 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 334 432 402
Rank change year-on-year +98 -30 +25
Contract jobs citing Test Management 248 267 554
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.58% 0.47% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.68% 0.53% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 185 437
10th Percentile £363 £400 £350
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £533 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +6.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £615 £550
90th Percentile £625 £700 £625
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £516 £475
% change year-on-year -3.15% +8.68% +7.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 4
10th Percentile - - £15.64
25th Percentile - - £16.59
Median hourly rate £11.00 - £26.13
75th Percentile - - £41.25
90th Percentile - - £52.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £11.00 - £60.00
% change year-on-year - - +140.00%

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 36,537 50,741 79,365
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.91% 89.71% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,555 35,132 55,704
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £439 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £483
% change year-on-year - +3.63% +9.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,471 1,680 1,899
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.00 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year - +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.56
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.75 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.86% +75.00% -4.99%

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 23 May 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
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 23 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 +81 221 £500 -7.41% 42
UK excluding London +81 135 £500 -3.15% 22
Work from Home +107 94 £525 +2.74% 18
London +63 91 £520 -5.45% 16
South East +31 60 £550 +9.13% 3
North of England +18 16 £438 -20.45% 3
South West +14 16 £425 -29.41% 4
East of England +24 15 £375 -11.76% 2
Scotland +46 11 £539 +3.06% 1
Midlands +34 11 £485 -3.00% 8
North West +21 9 £425 -15.00% 2
West Midlands +16 8 £485 -3.00% 6
Yorkshire +11 6 £450 -18.18% 1
Isle of Man - 4 £388 -
East Midlands +17 3 £620 +29.17% 2
Wales - 2 £210 - 1
North East +11 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 (5.24%) Confluence
2 2 (0.81%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.40%) CMS
3 1 (0.40%) nginx
3 1 (0.40%) OpenStack
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere
3 1 (0.40%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 10 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.40%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 13 (5.24%) Oracle EBS
1 13 (5.24%) SAP S/4HANA
2 9 (3.63%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 3 (1.21%) Oracle General Ledger
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Assets
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Cash Management
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Payables
4 2 (0.81%) Oracle Receivables
5 1 (0.40%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 42 (16.94%) Azure
2 32 (12.90%) Azure DevOps
3 17 (6.85%) AWS
4 13 (5.24%) BrowserStack
5 11 (4.44%) Firebase
6 10 (4.03%) BlazeMeter
7 8 (3.23%) SAP Commerce Cloud
8 7 (2.82%) Power Platform
9 6 (2.42%) OCI
9 6 (2.42%) SaaS
10 5 (2.02%) PowerApps
11 3 (1.21%) GCP
11 3 (1.21%) GitHub
12 2 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
12 2 (0.81%) Datadog
12 2 (0.81%) Figma
12 2 (0.81%) OneDrive
12 2 (0.81%) Power Automate
12 2 (0.81%) Sauce Labs
12 2 (0.81%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.02%) Firewall
2 2 (0.81%) TCP/IP
3 1 (0.40%) 3G
3 1 (0.40%) 4G
3 1 (0.40%) 5G
3 1 (0.40%) Diameter Protocol
3 1 (0.40%) MQTT
3 1 (0.40%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (2.82%) SQL Server
2 4 (1.61%) Oracle BI EE
2 4 (1.61%) SAP BW
3 3 (1.21%) Big Data
3 3 (1.21%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (1.21%) Power BI
4 1 (0.40%) Data Lake
4 1 (0.40%) DB2
4 1 (0.40%) GIS
4 1 (0.40%) MongoDB
4 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 64 (25.81%) JIRA
2 35 (14.11%) JMeter
3 34 (13.71%) Selenium
4 29 (11.69%) TestRail
5 20 (8.06%) Cypress.io
6 18 (7.26%) Jenkins
7 16 (6.45%) GitLab
8 14 (5.65%) Postman
9 13 (5.24%) Cucumber
10 12 (4.84%) Appium
11 8 (3.23%) Git
12 6 (2.42%) JUnit
12 6 (2.42%) LoadRunner
13 5 (2.02%) SoapUI
13 5 (2.02%) SpecFlow
14 4 (1.61%) FitNesse
15 3 (1.21%) Gatling
15 3 (1.21%) Zephyr
16 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
16 2 (0.81%) TestNG
General
1 76 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 41 (16.53%) Finance
3 24 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 20 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 13 (5.24%) Organisational Skills
6 10 (4.03%) Banking
7 8 (3.23%) Games
7 8 (3.23%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (2.42%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.02%) Telecoms
11 4 (1.61%) Back Office
11 4 (1.61%) Electronics
11 4 (1.61%) Marketing
11 4 (1.61%) Military
11 4 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (1.61%) Retail
12 3 (1.21%) Aviation
12 3 (1.21%) German Language
12 3 (1.21%) Legal
Job Titles
1 86 (34.68%) Test Manager
2 52 (20.97%) Analyst
3 45 (18.15%) Test Analyst
4 35 (14.11%) Lead
5 31 (12.50%) Test Leader
6 29 (11.69%) Senior
7 23 (9.27%) Tester
8 19 (7.66%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
9 18 (7.26%) Test Engineer
10 14 (5.65%) QA Tester
11 13 (5.24%) SAP Manager
12 9 (3.63%) Consultant
12 9 (3.63%) SAP Test Manager
13 8 (3.23%) QA Analyst
13 8 (3.23%) Senior Test Engineer
14 7 (2.82%) Project Manager
14 7 (2.82%) QA Test Analyst
14 7 (2.82%) Senior Analyst
15 6 (2.42%) Coordinator
15 6 (2.42%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (6.45%) Middleware
2 13 (5.24%) ADO
2 13 (5.24%) WebdriverIO
3 11 (4.44%) Oracle Fusion
4 8 (3.23%) Web Services
5 7 (2.82%) REST
6 5 (2.02%) Gherkin
6 5 (2.02%) Playwright
6 5 (2.02%) XML
7 4 (1.61%) SOAP
8 2 (0.81%) AngularJS
8 2 (0.81%) GraphQL
8 2 (0.81%) Jest
9 1 (0.40%) Kafka
9 1 (0.40%) SailPoint
9 1 (0.40%) SAP Basis
Miscellaneous
1 11 (4.44%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.63%) Life Science
3 5 (2.02%) Mobile App
3 5 (2.02%) NHS
3 5 (2.02%) PKI
4 4 (1.61%) FMCG
4 4 (1.61%) Management Information System
4 4 (1.61%) Onboarding
4 4 (1.61%) Public Cloud
4 4 (1.61%) Virtual Team
5 3 (1.21%) Equities
5 3 (1.21%) Reinsurance
6 2 (0.81%) Algorithms
6 2 (0.81%) Fixed Income
6 2 (0.81%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.40%) EPoS
7 1 (0.40%) IVR
7 1 (0.40%) PMI
7 1 (0.40%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 8 (3.23%) Linux
2 4 (1.61%) Windows
3 2 (0.81%) Windows Server
4 1 (0.40%) Android
4 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.40%) CentOS
4 1 (0.40%) Mac OS
4 1 (0.40%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 105 (42.34%) Agile
2 94 (37.90%) Test Automation
3 66 (26.61%) Test Strategy
4 49 (19.76%) DevOps
5 48 (19.35%) Test Planning
6 41 (16.53%) Continuous Integration
7 40 (16.13%) Problem-Solving
8 38 (15.32%) User Acceptance Testing
9 36 (14.52%) Defect Management
9 36 (14.52%) Scenario Testing
10 34 (13.71%) Non-Functional Testing
11 31 (12.50%) Software Testing
11 31 (12.50%) Test Scripting
12 28 (11.29%) CI/CD
13 27 (10.89%) End-to-End Testing
13 27 (10.89%) Performance Testing
14 25 (10.08%) Scrum
14 25 (10.08%) Waterfall
15 24 (9.68%) Stakeholder Management
16 23 (9.27%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 24 (9.68%) JavaScript
2 16 (6.45%) Python
3 15 (6.05%) Java
4 13 (5.24%) SQL
5 6 (2.42%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.61%) C#
7 2 (0.81%) ProC
8 1 (0.40%) Bash
Qualifications
1 61 (24.60%) Security Cleared
2 55 (22.18%) ISTQB
3 30 (12.10%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 29 (11.69%) Degree
5 27 (10.89%) SC Cleared
6 24 (9.68%) DV Cleared
7 12 (4.84%) ISEB
8 9 (3.63%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (1.61%) PMI Certification
10 3 (1.21%) PMP
11 2 (0.81%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (0.81%) Master's Degree
12 1 (0.40%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (26.21%) QA
2 6 (2.42%) HL7
3 5 (2.02%) PMO
4 4 (1.61%) Accessibility
4 4 (1.61%) GDPR
5 3 (1.21%) GxP
6 1 (0.40%) Disclosure Scotland
6 1 (0.40%) WCAG
System Software
1 7 (2.82%) Docker
2 5 (2.02%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.40%) iptables
3 1 (0.40%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.40%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
2 7 (2.82%) HP ALM
3 3 (1.21%) Kubernetes
4 2 (0.81%) Terraform
5 1 (0.40%) Docker Swarm
Vendors
1 35 (14.11%) Oracle
2 26 (10.48%) SAP
3 19 (7.66%) Microsoft
4 9 (3.63%) HP
5 5 (2.02%) ServiceNow
6 3 (1.21%) Citrix
6 3 (1.21%) Google
7 2 (0.81%) Dynatrace
7 2 (0.81%) Genesys
7 2 (0.81%) UiPath
8 1 (0.40%) Ariba
8 1 (0.40%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.40%) FIS
8 1 (0.40%) Informatica
8 1 (0.40%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.40%) Qualtrics
8 1 (0.40%) Salesforce
8 1 (0.40%) ScienceLogic
8 1 (0.40%) VMware
8 1 (0.40%) Workday