Test Management Jobs in England

Test Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England requiring Test Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Test Management over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 704 689 474
Rank change year-on-year -15 -215 +184
Permanent jobs citing Test Management 160 206 1,099
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.25% 0.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.26% 0.79%
Number of salaries quoted 113 141 296
10th Percentile £36,250 £34,452 £36,250
25th Percentile £42,500 £41,250 £41,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £56,549 £51,250
Median % change year-on-year -11.58% +10.34% -10.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £65,000
90th Percentile - £80,000 £91,250
UK median annual salary £50,000 £55,775 £52,500
% change year-on-year -10.35% +6.24% -7.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Test Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 78,968 78,333 138,622
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 82.62% 95.44% 95.96%
Number of salaries quoted 56,258 48,146 73,664
10th Percentile £29,383 £34,308 £33,349
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,775 £44,178
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £102,500 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £60,899 £60,000
% change year-on-year -9.69% +1.50% +9.09%

Test Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Test Management in England

Test Management
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Test Management in England over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Salary histogram for Test Management in England

Test Management
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Test Management within the England region over the 6 months to 12 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
London +51 39 £65,000 +1.17% 23
North of England +6 28 £55,000 +26.44% 2
South East -38 28 £50,000 -23.08% 9
Midlands -36 26 £50,000 +26.58% 5
West Midlands -1 25 £50,000 +36.21% 3
South West -34 24 £50,000 -20.00% 6
North West -5 23 £62,500 -20.89% 2
East of England -3 11 £40,000 -38.46% 2
Yorkshire +44 5 £55,000 +27.91%
East Midlands -37 1 £70,000 +77.22% 2
Test Management
UK

Test Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 15 (9.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (5.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (1.25%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.25%) Trello
4 1 (0.63%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (2.50%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (12.50%) Azure
2 13 (8.13%) Azure DevOps
3 9 (5.63%) GitHub
4 7 (4.38%) AWS
4 7 (4.38%) SaaS
5 3 (1.88%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.25%) BrowserStack
6 2 (1.25%) ClickUp
6 2 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (1.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.50%) Bluetooth
1 4 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
1 4 (2.50%) ZigBee
2 2 (1.25%) Firewall
3 1 (0.63%) Broadband
3 1 (0.63%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.25%) Power BI
1 2 (1.25%) SAP HANA
2 1 (0.63%) DynamoDB
2 1 (0.63%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.63%) NoSQL
2 1 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 63 (39.38%) JIRA
2 30 (18.75%) Selenium
3 20 (12.50%) Cucumber
4 16 (10.00%) TestRail
5 15 (9.38%) Zephyr
6 14 (8.75%) Cypress.io
7 9 (5.63%) Git
7 9 (5.63%) Jenkins
8 8 (5.00%) Appium
8 8 (5.00%) TeamCity
9 7 (4.38%) Bugzilla
10 5 (3.13%) SoapUI
11 4 (2.50%) Bitbucket Server
11 4 (2.50%) JUnit
11 4 (2.50%) NUnit
11 4 (2.50%) Postman
11 4 (2.50%) Serenity BDD
11 4 (2.50%) SpecFlow
11 4 (2.50%) TestNG
12 3 (1.88%) XCUITest
General
1 63 (39.38%) Social Skills
2 27 (16.88%) Analytical Skills
2 27 (16.88%) Finance
3 18 (11.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 13 (8.13%) Law
5 10 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 8 (5.00%) Retail
7 6 (3.75%) Legal
8 5 (3.13%) Games
9 4 (2.50%) Electronics
9 4 (2.50%) Public Sector
10 3 (1.88%) Aerospace
10 3 (1.88%) German Language
10 3 (1.88%) Manufacturing
10 3 (1.88%) Police
11 2 (1.25%) Automotive
11 2 (1.25%) Banking
11 2 (1.25%) Fire and Rescue
11 2 (1.25%) Local Government
11 2 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 39 (24.38%) Test Manager
2 30 (18.75%) Senior
3 27 (16.88%) Analyst
4 23 (14.38%) Test Analyst
5 19 (11.88%) Test Engineer
6 14 (8.75%) Tester
7 13 (8.13%) Lead
8 10 (6.25%) QA Engineer
9 9 (5.63%) DV Cleared Test Analyst
10 7 (4.38%) Developer
10 7 (4.38%) Developer in Test
10 7 (4.38%) Programme Manager
10 7 (4.38%) Programme Test Manager
10 7 (4.38%) Test Leader
10 7 (4.38%) Test Programme Manager
11 6 (3.75%) QA Leader
12 5 (3.13%) JavaScript Developer
12 5 (3.13%) Junior
12 5 (3.13%) Senior Manager
12 5 (3.13%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (8.13%) Gherkin
2 10 (6.25%) Web Services
3 5 (3.13%) Playwright
3 5 (3.13%) RESTful
3 5 (3.13%) SOAP
4 4 (2.50%) ADO
4 4 (2.50%) XML
5 3 (1.88%) WPF
6 2 (1.25%) .NET
6 2 (1.25%) REST
7 1 (0.63%) Celery
7 1 (0.63%) Kafka
7 1 (0.63%) Middleware
7 1 (0.63%) React
7 1 (0.63%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 20 (12.50%) Self-Motivation
2 19 (11.88%) Product Ownership
3 16 (10.00%) Mobile App
4 14 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
5 7 (4.38%) Client/Server
6 5 (3.13%) BBC
6 5 (3.13%) SCADA
7 4 (2.50%) Embedded Systems
7 4 (2.50%) IoT
7 4 (2.50%) Operational Technology
8 2 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.25%) Hackathon
8 2 (1.25%) Management Information System
8 2 (1.25%) Reinsurance
9 1 (0.63%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.63%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (0.63%) e-Learning
9 1 (0.63%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 14 (8.75%) Linux
2 7 (4.38%) Windows
3 5 (3.13%) Android
4 4 (2.50%) Ubuntu
5 3 (1.88%) Apple iOS
6 2 (1.25%) Debian
6 2 (1.25%) Windows Server
7 1 (0.63%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 95 (59.38%) Agile
3 82 (51.25%) Test Strategy
4 63 (39.38%) Software Testing
5 49 (30.63%) Problem-Solving
6 47 (29.38%) Test Scripting
7 38 (23.75%) Test Planning
8 37 (23.13%) Performance Testing
8 37 (23.13%) User Acceptance Testing
9 36 (22.50%) Regression Testing
10 33 (20.63%) Mentoring
11 30 (18.75%) Scrum
12 28 (17.50%) Defect Management
13 26 (16.25%) Functional Testing
14 24 (15.00%) CI/CD
14 24 (15.00%) Computer Science
15 23 (14.38%) End-to-End Testing
15 23 (14.38%) SDLC
15 23 (14.38%) User Stories
16 20 (12.50%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 20 (12.50%) SQL
2 12 (7.50%) C#
2 12 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 9 (5.63%) Java
4 8 (5.00%) Python
5 6 (3.75%) TypeScript
6 2 (1.25%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.25%) PowerShell
6 2 (1.25%) Ruby
7 1 (0.63%) VB
7 1 (0.63%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 40 (25.00%) ISTQB
2 38 (23.75%) Degree
3 31 (19.38%) Security Cleared
4 19 (11.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 19 (11.88%) DV Cleared
5 16 (10.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 14 (8.75%) ISEB
7 10 (6.25%) SC Cleared
8 5 (3.13%) CAPM
8 5 (3.13%) PMI Certification
8 5 (3.13%) PMP
9 4 (2.50%) DBS Check
10 2 (1.25%) HND
11 1 (0.63%) CEH
11 1 (0.63%) CISM
11 1 (0.63%) CISSP
11 1 (0.63%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
11 1 (0.63%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (38.13%) QA
2 2 (1.25%) Accessibility
2 2 (1.25%) PMO
3 1 (0.63%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 2 (1.25%) Active Directory
1 2 (1.25%) Docker
1 2 (1.25%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 6 (3.75%) HP ALM
1 6 (3.75%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.63%) Ansible
2 1 (0.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 18 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 12 (7.50%) HP
3 9 (5.63%) SAP
4 2 (1.25%) Google
4 2 (1.25%) Oracle
4 2 (1.25%) PeopleSoft
5 1 (0.63%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.63%) BT
5 1 (0.63%) MuleSoft
5 1 (0.63%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.63%) Workday