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 7 June 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
7 Jun 2024		 Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 368 402 385
Rank change year-on-year +34 -17 +14
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 232 304 573
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.53% 0.55% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.57% 0.58% 0.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 198 415
10th Percentile £350 £425 £421
25th Percentile £446 £470 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £546 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.89% +4.05% +10.53%
75th Percentile £610 £600 £588
90th Percentile £720 £700 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £40.25 - -
25th Percentile £48.13 - -
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 40,368 52,724 84,133
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.55% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,997 36,785 59,307
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,898 1,484 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.53
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +15.00%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.50
90th Percentile £73.75 £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 7 June 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
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Test Manager over the 6 months to 7 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 7 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 +32 201 £520 -5.45% 30
UK excluding London +42 109 £475 -5.00% 19
Work from Home +96 94 £550 +5.77% 17
London +44 94 £575 +4.55% 11
South East +18 30 £513 +7.89% 6
Midlands +21 23 £275 -45.00% 2
North of England -12 23 £481 -12.50% 5
South West +21 15 £500 -11.11% 2
North West +12 14 £463 -15.91% 2
West Midlands +10 13 £475 -5.00% 2
East Midlands +16 10 £270 -47.32%
East of England +13 9 £450 -8.16% 3
Yorkshire -10 8 £525 -10.06% 3
Scotland +42 7 £551 +0.09% 1
Isle of Man - 2 - -
North East - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 7 June 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.

1 100 (43.10%) Test Strategy
2 90 (38.79%) Test Management
3 74 (31.90%) Social Skills
4 69 (29.74%) Test Automation
5 53 (22.84%) Finance
6 51 (21.98%) User Acceptance Testing
7 49 (21.12%) Agile
8 42 (18.10%) Azure
9 40 (17.24%) Defect Management
10 38 (16.38%) QA
11 37 (15.95%) DevOps
12 35 (15.09%) JIRA
12 35 (15.09%) Software Testing
13 33 (14.22%) Test Scripting
14 31 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
15 30 (12.93%) SAP
16 29 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
17 28 (12.07%) Waterfall
18 27 (11.64%) ISTQB
19 26 (11.21%) Non-Functional Testing
19 26 (11.21%) Test Planning
20 25 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
20 25 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
21 24 (10.34%) Security Cleared
21 24 (10.34%) Integration Testing
22 23 (9.91%) Selenium
22 23 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
23 22 (9.48%) Migration
23 22 (9.48%) Regression Testing
23 22 (9.48%) Microsoft

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 (3.45%) SharePoint
2 5 (2.16%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (1.29%) Confluence
4 2 (0.86%) Apache
5 1 (0.43%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.43%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 9 (3.88%) SAP S/4HANA
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (1.29%) iTrent
4 2 (0.86%) NEC Housing
4 2 (0.86%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Financials
5 1 (0.43%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (0.43%) SAP HCM
5 1 (0.43%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.43%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 42 (18.10%) Azure
2 25 (10.78%) Azure DevOps
3 16 (6.90%) Dynamics 365
4 7 (3.02%) Power Platform
5 6 (2.59%) Microsoft 365
5 6 (2.59%) OCI
5 6 (2.59%) PowerApps
6 4 (1.72%) Azure API Management
7 3 (1.29%) AWS
7 3 (1.29%) SaaS
7 3 (1.29%) SuccessFactors
8 2 (0.86%) GCP
8 2 (0.86%) OneDrive
8 2 (0.86%) Oracle CX
8 2 (0.86%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.86%) WhatsApp
9 1 (0.43%) Amazon OpenSearch
9 1 (0.43%) Azure Pipelines
9 1 (0.43%) Contentful
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.72%) Firewall
2 2 (0.86%) HTTP
3 1 (0.43%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.02%) Power BI
2 4 (1.72%) DB2
2 4 (1.72%) Oracle Reports
3 2 (0.86%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 35 (15.09%) JIRA
2 23 (9.91%) Selenium
3 19 (8.19%) JMeter
4 9 (3.88%) Postman
5 4 (1.72%) LoadRunner
5 4 (1.72%) SpecFlow
6 3 (1.29%) Cucumber
6 3 (1.29%) JUnit
7 2 (0.86%) SoapUI
7 2 (0.86%) Zephyr
8 1 (0.43%) Bitbucket
8 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
8 1 (0.43%) Gatling
8 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
8 1 (0.43%) JIRA Agile
8 1 (0.43%) Ranorex
8 1 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.43%) WebDriver
General
1 74 (31.90%) Social Skills
2 53 (22.84%) Finance
3 16 (6.90%) Public Sector
4 14 (6.03%) Retail
5 13 (5.60%) Legal
6 11 (4.74%) Banking
7 9 (3.88%) Analytical Skills
8 8 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
8 8 (3.45%) Manufacturing
9 7 (3.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 6 (2.59%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (2.16%) Electronics
11 5 (2.16%) Marketing
11 5 (2.16%) Telecoms
12 4 (1.72%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.72%) Military
13 3 (1.29%) Prime Brokerage
13 3 (1.29%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
14 2 (0.86%) Aviation
14 2 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.31%) Web Services
2 9 (3.88%) ADO
3 5 (2.16%) Middleware
3 5 (2.16%) Oracle Fusion
4 4 (1.72%) Gherkin
4 4 (1.72%) SOAP
4 4 (1.72%) Swagger
4 4 (1.72%) XML
5 2 (0.86%) FHIR
5 2 (0.86%) JSON
5 2 (0.86%) REST
5 2 (0.86%) SailPoint
6 1 (0.43%) .NET
6 1 (0.43%) FIX Protocol
6 1 (0.43%) Node.js
6 1 (0.43%) Playwright
6 1 (0.43%) React
6 1 (0.43%) WebSockets
6 1 (0.43%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 14 (6.03%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.88%) Life Science
3 6 (2.59%) Management Information System
3 6 (2.59%) NHS
4 5 (2.16%) Equities
5 3 (1.29%) FMCG
5 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (1.29%) Onboarding
6 2 (0.86%) Data Centre
6 2 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (0.86%) Derivative
6 2 (0.86%) Distributed Architecture
6 2 (0.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 2 (0.86%) Mobile App
6 2 (0.86%) Operational Technology
6 2 (0.86%) Public Cloud
6 2 (0.86%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.43%) EPoS
7 1 (0.43%) Mainframe
7 1 (0.43%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 15 (6.47%) Windows
2 12 (5.17%) Linux
3 2 (0.86%) Unix
3 2 (0.86%) VMS
3 2 (0.86%) Windows 2000
3 2 (0.86%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (43.10%) Test Strategy
2 90 (38.79%) Test Management
3 69 (29.74%) Test Automation
4 51 (21.98%) User Acceptance Testing
5 49 (21.12%) Agile
6 40 (17.24%) Defect Management
7 37 (15.95%) DevOps
8 35 (15.09%) Software Testing
9 33 (14.22%) Test Scripting
10 31 (13.36%) Problem-Solving
11 29 (12.50%) End-to-End Testing
12 28 (12.07%) Waterfall
13 26 (11.21%) Non-Functional Testing
13 26 (11.21%) Test Planning
14 25 (10.78%) Continuous Improvement
15 24 (10.34%) Integration Testing
16 23 (9.91%) Stakeholder Management
17 22 (9.48%) Migration
17 22 (9.48%) Regression Testing
18 21 (9.05%) Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 9 (3.88%) SQL
2 4 (1.72%) Python
3 2 (0.86%) C++
3 2 (0.86%) Java
3 2 (0.86%) JavaScript
3 2 (0.86%) PowerShell
3 2 (0.86%) Shell Script
4 1 (0.43%) C#
4 1 (0.43%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 27 (11.64%) ISTQB
2 24 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 15 (6.47%) Degree
3 15 (6.47%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.74%) ISEB
5 10 (4.31%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (4.31%) DV Cleared
6 7 (3.02%) HNC
6 7 (3.02%) HND
7 3 (1.29%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.86%) ISEB Practitioner
8 2 (0.86%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
8 2 (0.86%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 2 (0.86%) Master's Degree
8 2 (0.86%) PMP
9 1 (0.43%) CEH
9 1 (0.43%) CREST Certified
9 1 (0.43%) GIAC
9 1 (0.43%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 38 (16.38%) QA
2 9 (3.88%) HL7
3 3 (1.29%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.29%) PMO
4 2 (0.86%) GDPR
4 2 (0.86%) GxP
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) Disclosure Scotland
5 1 (0.43%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.43%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.86%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.43%) Active Directory
2 1 (0.43%) Docker
2 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (2.16%) HP ALM
1 5 (2.16%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.86%) Ansible
3 2 (0.86%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) Grafana
Vendors
1 30 (12.93%) SAP
2 22 (9.48%) Microsoft
3 20 (8.62%) Oracle
4 7 (3.02%) Salesforce
5 6 (2.59%) VMware
6 5 (2.16%) HP
7 3 (1.29%) Ariba
8 2 (0.86%) Fortinet
8 2 (0.86%) Juniper
8 2 (0.86%) NEC
8 2 (0.86%) Workday
9 1 (0.43%) Blue Prism
9 1 (0.43%) Citrix
9 1 (0.43%) Databricks
9 1 (0.43%) eFront
9 1 (0.43%) Finsemble
9 1 (0.43%) Guidewire
9 1 (0.43%) Northgate
9 1 (0.43%) ScienceLogic
9 1 (0.43%) ServiceNow
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