Test Manager Contracts in Birmingham

Test Manager
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Test Manager daily rate in Birmingham is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 June 2024.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 58 65 86
Rank change year-on-year +7 +21 -19
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 7 10 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.90% 1.12% 0.53%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.96% 1.16% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 7 4
10th Percentile £490 £470 -
25th Percentile £513 £488 £465
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -0.50% +25.63%
75th Percentile £639 £538 £563
90th Percentile £709 £556 £608
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% +0.10% -1.58%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 730 859 1,266
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.32% 96.63% 95.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 584 897
10th Percentile £237 £263 £225
25th Percentile £335 £375 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +12.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 34 19
10th Percentile £13.69 £12.50 £12.73
25th Percentile £18.50 £14.03 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.50 £19.25 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +48.05% +13.24% +1.04%
75th Percentile £48.75 £25.66 £19.50
90th Percentile £56.25 £61.63 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £19.00 £20.84 £17.50
% change year-on-year -8.82% +19.07% +14.68%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings that featured Test Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in Birmingham

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in Birmingham

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in Birmingham over the 6 months to 29 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in Birmingham

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 across the Birmingham region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) Azure
3 2 (28.57%) AWS
3 2 (28.57%) Finance
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
3 2 (28.57%) JIRA
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (28.57%) QA
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
3 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) Boomi
4 1 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
4 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (14.29%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 3 (42.86%) Azure
2 2 (28.57%) AWS
2 2 (28.57%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (28.57%) GCP
3 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Boomi
3 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) JUnit
2 1 (14.29%) LoadRunner
2 1 (14.29%) Selenium
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (28.57%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
2 3 (42.86%) Migration
2 3 (42.86%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Data Protection
3 2 (28.57%) Functional Testing
3 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
4 1 (14.29%) CRM
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (14.29%) Customer Experience
4 1 (14.29%) DevOps
4 1 (14.29%) ERP
4 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (14.29%) Regression Testing
4 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Test Planning
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Dell
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) SAP
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow