Test Manager Contracts in London

Test Manager
England > London

The median Test Manager daily rate in London is £563, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 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
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 308 353 415
Rank change year-on-year +45 +62 -45
Contract jobs requiring a Test Manager 92 129 191
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.52% 0.51% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.54% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 98 149
10th Percentile £406 £450 £450
25th Percentile £471 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £601
90th Percentile £731 £737 £675
England median daily rate £520 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -5.45% +4.76% +10.53%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 16,560 23,906 36,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.67% 95.05% 95.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,921 17,459 27,030
10th Percentile £325 £363 £375
25th Percentile £440 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 281 404
10th Percentile £16.00 £17.98 £16.25
25th Percentile £20.17 £22.63 £23.75
Median hourly rate £27.81 £36.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.75% +2.86% +7.12%
75th Percentile £46.59 £63.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £66.85 £82.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £24.00
% change year-on-year -12.22% +87.50% +14.01%

Test Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Test Manager in London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Test Manager in London

Test Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Central London +42 12 £540 -13.60% 1
West London +21 3 £475 - 1
South London +7 1 £575 -2.13%
Test Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 12 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 London region featuring Test Manager in the job title.

1 40 (43.48%) Test Strategy
2 39 (42.39%) Test Management
3 30 (32.61%) Finance
4 27 (29.35%) Test Automation
5 26 (28.26%) Agile
6 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
7 23 (25.00%) JIRA
8 20 (21.74%) QA
9 19 (20.65%) User Acceptance Testing
10 16 (17.39%) Test Scripting
10 16 (17.39%) Azure
11 15 (16.30%) Waterfall
11 15 (16.30%) DevOps
11 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
12 14 (15.22%) Selenium
12 14 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
13 13 (14.13%) JMeter
14 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
14 12 (13.04%) Programme Management
14 12 (13.04%) Defect Management
15 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
15 11 (11.96%) Regression Testing
15 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
16 10 (10.87%) Legal
16 10 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
16 10 (10.87%) Linux
16 10 (10.87%) SAP
16 10 (10.87%) ISTQB
16 10 (10.87%) Scenario Testing
17 9 (9.78%) Software Testing

Test Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (6.52%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.17%) Apache
3 2 (2.17%) Confluence
4 1 (1.09%) CMS
Applications
1 4 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (3.26%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (1.09%) Temenos T24
Cloud Services
1 16 (17.39%) Azure
2 11 (11.96%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (7.61%) Dynamics 365
4 5 (5.43%) Power Platform
5 4 (4.35%) Azure API Management
5 4 (4.35%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (4.35%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.17%) OneDrive
6 2 (2.17%) Oracle CX
6 2 (2.17%) Power Automate
6 2 (2.17%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (1.09%) Amazon OpenSearch
7 1 (1.09%) Azure Pipelines
7 1 (1.09%) Contentful
7 1 (1.09%) SaaS
7 1 (1.09%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.17%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.43%) Power BI
2 4 (4.35%) DB2
3 1 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 23 (25.00%) JIRA
2 14 (15.22%) Selenium
3 13 (14.13%) JMeter
4 6 (6.52%) Postman
5 3 (3.26%) LoadRunner
6 2 (2.17%) JUnit
7 1 (1.09%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.09%) Cucumber
7 1 (1.09%) Eclipse
7 1 (1.09%) Gatling
7 1 (1.09%) Jenkins
7 1 (1.09%) JIRA Agile
7 1 (1.09%) SpecFlow
7 1 (1.09%) Team Foundation Server
7 1 (1.09%) WebDriver
General
1 30 (32.61%) Finance
2 25 (27.17%) Social Skills
3 10 (10.87%) Legal
4 8 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 8 (8.70%) Retail
5 6 (6.52%) Banking
5 6 (6.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 6 (6.52%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.43%) Manufacturing
7 4 (4.35%) Electronics
7 4 (4.35%) Marketing
7 4 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 3 (3.26%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (3.26%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (2.17%) Front Office
9 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.09%) Prime Brokerage
10 1 (1.09%) Synthetic Prime Brokerage
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (8.70%) ADO
2 4 (4.35%) Middleware
2 4 (4.35%) Swagger
3 2 (2.17%) FHIR
3 2 (2.17%) Gherkin
3 2 (2.17%) JSON
3 2 (2.17%) REST
3 2 (2.17%) SOAP
3 2 (2.17%) XML
4 1 (1.09%) .NET
4 1 (1.09%) FIX Protocol
4 1 (1.09%) Node.js
4 1 (1.09%) Playwright
4 1 (1.09%) React
4 1 (1.09%) Web Services
4 1 (1.09%) WebSockets
4 1 (1.09%) ZeroMQ
Miscellaneous
1 8 (8.70%) Product Ownership
2 3 (3.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (2.17%) Distributed Architecture
3 2 (2.17%) NHS
3 2 (2.17%) Reinsurance
4 1 (1.09%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.09%) DataPower
4 1 (1.09%) Derivative
4 1 (1.09%) EPoS
4 1 (1.09%) Equities
4 1 (1.09%) FMCG
4 1 (1.09%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.09%) Life Science
4 1 (1.09%) Market Risk
4 1 (1.09%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.09%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.09%) PACS
Operating Systems
1 10 (10.87%) Linux
2 7 (7.61%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (43.48%) Test Strategy
2 39 (42.39%) Test Management
3 27 (29.35%) Test Automation
4 26 (28.26%) Agile
5 19 (20.65%) User Acceptance Testing
6 16 (17.39%) Test Scripting
7 15 (16.30%) DevOps
7 15 (16.30%) Waterfall
8 14 (15.22%) End-to-End Testing
9 12 (13.04%) Defect Management
9 12 (13.04%) Programme Management
10 11 (11.96%) Regression Testing
10 11 (11.96%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (10.87%) Business Intelligence
11 10 (10.87%) Scenario Testing
12 9 (9.78%) Software Testing
12 9 (9.78%) Use Case
13 8 (8.70%) Collaborative Working
13 8 (8.70%) Integration Testing
13 8 (8.70%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.61%) SQL
2 2 (2.17%) Python
3 1 (1.09%) C#
3 1 (1.09%) C++
3 1 (1.09%) Java
3 1 (1.09%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (13.04%) Security Cleared
2 10 (10.87%) ISTQB
3 7 (7.61%) DV Cleared
4 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
5 4 (4.35%) Degree
5 4 (4.35%) ISEB
6 3 (3.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.09%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.09%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (21.74%) QA
2 4 (4.35%) HL7
3 3 (3.26%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.17%) GDPR
5 1 (1.09%) ISO 20022
5 1 (1.09%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (1.09%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (1.09%) Grafana
1 1 (1.09%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 15 (16.30%) Microsoft
2 10 (10.87%) SAP
3 5 (5.43%) Oracle
3 5 (5.43%) VMware
4 4 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.17%) Workday
6 1 (1.09%) eFront
6 1 (1.09%) Finsemble
6 1 (1.09%) Guidewire
6 1 (1.09%) Temenos