Manual Testing Contracts in Birmingham

Manual Testing
West Midlands > Birmingham

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 23 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 61 76 92
Rank change year-on-year +15 +16 -32
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.79% 0.22% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.94% 0.25% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 2
10th Percentile - - £308
25th Percentile - £375 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £400 £344
Median % change year-on-year -37.50% +16.36% +52.78%
75th Percentile £369 £425 £370
90th Percentile £433 - £384
West Midlands median daily rate £288 £425 £356
% change year-on-year -32.35% +19.30% +20.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

Manual Testing 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 advertised in Birmingham with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 635 810 1,235
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 83.33% 88.43% 92.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 415 544 898
10th Percentile £238 £263 £213
25th Percentile £368 £388 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £518 £475
Median % change year-on-year -10.63% +8.95% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £627 £593
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £512 £488
% change year-on-year -2.25% +4.92% +17.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 28 24
10th Percentile £13.20 £11.00 £12.15
25th Percentile £17.75 £12.50 £13.94
Median hourly rate £27.25 £14.44 £17.24
Median % change year-on-year +88.74% -16.26% -4.22%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.19 £18.00
90th Percentile £56.25 £66.88 £20.00
West Midlands median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £16.66
% change year-on-year +26.98% +6.35% -4.79%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Birmingham

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Birmingham

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Birmingham over the 6 months to 23 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Birmingham

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Birmingham.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Birmingham

Manual Testing
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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Azure
2 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (16.67%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Selenium
2 1 (16.67%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (16.67%) Finance
1 1 (16.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Analyst
1 6 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Azure Test Lead
2 1 (16.67%) CRM Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Manual Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Test Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 4 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 3 (50.00%) SDLC
3 3 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Defect Management
4 2 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 2 (33.33%) Test Planning
4 2 (33.33%) Test Scripting
5 1 (16.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (16.67%) Case Management
5 1 (16.67%) CRM
5 1 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (16.67%) Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) ISEB
1 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft