Manual Testing Contracts in Bristol

Manual Testing
South West > Bristol

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Bristol 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 74 96 100
Rank change year-on-year +22 +4 -29
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 5 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Bristol 0.48% 0.078% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.087% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £508 - -
25th Percentile £556 - £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 - £363
Median % change year-on-year - - -9.38%
75th Percentile £590 - £369
90th Percentile - - -
South West median daily rate £585 £525 £425
% change year-on-year +11.43% +23.53% +6.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £49.98
25th Percentile - - £50.69
Median hourly rate - - £51.88
75th Percentile - - £53.06
90th Percentile - - £53.78
South West median hourly rate £40.00 - £49.75

All Process and Methodology Skills
Bristol

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 Bristol with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 868 1,143 1,260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Bristol 82.67% 89.09% 87.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 494 761 857
10th Percentile £250 £300 £313
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £588
90th Percentile £688 £713 £663
South West median daily rate £525 £545 £500
% change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 230 104
10th Percentile £36.25 - -
25th Percentile £45.00 £9.80 £15.90
Median hourly rate £65.00 £61.50 £43.79
Median % change year-on-year +5.69% +40.46% -2.70%
75th Percentile £72.50 £70.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £83.75 £66.80
South West median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
% change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Bristol

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Bristol

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Bristol

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Bristol

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Bristol

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Bristol 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Git
1 3 (60.00%) NUnit
1 3 (60.00%) Postman
1 3 (60.00%) Visual Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Electronics
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Senior
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 3 (60.00%) Test Engineer
3 2 (40.00%) Architect
3 2 (40.00%) Test Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Architect
4 1 (20.00%) Senior Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) .NET
1 3 (60.00%) AngularJS
1 3 (60.00%) GraphQL
1 3 (60.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 5 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (60.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) BDD
2 3 (60.00%) CI/CD
2 3 (60.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (60.00%) DevOps
2 3 (60.00%) Kanban
2 3 (60.00%) Load Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Task Automation
2 3 (60.00%) TDD
2 3 (60.00%) Waterfall
3 2 (40.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (40.00%) Project Management
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Analysis
3 2 (40.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) SQL
1 3 (60.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) SAP