Manual Testing Contracts in Central London

Manual Testing
London > Central London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Central London 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 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 119 164 174
Rank change year-on-year +45 +10 -10
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 12 10 23
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 0.50% 0.27% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.29% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 7 13
10th Percentile - £423 £331
25th Percentile £375 £569 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £625 £393
Median % change year-on-year -32.00% +59.24% +9.79%
75th Percentile £575 £706 £444
90th Percentile £639 £738 £535
London median daily rate £478 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -13.18% +10.00% +26.98%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,174 3,408 4,166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 90.66% 91.27% 91.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,544 2,315 3,192
10th Percentile £350 £325 £372
25th Percentile £450 £463 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
London median daily rate £550 £590 £575
% change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 27 44
10th Percentile £20.22 £15.40 £18.50
25th Percentile £22.63 £18.50 £23.44
Median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%
75th Percentile £28.98 £56.25 £52.63
90th Percentile £40.00 £88.30 £64.78
London median hourly rate £27.84 £38.25 £37.50
% change year-on-year -27.22% +2.00% +14.16%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Central London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Central London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Central London over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Central London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Central London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 15 May 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
City of London +54 12 £425 -33.33% 2
Manual Testing
London

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central 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 3 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 4 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (25.00%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (8.33%) AWS
4 1 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (8.33%) Boomi
4 1 (8.33%) GitHub
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
4 1 (8.33%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (8.33%) BigQuery
2 1 (8.33%) BusinessObjects
2 1 (8.33%) MySQL
2 1 (8.33%) RDBMS
2 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (41.67%) JIRA
2 3 (25.00%) Postman
2 3 (25.00%) Selenium
3 2 (16.67%) Appium
3 2 (16.67%) Bitbucket
3 2 (16.67%) Git
3 2 (16.67%) Jenkins
4 1 (8.33%) AppScan
4 1 (8.33%) Burp Suite
4 1 (8.33%) GitLab
4 1 (8.33%) SonarQube
4 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
4 1 (8.33%) Subversion
4 1 (8.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (8.33%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (41.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Back Office
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (58.33%) Analyst
1 7 (58.33%) Test Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Analyst
2 3 (25.00%) Senior Test Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Manual Tester
4 1 (8.33%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) QA Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Test Leader
4 1 (8.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) CSS
2 1 (8.33%) ebXML
2 1 (8.33%) Elastic Stack
2 1 (8.33%) HTML
2 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Mobile App
2 1 (8.33%) Fixed Income
2 1 (8.33%) PDA
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Reinsurance
2 1 (8.33%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Android
2 2 (16.67%) Windows
3 1 (8.33%) Linux
3 1 (8.33%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Agile
2 9 (75.00%) Test Automation
3 6 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 6 (50.00%) Software Testing
4 5 (41.67%) Continuous Integration
5 4 (33.33%) Test Strategy
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (25.00%) Scrum
6 3 (25.00%) Test Planning
6 3 (25.00%) Test Scripting
6 3 (25.00%) User Stories
7 2 (16.67%) BDD
7 2 (16.67%) CI/CD
7 2 (16.67%) Epics
7 2 (16.67%) Integration Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
7 2 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
7 2 (16.67%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Java
1 3 (25.00%) Kotlin
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Bash
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) ISEB
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (8.33%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) QA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
2 1 (8.33%) Ansible
2 1 (8.33%) Grafana
2 1 (8.33%) Graylog
2 1 (8.33%) HP Fortify
2 1 (8.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (8.33%) Nagios
2 1 (8.33%) Nessus
2 1 (8.33%) Progress Chef
2 1 (8.33%) Prometheus
2 1 (8.33%) Puppet
2 1 (8.33%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 1 (8.33%) Checkmarx
1 1 (8.33%) Dell
1 1 (8.33%) Microsoft
1 1 (8.33%) Oracle
1 1 (8.33%) Perfecto Mobile
1 1 (8.33%) Splunk
1 1 (8.33%) Veracode