Manual Testing Contracts in the City of London

Manual Testing
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of 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 1 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 162 164
Rank change year-on-year +47 +2 -17
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 11 10 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.28% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.30% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 13
10th Percentile - £568 £331
25th Percentile £375 £613 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £650 £388
Median % change year-on-year -30.77% +67.74% +8.39%
75th Percentile £575 £738 £475
90th Percentile £639 - £677
Central London median daily rate £450 £638 £390
% change year-on-year -29.41% +63.46% +4.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of 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 the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,989 3,335 3,878
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.53% 91.72% 91.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,408 2,250 2,941
10th Percentile £363 £356 £388
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £813 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 24 42
10th Percentile £19.92 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £41.84 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London over the 6 months to 1 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (9.09%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (9.09%) Boomi
3 1 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) SaaS
3 1 (9.09%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) MySQL
1 1 (9.09%) RDBMS
1 1 (9.09%) Relational Database
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (36.36%) JIRA
1 4 (36.36%) Selenium
2 2 (18.18%) Appium
2 2 (18.18%) Bitbucket
2 2 (18.18%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Jenkins
2 2 (18.18%) Postman
3 1 (9.09%) AppScan
3 1 (9.09%) Burp Suite
3 1 (9.09%) Cucumber
3 1 (9.09%) GitLab
3 1 (9.09%) REST Assured
3 1 (9.09%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (9.09%) SonarQube
3 1 (9.09%) SpecFlow
3 1 (9.09%) Subversion
3 1 (9.09%) Zephyr
General
1 5 (45.45%) Public Sector
2 2 (18.18%) Back Office
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (54.55%) Analyst
1 6 (54.55%) Test Analyst
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Analyst
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Automation Test Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Azure Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Manual Tester
4 1 (9.09%) Migration Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) QA Leader
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Test Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (27.27%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Fixed Income
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Public Cloud
2 1 (9.09%) Reinsurance
2 1 (9.09%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 2 (18.18%) Android
2 1 (9.09%) Linux
2 1 (9.09%) Windows
2 1 (9.09%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (81.82%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Test Automation
3 5 (45.45%) Software Testing
4 4 (36.36%) Acceptance Criteria
4 4 (36.36%) Continuous Integration
5 3 (27.27%) BDD
5 3 (27.27%) DevOps
5 3 (27.27%) End-to-End Testing
5 3 (27.27%) Test Planning
5 3 (27.27%) Test Strategy
6 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
6 2 (18.18%) Defect Tracking
6 2 (18.18%) Epics
6 2 (18.18%) Integration Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Non-Functional Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scenario Testing
6 2 (18.18%) Scrum
6 2 (18.18%) Test Scripting
6 2 (18.18%) User Acceptance Testing
6 2 (18.18%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) Java
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) Kotlin
2 2 (18.18%) Python
3 1 (9.09%) Bash
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
3 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
1 2 (18.18%) ISTQB
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) SANS
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) Accessibility
1 2 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (9.09%) Ansible
1 1 (9.09%) Grafana
1 1 (9.09%) Graylog
1 1 (9.09%) HP Fortify
1 1 (9.09%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
1 1 (9.09%) Nagios
1 1 (9.09%) Nessus
1 1 (9.09%) Progress Chef
1 1 (9.09%) Prometheus
1 1 (9.09%) Puppet
1 1 (9.09%) Terraform
1 1 (9.09%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Checkmarx
1 1 (9.09%) Dell
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
1 1 (9.09%) Oracle
1 1 (9.09%) Perfecto Mobile
1 1 (9.09%) Splunk
1 1 (9.09%) Veracode