Manual Tester Contracts in England

Manual Tester
UK > England

The median Manual Tester daily rate in England is £356 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 524 630 729
Rank change year-on-year +106 +99 -133
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 21 29 38
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.056% 0.057% 0.054%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.061% 0.060% 0.056%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 24 25
10th Percentile £219 £280 £262
25th Percentile £324 £322 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £356 £413 £350
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% +17.86% +21.74%
75th Percentile £421 £570 £388
90th Percentile £511 £784 £590
UK median daily rate £358 £425 £350
% change year-on-year -15.88% +21.43% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £15.50
Median hourly rate - - £16.00
75th Percentile - - £16.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £16.00

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,467 47,939 67,846
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.73% 94.60% 95.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,885 33,999 48,181
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £411 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £640 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,421 1,437 1,912
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.96 £44.53 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% +97.91% +0.36%
75th Percentile £60.25 £65.75 £48.62
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.35 £62.24
UK median hourly rate £35.96 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -20.09% +95.65% +0.24%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in England.

Daily rate trend for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Tester in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in England.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 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
London +111 17 £366 -29.40%
North of England +22 2 £350 -17.65%
Yorkshire +21 2 £350 -17.65%
South East - 2 £200 - 2
Manual Tester
UK

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 26 April 2024, Manual Tester 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 England region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 15 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 14 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
4 10 (47.62%) Software Testing
5 9 (42.86%) Azure
5 9 (42.86%) ADO
5 9 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
5 9 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
7 7 (33.33%) Scrum
7 7 (33.33%) User Stories
7 7 (33.33%) Epics
8 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
8 6 (28.57%) Regression Testing
9 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
10 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
11 3 (14.29%) QA
11 3 (14.29%) Validation
11 3 (14.29%) Degree
11 3 (14.29%) SQL
11 3 (14.29%) Traceability Matrix
11 3 (14.29%) Postman
12 2 (9.52%) Journey Map
12 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
12 2 (9.52%) Exploratory Testing
12 2 (9.52%) Finance

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (42.86%) Azure
2 6 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) Postman
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
2 2 (9.52%) Selenium
3 1 (4.76%) Burp Suite
3 1 (4.76%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.76%) Gerrit
3 1 (4.76%) Git
3 1 (4.76%) JUnit
3 1 (4.76%) Serenity BDD
3 1 (4.76%) SoapUI
3 1 (4.76%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
3 1 (4.76%) TestNG
3 1 (4.76%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 6 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Finance
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (42.86%) ADO
2 4 (19.05%) Gherkin
3 2 (9.52%) JSON
3 2 (9.52%) XML
4 1 (4.76%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.76%) Fixed Income
1 1 (4.76%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 15 (71.43%) Manual Testing
3 14 (66.67%) Scenario Testing
4 10 (47.62%) Software Testing
5 9 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
5 9 (42.86%) DevOps
5 9 (42.86%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (38.10%) Test Automation
7 7 (33.33%) Epics
7 7 (33.33%) Scrum
7 7 (33.33%) User Stories
8 6 (28.57%) Regression Testing
9 5 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
10 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
11 3 (14.29%) Traceability Matrix
11 3 (14.29%) Validation
12 2 (9.52%) Decision-Making
12 2 (9.52%) Journey Map
12 2 (9.52%) Project Delivery
12 2 (9.52%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) Java
3 1 (4.76%) C#
3 1 (4.76%) JavaScript
3 1 (4.76%) Python
3 1 (4.76%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) ISEB
3 1 (4.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (14.29%) QA
2 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) HP ALM
1 1 (4.76%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) HP
1 1 (4.76%) Oracle