Manual Testing Contracts in England

Manual Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 416 484 512
Rank change year-on-year +68 +28 -11
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 124 173 284
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.34% 0.35% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.39% 0.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 88 139 191
10th Percentile £329 £308 £300
25th Percentile £375 £403 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +18.03%
75th Percentile £575 £616 £544
90th Percentile £639 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 15
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile £58.75 - £21.50
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.50
75th Percentile £61.25 - £52.00
90th Percentile - - £60.12
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,821 44,233 63,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.48% 90.18% 90.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,850 31,044 45,163
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,250 1,565 1,721
10th Percentile £12.92 £10.68 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.30 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.14% +52.24% +4.26%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in England over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 9 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
London +57 65 £490 -10.91% 20
North of England +19 18 £400 -12.33% 18
South East +26 16 £444 -11.25% 8
Midlands +42 12 £363 - 8
South West +11 10 £585 +11.43% 6
Yorkshire +16 9 £400 -5.88% 7
North West +12 9 £450 -4.00% 11
West Midlands +26 7 £288 -32.35% 6
East Midlands +27 5 £363 +21.85% 2
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
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 10 (8.06%) Confluence
2 3 (2.42%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.81%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.42%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Endur
2 1 (0.81%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.81%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 38 (30.65%) Azure
2 32 (25.81%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.65%) AWS
4 3 (2.42%) BrowserStack
4 3 (2.42%) GCP
4 3 (2.42%) GitHub
4 3 (2.42%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.61%) BlazeMeter
5 2 (1.61%) Firebase
5 2 (1.61%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.61%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.61%) SaaS
5 2 (1.61%) SAP Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.81%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.81%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.81%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.23%) HTTP
1 4 (3.23%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.23%) VLAN
1 4 (3.23%) Wireless
2 3 (2.42%) 5G
3 1 (0.81%) SMS
3 1 (0.81%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.23%) MongoDB
1 4 (3.23%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.42%) Big Data
2 3 (2.42%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.42%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.42%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.61%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.81%) MySQL
4 1 (0.81%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.81%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (26.61%) Selenium
2 27 (21.77%) JIRA
3 22 (17.74%) Git
4 21 (16.94%) Postman
5 18 (14.52%) Jenkins
5 18 (14.52%) Visual Studio
6 13 (10.48%) Cypress.io
7 12 (9.68%) SpecFlow
8 11 (8.87%) WebDriver
9 9 (7.26%) JMeter
9 9 (7.26%) NUnit
10 8 (6.45%) Appium
10 8 (6.45%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.84%) Bitbucket
12 5 (4.03%) Gatling
13 4 (3.23%) Artifactory
13 4 (3.23%) GitLab
13 4 (3.23%) Moq
14 3 (2.42%) LoadRunner
14 3 (2.42%) Rational Performance Tester
General
1 30 (24.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.13%) Finance
3 12 (9.68%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (8.87%) Public Sector
5 10 (8.06%) Banking
6 7 (5.65%) Back Office
7 4 (3.23%) Marketing
7 4 (3.23%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.42%) Electronics
8 3 (2.42%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.42%) Legal
8 3 (2.42%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.61%) Retail
10 1 (0.81%) Front Office
10 1 (0.81%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.81%) Law
10 1 (0.81%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 36 (29.03%) Analyst
2 34 (27.42%) Test Analyst
2 34 (27.42%) Tester
3 27 (21.77%) Senior
4 23 (18.55%) Test Engineer
5 15 (12.10%) Manual Tester
6 13 (10.48%) Senior Test Engineer
7 11 (8.87%) Automation Tester
8 10 (8.06%) Senior Analyst
8 10 (8.06%) Senior Test Analyst
8 10 (8.06%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.65%) Lead
9 7 (5.65%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
10 6 (4.84%) Developer
11 5 (4.03%) Manual Test Analyst
11 5 (4.03%) QA Tester
12 4 (3.23%) Development Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Oracle Analyst
12 4 (3.23%) QA Engineer
12 4 (3.23%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (16.94%) .NET
2 10 (8.06%) AngularJS
3 9 (7.26%) Playwright
3 9 (7.26%) XML
4 8 (6.45%) Kafka
5 7 (5.65%) ADO
5 7 (5.65%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.84%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.84%) RESTful
7 5 (4.03%) Web Services
8 4 (3.23%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (3.23%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.23%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.23%) JSON
8 4 (3.23%) SOAP
9 3 (2.42%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.42%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.42%) HTML
9 3 (2.42%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (2.42%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.06%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.65%) Derivative
3 5 (4.03%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.23%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (2.42%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.42%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.61%) NHS
6 2 (1.61%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.81%) Equities
7 1 (0.81%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.81%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.81%) Replication
7 1 (0.81%) Robotics
7 1 (0.81%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.81%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.81%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.06%) Linux
2 7 (5.65%) Unix
2 7 (5.65%) Windows
3 5 (4.03%) Android
4 4 (3.23%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.23%) Mac OS X
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 82 (66.13%) Test Automation
2 69 (55.65%) Agile
3 41 (33.06%) DevOps
4 37 (29.84%) Software Testing
5 32 (25.81%) Test Strategy
6 27 (21.77%) Performance Testing
7 26 (20.97%) Scrum
8 25 (20.16%) BDD
8 25 (20.16%) Scenario Testing
9 24 (19.35%) User Acceptance Testing
10 23 (18.55%) CI/CD
10 23 (18.55%) Continuous Integration
11 20 (16.13%) Non-Functional Testing
12 17 (13.71%) Acceptance Criteria
12 17 (13.71%) TDD
12 17 (13.71%) Test Scripting
13 15 (12.10%) End-to-End Testing
14 14 (11.29%) Test Management
14 14 (11.29%) Test Planning
14 14 (11.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.16%) Java
1 25 (20.16%) SQL
2 22 (17.74%) C#
3 19 (15.32%) Python
4 16 (12.90%) JavaScript
5 9 (7.26%) TypeScript
6 4 (3.23%) Bash
6 4 (3.23%) C++
6 4 (3.23%) Groovy
6 4 (3.23%) Kotlin
6 4 (3.23%) Perl
6 4 (3.23%) Scala
6 4 (3.23%) Shell Script
7 2 (1.61%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.61%) R
8 1 (0.81%) Ruby
8 1 (0.81%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.87%) Degree
2 10 (8.06%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.65%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.84%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.23%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.42%) ISEB
7 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.81%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.81%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (16.13%) QA
2 14 (11.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.61%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.81%) GxP
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.87%) Docker
2 4 (3.23%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.23%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.81%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.23%) Iperf
1 4 (3.23%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.61%) Grafana
2 2 (1.61%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.81%) Ansible
3 1 (0.81%) Graylog
3 1 (0.81%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.81%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.81%) Kibana
3 1 (0.81%) Nagios
3 1 (0.81%) Nessus
3 1 (0.81%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.81%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.81%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.81%) Puppet
3 1 (0.81%) Terraform
3 1 (0.81%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (10.48%) Microsoft
1 13 (10.48%) Oracle
2 5 (4.03%) SAP
3 4 (3.23%) HP
4 3 (2.42%) IBM
4 3 (2.42%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.61%) Aderant
5 2 (1.61%) Splunk
6 1 (0.81%) Adobe
6 1 (0.81%) Brio
6 1 (0.81%) Checkmarx
6 1 (0.81%) Dell
6 1 (0.81%) NEC
6 1 (0.81%) PagerDuty
6 1 (0.81%) Perfecto Mobile
6 1 (0.81%) Veracode