Manual Testing Contracts in London
 
Demand Trend Daily Rate Trend Daily Rate Histogram Hourly Rate Trend Job Locations Related Skills

The first table below looks at the demand for Manual Testing skills in IT contracts advertised for the London region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Manual Testing over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the London region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
 3 months to
24 May 2013		 Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Manual Testing
Rank 317 337 332
Rank change year-on-year
+20 -5
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 60 78 111
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 0.277% 0.290% 0.357%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.371% 0.403% 0.502%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 56 73
Average daily rate £394 £400 £450
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
-1.56% -11.11%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £314 £225 £263
10% offered a daily rate of more than £550 £450 £500
UK excluding London average daily rate £325 £300 £256
% change year-on-year
+8.33% +17.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £20.00 - £23.75
Search 26 Manual Testing jobs in London
All Processes & Methodologies
London
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category		 16194 19350 22109
As % of all contract IT jobs located in London 74.77% 71.83% 71.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 11076 12690 14542
Average daily rate £450 £450 £480
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
- -6.25%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £300 £300 £310
10% offered a daily rate of more than £600 £600 £625
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 254 340 350
Average hourly rate £30.00 £26.23 £27.23
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+14.39% -3.67%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £102.00 £45.00 £50.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Manual Testing across the London region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

London Manual Testing Jobs Demand Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Manual Testing across the London region.

London Manual Testing Daily Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Manual Testing across the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013.

London Manual Testing Daily Rate Histogram

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Manual Testing across the London region.

London Manual Testing Hourly Rate Trend

Manual Testing
Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the London region over the 3 months to 24 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)		 Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year		 Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads		 Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months		 Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
City of London -5 10 £363 -9.37%
Hounslow -2 2 - -
Canary Wharf - 1 - -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Manual Testing also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Manual Testing.

1 53 (36.30%) QA
2 40 (27.40%) SQL
3 39 (26.71%) User Acceptance Testing
4 38 (26.03%) JIRA
5 36 (24.66%) Selenium
6 32 (21.92%) Agile Software Development
7 29 (19.86%) Test Scripting
7 29 (19.86%) Regression Testing
8 28 (19.18%) Finance
8 28 (19.18%) Java
8 28 (19.18%) ISEB
9 22 (15.07%) Microsoft
9 22 (15.07%) SQL Server
10 19 (13.01%) BDD
10 19 (13.01%) Banking
11 18 (12.33%) Software Testing
11 18 (12.33%) ISTQB
11 18 (12.33%) WebDriver
11 18 (12.33%) HP Quality Center
11 18 (12.33%) Scrum
11 18 (12.33%) Cucumber
12 17 (11.64%) XML
12 17 (11.64%) Degree
13 15 (10.27%) Mobile App
14 14 (9.589%) Automation Testing
14 14 (9.589%) Test Strategy
14 14 (9.589%) Derivative
14 14 (9.589%) TDD
14 14 (9.589%) Investment Banking
15 13 (8.904%) Automated Testing

Manual Testing
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the London region citing Manual Testing also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Manual Testing. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 17 (11.64%) XML
2 11 (7.534%) .NET
3 8 (5.479%) XML Messaging
4 7 (4.795%) Web Services
5 6 (4.110%) CSS
5 6 (4.110%) soapUI
6 5 (3.425%) HTML
7 4 (2.740%) jQuery
7 4 (2.740%) JSON
8 3 (2.055%) Cocoa Touch
8 3 (2.055%) WCF
8 3 (2.055%) Cocoa
8 3 (2.055%) SOAP
8 3 (2.055%) ASP.NET
9 2 (1.370%) WAP
9 2 (1.370%) Django
9 2 (1.370%) ASP.NET MVC
9 2 (1.370%) HTML5
9 2 (1.370%) Ajax
9 2 (1.370%) Ruby on Rails
Application Platforms
1 11 (7.534%) Confluence
2 5 (3.425%) CMS
3 2 (1.370%) Apache
3 2 (1.370%) Apache Solr
3 2 (1.370%) nginx
3 2 (1.370%) Magento
3 2 (1.370%) RabbitMQ
3 2 (1.370%) Gunicorn
4 1 (0.685%) SAS
4 1 (0.685%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (4.110%) MS Excel
2 1 (0.685%) Mingle
Business Applications
1 5 (3.425%) Endur
2 1 (0.685%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.685%) Dynamics AX
Communications & Networking
1 4 (2.740%) Wireshark
2 2 (1.370%) Internet
2 2 (1.370%) DVB
3 1 (0.685%) Broadband
3 1 (0.685%) HTTP
3 1 (0.685%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (15.07%) SQL Server
2 7 (4.795%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (2.740%) MySQL
4 3 (2.055%) SQL Server 2008
4 3 (2.055%) DB2
4 3 (2.055%) RDBMS
5 2 (1.370%) PostgreSQL
5 2 (1.370%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.370%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 2 (1.370%) MongoDB
6 1 (0.685%) Business Intelligence Development Studio
6 1 (0.685%) SQL Server 2012
6 1 (0.685%) Oracle OLAP
6 1 (0.685%) Data Mart
6 1 (0.685%) SQL Server Analysis Services
6 1 (0.685%) OLTP
6 1 (0.685%) OLAP
Development Applications
1 38 (26.03%) JIRA
2 36 (24.66%) Selenium
3 18 (12.33%) WebDriver
3 18 (12.33%) Cucumber
4 9 (6.164%) Team Foundation Server
5 7 (4.795%) Visual Studio
6 6 (4.110%) JUnit
7 4 (2.740%) TestDirector
7 4 (2.740%) Visual Studio Team System
7 4 (2.740%) TestNG
7 4 (2.740%) WATIR
7 4 (2.740%) SpecFlow
7 4 (2.740%) Jenkins
8 3 (2.055%) Hudson
8 3 (2.055%) JBehave
8 3 (2.055%) MSTest
8 3 (2.055%) JMeter
8 3 (2.055%) Ant
8 3 (2.055%) QuickTest Pro
9 2 (1.370%) FitNesse
General
1 28 (19.18%) Finance
2 19 (13.01%) Banking
3 14 (9.589%) Investment Banking
4 8 (5.479%) Front Office
5 6 (4.110%) Retail
6 4 (2.740%) Games
7 3 (2.055%) Telecoms
8 2 (1.370%) Law
9 1 (0.685%) Music
9 1 (0.685%) Marketing
9 1 (0.685%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 69 (47.26%) Analyst
2 61 (41.78%) Test Analyst
3 43 (29.45%) Tester
4 13 (8.904%) Senior Analyst
4 13 (8.904%) Senior Test Analyst
5 12 (8.219%) QA Analyst
6 10 (6.849%) Test Engineer
7 9 (6.164%) Web Tester
7 9 (6.164%) Manual Tester
8 8 (5.479%) Senior Tester
8 8 (5.479%) Manual Test Analyst
9 7 (4.795%) Test Leader
9 7 (4.795%) QA Tester
10 6 (4.110%) QA Test Analyst
11 5 (3.425%) Automation Engineer
12 4 (2.740%) Test Team Leader
12 4 (2.740%) Team Leader
12 4 (2.740%) QA Engineer
13 3 (2.055%) Data Warehouse Test Analyst
13 3 (2.055%) Functional Tester
Miscellaneous
1 15 (10.27%) Mobile App
2 14 (9.589%) Derivative
3 10 (6.849%) Client/Server
4 9 (6.164%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 7 (4.795%) Computer Science
6 6 (4.110%) Blackberry
7 5 (3.425%) Video on Demand
8 4 (2.740%) STB
9 3 (2.055%) IPTV
9 3 (2.055%) Equities
9 3 (2.055%) Fixed Income
9 3 (2.055%) Management Information System
10 2 (1.370%) EPoS
10 2 (1.370%) iPhone
10 2 (1.370%) Open Source
10 2 (1.370%) Mathematics
10 2 (1.370%) Wiki
10 2 (1.370%) SWIFT
11 1 (0.685%) Embedded Systems
11 1 (0.685%) Digital Media
Operating Systems
1 12 (8.219%) Android
1 12 (8.219%) Apple iOS
2 11 (7.534%) Windows
3 9 (6.164%) UNIX
4 7 (4.795%) Linux
5 4 (2.740%) Windows 7
5 4 (2.740%) Windows 8
6 3 (2.055%) Windows Phone
7 2 (1.370%) Debian
7 2 (1.370%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.685%) HPUX
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (26.71%) User Acceptance Testing
2 32 (21.92%) Agile Software Development
3 29 (19.86%) Test Scripting
3 29 (19.86%) Regression Testing
4 19 (13.01%) BDD
5 18 (12.33%) Software Testing
5 18 (12.33%) Scrum
6 14 (9.589%) Automation Testing
6 14 (9.589%) Test Strategy
6 14 (9.589%) TDD
7 13 (8.904%) Automated Testing
7 13 (8.904%) E-Commerce
8 12 (8.219%) Validation
8 12 (8.219%) Test Automation
9 10 (6.849%) Integration Testing
10 8 (5.479%) ETRM
10 8 (5.479%) Web Testing
10 8 (5.479%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (5.479%) System Testing
11 7 (4.795%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 40 (27.40%) SQL
2 28 (19.18%) Java
3 11 (7.534%) Python
4 10 (6.849%) C#
5 9 (6.164%) Ruby
5 9 (6.164%) JavaScript
6 5 (3.425%) PHP
7 4 (2.740%) C
7 4 (2.740%) Perl
8 3 (2.055%) Objective-C
9 2 (1.370%) Bash shell
9 2 (1.370%) XPath
10 1 (0.685%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.685%) T-SQL
10 1 (0.685%) VBScript
10 1 (0.685%) C++
Qualifications
1 28 (19.18%) ISEB
2 18 (12.33%) ISTQB
3 17 (11.64%) Degree
4 1 (0.685%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.685%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (36.30%) QA
Systems Management
1 18 (12.33%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (0.685%) Splunk
2 1 (0.685%) SCCM
2 1 (0.685%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (15.07%) Microsoft
2 11 (7.534%) Oracle
3 6 (4.110%) HP
4 5 (3.425%) Salesforce.com
5 3 (2.055%) Sybase
6 2 (1.370%) Informatica
7 1 (0.685%) Serena
7 1 (0.685%) JD Edwards
7 1 (0.685%) Reuters
7 1 (0.685%) Bloomberg
7 1 (0.685%) SmartStream
7 1 (0.685%) SAP
Test Analyst
London
Key skills: - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) - Regression testing - Functional testing - System integration testing - Performance, load or security testing experience - UAT - ISEB (...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £150 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Agile Test Analyst
London
Key skills: - .Net/ ASP.Net (4.5) - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) - Regression testing - Functional testing - System integration testing - Performance, load or...
Progressive Recruitment
Posted: 15 May 2013
QA Engineer - Mobile - Digital Media, London
Central London / West End
Android - iOS - QA - Engineer - Digital Media - London - Calabash - Robotium - Mobile - Quality... The QA Engineer should have excellent knowledge og: Manual Testing (on mobile platforms and web) Automation testing (...
Oliver Bernard
Rate: £400 per day
Posted: 23 May 2013
Manual (Mobile) Tester
London
MANUAL (MOBILE) TESTERS - 4 Month Contract!!!My client is a well respected digital agency looking for a mobile apps tester with Ruby scripting experience to come on board...
OPUS
Rate: GBP130 to GBP160 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
.Net Tester
London
The ideal candidate must have the following key skills: .Net/ ASP.Net (4.5) Winforms MVC C# Previous experience in Automated testing Previous experience in Manual testing (essential)...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Smartstream TLM Test Analyst - London - £450/day
London
Title: Test Analyst (mainly manual with some automation) Looking for an experienced Test Analyst, with Smartsream TLM experience, ideally on Oracle and Linux.Key Skills: Need to have...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £450 per day
Posted: 21 May 2013
.Net Tester
London
The ideal candidate must have the following key skills: - .Net/ ASP.Net (4.5) - Winforms - MVC - C# - Previous experience in Automated testing - Previous experience in Manual testing (essential) -...
Progressive Recruitment
Rate: £200 - £250 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
Python Automation Tester
London
python, automation testing, manual testing, development, unit testing, equitiesm securities, loans, python, automation testing, manual testing, development, unit testing, equitiesm securities, loans, Python Automation Tester/ Developer required urgently...
Harvey Nash plc
Rate: £450 - £500 per annum
Posted: 14 May 2013
Test Lead /Performance Testing / Scrum - Urgent
City of London
I am looking for a strong Tester, someone who is confident in their manual testing ability. You will be strong with performance testing and load testing. You will...
Real Staffing
Posted: 15 May 2013
Payments SIT Test Lead - Banking
City of London
Main FunctionSupport US Cash Programme release testing: ProvideQualityCentre training Produce assigned SIT Test Plan and test packs documents according to the standard as provided by the Test Manager...
Huxley Associates
Rate: £400 - £500 per day
Posted: 15 May 2013
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