Manual Testing Contracts in London

Manual Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 385 471
Rank change year-on-year +53 +86 -64
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 63 98 138
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.37% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.41% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 46 79 89
10th Percentile £369 £308 £305
25th Percentile £410 £423 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +10.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £618 £650 £588
90th Percentile £700 £708 £700
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +18.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £17.50
75th Percentile - - £25.00
90th Percentile - - £46.75
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

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

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,587 23,906 35,666
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.68% 90.95% 92.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,195 17,189 26,035
10th Percentile £340 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £680 £700 £688
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 314 270 421
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.45 £17.25
25th Percentile £20.00 £22.50 £23.91
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.21% +6.85% +11.11%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.19 £51.00
90th Percentile £65.93 £80.23 £68.75
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -2.25% +53.69% +3.38%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in London over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 London region over the 6 months to 7 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
Central London +37 10 £425 -32.00% 3
East London - 3 £340 -
South London +8 1 £475 +35.71%
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (4.76%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.59%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Endur
1 1 (1.59%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.59%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.75%) Azure
2 17 (26.98%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.94%) AWS
4 3 (4.76%) GCP
4 3 (4.76%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.17%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.17%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.59%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (1.59%) Boomi
6 1 (1.59%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.59%) GitHub
6 1 (1.59%) SaaS
6 1 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.35%) VLAN
1 4 (6.35%) Wireless
2 3 (4.76%) 5G
3 1 (1.59%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Big Data
1 3 (4.76%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.76%) Hadoop
2 2 (3.17%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.59%) MySQL
3 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 14 (22.22%) Selenium
2 12 (19.05%) JIRA
3 11 (17.46%) SpecFlow
4 10 (15.87%) Visual Studio
5 7 (11.11%) Jenkins
6 6 (9.52%) Cypress.io
6 6 (9.52%) Git
6 6 (9.52%) Postman
7 5 (7.94%) Appium
7 5 (7.94%) WebDriver
8 4 (6.35%) Moq
9 3 (4.76%) Cucumber
9 3 (4.76%) LoadRunner
9 3 (4.76%) NUnit
9 3 (4.76%) Rational Performance Tester
10 2 (3.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (3.17%) JMeter
11 1 (1.59%) Gerrit
11 1 (1.59%) Team Foundation Server
11 1 (1.59%) TestNG
General
1 14 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 10 (15.87%) Banking
4 8 (12.70%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
6 5 (7.94%) Back Office
7 3 (4.76%) Investment Banking
8 2 (3.17%) Electronics
8 2 (3.17%) Legal
8 2 (3.17%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.17%) Marketing
8 2 (3.17%) Telecoms
9 1 (1.59%) Front Office
9 1 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.59%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (31.75%) Tester
2 16 (25.40%) Analyst
3 15 (23.81%) Test Analyst
4 12 (19.05%) Manual Tester
5 11 (17.46%) Senior
6 9 (14.29%) Test Engineer
7 8 (12.70%) Senior Analyst
7 8 (12.70%) Senior Test Analyst
8 6 (9.52%) Developer
8 6 (9.52%) Lead
9 4 (6.35%) C# Developer
9 4 (6.35%) QA Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Azure Engineer
10 3 (4.76%) Business Analyst
10 3 (4.76%) QA Leader
10 3 (4.76%) Test Automation Engineer
11 2 (3.17%) Consultant
11 2 (3.17%) Risk Analyst
11 2 (3.17%) Senior Developer
11 2 (3.17%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (19.05%) .NET
2 7 (11.11%) ADO
3 5 (7.94%) .NET Framework
4 4 (6.35%) AngularJS
4 4 (6.35%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.35%) Entity Framework
4 4 (6.35%) Playwright
5 3 (4.76%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.76%) Gherkin
5 3 (4.76%) Kafka
6 2 (3.17%) CSS
6 2 (3.17%) GraphQL
6 2 (3.17%) HTML
6 2 (3.17%) REST
6 2 (3.17%) XML
7 1 (1.59%) JSON
7 1 (1.59%) RESTful
7 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) Derivative
2 5 (7.94%) Mobile App
3 4 (6.35%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 3 (4.76%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.76%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.17%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Equities
6 1 (1.59%) Fat Client
6 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.59%) Market Risk
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Reinsurance
6 1 (1.59%) Replication
6 1 (1.59%) Robotics
6 1 (1.59%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.59%) Thin Client
6 1 (1.59%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.52%) Linux
2 3 (4.76%) Android
3 2 (3.17%) Unix
3 2 (3.17%) Windows
4 1 (1.59%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (63.49%) Test Automation
2 32 (50.79%) Agile
3 21 (33.33%) DevOps
4 17 (26.98%) Software Testing
5 15 (23.81%) Scenario Testing
5 15 (23.81%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (22.22%) Scrum
7 13 (20.63%) Acceptance Criteria
7 13 (20.63%) BDD
7 13 (20.63%) Test Strategy
8 11 (17.46%) CI/CD
8 11 (17.46%) End-to-End Testing
9 10 (15.87%) Non-Functional Testing
10 8 (12.70%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (12.70%) Integration Testing
10 8 (12.70%) Performance Testing
10 8 (12.70%) Regression Testing
11 7 (11.11%) Microservices
11 7 (11.11%) TDD
11 7 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 16 (25.40%) C#
2 13 (20.63%) Java
3 12 (19.05%) Python
4 11 (17.46%) SQL
5 7 (11.11%) JavaScript
6 4 (6.35%) Bash
6 4 (6.35%) Perl
7 3 (4.76%) Kotlin
7 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
8 2 (3.17%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.17%) R
9 1 (1.59%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 7 (11.11%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.52%) Degree
3 4 (6.35%) DV Cleared
3 4 (6.35%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) ISEB
4 2 (3.17%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.59%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.59%) Numerate Degree
5 1 (1.59%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (17.46%) QA
2 6 (9.52%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.59%) GxP
3 1 (1.59%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 6 (9.52%) Docker
2 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.35%) Iperf
1 4 (6.35%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.59%) Ansible
2 1 (1.59%) Grafana
2 1 (1.59%) Graylog
2 1 (1.59%) HP ALM
2 1 (1.59%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.59%) Nagios
2 1 (1.59%) Nessus
2 1 (1.59%) Opsgenie
2 1 (1.59%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.59%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.59%) Puppet
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
2 1 (1.59%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 6 (9.52%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.35%) HP
3 3 (4.76%) IBM
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 2 (3.17%) Aderant
4 2 (3.17%) Splunk
5 1 (1.59%) Checkmarx
5 1 (1.59%) Dell
5 1 (1.59%) NEC
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) PagerDuty
5 1 (1.59%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.59%) Veracode