Exploratory Testing Contracts in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Exploratory Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Exploratory Testing over the 6 months to 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Exploratory Testing 6 0 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.42% - 0.076%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% - 0.086%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £433 - £388
25th Percentile £444 - £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 - £408
75th Percentile £488 - £427
90th Percentile - - £433
North West median daily rate £463 £500 £408
% change year-on-year -7.50% +22.70% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £62.50 - -
North West median hourly rate £62.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Exploratory 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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,250 1,671 2,334
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.81% 91.46% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 853 1,220 1,818
10th Percentile £325 £313 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 53 58
10th Percentile £12.43 £16.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.94 £45.05 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.90 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.50 £36.00 £23.55
% change year-on-year -34.72% +52.90% +27.82%

Exploratory Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Exploratory Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Exploratory Testing in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Exploratory Testing in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Exploratory Testing in Manchester

Exploratory Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (16.67%) BrowserStack
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
2 1 (16.67%) SpeedCurve
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Gatling
1 1 (16.67%) Pa11y
1 1 (16.67%) Postman
1 1 (16.67%) TestCafe
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (83.33%) Senior
2 5 (83.33%) Senior Test Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 6 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (83.33%) Load Testing
2 5 (83.33%) Security Testing
3 4 (66.67%) Active Listening
3 4 (66.67%) Analytical Thinking
3 4 (66.67%) Customer Experience
3 4 (66.67%) Infrastructure Automation
4 3 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (16.67%) DevOps
5 1 (16.67%) Full Stack Development
5 1 (16.67%) Microservices
5 1 (16.67%) Observability
5 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
5 1 (16.67%) SDLC
5 1 (16.67%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) PHP
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) Kibana
2 1 (16.67%) Grafana