Manual Testing Contracts in Manchester

Manual Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 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 90 103 132
Rank change year-on-year +13 +29 -36
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 7 12 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 0.66% 0.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.72% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 9
10th Percentile - £365 £309
25th Percentile £425 £397 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £588
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -20.21% +34.29%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £606
90th Percentile - - £608
North West median daily rate £450 £469 £488
% change year-on-year -4.00% -3.85% +11.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - -
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £60.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 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%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Manchester

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Manchester

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Manchester

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

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 Manchester region over the 6 months to 13 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
Salford - 1 £450 -
Manual Testing
North West

Manual 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 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 4 (57.14%) Selenium
2 2 (28.57%) Cucumber
2 2 (28.57%) Gatling
2 2 (28.57%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) Jenkins
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
2 2 (28.57%) JMeter
2 2 (28.57%) Postman
2 2 (28.57%) TestCafe
2 2 (28.57%) WebDriver
3 1 (14.29%) GitLab
3 1 (14.29%) GoCD
General
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (71.43%) Test Engineer
2 4 (57.14%) Senior
2 4 (57.14%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (28.57%) Automation Tester
3 2 (28.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) Kafka
2 2 (28.57%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (28.57%) Web Services
3 1 (14.29%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Mac OS X
1 2 (28.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Agile
3 3 (42.86%) BDD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Integration
3 3 (42.86%) E-Commerce
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) CI/CD
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Deployment
5 1 (14.29%) Deployment Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Observability
5 1 (14.29%) Task Automation
5 1 (14.29%) Test Management
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (14.29%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) Java
2 2 (28.57%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Groovy
2 2 (28.57%) Scala
2 2 (28.57%) Shell Script
3 1 (14.29%) JavaScript
3 1 (14.29%) Python
3 1 (14.29%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) Accessibility
1 2 (28.57%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Grafana
1 1 (14.29%) Kibana