Software Testing Contracts in Manchester

Software Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring Software Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Software Testing over the 6 months leading up to 20 September 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Sep 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 70 79 101
Rank change year-on-year +9 +22 +9
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 15 27 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.27% 1.59% 1.75%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.45% 1.80% 1.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 24 43
10th Percentile £313 £150 £300
25th Percentile - £251 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £365 £463
Median % change year-on-year +9.59% -21.08% +8.82%
75th Percentile - £401 £550
90th Percentile - £519 £673
North West median daily rate £394 £525 £463
% change year-on-year -25.00% +13.51% +1.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £10.70
Median hourly rate - - £11.39
75th Percentile - - £12.09
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £40.33 £45.88 £24.60
% change year-on-year -12.11% +86.54% -42.13%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,033 1,497 2,372
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 87.39% 88.27% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 621 1,073 1,820
10th Percentile £313 £277 £288
25th Percentile £406 £400 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -1.40% - +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 60 54
10th Percentile £15.94 £15.72 £9.90
25th Percentile £21.44 £16.79 £14.68
Median hourly rate £35.00 £19.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.22% -1.25% +19.40%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £68.94
90th Percentile £87.45 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £42.50 £35.00 £22.25
% change year-on-year +21.43% +57.30% +23.61%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 20 September 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Manchester

Software 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (6.67%) Azure AKS
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Metadata
1 1 (6.67%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Appium
1 1 (6.67%) Artifactory
1 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
1 1 (6.67%) GitLab
1 1 (6.67%) Jenkins
1 1 (6.67%) JIRA
1 1 (6.67%) JMeter
1 1 (6.67%) NeoLoad
1 1 (6.67%) XCUITest
General
1 4 (26.67%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Games
3 2 (13.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Tester
2 6 (40.00%) Automation Tester
3 5 (33.33%) Test Engineer
4 4 (26.67%) Java Automation Tester
4 4 (26.67%) Test Automation Engineer
5 2 (13.33%) Lead
6 1 (6.67%) Applications Packager
6 1 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Games Tester
6 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Test Engineer
6 1 (6.67%) Performance Test Leader
6 1 (6.67%) Test Leader
6 1 (6.67%) UAT Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
2 2 (13.33%) .NET Framework
3 1 (6.67%) Software Packaging
3 1 (6.67%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Sports Betting
3 1 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
3 1 (6.67%) Online Games
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Android
1 1 (6.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
1 12 (80.00%) CI/CD
2 11 (73.33%) Deployment Automation
2 11 (73.33%) Test Automation
2 11 (73.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Agile Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Deployment
3 10 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
3 10 (66.67%) Functional Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Non-Functional Testing
3 10 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
4 9 (60.00%) BDD
4 9 (60.00%) Integration Testing
4 9 (60.00%) Task Automation
4 9 (60.00%) Test Management
4 9 (60.00%) Test Planning
5 8 (53.33%) E-Commerce
6 5 (33.33%) Test Scripting
7 4 (26.67%) Manual Testing
7 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 7 (46.67%) C#
2 5 (33.33%) Java
3 2 (13.33%) Python
4 1 (6.67%) Bash
4 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) SC Cleared
1 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (66.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Active Directory
1 1 (6.67%) Docker
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (6.67%) Progress Chef
1 1 (6.67%) Puppet
1 1 (6.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow
1 1 (6.67%) Snow