Tester Contracts in Manchester

Tester
North West > Manchester

The median Tester daily rate in Manchester is £400 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 88 85 105
Rank change year-on-year -3 +20 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Tester 10 33 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.67% 1.76% 1.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.70% 1.83% 1.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 22 37
10th Percentile £365 - £281
25th Percentile £375 £285 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £320 £388
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -17.42% -3.13%
75th Percentile £463 £418 £438
90th Percentile £513 £438 £515
North West median daily rate £400 £340 £388
% change year-on-year +17.65% -12.26% -3.13%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Manchester. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 1,421 1,805 2,539
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.82% 96.42% 97.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 1,346 1,991
10th Percentile £313 £313 £226
25th Percentile £400 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £585 £594 £575
90th Percentile £694 £675 £656
North West median daily rate £493 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 49 59
10th Percentile £12.00 £16.23 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.31 £20.00 £12.02
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +100.00% +9.38%
75th Percentile £62.50 £48.75 £24.38
90th Percentile £73.75 £70.00 £34.00
North West median hourly rate £26.66 £35.00 £20.31
% change year-on-year -23.83% +72.33% +13.46%

Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings that featured Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Tester in Manchester

Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Tester in Manchester

Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Tester in Manchester over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Tester in Manchester

Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Tester in Manchester

Tester
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 Tester within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 5 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
Altrincham +4 1 £563 -
Salford - 1 £450 -
Tester
North West

Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Manchester region featuring Tester in the job title.

1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Selenium
3 4 (40.00%) Java
3 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Accessibility
4 3 (30.00%) C#
4 3 (30.00%) DevOps
4 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
4 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
4 3 (30.00%) Scrum
5 2 (20.00%) Web Services
5 2 (20.00%) Python
5 2 (20.00%) OpenID
5 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
5 2 (20.00%) BDD
5 2 (20.00%) RESTful
5 2 (20.00%) Scala
5 2 (20.00%) Test Management
5 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
5 2 (20.00%) OAuth
5 2 (20.00%) API Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Gatling
5 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
5 2 (20.00%) GitHub
5 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
5 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
5 2 (20.00%) Playwright

Tester Skill Set
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 5 (50.00%) AWS
2 2 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
3 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (10.00%) Azure Pipelines
3 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) Figma
3 1 (10.00%) Power Automate
3 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 5 (50.00%) Selenium
2 2 (20.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (20.00%) Gatling
2 2 (20.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (10.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (10.00%) Git
3 1 (10.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth
1 2 (20.00%) OAuth2
1 2 (20.00%) OpenID
1 2 (20.00%) Playwright
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) Web Services
2 1 (10.00%) .NET
2 1 (10.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (10.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (10.00%) GraphQL
2 1 (10.00%) Kafka
2 1 (10.00%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Test Automation
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (20.00%) API Testing
4 2 (20.00%) BDD
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Deployment
4 2 (20.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Manual Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Non-Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Test Management
5 1 (10.00%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (10.00%) Load Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Security Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Software Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Task Automation
5 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
5 1 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
5 1 (10.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (40.00%) Java
2 3 (30.00%) C#
2 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
3 2 (20.00%) Python
3 2 (20.00%) Scala
4 1 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) Degree
1 1 (10.00%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (30.00%) Accessibility