Manual Testing Contracts in the Midlands

Manual Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 151 186
Rank change year-on-year +24 +35 -30
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 14 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.22% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 0.25% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 16
10th Percentile £250 £288 £294
25th Percentile £273 £316 £312
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £375 £338
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +11.11% +8.87%
75th Percentile £369 £429 £368
90th Percentile £397 £440 £439
England median daily rate £450 £500 £460
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +15.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

Manual 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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,373 2,816 4,402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 80.50% 87.48% 87.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,577 1,978 3,231
10th Percentile £234 £258 £250
25th Percentile £358 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 178 101 130
10th Percentile £11.11 £12.50 £10.68
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £19.00 £24.00 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% +31.51% +24.91%
75th Percentile £35.00 £46.25 £24.50
90th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £35.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +4.17% +40.19% +14.13%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
West Midlands +23 9 £303 -27.98% 4
East Midlands +9 5 £363 +11.54% 2
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (42.86%) Azure
2 3 (21.43%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (14.29%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Selenium
2 1 (7.14%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (7.14%) Legal
Job Titles
1 12 (85.71%) Analyst
1 12 (85.71%) Test Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Data Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Lead
3 2 (14.29%) Manual Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Azure Test Lead
4 1 (7.14%) CRM Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Lead DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Lead Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) QA Leader
4 1 (7.14%) QA Team Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (7.14%) Senior Test Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Team Leader
4 1 (7.14%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Analytical Mindset
1 1 (7.14%) NHS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Test Scripting
1 8 (57.14%) User Acceptance Testing
2 7 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
3 6 (42.86%) DevOps
4 5 (35.71%) Software Testing
4 5 (35.71%) Test Strategy
5 4 (28.57%) Performance Testing
5 4 (28.57%) System Testing
5 4 (28.57%) Web Testing
6 3 (21.43%) Defect Management
6 3 (21.43%) SDLC
7 2 (14.29%) Agile
7 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (14.29%) Regression Testing
7 2 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
7 2 (14.29%) Test Automation
7 2 (14.29%) Test Planning
8 1 (7.14%) Functional Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Integration Testing
8 1 (7.14%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (7.14%) ISEB
1 1 (7.14%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (21.43%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (28.57%) Oracle
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft