Manual Testing Contracts in the North West

Manual Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 127 143 151
Rank change year-on-year +16 +8 -15
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 9 12 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.33% 0.38% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.42% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 25
10th Percentile £295 £365 £334
25th Percentile £313 £397 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £469 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% -1.32% +8.57%
75th Percentile £475 £513 £500
90th Percentile - - £606
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
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 - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,327 2,859 3,565
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.25% 90.59% 88.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,486 2,033 2,605
10th Percentile £306 £313 £240
25th Percentile £405 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 245 143 163
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.31 £23.15 £14.25
Median hourly rate £22.11 £37.30 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.72% +77.62% +14.50%
75th Percentile £45.88 £49.52 £43.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.95 £58.75
England median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
% change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the North West

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the North West

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Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West region over the 6 months to 4 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
Manchester +13 7 £450 -4.00% 4
Cheshire - 2 £309 - 4
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) BrowserStack
1 1 (11.11%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 2 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 5 (55.56%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
2 3 (33.33%) WebDriver
3 2 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 2 (22.22%) Gatling
3 2 (22.22%) Git
3 2 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) JMeter
3 2 (22.22%) TestCafe
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) GoCD
4 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Test Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Senior
2 4 (44.44%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Automation Tester
3 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 2 (22.22%) Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Manual Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (33.33%) Kafka
2 2 (22.22%) .NET
2 2 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
2 2 (22.22%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Mobile App
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 2 (22.22%) Mac OS X
1 2 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) E-Commerce
3 4 (44.44%) Software Testing
4 3 (33.33%) API Testing
4 3 (33.33%) BDD
4 3 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (22.22%) TDD
5 2 (22.22%) Test Planning
5 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Agile Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Deployment
6 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 1 (11.11%) Regression Testing
6 1 (11.11%) System Testing
6 1 (11.11%) Task Automation
6 1 (11.11%) Test Management
6 1 (11.11%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) C#
2 2 (22.22%) Groovy
2 2 (22.22%) Scala
2 2 (22.22%) Shell Script
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
3 1 (11.11%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
1 2 (22.22%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Grafana
1 1 (11.11%) Kibana