Manual Testing Contracts in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
UK > UK excluding London

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

6 months to
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 370 374
Rank change year-on-year +31 +4 -19
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 59 85 148
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.29% 0.36% 0.48%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.34% 0.40% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 65 110
10th Percentile £267 £345 £306
25th Percentile £356 £400 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £463 £425
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% +8.82% +17.24%
75th Percentile £506 £575 £488
90th Percentile £588 £642 £550
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 10
10th Percentile - - £17.93
25th Percentile £58.75 - £43.44
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.63
75th Percentile £61.25 - £49.75
90th Percentile - - £55.65
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,539 21,424 27,497
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.73% 89.49% 88.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,477 14,871 19,220
10th Percentile £250 £255 £232
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.70%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £528
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.17% +8.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,058 1,303 1,363
10th Percentile £12.33 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.24 £15.75 £14.00
Median hourly rate £37.34 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.69% +75.00% -8.00%
75th Percentile £60.75 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £72.98 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.58 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -1.18% +44.00% -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the UK excluding London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 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
North of England +19 18 £406 -12.16% 13
South East +26 16 £444 -11.25% 11
Midlands +35 13 £363 - 9
North West +16 9 £450 -4.00% 7
South West +21 8 £585 +11.43% 6
Yorkshire +16 8 £400 -5.88% 6
West Midlands +24 7 £288 -32.35% 7
East Midlands +21 6 £363 +21.85% 2
Wales +21 4 £509 +27.13% 2
North East +13 1 £500 -13.04%
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.47%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.08%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.69%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 17 (28.81%) Azure
2 13 (22.03%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.17%) GitHub
4 4 (6.78%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (5.08%) AWS
6 1 (1.69%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.69%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.69%) GCP
6 1 (1.69%) SaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.78%) HTTP
1 4 (6.78%) TCP/IP
2 1 (1.69%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.78%) MongoDB
1 4 (6.78%) Oracle Database
2 2 (3.39%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.69%) MySQL
3 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.69%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 17 (28.81%) Selenium
2 16 (27.12%) Git
3 13 (22.03%) Postman
4 12 (20.34%) JIRA
5 10 (16.95%) Jenkins
6 7 (11.86%) Visual Studio
7 6 (10.17%) Cypress.io
7 6 (10.17%) WebDriver
8 5 (8.47%) Cucumber
8 5 (8.47%) JMeter
8 5 (8.47%) NUnit
9 4 (6.78%) Artifactory
9 4 (6.78%) Bitbucket
9 4 (6.78%) Gatling
10 2 (3.39%) GitLab
10 2 (3.39%) TestCafe
11 1 (1.69%) Android Studio
11 1 (1.69%) Burp Suite
11 1 (1.69%) SonarQube
11 1 (1.69%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 13 (22.03%) Social Skills
2 7 (11.86%) Finance
3 4 (6.78%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (5.08%) Public Sector
5 2 (3.39%) Marketing
5 2 (3.39%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.69%) Banking
6 1 (1.69%) Electronics
6 1 (1.69%) Health Technology
6 1 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.69%) Law
6 1 (1.69%) Manufacturing
6 1 (1.69%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (32.20%) Analyst
2 18 (30.51%) Test Analyst
3 14 (23.73%) Senior
4 13 (22.03%) Test Engineer
5 12 (20.34%) Tester
6 11 (18.64%) Senior Test Engineer
7 10 (16.95%) Automation Tester
8 5 (8.47%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 5 (8.47%) Test Automation Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Data Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Development Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Manual Test Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Oracle Analyst
9 4 (6.78%) Software Development Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Software Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Test Development Engineer
9 4 (6.78%) Test Manager
10 3 (5.08%) Linux Engineer
10 3 (5.08%) Manual Tester
11 2 (3.39%) Test Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (13.56%) .NET
2 7 (11.86%) XML
3 6 (10.17%) Playwright
4 5 (8.47%) AngularJS
4 5 (8.47%) Kafka
4 5 (8.47%) RESTful
5 4 (6.78%) ActiveMQ
5 4 (6.78%) GraphQL
5 4 (6.78%) SOAP
5 4 (6.78%) Web Services
6 3 (5.08%) JSON
6 3 (5.08%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.69%) .NET Framework
7 1 (1.69%) Elastic Stack
7 1 (1.69%) HTML
7 1 (1.69%) REST
7 1 (1.69%) Spring
7 1 (1.69%) Spring Boot
7 1 (1.69%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.47%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.78%) Mobile App
2 4 (6.78%) NHS
3 1 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.69%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
1 5 (8.47%) Unix
1 5 (8.47%) Windows
2 4 (6.78%) Embedded Linux
2 4 (6.78%) Mac OS X
3 1 (1.69%) Android
3 1 (1.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (64.41%) Test Automation
2 32 (54.24%) Agile
3 19 (32.20%) DevOps
3 19 (32.20%) Software Testing
3 19 (32.20%) Test Strategy
4 15 (25.42%) Performance Testing
4 15 (25.42%) Test Scripting
5 12 (20.34%) CI/CD
5 12 (20.34%) Continuous Integration
5 12 (20.34%) Scrum
6 11 (18.64%) BDD
6 11 (18.64%) Scenario Testing
6 11 (18.64%) Waterfall
7 10 (16.95%) Security Testing
8 9 (15.25%) API Testing
8 9 (15.25%) TDD
8 9 (15.25%) User Acceptance Testing
9 8 (13.56%) Kanban
9 8 (13.56%) Regression Testing
10 6 (10.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (22.03%) SQL
2 11 (18.64%) Java
3 8 (13.56%) Python
4 7 (11.86%) JavaScript
5 6 (10.17%) TypeScript
6 5 (8.47%) C#
7 4 (6.78%) C++
7 4 (6.78%) Groovy
7 4 (6.78%) Scala
7 4 (6.78%) Shell Script
8 1 (1.69%) Bash
8 1 (1.69%) PowerShell
8 1 (1.69%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (8.47%) ISTQB
2 4 (6.78%) Degree
3 3 (5.08%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.08%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.69%) ISEB
4 1 (1.69%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 1 (1.69%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.25%) QA
2 6 (10.17%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.39%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 5 (8.47%) Docker
2 4 (6.78%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (6.78%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (3.39%) Grafana
2 1 (1.69%) Ansible
2 1 (1.69%) Graylog
2 1 (1.69%) HP Fortify
2 1 (1.69%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.69%) Kibana
2 1 (1.69%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.69%) Nagios
2 1 (1.69%) Nessus
2 1 (1.69%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.69%) Prometheus
2 1 (1.69%) Puppet
2 1 (1.69%) Terraform
2 1 (1.69%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (20.34%) Oracle
2 8 (13.56%) Microsoft
3 2 (3.39%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.39%) SAP
4 1 (1.69%) Adobe
4 1 (1.69%) Brio
4 1 (1.69%) Cerner
4 1 (1.69%) Checkmarx
4 1 (1.69%) Splunk
4 1 (1.69%) Veracode