Manual Testing Contracts in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
England > West Midlands

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 103 127 164
Rank change year-on-year +24 +37 -45
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 7 3 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.36% 0.13% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.43% 0.14% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 3
10th Percentile - £383 £326
25th Percentile £250 £394 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £288 £425 £388
Median % change year-on-year -32.35% +9.68% +31.36%
75th Percentile £361 £444 £417
90th Percentile £422 £448 £431
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,632 2,098 3,192
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 83.95% 88.64% 90.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,084 1,439 2,351
10th Percentile £275 £263 £270
25th Percentile £375 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +5.13% +16.07%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £575
90th Percentile £750 £694 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 114 45 69
10th Percentile £11.08 £12.20 £12.00
25th Percentile £14.00 £13.31 £13.87
Median hourly rate £22.50 £17.72 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +4.24% +1.07%
75th Percentile £40.38 £23.75 £19.86
90th Percentile £58.00 £51.25 £22.05
England median hourly rate £36.00 £37.34 £24.30
% change year-on-year -3.59% +53.69% +1.23%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the West Midlands

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the West 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 West Midlands 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
Birmingham +17 6 £250 -37.50% 4
West Bromwich - 1 £325 -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West 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 (14.29%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (85.71%) Azure
2 3 (42.86%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
2 1 (14.29%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (14.29%) Finance
1 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (100.00%) Analyst
1 7 (100.00%) Test Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Manual Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Azure Test Lead
3 1 (14.29%) CRM Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Lead DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Lead Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Senior DevOps
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Test Strategy
3 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 3 (42.86%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) Defect Management
4 2 (28.57%) Regression Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Test Scripting
5 1 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (14.29%) Case Management
5 1 (14.29%) Defect Tracking
5 1 (14.29%) Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Non-Functional Testing
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (14.29%) System Integration Testing
5 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) ISEB
1 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft