Manual Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
England > Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Yorkshire 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 91 114 130
Rank change year-on-year +23 +16 -33
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 8 12 14
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.48% 0.53% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.58% 0.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 10 10
10th Percentile £365 £404 £269
25th Percentile £388 £408 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -8.11% +54.17%
75th Percentile £405 £544 £488
90th Percentile £413 £585 £500
England median daily rate £450 £500 £435
% change year-on-year -10.00% +15.01% +10.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,451 2,074 2,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.37% 90.77% 89.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 870 1,375 1,771
10th Percentile £263 £285 £263
25th Percentile £400 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £480
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £550
90th Percentile £650 £700 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 65 81
10th Percentile £11.30 - £10.70
25th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.00
Median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%
75th Percentile £22.00 £22.00 £22.75
90th Percentile £53.75 £54.45 £27.25
England median hourly rate £35.25 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.00% +56.25% -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 April 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 Yorkshire +33 8 £400 -5.88% 2
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Gatling
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) API Testing
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Brio
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft