Manual Testing Jobs in the North West

Manual Testing
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 271 245 264
Rank change year-on-year -26 +19 -75
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 17 55 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 0.17% 0.70% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.21% 0.73% 0.76%
Number of salaries quoted 17 30 32
10th Percentile £31,400 £37,500 £31,625
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £39,688
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £54,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -31.19% +21.11% +18.42%
75th Percentile £42,500 £65,000 £48,000
90th Percentile £46,500 £75,000 £59,589
England median annual salary £46,250 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -7.50% +5.26% +5.56%

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 permanent job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 8,082 7,558 8,991
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North West 83.16% 95.74% 95.33%
Number of salaries quoted 6,150 3,920 5,381
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,500 £30,000
25th Percentile £37,500 £41,250 £39,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £67,500
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

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

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the North West

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the North West

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the North West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the North West over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the North West

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the North West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the North West region over the 6 months to 30 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Manchester -9 13 £37,500 -34.78% 3
Cheshire -13 3 £42,500 +6.25% 2
Cumbria - 1 £27,000 -
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 6 (35.29%) AWS
2 5 (29.41%) Azure
2 5 (29.41%) BrowserStack
3 2 (11.76%) Azure Functions
3 2 (11.76%) Serverless
4 1 (5.88%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) Internet
Development Applications
1 7 (41.18%) Selenium
2 6 (35.29%) JMeter
3 4 (23.53%) Postman
4 2 (11.76%) WebDriver
5 1 (5.88%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.88%) JUnit
5 1 (5.88%) SpecFlow
5 1 (5.88%) TestNG
General
1 8 (47.06%) Finance
2 5 (29.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (29.41%) Retail
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Automotive
3 2 (11.76%) Manufacturing
3 2 (11.76%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Test Engineer
2 5 (29.41%) Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Test Analyst
2 5 (29.41%) Tester
3 4 (23.53%) Software Tester
4 2 (11.76%) Senior
5 1 (5.88%) Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Full Stack Developer
5 1 (5.88%) Manual Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Software Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Tester
5 1 (5.88%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (5.88%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) RESTful
2 1 (5.88%) .NET
2 1 (5.88%) .NET Framework
2 1 (5.88%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.88%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (5.88%) Entity Framework
2 1 (5.88%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
1 1 (5.88%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (88.24%) Test Automation
2 11 (64.71%) Agile
3 8 (47.06%) Performance Testing
3 8 (47.06%) Test Scripting
4 5 (29.41%) Acceptance Criteria
4 5 (29.41%) Change Control
4 5 (29.41%) Code Quality
4 5 (29.41%) Fintech
4 5 (29.41%) Software Testing
4 5 (29.41%) User Stories
5 4 (23.53%) CI/CD
5 4 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (17.65%) Test Management
7 2 (11.76%) API Testing
7 2 (11.76%) Computer Science
7 2 (11.76%) Defect Tracking
7 2 (11.76%) ERP
7 2 (11.76%) Exploratory Testing
7 2 (11.76%) SDLC
7 2 (11.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 4 (23.53%) C#
1 4 (23.53%) SQL
2 3 (17.65%) Python
3 2 (11.76%) JavaScript
3 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
4 1 (5.88%) Java
4 1 (5.88%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) HND
1 2 (11.76%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (23.53%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (29.41%) Grafana
1 5 (29.41%) Kibana