Manual Testing
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies 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 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 600 494 461
Rank change year-on-year -106 -33 +25
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 308 596 1,200
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.57% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.60% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 270 399 654
10th Percentile £33,750 £34,350 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,365 £39,458 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £45,750
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +9.29% +7.65%
75th Percentile £57,188 £68,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £85,100 £85,000 £74,405
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,000 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -6.67% +5.88% +6.25%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 84,305 100,095 147,310
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.99% 95.64% 95.57%
Number of salaries quoted 59,591 58,745 83,129
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -11.29% +3.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +9.38%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the UK

Manual Testing
Top 17 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the UK over the 6 months to 27 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
England -92 242 £45,000 -10.00% 59
UK excluding London -109 229 £42,000 -6.67% 37
Work from Home -29 131 £38,500 -23.00% 22
London +23 64 £52,500 -12.50% 21
South East -20 47 £47,500 +5.56% 9
South West +2 46 £36,984 -22.14% 8
Scotland -58 44 £38,500 -38.40% 1
Midlands +12 37 £47,500 +18.01% 7
North of England -36 30 £37,500 -16.67% 10
West Midlands +35 21 £63,749 +22.52% 6
East of England -22 18 £37,500 -6.25% 2
North West -25 18 £37,500 -31.19% 7
East Midlands -19 16 £36,500 -8.75% 1
Yorkshire +48 11 £45,000 +20.00% 3
Wales +1 4 £45,000 +2.27% 2
Northern Ireland +33 3 - -
North East -7 1 - -

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (1.62%) Confluence
2 3 (0.97%) CMS
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 9 (2.92%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.65%) Simulink
4 1 (0.32%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.62%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.62%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.32%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.32%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 55 (17.86%) Azure
2 32 (10.39%) SaaS
3 25 (8.12%) Power Platform
4 23 (7.47%) AWS
4 23 (7.47%) Microsoft 365
5 22 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
5 22 (7.14%) PowerApps
6 11 (3.57%) Power Automate
7 9 (2.92%) BlazeMeter
8 8 (2.60%) BrowserStack
8 8 (2.60%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.62%) GitHub
10 3 (0.97%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.65%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.65%) npm
11 2 (0.65%) Serverless
11 2 (0.65%) Yarn
12 1 (0.32%) Figma
12 1 (0.32%) GCP
12 1 (0.32%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.30%) SSH
2 2 (0.65%) Broadband
3 1 (0.32%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 27 (8.77%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.87%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.55%) Power BI
4 5 (1.62%) Metadata
4 5 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.62%) SAP BW
4 5 (1.62%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.30%) MariaDB
5 4 (1.30%) MySQL
6 3 (0.97%) Big Data
6 3 (0.97%) Tableau
7 1 (0.32%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.32%) GIS
Development Applications
1 59 (19.16%) Selenium
2 58 (18.83%) JIRA
3 37 (12.01%) Cypress.io
4 29 (9.42%) Cucumber
5 27 (8.77%) Git
6 24 (7.79%) WebDriver
7 20 (6.49%) Jenkins
8 17 (5.52%) Visual Studio
9 15 (4.87%) JMeter
9 15 (4.87%) Postman
10 14 (4.55%) NUnit
11 12 (3.90%) Appium
11 12 (3.90%) Team Foundation Server
12 11 (3.57%) SpecFlow
12 11 (3.57%) TestRail
13 10 (3.25%) Maven
14 9 (2.92%) Gradle
14 9 (2.92%) SoapUI
15 8 (2.60%) UI Automator
16 4 (1.30%) REST Assured
General
1 99 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 46 (14.94%) Finance
3 43 (13.96%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (8.77%) Law
6 22 (7.14%) Fire and Rescue
6 22 (7.14%) Marketing
7 18 (5.84%) Banking
8 16 (5.19%) Legal
9 15 (4.87%) Organisational Skills
10 13 (4.22%) Investment Banking
11 12 (3.90%) Automotive
11 12 (3.90%) Public Sector
12 11 (3.57%) Retail
13 8 (2.60%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.62%) Electronics
16 4 (1.30%) Aviation
17 2 (0.65%) Tech for Good
18 1 (0.32%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 53 (17.21%) QA Engineer
2 50 (16.23%) Analyst
3 48 (15.58%) Test Engineer
4 44 (14.29%) Tester
5 33 (10.71%) Developer
5 33 (10.71%) Lead
6 27 (8.77%) Software Tester
7 25 (8.12%) Test Analyst
8 23 (7.47%) QA Leader
9 16 (5.19%) QA Analyst
9 16 (5.19%) Senior
9 16 (5.19%) Test Leader
10 12 (3.90%) Test Manager
11 11 (3.57%) Applications Developer
11 11 (3.57%) Business Analyst
11 11 (3.57%) Software Developer
12 10 (3.25%) Java Engineer
12 10 (3.25%) Software Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Java Software Engineer
13 9 (2.92%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.74%) .NET
2 20 (6.49%) XML
3 18 (5.84%) REST
4 16 (5.19%) Playwright
5 14 (4.55%) HTML
6 13 (4.22%) Spring
7 12 (3.90%) .NET Core
7 12 (3.90%) JSON
8 11 (3.57%) React
9 10 (3.25%) Spring Boot
10 9 (2.92%) Ext JS
11 8 (2.60%) CSS
12 7 (2.27%) Gherkin
12 7 (2.27%) SOAP
13 5 (1.62%) Itk
13 5 (1.62%) Laravel
13 5 (1.62%) RESTful
13 5 (1.62%) Web Services
14 4 (1.30%) ADO
14 4 (1.30%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.71%) Product Ownership
2 17 (5.52%) Self-Motivation
3 14 (4.55%) Mobile App
4 13 (4.22%) Management Information System
5 12 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 9 (2.92%) Algorithms
6 9 (2.92%) Data Structures
6 9 (2.92%) Market Risk
7 7 (2.27%) Credit Derivative
7 7 (2.27%) Derivative
7 7 (2.27%) Fixed Income
7 7 (2.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 7 (2.27%) Greenfield Project
7 7 (2.27%) Hedge funds
7 7 (2.27%) Interest Rate Derivative
7 7 (2.27%) Onboarding
7 7 (2.27%) Reference Data
8 6 (1.95%) Smartphone
9 5 (1.62%) Legacy Applications
9 5 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.47%) Windows
2 22 (7.14%) Linux
3 8 (2.60%) Mac OS
4 7 (2.27%) Unix
5 5 (1.62%) Android
6 4 (1.30%) Ubuntu
7 3 (0.97%) Apple iOS
8 2 (0.65%) Mac OS X
9 1 (0.32%) CentOS
9 1 (0.32%) Debian
9 1 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 225 (73.05%) Test Automation
2 173 (56.17%) Agile
3 89 (28.90%) DevOps
4 86 (27.92%) Software Testing
5 72 (23.38%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (19.16%) Test Scripting
7 55 (17.86%) Regression Testing
8 54 (17.53%) SDLC
8 54 (17.53%) User Experience
9 52 (16.88%) Scrum
10 47 (15.26%) Test Strategy
11 44 (14.29%) API Testing
12 40 (12.99%) CI/CD
12 40 (12.99%) Continuous Integration
13 39 (12.66%) Code Quality
14 35 (11.36%) Computer Science
15 31 (10.06%) Continuous Improvement
16 29 (9.42%) BDD
16 29 (9.42%) Microservices
17 24 (7.79%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 80 (25.97%) SQL
2 72 (23.38%) Java
3 56 (18.18%) C#
4 54 (17.53%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.71%) Python
6 12 (3.90%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.60%) C
7 8 (2.60%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.62%) C++
8 5 (1.62%) PHP
8 5 (1.62%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.65%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.32%) Bash
10 1 (0.32%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.32%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 57 (18.51%) Degree
2 46 (14.94%) ISTQB
3 27 (8.77%) Computer Science Degree
4 22 (7.14%) ISEB
5 10 (3.25%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.92%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.62%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.62%) MCAD
7 5 (1.62%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.62%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.30%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.97%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.97%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.65%) HND
11 1 (0.32%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 171 (55.52%) QA
2 3 (0.97%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.65%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.65%) ISO 14001
3 2 (0.65%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.65%) SLA
4 1 (0.32%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.65%) Firmware
3 1 (0.32%) Docker
3 1 (0.32%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.62%) Grafana
1 5 (1.62%) Kibana
1 5 (1.62%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.97%) Ansible
2 3 (0.97%) Terraform
3 1 (0.32%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 49 (15.91%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.92%) TOWER Software
3 8 (2.60%) Oracle
4 7 (2.27%) SAP
5 5 (1.62%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.62%) UiPath
6 2 (0.65%) BT
7 1 (0.32%) Adobe
7 1 (0.32%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.32%) Databricks
7 1 (0.32%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.32%) HP
7 1 (0.32%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.32%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.32%) VMware