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 3 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 614 507 449
Rank change year-on-year -107 -58 +45
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 304 581 1,250
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.31% 0.56% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% 0.59% 0.84%
Number of salaries quoted 265 387 663
10th Percentile £35,000 £34,200 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,365 £38,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +8.24%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,500 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,000 £74,686
UK excluding London median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year -5.56% +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 84,746 99,225 149,638
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 85.94% 95.61% 95.61%
Number of salaries quoted 59,834 58,281 83,297
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.57% +2.50% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,750 £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 3 May 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 3 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England -106 239 £47,500 -5.00% 64
UK excluding London -100 225 £42,500 -5.56% 45
Work from Home -17 130 £38,500 -23.00% 28
London +19 64 £52,500 -12.50% 20
South East -39 47 £47,500 +5.56% 10
South West -17 46 £36,984 -20.20% 6
Scotland -58 43 £38,500 -38.40% 1
Midlands +16 36 £48,750 +20.37% 9
North of England -34 28 £40,000 -11.11% 16
West Midlands +25 21 £63,749 +21.43% 8
East of England -18 18 £37,500 -6.25% 1
North West -31 16 £37,500 -27.18% 8
East Midlands -11 15 £36,500 -8.75% 1
Yorkshire +36 11 £45,000 +16.13% 8
Wales -5 4 £45,000 +2.27% 2
Northern Ireland +31 3 - -
North East -9 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 6 (1.97%) Confluence
2 3 (0.99%) CMS
3 1 (0.33%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (1.32%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.66%) Simulink
4 1 (0.33%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (1.64%) SAP S/4HANA
1 5 (1.64%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.33%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 54 (17.76%) Azure
2 32 (10.53%) SaaS
3 25 (8.22%) Power Platform
4 24 (7.89%) AWS
5 23 (7.57%) Microsoft 365
6 22 (7.24%) Azure DevOps
6 22 (7.24%) PowerApps
7 11 (3.62%) Power Automate
8 9 (2.96%) BlazeMeter
9 8 (2.63%) BrowserStack
9 8 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
10 5 (1.64%) GitHub
11 3 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
12 2 (0.66%) Azure Functions
12 2 (0.66%) npm
12 2 (0.66%) Serverless
12 2 (0.66%) Yarn
13 1 (0.33%) Figma
13 1 (0.33%) GCP
13 1 (0.33%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.32%) SSH
2 2 (0.66%) Broadband
3 1 (0.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (8.55%) SQL Server
2 15 (4.93%) Relational Database
3 14 (4.61%) Power BI
4 5 (1.64%) Metadata
4 5 (1.64%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.64%) SAP BW
4 5 (1.64%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.32%) MariaDB
5 4 (1.32%) MySQL
6 3 (0.99%) Big Data
6 3 (0.99%) Tableau
7 1 (0.33%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.33%) GIS
Development Applications
1 59 (19.41%) Selenium
2 58 (19.08%) JIRA
3 36 (11.84%) Cypress.io
4 29 (9.54%) Cucumber
5 27 (8.88%) Git
6 24 (7.89%) WebDriver
7 20 (6.58%) Jenkins
8 17 (5.59%) Visual Studio
9 15 (4.93%) JMeter
9 15 (4.93%) Postman
10 14 (4.61%) NUnit
11 12 (3.95%) Appium
11 12 (3.95%) TestRail
12 11 (3.62%) SpecFlow
12 11 (3.62%) Team Foundation Server
13 10 (3.29%) Maven
14 9 (2.96%) Gradle
14 9 (2.96%) SoapUI
15 8 (2.63%) UI Automator
16 4 (1.32%) REST Assured
General
1 99 (32.57%) Social Skills
2 46 (15.13%) Finance
3 43 (14.14%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 27 (8.88%) Law
6 22 (7.24%) Fire and Rescue
6 22 (7.24%) Marketing
7 19 (6.25%) Banking
8 16 (5.26%) Legal
9 15 (4.93%) Organisational Skills
10 14 (4.61%) Investment Banking
11 12 (3.95%) Automotive
11 12 (3.95%) Public Sector
12 11 (3.62%) Retail
13 8 (2.63%) Manufacturing
14 7 (2.30%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.64%) Electronics
16 4 (1.32%) Aviation
17 2 (0.66%) Tech for Good
18 1 (0.33%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 52 (17.11%) QA Engineer
2 50 (16.45%) Analyst
3 48 (15.79%) Test Engineer
4 40 (13.16%) Tester
5 34 (11.18%) Developer
6 33 (10.86%) Lead
7 26 (8.55%) Software Tester
8 25 (8.22%) Test Analyst
9 23 (7.57%) QA Leader
10 16 (5.26%) QA Analyst
10 16 (5.26%) Senior
11 15 (4.93%) Test Leader
12 12 (3.95%) Test Manager
13 11 (3.62%) Applications Developer
13 11 (3.62%) Business Analyst
13 11 (3.62%) Software Developer
14 10 (3.29%) Java Engineer
14 10 (3.29%) Software Engineer
15 9 (2.96%) Java Software Engineer
15 9 (2.96%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 30 (9.87%) .NET
2 20 (6.58%) XML
3 17 (5.59%) REST
4 15 (4.93%) Playwright
5 14 (4.61%) HTML
5 14 (4.61%) Spring
6 12 (3.95%) .NET Core
6 12 (3.95%) JSON
7 11 (3.62%) React
7 11 (3.62%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.96%) Ext JS
9 8 (2.63%) CSS
10 7 (2.30%) Gherkin
10 7 (2.30%) SOAP
11 5 (1.64%) Itk
11 5 (1.64%) Laravel
11 5 (1.64%) RESTful
11 5 (1.64%) Web Services
12 4 (1.32%) ADO
12 4 (1.32%) DOM
Miscellaneous
1 33 (10.86%) Product Ownership
2 15 (4.93%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (4.28%) Management Information System
4 12 (3.95%) Enterprise Software
4 12 (3.95%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.96%) Algorithms
5 9 (2.96%) Data Structures
5 9 (2.96%) Market Risk
6 7 (2.30%) Credit Derivative
6 7 (2.30%) Derivative
6 7 (2.30%) Fixed Income
6 7 (2.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 7 (2.30%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.30%) Hedge funds
6 7 (2.30%) Interest Rate Derivative
6 7 (2.30%) Onboarding
6 7 (2.30%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.97%) Smartphone
8 5 (1.64%) Legacy Applications
8 5 (1.64%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 23 (7.57%) Linux
1 23 (7.57%) Windows
2 8 (2.63%) Mac OS
2 8 (2.63%) Unix
3 5 (1.64%) Android
4 4 (1.32%) Ubuntu
5 3 (0.99%) Apple iOS
6 2 (0.66%) Mac OS X
7 1 (0.33%) CentOS
7 1 (0.33%) Debian
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (0.33%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (74.34%) Test Automation
2 172 (56.58%) Agile
3 88 (28.95%) DevOps
4 85 (27.96%) Software Testing
5 71 (23.36%) Problem-Solving
6 59 (19.41%) Test Scripting
7 55 (18.09%) Regression Testing
8 54 (17.76%) User Experience
9 53 (17.43%) SDLC
10 52 (17.11%) Scrum
11 47 (15.46%) Test Strategy
12 43 (14.14%) API Testing
13 40 (13.16%) CI/CD
13 40 (13.16%) Continuous Integration
14 39 (12.83%) Code Quality
15 35 (11.51%) Computer Science
16 31 (10.20%) Continuous Improvement
17 30 (9.87%) Microservices
18 29 (9.54%) BDD
19 24 (7.89%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 80 (26.32%) SQL
2 73 (24.01%) Java
3 56 (18.42%) C#
4 53 (17.43%) JavaScript
5 33 (10.86%) Python
6 12 (3.95%) TypeScript
7 8 (2.63%) C
7 8 (2.63%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.64%) C++
8 5 (1.64%) PHP
8 5 (1.64%) Shell Script
9 2 (0.66%) MATLAB
10 1 (0.33%) Bash
10 1 (0.33%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.33%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 57 (18.75%) Degree
2 45 (14.80%) ISTQB
3 27 (8.88%) Computer Science Degree
4 21 (6.91%) ISEB
5 10 (3.29%) Security Cleared
6 9 (2.96%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.64%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 5 (1.64%) MCAD
7 5 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
7 5 (1.64%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (1.32%) SC Cleared
9 3 (0.99%) DV Cleared
9 3 (0.99%) PMI Certification
10 2 (0.66%) HND
11 1 (0.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 168 (55.26%) QA
2 3 (0.99%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.66%) Data Quality
3 2 (0.66%) ISO 14001
3 2 (0.66%) ISO 9001
3 2 (0.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (0.66%) SLA
4 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.32%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.66%) Firmware
3 1 (0.33%) Docker
3 1 (0.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (1.64%) Grafana
1 5 (1.64%) Kibana
1 5 (1.64%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.99%) Ansible
2 3 (0.99%) Terraform
3 1 (0.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 48 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 9 (2.96%) TOWER Software
3 8 (2.63%) Oracle
4 7 (2.30%) SAP
5 5 (1.64%) ServiceNow
5 5 (1.64%) UiPath
6 2 (0.66%) BT
7 1 (0.33%) Adobe
7 1 (0.33%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.33%) Databricks
7 1 (0.33%) Hitachi
7 1 (0.33%) HP
7 1 (0.33%) OpenLink
7 1 (0.33%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.33%) VMware