Manual Tester Contracts in the City of London

Manual Tester
Central London > City of London

The median Manual Tester daily rate in the City of London is £463 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 170 186
Rank change year-on-year +48 +16 -
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 2 1 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.092% 0.028% 0.12%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.097% 0.029% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £389 - -
25th Percentile £409 £513 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.90% -12.50% -
75th Percentile £509 £538 £625
90th Percentile £526 - -
Central London median daily rate £400 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -23.81% -12.50% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the City of London with a recognized job title 2,066 3,434 4,005
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 95.08% 95.10% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 2,338 3,022
10th Percentile £350 £350 £363
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £600 £565
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% +6.19% +7.62%
75th Percentile £688 £725 £675
90th Percentile £800 £820 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £590 £560
% change year-on-year -6.78% +5.36% +6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 23 51
10th Percentile £15.62 £15.50 £13.88
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.50 £18.50
Median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.29% -5.41% +108.60%
75th Percentile £27.25 £58.75 £51.25
90th Percentile £40.00 £87.64 £65.75
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £37.25
% change year-on-year -28.57% -6.04% +107.23%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings that featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in the City of London

Manual Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Manual Tester in the City of London

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Manual Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) C#
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) Oracle
2 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (50.00%) ISEB
2 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) SoapUI

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Burp Suite
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Community of Practice
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) OO
2 1 (50.00%) OOP
2 1 (50.00%) OWASP
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Security Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Service Design
2 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
1 1 (50.00%) ISEB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Oracle