Manual Testing Contracts in the City of London

Manual Testing
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 116 116 167
Rank change year-on-year 0 +51 +1
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 3 11 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.17% 0.50% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.18% 0.55% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 9 5
10th Percentile £421 - £568
25th Percentile £434 £375 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -30.77% +67.74%
75th Percentile £484 £575 £738
90th Percentile £494 £639 -
Central London median daily rate £463 £450 £638
% change year-on-year +2.78% -29.41% +63.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Manual Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,636 1,988 3,346
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 93.17% 90.49% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,032 1,406 2,259
10th Percentile £363 £363 £355
25th Percentile £463 £451 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £565 £600
Median % change year-on-year +1.77% -5.83% +4.35%
75th Percentile £680 £688 £730
90th Percentile £775 £806 £825
Central London median daily rate £565 £550 £600
% change year-on-year +2.73% -8.33% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 24
10th Percentile £22.00 £19.92 £15.33
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.22 £18.03
Median hourly rate £29.58 £25.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% -28.57% -14.63%
75th Percentile £45.00 £40.00 £58.75
90th Percentile £62.25 £41.84 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £27.81 £35.00
% change year-on-year +4.53% -20.54% -14.63%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the City of London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the City of London

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 City of London region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London Bridge - 1 £425 -
Manual Testing
Central London

Manual Testing
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 (33.33%) CMS
1 1 (33.33%) Umbraco
1 1 (33.33%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
1 2 (66.67%) Selenium
2 1 (33.33%) PHPUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (33.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (33.33%) Pharmaceutical
2 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) Jest
1 1 (33.33%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Data Structures
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
3 1 (33.33%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Migration
3 1 (33.33%) Regression Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Software Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Task Automation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Unit Testing
3 1 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
3 1 (33.33%) Web Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) PHP
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (33.33%) GxP
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft