Manual Testing Contracts in the East Midlands

Manual Testing
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 63 70
Rank change year-on-year +2 +7 +13
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 6 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.77% 0.26% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.89% 0.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 3
10th Percentile £148 - £273
25th Percentile £202 £356 £288
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £360 £363 £325
Median % change year-on-year -0.69% +11.54% -7.14%
75th Percentile £415 £369 £356
90th Percentile - - £368
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 673 610 786
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 86.28% 79.12% 86.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 417 594
10th Percentile £213 £252 £213
25th Percentile £333 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year -8.89% -5.26% +4.40%
75th Percentile £500 £565 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 64 40 44
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.40 £13.05
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.33 £19.87
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.16 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year +3.91% -59.42% +108.14%
75th Percentile £25.15 £26.80 £53.81
90th Percentile - £50.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +63.46%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the East Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the East Midlands

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the East Midlands

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the East Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the East Midlands

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 August 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
Northamptonshire -10 3 £159 -56.28% 1
Nottinghamshire - 2 £410 - 1
Leicestershire - 1 £360 - 6
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Assets
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle General Ledger
1 1 (16.67%) Oracle Payables
Development Applications
1 3 (50.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 2 (33.33%) Selenium
3 1 (16.67%) Ranorex
General
1 2 (33.33%) Banking
1 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) General Ledger
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
2 2 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Senior
2 2 (33.33%) Senior QA Tester
2 2 (33.33%) Senior Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) ERP Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Oracle Analyst
3 1 (16.67%) Product Tester
3 1 (16.67%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (33.33%) Playwright
1 2 (33.33%) REST
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
2 2 (33.33%) API Testing
2 2 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 1 (16.67%) Accounts Payable
3 1 (16.67%) Accounts Receivable
3 1 (16.67%) Code Quality
3 1 (16.67%) Defect Management
3 1 (16.67%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (16.67%) ERP
3 1 (16.67%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (16.67%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (16.67%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (16.67%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (16.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (16.67%) Test Scripting
3 1 (16.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (16.67%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (16.67%) User Experience
3 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) BPSS Clearance
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (50.00%) Oracle
2 2 (33.33%) Microsoft