Manual Test Analyst Contracts in England

Manual Test Analyst
UK > England

The median Manual Test Analyst daily rate in England is £344 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 19 April 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
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 533 643 755
Rank change year-on-year +110 +112 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Test Analyst 10 15 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.027% 0.029% 0.033%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.029% 0.031% 0.035%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 18
10th Percentile £292 £300 £256
25th Percentile £303 £327 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £585 £355
Median % change year-on-year -41.24% +64.79% +1.43%
75th Percentile £411 - £383
90th Percentile £438 - £404
UK median daily rate £344 £493 £350
% change year-on-year -30.20% +40.71% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.50
UK median hourly rate - - £49.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,494 48,433 68,665
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.70% 94.54% 95.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,968 34,321 48,831
10th Percentile £275 £310 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £644 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £763 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,386 1,460 1,923
10th Percentile £12.92 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.25 £19.64 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £43.86 £22.40
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +95.80% -0.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.63 £48.20
90th Percentile £72.50 £77.00 £62.07
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £23.00
% change year-on-year -22.22% +95.65% -

Manual Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Manual Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Test Analyst in England

Manual Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Test Analyst in England.

Daily rate trend for Manual Test Analyst in England

Manual Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Test Analyst in England over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Test Analyst in England

Manual Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Test Analyst in England.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Test Analyst in England

Manual Test Analyst
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Test Analyst within the England region over the 6 months to 19 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +106 6 £375 -35.90%
Midlands +35 2 £344 -1.79%
West Midlands +28 2 £344 -
South East +14 1 £425 +24.09%
North of England - 1 £293 -
North West - 1 £293 -
Manual Test Analyst
UK

Manual Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 19 April 2024, Manual Test Analyst 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 England region featuring Manual Test Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 5 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) JMeter
5 1 (10.00%) Bugzilla
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) SAP

Manual Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) SAP