Manual Testing Contracts in England

Manual Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 424 477 495
Rank change year-on-year +53 +18 -18
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 121 182 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.36% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.40% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 142 198
10th Percentile £320 £308 £300
25th Percentile £375 £406 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £439
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +13.96% +13.23%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £537
90th Percentile £638 £675 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - £16.60
25th Percentile £37.50 - £25.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £49.50
75th Percentile £51.88 - £49.75
90th Percentile £57.50 - £59.85
UK median hourly rate £40.00 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Manual Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Manual Testing in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Manual Testing in England

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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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +72 64 £525 -4.55% 21
North of England +14 19 £413 -13.16% 10
South East +25 15 £444 -11.25% 9
Midlands +36 13 £363 - 7
North West +17 9 £450 -5.26% 7
South West +17 8 £585 +11.43% 8
Yorkshire +16 8 £400 -5.88% 3
West Midlands +35 7 £288 -32.35% 6
East Midlands +26 6 £363 +21.85% 1
North East +15 2 £500 -13.04%
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
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 8 (6.61%) Confluence
2 3 (2.48%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.83%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.83%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.65%) Cerner Millennium
1 2 (1.65%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.83%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.83%) Endur
2 1 (0.83%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.83%) NEC Housing
2 1 (0.83%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 32 (26.45%) Azure
2 26 (21.49%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.79%) AWS
4 3 (2.48%) GCP
4 3 (2.48%) GitHub
4 3 (2.48%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.65%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.65%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.65%) SaaS
6 1 (0.83%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.83%) Boomi
6 1 (0.83%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.83%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.83%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.83%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.83%) Serverless
6 1 (0.83%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.31%) HTTP
1 4 (3.31%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.31%) VLAN
1 4 (3.31%) Wireless
2 3 (2.48%) 5G
3 1 (0.83%) SMS
3 1 (0.83%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.31%) MongoDB
1 4 (3.31%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.48%) Big Data
2 3 (2.48%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.48%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.48%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.65%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.83%) MySQL
4 1 (0.83%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.83%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 30 (24.79%) Selenium
2 25 (20.66%) JIRA
3 19 (15.70%) Git
4 16 (13.22%) Jenkins
4 16 (13.22%) Visual Studio
5 14 (11.57%) Postman
6 11 (9.09%) SpecFlow
6 11 (9.09%) WebDriver
7 9 (7.44%) Cucumber
7 9 (7.44%) Cypress.io
8 7 (5.79%) JMeter
9 6 (4.96%) Appium
9 6 (4.96%) Bitbucket
9 6 (4.96%) NUnit
10 5 (4.13%) Gatling
11 4 (3.31%) Artifactory
11 4 (3.31%) Moq
12 3 (2.48%) LoadRunner
12 3 (2.48%) Rational Performance Tester
12 3 (2.48%) Zephyr
General
1 27 (22.31%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.53%) Finance
3 13 (10.74%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (9.09%) Banking
4 11 (9.09%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.13%) Electronics
6 4 (3.31%) Back Office
6 4 (3.31%) Marketing
6 4 (3.31%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.48%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.48%) Legal
7 3 (2.48%) Manufacturing
7 3 (2.48%) Retail
8 2 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.65%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (0.83%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.83%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 35 (28.93%) Analyst
2 33 (27.27%) Tester
3 32 (26.45%) Test Analyst
4 24 (19.83%) Senior
5 22 (18.18%) Test Engineer
6 15 (12.40%) Manual Tester
7 12 (9.92%) Senior Test Engineer
8 9 (7.44%) Automation Tester
9 8 (6.61%) Senior Analyst
9 8 (6.61%) Senior Test Analyst
10 7 (5.79%) Lead
11 6 (4.96%) Developer
11 6 (4.96%) Test Automation Engineer
12 5 (4.13%) Manual Test Analyst
12 5 (4.13%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) C# Developer
13 4 (3.31%) Development Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) QA Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Software Development Engineer
13 4 (3.31%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (14.88%) .NET
2 9 (7.44%) XML
3 8 (6.61%) AngularJS
3 8 (6.61%) Kafka
4 7 (5.79%) ADO
4 7 (5.79%) Playwright
5 6 (4.96%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.96%) RESTful
6 5 (4.13%) GraphQL
7 4 (3.31%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.31%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.31%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.31%) JSON
7 4 (3.31%) REST
7 4 (3.31%) SOAP
7 4 (3.31%) Web Services
8 3 (2.48%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.48%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.48%) HTML
9 2 (1.65%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 7 (5.79%) Mobile App
2 6 (4.96%) Derivative
3 5 (4.13%) NHS
4 4 (3.31%) Interest Rate Derivative
4 4 (3.31%) Product Ownership
5 3 (2.48%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.48%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.65%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.65%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.83%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.83%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.83%) Equities
7 1 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.83%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.83%) Onboarding
7 1 (0.83%) Reinsurance
7 1 (0.83%) Replication
7 1 (0.83%) Robotics
7 1 (0.83%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.83%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.26%) Linux
2 7 (5.79%) Unix
3 6 (4.96%) Windows
4 4 (3.31%) Embedded Linux
4 4 (3.31%) Mac OS X
5 3 (2.48%) Android
6 1 (0.83%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (61.16%) Test Automation
2 59 (48.76%) Agile
3 35 (28.93%) DevOps
4 34 (28.10%) Software Testing
5 28 (23.14%) Test Strategy
6 27 (22.31%) Scenario Testing
7 25 (20.66%) User Acceptance Testing
8 24 (19.83%) BDD
9 22 (18.18%) Scrum
10 21 (17.36%) Performance Testing
10 21 (17.36%) Test Scripting
11 19 (15.70%) CI/CD
12 17 (14.05%) Continuous Integration
13 16 (13.22%) End-to-End Testing
13 16 (13.22%) Test Planning
14 15 (12.40%) TDD
15 14 (11.57%) Acceptance Criteria
16 13 (10.74%) Non-Functional Testing
16 13 (10.74%) Regression Testing
17 12 (9.92%) Integration Testing
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.66%) Java
2 22 (18.18%) SQL
3 21 (17.36%) Python
4 19 (15.70%) C#
5 13 (10.74%) JavaScript
6 7 (5.79%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.31%) Bash
7 4 (3.31%) C++
7 4 (3.31%) Groovy
7 4 (3.31%) Perl
7 4 (3.31%) Scala
7 4 (3.31%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.65%) Kotlin
8 2 (1.65%) MATLAB
8 2 (1.65%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.65%) R
9 1 (0.83%) Ruby
9 1 (0.83%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.26%) Degree
3 8 (6.61%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.79%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.13%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.48%) ISEB
7 1 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.83%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.83%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.83%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (13.22%) QA
2 13 (10.74%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.65%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.83%) GxP
4 1 (0.83%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.83%) SLA
4 1 (0.83%) WCAG
System Software
1 9 (7.44%) Docker
2 4 (3.31%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.31%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.83%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.31%) Iperf
1 4 (3.31%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.65%) Grafana
2 2 (1.65%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.83%) Ansible
3 1 (0.83%) Graylog
3 1 (0.83%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.83%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.83%) Kibana
3 1 (0.83%) Nagios
3 1 (0.83%) Nessus
3 1 (0.83%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.83%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.83%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.83%) Puppet
3 1 (0.83%) Terraform
3 1 (0.83%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 12 (9.92%) Oracle
2 10 (8.26%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.13%) SAP
4 4 (3.31%) HP
5 3 (2.48%) IBM
5 3 (2.48%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.65%) Aderant
6 2 (1.65%) Cerner
6 2 (1.65%) Splunk
7 1 (0.83%) Adobe
7 1 (0.83%) Brio
7 1 (0.83%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.83%) Dell
7 1 (0.83%) NEC
7 1 (0.83%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.83%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.83%) Veracode
7 1 (0.83%) Workday