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 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 407 476 498
Rank change year-on-year +69 +22 -12
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 126 172 283
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.35% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 90 139 190
10th Percentile £331 £308 £299
25th Percentile £375 £403 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +12.50%
75th Percentile £575 £615 £556
90th Percentile £638 £700 £625
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 16
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile £58.75 - £17.56
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £61.25 - £50.88
90th Percentile - - £59.84
UK median hourly rate £60.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -2.56%

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 31,523 43,947 64,310
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.44% 90.16% 90.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,648 30,851 45,725
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £448 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £673 £650
90th Percentile £750 £764 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,554 1,761
10th Percentile £12.89 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.67% +50.00% +6.61%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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 14 May 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
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 14 May 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 +56 66 £475 -13.64% 15
North of England +16 18 £400 -13.51% 19
South East +22 16 £444 -11.25% 10
Midlands +32 13 £363 -9.38% 8
South West +6 10 £585 +11.43% 9
North West +25 9 £450 -4.00% 13
Yorkshire +19 9 £400 -5.88% 6
West Midlands +25 7 £288 -31.55% 6
East Midlands +22 6 £363 +21.85% 2
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 11 (8.73%) Confluence
2 3 (2.38%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.79%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.38%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.79%) Endur
2 1 (0.79%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.79%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 39 (30.95%) Azure
2 32 (25.40%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.56%) AWS
4 4 (3.17%) GCP
5 3 (2.38%) BrowserStack
5 3 (2.38%) GitHub
5 3 (2.38%) OpenShift
6 2 (1.59%) BlazeMeter
6 2 (1.59%) Firebase
6 2 (1.59%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.59%) PowerApps
6 2 (1.59%) SaaS
6 2 (1.59%) SAP Commerce Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (0.79%) Boomi
7 1 (0.79%) Entra ID
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (0.79%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.17%) HTTP
1 4 (3.17%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.17%) VLAN
1 4 (3.17%) Wireless
2 3 (2.38%) 5G
3 1 (0.79%) FTP
3 1 (0.79%) SMS
3 1 (0.79%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (3.97%) Oracle Database
2 4 (3.17%) MongoDB
2 4 (3.17%) SQL Server
3 3 (2.38%) Big Data
3 3 (2.38%) Elasticsearch
3 3 (2.38%) Hadoop
4 2 (1.59%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.79%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (0.79%) MySQL
5 1 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.79%) RDBMS
5 1 (0.79%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 35 (27.78%) Selenium
2 28 (22.22%) JIRA
3 22 (17.46%) Git
3 22 (17.46%) Postman
4 21 (16.67%) Visual Studio
5 18 (14.29%) Jenkins
6 13 (10.32%) Cypress.io
6 13 (10.32%) WebDriver
7 12 (9.52%) SpecFlow
8 10 (7.94%) Appium
9 9 (7.14%) JMeter
9 9 (7.14%) NUnit
10 8 (6.35%) Cucumber
11 6 (4.76%) Bitbucket
12 5 (3.97%) Gatling
12 5 (3.97%) LoadRunner
12 5 (3.97%) Rational Performance Tester
13 4 (3.17%) Artifactory
13 4 (3.17%) GitLab
13 4 (3.17%) Moq
General
1 31 (24.60%) Social Skills
2 19 (15.08%) Finance
3 14 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.52%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.14%) Banking
6 8 (6.35%) Back Office
7 4 (3.17%) Marketing
7 4 (3.17%) Telecoms
8 3 (2.38%) Electronics
8 3 (2.38%) Investment Banking
8 3 (2.38%) Legal
8 3 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
9 2 (1.59%) Retail
10 1 (0.79%) Front Office
10 1 (0.79%) Health Technology
10 1 (0.79%) Law
10 1 (0.79%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (30.95%) Analyst
2 37 (29.37%) Test Analyst
3 33 (26.19%) Tester
4 29 (23.02%) Senior
5 23 (18.25%) Test Engineer
6 15 (11.90%) Manual Tester
7 13 (10.32%) Senior Test Engineer
8 12 (9.52%) Senior Analyst
8 12 (9.52%) Senior Test Analyst
9 11 (8.73%) Automation Tester
10 10 (7.94%) Test Automation Engineer
11 7 (5.56%) Lead
11 7 (5.56%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (4.76%) Developer
13 5 (3.97%) Data Analyst
13 5 (3.97%) Manual Test Analyst
13 5 (3.97%) Oracle Analyst
13 5 (3.97%) QA Tester
14 4 (3.17%) Automation Test Analyst
14 4 (3.17%) Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (17.46%) .NET
2 10 (7.94%) AngularJS
2 10 (7.94%) XML
3 9 (7.14%) Playwright
4 8 (6.35%) Kafka
5 7 (5.56%) ADO
5 7 (5.56%) GraphQL
6 6 (4.76%) .NET Framework
6 6 (4.76%) RESTful
7 5 (3.97%) Web Services
8 4 (3.17%) ActiveMQ
8 4 (3.17%) Elastic Stack
8 4 (3.17%) Entity Framework
8 4 (3.17%) JSON
8 4 (3.17%) SOAP
9 3 (2.38%) .NET Core
9 3 (2.38%) Gherkin
9 3 (2.38%) HTML
9 3 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
9 3 (2.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (7.94%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.56%) Derivative
3 6 (4.76%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.17%) Interest Rate Derivative
5 3 (2.38%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.38%) Fixed Income
6 2 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
6 2 (1.59%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.59%) NHS
6 2 (1.59%) Public Cloud
7 1 (0.79%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (0.79%) Equities
7 1 (0.79%) Fat Client
7 1 (0.79%) Market Risk
7 1 (0.79%) PDA
7 1 (0.79%) Replication
7 1 (0.79%) Robotics
7 1 (0.79%) SWIFT Messaging Network
7 1 (0.79%) Thin Client
7 1 (0.79%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (7.94%) Linux
2 8 (6.35%) Windows
3 7 (5.56%) Unix
4 5 (3.97%) Android
5 4 (3.17%) Embedded Linux
5 4 (3.17%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 84 (66.67%) Test Automation
2 72 (57.14%) Agile
3 41 (32.54%) DevOps
4 39 (30.95%) Software Testing
5 34 (26.98%) Test Strategy
6 30 (23.81%) Performance Testing
7 27 (21.43%) Scrum
8 26 (20.63%) Scenario Testing
9 25 (19.84%) BDD
9 25 (19.84%) Continuous Integration
10 24 (19.05%) User Acceptance Testing
11 23 (18.25%) CI/CD
12 22 (17.46%) Non-Functional Testing
13 20 (15.87%) Acceptance Criteria
14 19 (15.08%) Test Scripting
15 17 (13.49%) TDD
16 15 (11.90%) End-to-End Testing
16 15 (11.90%) Waterfall
17 14 (11.11%) Test Management
17 14 (11.11%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.63%) SQL
2 25 (19.84%) Java
3 24 (19.05%) C#
4 19 (15.08%) Python
5 16 (12.70%) JavaScript
6 9 (7.14%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.17%) Bash
7 4 (3.17%) C++
7 4 (3.17%) Groovy
7 4 (3.17%) Kotlin
7 4 (3.17%) Perl
7 4 (3.17%) Scala
7 4 (3.17%) Shell Script
8 2 (1.59%) PowerShell
8 2 (1.59%) R
9 1 (0.79%) Ruby
9 1 (0.79%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (8.73%) Degree
2 10 (7.94%) Security Cleared
3 7 (5.56%) SC Cleared
4 6 (4.76%) ISTQB
5 4 (3.17%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.38%) ISEB
7 1 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.79%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.79%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (15.87%) QA
2 14 (11.11%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.59%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.79%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (8.73%) Docker
2 4 (3.17%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.17%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.79%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (3.97%) Kubernetes
2 4 (3.17%) Iperf
3 2 (1.59%) Grafana
3 2 (1.59%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.79%) Ansible
4 1 (0.79%) Graylog
4 1 (0.79%) HP ALM
4 1 (0.79%) HP Fortify
4 1 (0.79%) Kibana
4 1 (0.79%) Nagios
4 1 (0.79%) Nessus
4 1 (0.79%) Opsgenie
4 1 (0.79%) Progress Chef
4 1 (0.79%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.79%) Puppet
4 1 (0.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.79%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 15 (11.90%) Microsoft
2 14 (11.11%) Oracle
3 6 (4.76%) HP
4 5 (3.97%) IBM
5 4 (3.17%) SAP
6 3 (2.38%) Salesforce
7 2 (1.59%) Aderant
7 2 (1.59%) Splunk
8 1 (0.79%) Adobe
8 1 (0.79%) Brio
8 1 (0.79%) Checkmarx
8 1 (0.79%) Dell
8 1 (0.79%) NEC
8 1 (0.79%) PagerDuty
8 1 (0.79%) Perfecto Mobile
8 1 (0.79%) Veracode