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

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 415 487 501
Rank change year-on-year +72 +14 -16
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 122 176 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.33% 0.35% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.39% 0.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 87 141 199
10th Percentile £320 £308 £305
25th Percentile £375 £406 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
75th Percentile £575 £618 £534
90th Percentile £640 £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 14
10th Percentile - - £16.25
25th Percentile £58.75 - £19.75
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.50
75th Percentile £61.25 - £49.75
90th Percentile - - £59.15
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 32,086 45,187 64,582
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.56% 90.18% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,040 31,727 45,864
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £445 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,256 1,594 1,765
10th Percentile £12.96 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £36.77 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -1.19% +51.01% +1.46%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.69
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

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 3 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 3 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 +59 64 £525 -4.55% 20
North of England +17 18 £406 -12.16% 15
South East +17 16 £444 -11.25% 10
Midlands +37 13 £363 - 9
South West +14 9 £580 +10.48% 6
North West +14 9 £450 -4.00% 8
Yorkshire +17 8 £400 -5.88% 7
West Midlands +29 7 £288 -32.35% 8
East Midlands +25 6 £363 +21.85% 1
North East +13 1 £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 (6.56%) Confluence
2 3 (2.46%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.82%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (1.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.82%) Cerner Millennium
2 1 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.82%) Endur
2 1 (0.82%) MIS ActiveH
2 1 (0.82%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 37 (30.33%) Azure
2 31 (25.41%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (5.74%) AWS
4 3 (2.46%) GCP
4 3 (2.46%) GitHub
4 3 (2.46%) OpenShift
5 2 (1.64%) Power Platform
5 2 (1.64%) PowerApps
5 2 (1.64%) SaaS
6 1 (0.82%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (0.82%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 1 (0.82%) Boomi
6 1 (0.82%) BrowserStack
6 1 (0.82%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.82%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (0.82%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.28%) HTTP
1 4 (3.28%) TCP/IP
1 4 (3.28%) VLAN
1 4 (3.28%) Wireless
2 3 (2.46%) 5G
3 1 (0.82%) SMS
3 1 (0.82%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (3.28%) MongoDB
1 4 (3.28%) Oracle Database
2 3 (2.46%) Big Data
2 3 (2.46%) Elasticsearch
2 3 (2.46%) Hadoop
2 3 (2.46%) SQL Server
3 2 (1.64%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.82%) MySQL
4 1 (0.82%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.82%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 33 (27.05%) Selenium
2 25 (20.49%) JIRA
3 21 (17.21%) Git
4 17 (13.93%) Visual Studio
5 16 (13.11%) Jenkins
5 16 (13.11%) Postman
6 12 (9.84%) SpecFlow
7 11 (9.02%) Cypress.io
7 11 (9.02%) WebDriver
8 9 (7.38%) Cucumber
9 8 (6.56%) NUnit
10 7 (5.74%) JMeter
11 6 (4.92%) Appium
11 6 (4.92%) Bitbucket
12 5 (4.10%) Gatling
13 4 (3.28%) Artifactory
13 4 (3.28%) Moq
14 3 (2.46%) LoadRunner
14 3 (2.46%) Rational Performance Tester
15 2 (1.64%) JUnit
General
1 27 (22.13%) Social Skills
2 20 (16.39%) Finance
3 12 (9.84%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (9.84%) Public Sector
4 11 (9.02%) Banking
5 5 (4.10%) Back Office
6 4 (3.28%) Marketing
6 4 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 3 (2.46%) Electronics
7 3 (2.46%) Investment Banking
7 3 (2.46%) Legal
7 3 (2.46%) Manufacturing
8 2 (1.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.64%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (1.64%) Retail
9 1 (0.82%) Front Office
9 1 (0.82%) Health Technology
9 1 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 35 (28.69%) Analyst
2 33 (27.05%) Test Analyst
3 32 (26.23%) Tester
4 26 (21.31%) Senior
5 23 (18.85%) Test Engineer
6 15 (12.30%) Manual Tester
7 13 (10.66%) Senior Test Engineer
8 9 (7.38%) Automation Tester
8 9 (7.38%) Senior Analyst
8 9 (7.38%) Senior Test Analyst
8 9 (7.38%) Test Automation Engineer
9 7 (5.74%) Lead
10 6 (4.92%) Developer
10 6 (4.92%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
11 5 (4.10%) Manual Test Analyst
12 4 (3.28%) Azure Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) C# Developer
12 4 (3.28%) Development Engineer
12 4 (3.28%) Oracle Analyst
12 4 (3.28%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (16.39%) .NET
2 9 (7.38%) AngularJS
2 9 (7.38%) XML
3 8 (6.56%) Kafka
3 8 (6.56%) Playwright
4 7 (5.74%) ADO
5 6 (4.92%) .NET Framework
5 6 (4.92%) GraphQL
5 6 (4.92%) RESTful
6 5 (4.10%) Web Services
7 4 (3.28%) ActiveMQ
7 4 (3.28%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (3.28%) Entity Framework
7 4 (3.28%) JSON
7 4 (3.28%) REST
7 4 (3.28%) SOAP
8 3 (2.46%) .NET Core
8 3 (2.46%) Gherkin
8 3 (2.46%) HTML
8 3 (2.46%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 8 (6.56%) Mobile App
2 7 (5.74%) Derivative
3 4 (3.28%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 4 (3.28%) NHS
3 4 (3.28%) Product Ownership
4 3 (2.46%) Cloud Native
4 3 (2.46%) Fixed Income
5 2 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (1.64%) Management Information System
5 2 (1.64%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.82%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.82%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.82%) Equities
6 1 (0.82%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.82%) Market Risk
6 1 (0.82%) Reinsurance
6 1 (0.82%) Replication
6 1 (0.82%) Robotics
6 1 (0.82%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (0.82%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 10 (8.20%) Linux
2 7 (5.74%) Unix
2 7 (5.74%) Windows
3 4 (3.28%) Android
3 4 (3.28%) Embedded Linux
3 4 (3.28%) Mac OS X
4 1 (0.82%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (63.93%) Test Automation
2 64 (52.46%) Agile
3 40 (32.79%) DevOps
4 36 (29.51%) Software Testing
5 29 (23.77%) Test Strategy
6 26 (21.31%) Scenario Testing
7 25 (20.49%) BDD
7 25 (20.49%) User Acceptance Testing
8 23 (18.85%) Performance Testing
8 23 (18.85%) Scrum
9 20 (16.39%) CI/CD
10 19 (15.57%) Continuous Integration
10 19 (15.57%) Test Scripting
11 16 (13.11%) TDD
12 15 (12.30%) Acceptance Criteria
12 15 (12.30%) End-to-End Testing
12 15 (12.30%) Non-Functional Testing
13 14 (11.48%) Waterfall
14 13 (10.66%) Regression Testing
14 13 (10.66%) Test Planning
Programming Languages
1 25 (20.49%) Java
2 24 (19.67%) SQL
3 22 (18.03%) C#
4 19 (15.57%) Python
5 13 (10.66%) JavaScript
6 8 (6.56%) TypeScript
7 4 (3.28%) Bash
7 4 (3.28%) C++
7 4 (3.28%) Groovy
7 4 (3.28%) Perl
7 4 (3.28%) Scala
7 4 (3.28%) Shell Script
8 3 (2.46%) Kotlin
9 2 (1.64%) PowerShell
9 2 (1.64%) R
10 1 (0.82%) Ruby
10 1 (0.82%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 11 (9.02%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.20%) Degree
3 8 (6.56%) SC Cleared
4 7 (5.74%) ISTQB
5 5 (4.10%) DV Cleared
6 3 (2.46%) ISEB
7 1 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.82%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.82%) Numerate Degree
7 1 (0.82%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (13.93%) QA
2 14 (11.48%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.64%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.82%) GxP
4 1 (0.82%) ISO 9001
4 1 (0.82%) WCAG
System Software
1 10 (8.20%) Docker
2 4 (3.28%) Virtual Machines
2 4 (3.28%) VirtualBox
3 1 (0.82%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (3.28%) Iperf
1 4 (3.28%) Kubernetes
2 2 (1.64%) Grafana
2 2 (1.64%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (0.82%) Ansible
3 1 (0.82%) Graylog
3 1 (0.82%) HP ALM
3 1 (0.82%) HP Fortify
3 1 (0.82%) Kibana
3 1 (0.82%) Nagios
3 1 (0.82%) Nessus
3 1 (0.82%) Opsgenie
3 1 (0.82%) Progress Chef
3 1 (0.82%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.82%) Puppet
3 1 (0.82%) Terraform
3 1 (0.82%) WebInspect
Vendors
1 13 (10.66%) Oracle
2 11 (9.02%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.10%) SAP
4 4 (3.28%) HP
5 3 (2.46%) IBM
5 3 (2.46%) Salesforce
6 2 (1.64%) Aderant
6 2 (1.64%) Splunk
7 1 (0.82%) Adobe
7 1 (0.82%) Brio
7 1 (0.82%) Cerner
7 1 (0.82%) Checkmarx
7 1 (0.82%) Dell
7 1 (0.82%) NEC
7 1 (0.82%) PagerDuty
7 1 (0.82%) Perfecto Mobile
7 1 (0.82%) Veracode