Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Hampshire

Manual Testing
South East > Hampshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Hampshire requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 86 83
Rank change year-on-year +16 -3 -7
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 9 3 11
As % of all contract jobs in Hampshire 0.88% 0.25% 0.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.02% 0.31% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 6
10th Percentile £416 £364 -
25th Percentile £422 £376 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £400 £425
Median % change year-on-year +9.38% -5.88% -8.11%
75th Percentile £447 £446 £516
90th Percentile £449 £471 £556
South East median daily rate £488 £438 £413
% change year-on-year +11.43% +6.06% -9.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.63
25th Percentile - - £52.19
Median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
75th Percentile - - £54.69
90th Percentile - - £54.88
South East median hourly rate £50.00 - £53.75
% change year-on-year - - -10.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Hampshire

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 Hampshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 882 954 1,185
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire 86.47% 79.77% 87.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 582 622 663
10th Percentile £314 £360 £286
25th Percentile £450 £450 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £570 £535
Median % change year-on-year -7.89% +6.54% +1.90%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £636
90th Percentile £650 £711 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £525
% change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 66 103
10th Percentile £16.17 £24.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £18.87 £31.94 £21.03
Median hourly rate £20.71 £70.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year -70.41% +33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £33.05 £75.00 £63.13
90th Percentile £55.00 £78.75 £74.75
South East median hourly rate £20.71 £58.43 £53.50
% change year-on-year -64.56% +9.22% +51.95%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Hampshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manual Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Hampshire.

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Hampshire

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Manual Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Hampshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Manual Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Hampshire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Hampshire

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 Hampshire region over the 6 months to 18 October 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
Portsmouth - 5 - - 1
Southampton +5 2 - -
Havant - 2 £438 -
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Hampshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 8 (88.89%) JIRA
2 6 (66.67%) Selenium
3 5 (55.56%) Cucumber
3 5 (55.56%) Git
3 5 (55.56%) Postman
3 5 (55.56%) WebDriver
4 1 (11.11%) HP UFT
4 1 (11.11%) JIRA Agile
4 1 (11.11%) Katalon Studio
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
General
1 1 (11.11%) Finance
1 1 (11.11%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Software Test Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Test Engineer
2 2 (22.22%) Analyst
2 2 (22.22%) Test Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Senior
3 1 (11.11%) Senior Tester
3 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (55.56%) REST
2 2 (22.22%) ADO
3 1 (11.11%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 5 (55.56%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (77.78%) Agile
3 6 (66.67%) Scrum
4 5 (55.56%) Code Quality
4 5 (55.56%) Exploratory Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Model-Based Systems Engineering
4 5 (55.56%) SDLC
4 5 (55.56%) Software Testing
4 5 (55.56%) Sprint Planning
5 3 (33.33%) Test Management
5 3 (33.33%) User Stories
6 2 (22.22%) End-to-End Testing
6 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
6 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
7 1 (11.11%) CI/CD
7 1 (11.11%) Customer-Centricity
7 1 (11.11%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) Line Management
7 1 (11.11%) Matrix Organization
7 1 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (55.56%) Java
2 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) ISTQB
1 1 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 1 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Virtual Desktop