Manual Testing Contracts in Leeds

Manual Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Leeds 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 62 82 101
Rank change year-on-year +20 +19 -27
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 8 6 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Leeds 1.01% 0.45% 0.56%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.16% 0.50% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £365 - £440
25th Percentile £388 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +69.64%
75th Percentile £405 £441 £488
90th Percentile £413 £446 £495
West Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £425 £475
% change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +69.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
West Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £18.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 688 1,209 1,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Leeds 86.76% 91.18% 92.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 417 875 1,077
10th Percentile £300 £384 £313
25th Percentile £413 £463 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% +8.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £619 £575
90th Percentile £675 £700 £650
West Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 20
10th Percentile £11.75 £13.13 £17.60
25th Percentile £12.15 £17.43 £20.38
Median hourly rate £12.30 £44.53 £22.52
Median % change year-on-year -72.38% +97.70% +7.25%
75th Percentile £12.53 £68.44 £27.63
90th Percentile £15.24 £70.00 £28.80
West Yorkshire median hourly rate £12.53 £27.00 £17.82
% change year-on-year -53.59% +51.52% -20.34%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Leeds

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Leeds

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Leeds

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Leeds

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Gatling
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) API Testing
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Brio
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft