Manual Tester Contracts in London

Manual Tester
England > London

The median Manual Tester daily rate in London is £346, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 374 477
Rank change year-on-year +25 +103 +104
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 4 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.032% 0.095% 0.059%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.10% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 12 13
10th Percentile £286 £320 £222
25th Percentile £321 £337 £308
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £346 £366 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.67% -30.24% -
75th Percentile £381 £431 £666
90th Percentile £438 £529 £835
England median daily rate £350 £356 £413
% change year-on-year -1.75% -13.64% +17.86%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in London with a recognized job title 11,726 16,625 25,758
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.45% 93.24% 95.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,034 12,022 18,663
10th Percentile £341 £325 £363
25th Percentile £431 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 336 290
10th Percentile £20.45 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £23.90 £20.02 £22.53
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.81 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.26% -20.54% -
75th Percentile £50.75 £43.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £64.75 £65.00 £76.03
England median hourly rate £30.62 £36.31 £45.00
% change year-on-year -15.67% -19.32% +100.00%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in London

Manual Tester
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in London.

Daily rate trend for Manual Tester in London

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Tester in London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Tester in London

Manual Tester
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in London.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Tester in London

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, Manual Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) QA
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
3 1 (25.00%) WCAG
3 1 (25.00%) Java
3 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
3 1 (25.00%) SQL
3 1 (25.00%) .NET
3 1 (25.00%) Python
3 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) SEO
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Legal
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
3 1 (25.00%) Migration
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) CMS
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Splunk
3 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Jenkins

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 1 (25.00%) CMS
1 1 (25.00%) Confluence
1 1 (25.00%) Drupal
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) BrowserStack
1 1 (25.00%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Data Mart
1 1 (25.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) Git
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) TestRail
General
1 1 (25.00%) Banking
1 1 (25.00%) Finance
1 1 (25.00%) Legal
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) SDLC
3 1 (25.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (25.00%) API Testing
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Pipeline
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Microservices
3 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Scenario Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Task Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Stories
3 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Splunk