Manual Tester Contract Job Trends in London

Manual Tester
England > London

The median Manual Tester daily rate in London is £325, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 October 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 371 372 412
Rank change year-on-year +1 +40 +164
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 5 8 12
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.037% 0.051% 0.058%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.040% 0.054% 0.062%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 10
10th Percentile £278 £382 £250
25th Percentile £300 £429 £303
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £503 £425
Median % change year-on-year -35.32% +18.24% +25.93%
75th Percentile £350 £606 £594
90th Percentile £391 £663 £600
England median daily rate £350 £375 £388
% change year-on-year -6.67% -3.23% +14.81%

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 12,403 14,859 19,490
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.53% 94.06% 93.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,240 9,622 14,179
10th Percentile £333 £343 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £457
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.27% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £663 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 218 164 213
10th Percentile £17.00 £17.25 £18.20
25th Percentile £22.13 £24.17 £22.00
Median hourly rate £26.68 £38.75 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year -31.16% -4.32% +24.62%
75th Percentile £47.50 £59.06 £61.53
90th Percentile £66.15 £80.15 £76.25
England median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £45.88
% change year-on-year -40.82% -7.37% +58.64%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Manual Tester' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Manual Tester job vacancy trend in London

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Manual Tester job vacancies in London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Manual Tester job vacancies in London

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Tester in London over the 6 months to 25 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Tester in London

Manual Tester
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Manual Tester job vacancies in London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Manual Tester job vacancies in London

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 25 October 2025, Manual Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) AWS
3 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
3 1 (20.00%) Case Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) GitHub
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (20.00%) Playwright
3 1 (20.00%) Postman
3 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Python
3 1 (20.00%) QA

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (20.00%) GitHub
2 1 (20.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
1 1 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Software Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Manual Testing
2 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (20.00%) API Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Case Management
3 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (20.00%) Conflict Resolution
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
3 1 (20.00%) Functional Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) System Integration Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) V-Model
3 1 (20.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
2 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Siebel