Manual Testing Contracts in London

Manual Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 269 327 391
Rank change year-on-year +58 +64 +67
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 84 64 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.67% 0.36% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.73% 0.41% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 46 80
10th Percentile £347 £369 £308
25th Percentile £394 £410 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% -6.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £625 £579 £650
90th Percentile £875 £700 £704
England median daily rate £458 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +1.67% -10.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,564 15,790 24,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.16% 88.55% 91.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,847 11,316 17,711
10th Percentile £350 £338 £375
25th Percentile £440 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £688 £675 £700
90th Percentile £813 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 166 324 278
10th Percentile £16.17 £16.00 £18.59
25th Percentile £22.68 £20.00 £22.53
Median hourly rate £31.67 £29.50 £38.13
Median % change year-on-year +7.36% -22.62% +5.90%
75th Percentile £50.75 £47.56 £62.64
90th Percentile £63.75 £65.93 £76.78
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
West London - 7 £400 - 7
Central London -4 3 £463 +2.78% 2
East London +13 1 £400 +17.65% 1
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
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 2 (2.38%) Confluence
1 2 (2.38%) WordPress
2 1 (1.19%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.19%) CMS
2 1 (1.19%) Umbraco
Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.19%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.19%) Murex MxG2000
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.48%) Azure
2 7 (8.33%) GitHub
2 7 (8.33%) SaaS
3 6 (7.14%) AWS
4 5 (5.95%) IaaS
4 5 (5.95%) PaaS
5 4 (4.76%) GitHub Actions
6 3 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.57%) dbt
7 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.19%) BrowserStack
7 1 (1.19%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (1.19%) Datadog
7 1 (1.19%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.19%) GCP
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.19%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 5 (5.95%) MS Access
3 1 (1.19%) Big Data
3 1 (1.19%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.19%) Data Mart
3 1 (1.19%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.19%) DB2
3 1 (1.19%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.19%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 19 (22.62%) Selenium
2 10 (11.90%) Cypress.io
2 10 (11.90%) JIRA
3 9 (10.71%) JUnit
4 8 (9.52%) JMeter
5 7 (8.33%) Postman
6 6 (7.14%) Git
6 6 (7.14%) Jenkins
7 5 (5.95%) SpecFlow
8 4 (4.76%) QARun
8 4 (4.76%) WinRunner
9 3 (3.57%) Appium
9 3 (3.57%) Bitbucket
9 3 (3.57%) Gatling
9 3 (3.57%) TeamCity
10 2 (2.38%) Burp Suite
10 2 (2.38%) PHPUnit
10 2 (2.38%) REST Assured
10 2 (2.38%) Robot Framework
10 2 (2.38%) TestCafe
General
1 35 (41.67%) Social Skills
2 31 (36.90%) Finance
3 19 (22.62%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (15.48%) Front Office
5 12 (14.29%) Financial Institution
6 7 (8.33%) Banking
7 5 (5.95%) Legal
8 3 (3.57%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.38%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.38%) Marketing
9 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.19%) Back Office
10 1 (1.19%) Electronics
10 1 (1.19%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.19%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.19%) Retail
10 1 (1.19%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Tester
2 14 (16.67%) Analyst
3 13 (15.48%) QA Engineer
4 12 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 12 (14.29%) Senior
5 10 (11.90%) Front Office Business Analyst
6 9 (10.71%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
6 9 (10.71%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
6 9 (10.71%) Test Analyst
7 7 (8.33%) Automation Tester
7 7 (8.33%) Lead
8 6 (7.14%) QA Leader
9 5 (5.95%) Developer
9 5 (5.95%) Senior Tester
9 5 (5.95%) Test Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) QA Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) Senior Test Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) UAT Analyst
10 4 (4.76%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.33%) Playwright
2 5 (5.95%) CSS
2 5 (5.95%) HTML
2 5 (5.95%) pytest
3 4 (4.76%) .NET
3 4 (4.76%) Middleware
3 4 (4.76%) PySpark
3 4 (4.76%) REST
3 4 (4.76%) Web Services
4 3 (3.57%) Kafka
4 3 (3.57%) Puppeteer
5 2 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
5 2 (2.38%) Jest
5 2 (2.38%) React
5 2 (2.38%) YAML
6 1 (1.19%) Node.js
6 1 (1.19%) SOAP
6 1 (1.19%) Swagger
6 1 (1.19%) WebSockets
6 1 (1.19%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (10.71%) Fixed Income
2 5 (5.95%) Cyber Defence
2 5 (5.95%) Cyber Kill Chain
3 3 (3.57%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.38%) Data Structures
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile Banking
4 2 (2.38%) Online Banking
5 1 (1.19%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.19%) Hedge funds
5 1 (1.19%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.19%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.19%) Solar Panel
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.76%) Android
1 4 (4.76%) Unix
1 4 (4.76%) Windows
2 3 (3.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 78 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 37 (44.05%) Problem-Solving
3 32 (38.10%) Regression Testing
4 30 (35.71%) Agile
5 27 (32.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 17 (20.24%) Software Testing
7 14 (16.67%) Validation
8 13 (15.48%) Computer Science
8 13 (15.48%) DevOps
9 12 (14.29%) API Testing
9 12 (14.29%) Business Analysis
9 12 (14.29%) CI/CD
9 12 (14.29%) Economics
9 12 (14.29%) Electronic Trading
9 12 (14.29%) Product Management
9 12 (14.29%) Quantitative Research
9 12 (14.29%) Scrum
9 12 (14.29%) Test Planning
10 11 (13.10%) Test Scripting
11 10 (11.90%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 30 (35.71%) Python
2 22 (26.19%) SQL
3 15 (17.86%) Java
4 13 (15.48%) JavaScript
5 7 (8.33%) C#
5 7 (8.33%) TypeScript
6 6 (7.14%) PHP
6 6 (7.14%) Ruby
7 2 (2.38%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.38%) RPG
7 2 (2.38%) SOQL
8 1 (1.19%) Bash
8 1 (1.19%) Go
8 1 (1.19%) Groovy
8 1 (1.19%) Perl
8 1 (1.19%) VBA
Qualifications
1 25 (29.76%) Degree
2 10 (11.90%) SC Cleared
2 10 (11.90%) Security Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) ISTQB
4 8 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (7.14%) CEH
5 6 (7.14%) CREST Certified
5 6 (7.14%) OSCP
6 5 (5.95%) CCSAS
6 5 (5.95%) GIAC
6 5 (5.95%) GPEN
6 5 (5.95%) GWAPT
7 1 (1.19%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.19%) CISSP
7 1 (1.19%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
7 1 (1.19%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (51.19%) QA
2 3 (3.57%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.19%) GxP
4 1 (1.19%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.38%) Ansible
1 2 (2.38%) Terraform
2 1 (1.19%) Grafana
2 1 (1.19%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.19%) Nessus
2 1 (1.19%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 9 (10.71%) ION Trading
2 6 (7.14%) Microsoft
3 4 (4.76%) Citrix
3 4 (4.76%) Oracle
3 4 (4.76%) Salesforce
4 3 (3.57%) Databricks
5 1 (1.19%) Charles River
5 1 (1.19%) Google
5 1 (1.19%) Murex
5 1 (1.19%) SAP