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 8 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 276 332 389
Rank change year-on-year +56 +57 +90
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 72 62 93
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.59% 0.35% 0.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.64% 0.40% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 46 73
10th Percentile £363 £369 £306
25th Percentile £400 £413 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £484 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.31% -12.00% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £579 £650
90th Percentile £875 £663 £738
England median daily rate £425 £450 £500
% change year-on-year -5.56% -10.00% +8.11%

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 11,280 15,579 22,992
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.25% 88.27% 90.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,535 11,152 16,651
10th Percentile £350 £340 £375
25th Percentile £425 £447 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £590
Median % change year-on-year - -6.78% +2.61%
75th Percentile £681 £675 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 195 317 266
10th Percentile £16.50 £15.50 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.00 £22.49
Median hourly rate £32.00 £28.50 £39.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.28% -26.92% +8.33%
75th Percentile £49.88 £48.75 £63.94
90th Percentile £63.75 £68.30 £82.38
England median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% +4.17% +44.00%

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 8 June 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 8 June 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 - 1
Central London +1 3 £500 +11.11% 11
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 (2.78%) Confluence
2 1 (1.39%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.39%) CMS
2 1 (1.39%) Umbraco
Business Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.39%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (16.67%) Azure
2 6 (8.33%) AWS
3 5 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (6.94%) GitHub
4 4 (5.56%) GitHub Actions
5 3 (4.17%) dbt
6 1 (1.39%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.39%) BrowserStack
6 1 (1.39%) Cloud Computing
6 1 (1.39%) Datadog
6 1 (1.39%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.39%) GCP
6 1 (1.39%) SaaS
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (6.94%) MS Access
2 4 (5.56%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.39%) Big Data
3 1 (1.39%) Delta Lake
3 1 (1.39%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.39%) Oracle Database
3 1 (1.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 22 (30.56%) Selenium
2 12 (16.67%) JUnit
3 10 (13.89%) JIRA
4 9 (12.50%) Postman
5 6 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 6 (8.33%) Git
5 6 (8.33%) Jenkins
6 5 (6.94%) JMeter
7 4 (5.56%) QARun
7 4 (5.56%) REST Assured
7 4 (5.56%) WinRunner
8 3 (4.17%) Appium
8 3 (4.17%) Gatling
8 3 (4.17%) SpecFlow
8 3 (4.17%) TestNG
9 2 (2.78%) Bitbucket
9 2 (2.78%) Cucumber
9 2 (2.78%) Robot Framework
9 2 (2.78%) TeamCity
9 2 (2.78%) WebDriver
General
1 37 (51.39%) Social Skills
2 26 (36.11%) Finance
3 15 (20.83%) Analytical Skills
4 13 (18.06%) Front Office
5 11 (15.28%) Financial Institution
6 7 (9.72%) Banking
7 4 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Investment Banking
9 2 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.78%) Manufacturing
9 2 (2.78%) Retail
10 1 (1.39%) Back Office
10 1 (1.39%) Electronics
10 1 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.39%) Marketing
10 1 (1.39%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.39%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (25.00%) Tester
2 14 (19.44%) QA Engineer
3 12 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 11 (15.28%) Analyst
5 10 (13.89%) Front Office Business Analyst
6 9 (12.50%) Automation Tester
6 9 (12.50%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
6 9 (12.50%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
7 8 (11.11%) Senior
8 6 (8.33%) Lead
8 6 (8.33%) Test Analyst
9 5 (6.94%) Developer
9 5 (6.94%) QA Leader
9 5 (6.94%) Test Engineer
10 4 (5.56%) QA Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) QA Tester
10 4 (5.56%) Selenium Tester
10 4 (5.56%) Senior Test Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) UAT Analyst
10 4 (5.56%) UAT Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.50%) Web Services
2 7 (9.72%) REST
3 5 (6.94%) Playwright
3 5 (6.94%) pytest
4 4 (5.56%) .NET
4 4 (5.56%) Middleware
4 4 (5.56%) PySpark
5 3 (4.17%) Kafka
5 3 (4.17%) SOAP
6 2 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (2.78%) React
6 2 (2.78%) YAML
7 1 (1.39%) Gherkin
7 1 (1.39%) JSON
7 1 (1.39%) Node.js
7 1 (1.39%) Puppeteer
7 1 (1.39%) Semantic HTML
7 1 (1.39%) Swagger
7 1 (1.39%) WebSockets
7 1 (1.39%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.50%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.78%) Algorithms
3 2 (2.78%) Data Structures
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
3 2 (2.78%) Mobile Banking
3 2 (2.78%) Online Banking
4 1 (1.39%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.39%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.39%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.39%) Solar Panel
4 1 (1.39%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (5.56%) Android
1 4 (5.56%) Unix
1 4 (5.56%) Windows
2 3 (4.17%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 66 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 33 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (41.67%) Regression Testing
4 29 (40.28%) Agile
5 26 (36.11%) User Acceptance Testing
6 14 (19.44%) API Testing
7 13 (18.06%) CI/CD
7 13 (18.06%) DevOps
7 13 (18.06%) Performance Testing
8 12 (16.67%) Business Analysis
8 12 (16.67%) Economics
8 12 (16.67%) Electronic Trading
8 12 (16.67%) Product Management
8 12 (16.67%) Quantitative Research
8 12 (16.67%) Scrum
8 12 (16.67%) Test Scripting
9 11 (15.28%) Software Testing
9 11 (15.28%) Test Management
9 11 (15.28%) Test Planning
10 10 (13.89%) Security Testing
Programming Languages
1 23 (31.94%) Python
2 18 (25.00%) Java
3 12 (16.67%) SQL
4 7 (9.72%) JavaScript
5 5 (6.94%) C#
6 4 (5.56%) TypeScript
7 2 (2.78%) PowerShell
7 2 (2.78%) RPG
7 2 (2.78%) SOQL
8 1 (1.39%) Ada
8 1 (1.39%) Bash
8 1 (1.39%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 19 (26.39%) Degree
2 11 (15.28%) ISTQB
3 8 (11.11%) SC Cleared
3 8 (11.11%) Security Cleared
4 7 (9.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (4.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.39%) CEH
6 1 (1.39%) CISSP
6 1 (1.39%) CREST Certified
6 1 (1.39%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 1 (1.39%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 45 (62.50%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.17%) WCAG
3 1 (1.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.39%) GxP
System Software
1 2 (2.78%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.39%) Grafana
1 1 (1.39%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.39%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.39%) Nessus
1 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (12.50%) ION Trading
2 4 (5.56%) Citrix
2 4 (5.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (4.17%) Databricks
3 3 (4.17%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.17%) UiPath
4 2 (2.78%) Duck Creek
4 2 (2.78%) Guidewire
5 1 (1.39%) Charles River
5 1 (1.39%) Google
5 1 (1.39%) Murex
5 1 (1.39%) Oracle
5 1 (1.39%) SAP