Manual Testing Contracts in London

Manual Testing
England > London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 394 464
Rank change year-on-year +67 +70 -64
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 64 105 140
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.36% 0.38% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.42% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 84 94
10th Percentile £357 £308 £338
25th Percentile £409 £395 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +7.50% +33.33%
75th Percentile £630 £650 £575
90th Percentile £700 £700 £696
England median daily rate £450 £500 £429
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.55% +10.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.25
Median hourly rate - - £21.25
75th Percentile - - £34.06
90th Percentile - - £50.38
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - -1.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 15,764 24,998 36,239
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 88.35% 91.09% 92.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 17,888 26,458
10th Percentile £338 £375 £389
25th Percentile £450 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £590 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.78% +2.61% +9.52%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £680
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 285 428
10th Percentile £15.96 £18.63 £17.86
25th Percentile £19.94 £22.63 £23.91
Median hourly rate £30.00 £38.75 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +7.64% +13.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £60.75 £50.65
90th Percentile £66.93 £78.30 £69.05
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

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 19 April 2024.

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 19 April 2024. 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
Central London +44 12 £475 -25.49% 2
East London - 3 £340 -
South London +14 2 £450 +28.57%
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 3 (4.69%) Apache Spark
1 3 (4.69%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Endur
1 1 (1.56%) MIS ActiveH
1 1 (1.56%) NEC Housing
1 1 (1.56%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 21 (32.81%) Azure
2 17 (26.56%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (10.94%) AWS
4 4 (6.25%) GCP
5 3 (4.69%) OpenShift
6 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.13%) GitHub
6 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.13%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.56%) Boomi
7 1 (1.56%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Sauce Labs
7 1 (1.56%) Serverless
7 1 (1.56%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.25%) VLAN
1 4 (6.25%) Wireless
2 3 (4.69%) 5G
3 1 (1.56%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Big Data
1 3 (4.69%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (4.69%) Hadoop
1 3 (4.69%) Relational Database
1 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.13%) MySQL
2 2 (3.13%) RDBMS
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 14 (21.88%) JIRA
2 13 (20.31%) Selenium
3 10 (15.63%) SpecFlow
4 8 (12.50%) Jenkins
4 8 (12.50%) Visual Studio
5 5 (7.81%) Cypress.io
5 5 (7.81%) Git
6 4 (6.25%) Appium
6 4 (6.25%) Cucumber
6 4 (6.25%) Moq
6 4 (6.25%) WebDriver
7 2 (3.13%) Bitbucket
7 2 (3.13%) Burp Suite
7 2 (3.13%) GitLab
7 2 (3.13%) JMeter
7 2 (3.13%) LoadRunner
7 2 (3.13%) Rational Performance Tester
7 2 (3.13%) SonarQube
7 2 (3.13%) Subversion
7 2 (3.13%) Zephyr
General
1 14 (21.88%) Finance
1 14 (21.88%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Banking
3 8 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.69%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.13%) Back Office
6 2 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (1.56%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Electronics
7 1 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.56%) Legal
7 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.56%) Marketing
7 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (1.56%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Tester
2 13 (20.31%) Analyst
2 13 (20.31%) Manual Tester
3 11 (17.19%) Test Analyst
4 10 (15.63%) Test Engineer
5 9 (14.06%) Senior
6 6 (9.38%) Developer
6 6 (9.38%) QA Engineer
7 5 (7.81%) Lead
8 4 (6.25%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Analyst
8 4 (6.25%) Senior Test Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) Business Analyst
9 3 (4.69%) QA Leader
9 3 (4.69%) QA Test Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Azure Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Consultant
10 2 (3.13%) Payments Tester
10 2 (3.13%) Site Engineer
10 2 (3.13%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (15.63%) .NET
2 7 (10.94%) ADO
3 5 (7.81%) .NET Framework
3 5 (7.81%) Elastic Stack
4 4 (6.25%) Entity Framework
5 3 (4.69%) .NET Core
5 3 (4.69%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.69%) Gherkin
5 3 (4.69%) Kafka
5 3 (4.69%) Playwright
5 3 (4.69%) REST
6 2 (3.13%) CSS
6 2 (3.13%) HTML
6 2 (3.13%) XML
7 1 (1.56%) GraphQL
7 1 (1.56%) JSON
7 1 (1.56%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (9.38%) Derivative
2 4 (6.25%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.69%) Fixed Income
3 3 (4.69%) Mobile App
3 3 (4.69%) Public Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.56%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.56%) Equities
5 1 (1.56%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 1 (1.56%) Market Risk
5 1 (1.56%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.56%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.56%) Replication
5 1 (1.56%) Robotics
5 1 (1.56%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 2 (3.13%) Unix
2 2 (3.13%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (62.50%) Test Automation
2 30 (46.88%) Agile
3 22 (34.38%) DevOps
4 17 (26.56%) Scenario Testing
5 15 (23.44%) User Acceptance Testing
6 13 (20.31%) BDD
6 13 (20.31%) Scrum
6 13 (20.31%) Software Testing
7 12 (18.75%) End-to-End Testing
8 10 (15.63%) Acceptance Criteria
8 10 (15.63%) CI/CD
8 10 (15.63%) Test Strategy
9 9 (14.06%) Integration Testing
9 9 (14.06%) Test Planning
10 8 (12.50%) Regression Testing
10 8 (12.50%) Test Management
11 7 (10.94%) Epics
11 7 (10.94%) System Testing
12 6 (9.38%) Performance Testing
12 6 (9.38%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.88%) C#
1 14 (21.88%) Java
2 13 (20.31%) Python
3 10 (15.63%) SQL
4 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
5 5 (7.81%) Bash
6 4 (6.25%) Perl
7 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
8 2 (3.13%) R
8 2 (3.13%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.56%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 6 (9.38%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) DV Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) ISTQB
5 2 (3.13%) ISEB
5 2 (3.13%) SANS
6 1 (1.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.56%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.56%) Numerate Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (20.31%) QA
2 6 (9.38%) Accessibility
3 1 (1.56%) GxP
3 1 (1.56%) ISO 9001
3 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Iperf
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.13%) Ansible
2 2 (3.13%) Grafana
2 2 (3.13%) Graylog
2 2 (3.13%) HP Fortify
2 2 (3.13%) Nagios
2 2 (3.13%) Nessus
2 2 (3.13%) Progress Chef
2 2 (3.13%) Prometheus
2 2 (3.13%) Puppet
2 2 (3.13%) Terraform
2 2 (3.13%) WebInspect
3 1 (1.56%) HP ALM
3 1 (1.56%) HP Quality Center
3 1 (1.56%) Opsgenie
Vendors
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.69%) HP
2 3 (4.69%) Splunk
3 2 (3.13%) Checkmarx
3 2 (3.13%) IBM
3 2 (3.13%) SAP
3 2 (3.13%) Veracode
4 1 (1.56%) Aderant
4 1 (1.56%) Dell
4 1 (1.56%) NEC
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle
4 1 (1.56%) PagerDuty
4 1 (1.56%) Perfecto Mobile
4 1 (1.56%) Workday