End-to-End Testing Contract Job Trends in Manchester

End-to-End Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring End-to-End Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 78 91
Rank change year-on-year +10 +13 +45
Contract jobs citing End-to-End Testing 16 4 15
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 1.51% 0.35% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.68% 0.40% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 4 13
10th Percentile £409 - £425
25th Percentile £420 £375 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% -2.38% +7.69%
75th Percentile £475 £641 £538
90th Percentile - £646 £568
North West median daily rate £450 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -20.00% +7.14% +7.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

End-to-End 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 953 993 1,456
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.91% 87.03% 88.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 570 1,062
10th Percentile £301 £313 £270
25th Percentile £385 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £575 £588
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 32 58
10th Percentile £16.43 £21.25 £15.72
25th Percentile £19.07 £29.25 £16.37
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +79.49% -48.68%
75th Percentile £33.00 £63.13 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.38 £74.20 £68.50
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.27
% change year-on-year -37.63% +14.35% +35.10%

End-to-End Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing End-to-End Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

End-to-End Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing End-to-End Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing End-to-End Testing

End-to-End Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing End-to-End Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 27 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for End-to-End Testing in Manchester

End-to-End Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (6.25%) Apache Airflow
Business Applications
1 8 (50.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (50.00%) SuccessFactors
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
2 2 (12.50%) npm
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon S3
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure Machine Learning
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub
3 1 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (12.50%) Redis
Development Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Cypress.io
1 2 (12.50%) GitLab
2 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
2 1 (6.25%) MLflow
2 1 (6.25%) REST Assured
General
1 11 (68.75%) Finance
2 10 (62.50%) Public Sector
3 6 (37.50%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) SAP Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) SAP Test Analyst
1 6 (37.50%) Test Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Test Manager
3 2 (12.50%) Backend Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Developer
3 2 (12.50%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Manager
3 2 (12.50%) SAP Test Manager
4 1 (6.25%) Machine Learning Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) QA Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Software Test Engineer
4 1 (6.25%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) Node.js
1 3 (18.75%) REST
2 2 (12.50%) Express.js
2 2 (12.50%) Jest
2 2 (12.50%) Middleware
2 2 (12.50%) Nunjucks
2 2 (12.50%) YAML
3 1 (6.25%) Kafka
3 1 (6.25%) Playwright
3 1 (6.25%) PyTorch
3 1 (6.25%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (6.25%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 6 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 3 (18.75%) Data Structures
2 3 (18.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (75.00%) Test Scripting
2 8 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 8 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 8 (50.00%) Test Management
2 8 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (37.50%) SAP Implementation
3 6 (37.50%) Test Strategy
4 5 (31.25%) CI/CD
4 5 (31.25%) Integration Testing
5 4 (25.00%) Test Automation
6 3 (18.75%) Agile
6 3 (18.75%) Business Transformation
6 3 (18.75%) Cash Management
6 3 (18.75%) Coaching
6 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (18.75%) Data Modelling
6 3 (18.75%) Defect Tracking
6 3 (18.75%) Full-Stack Development
6 3 (18.75%) Risk Management
6 3 (18.75%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (25.00%) Java
2 3 (18.75%) SQL
3 1 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 1 (6.25%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (50.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (25.00%) QA
2 2 (12.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (12.50%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (18.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (12.50%) HP ALM
1 2 (12.50%) Kubernetes
2 1 (6.25%) Grafana
Vendors
1 8 (50.00%) SAP
2 2 (12.50%) HP