Software Testing Contracts in Manchester

Software Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for Software Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Software Testing over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 78 77 110
Rank change year-on-year -1 +33 -35
Contract jobs citing Software Testing 13 36 30
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.90% 1.97% 1.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.03% 2.16% 1.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 31 28
10th Percentile £425 £143 £296
25th Percentile £434 £285 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +39.29% -26.32% +48.32%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £550
90th Percentile £569 £500 £638
North West median daily rate £475 £395 £475
% change year-on-year +20.25% -16.84% +15.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £52.50 - -
Median hourly rate £55.00 - -
75th Percentile £57.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £45.88 - £44.68
% change year-on-year - - -8.82%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

Software 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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,260 1,669 2,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 86.84% 91.45% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 860 1,218 1,809
10th Percentile £325 £313 £273
25th Percentile £413 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £663
North West median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 53 58
10th Percentile £12.44 £16.67 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.50 £20.00 £13.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £35.00 £18.06
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% +93.83% +11.26%
75th Percentile £60.63 £45.05 £34.69
90th Percentile £73.70 £70.00 £75.00
North West median hourly rate £23.80 £36.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -33.89% +46.94% +32.43%

Software Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing Software Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Software Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Software Testing in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for Software Testing in Manchester

Software Testing
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Software Testing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 12 May 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
Cheadle - 1 - -
Stockport - 1 - - 1
Software Testing
North West

Software Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (38.46%) AWS
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
2 4 (30.77%) Amazon S3
2 4 (30.77%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (30.77%) Serverless
2 4 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
3 3 (23.08%) Azure
4 1 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (30.77%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (30.77%) Git
1 4 (30.77%) GitLab
2 2 (15.38%) Octopus Deploy
2 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 2 (15.38%) TeamCity
3 1 (7.69%) JMeter
3 1 (7.69%) NeoLoad
3 1 (7.69%) Selenium
3 1 (7.69%) TestCafe
General
1 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (7.69%) Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Investment Banking
1 1 (7.69%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (38.46%) Test Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) AWS DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Developer
4 2 (15.38%) C# Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Developer in Test
4 2 (15.38%) Software Developer
4 2 (15.38%) Software Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Automation Tester
5 1 (7.69%) Azure Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Design Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) DevOps Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Java Developer
5 1 (7.69%) Lead
5 1 (7.69%) Lead Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Performance Test Leader
5 1 (7.69%) QA Test Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Senior
5 1 (7.69%) Software QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.69%) .NET
1 1 (7.69%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 4 (30.77%) Enterprise Software
2 2 (15.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (7.69%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (84.62%) Agile
2 7 (53.85%) CI/CD
3 6 (46.15%) DevOps
3 6 (46.15%) Test Automation
4 4 (30.77%) Containerisation
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure as Code
4 4 (30.77%) Infrastructure Management
4 4 (30.77%) Kanban
4 4 (30.77%) Refactoring
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) Software Deployment
5 3 (23.08%) Manual Testing
6 2 (15.38%) API Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Deployment
6 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
6 2 (15.38%) Fintech
6 2 (15.38%) Microservices
6 2 (15.38%) SDET
7 1 (7.69%) Concurrent Programming
7 1 (7.69%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (38.46%) Python
2 4 (30.77%) Bash
2 4 (30.77%) C#
3 3 (23.08%) Java
3 3 (23.08%) SQL
4 2 (15.38%) PowerShell
5 1 (7.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (30.77%) SC Cleared
1 4 (30.77%) Security Cleared
2 1 (7.69%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (15.38%) PCI DSS
1 2 (15.38%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (30.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (38.46%) Ansible
1 5 (38.46%) Kubernetes
2 4 (30.77%) Terraform