Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Milton Keynes

Manual Testing
Buckinghamshire > Milton Keynes

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Milton Keynes requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 31 43
Rank change year-on-year -37 +12 -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 2 1
As % of all contract jobs in Milton Keynes 0.26% 1.11% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 1.16% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £393 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £395 £375 -
Median % change year-on-year +5.33% - -
75th Percentile £398 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £395 £375 -
% change year-on-year +5.33% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Milton Keynes

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 Milton Keynes.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 598 172 309
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes 78.89% 95.56% 83.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 431 122 225
10th Percentile £356 £219 £260
25th Percentile £456 £343 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £454 £475
Median % change year-on-year +15.70% -4.47% -
75th Percentile £600 £550 £560
90th Percentile £638 £650 £665
Buckinghamshire median daily rate £525 £464 £465
% change year-on-year +13.15% -0.22% -7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 8 19
10th Percentile - £14.08 £15.72
25th Percentile £15.05 £14.98 £16.75
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.31 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +6.79% -19.42% +40.01%
75th Percentile £16.64 £18.53 £27.22
90th Percentile £18.32 £30.48 £48.75
Buckinghamshire median hourly rate £16.35 £15.19 £24.72
% change year-on-year +7.67% -38.56% +50.70%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Milton Keynes

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Manual Testing relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Milton Keynes.

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Milton Keynes

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Milton Keynes

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Manual Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Milton Keynes citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Milton Keynes 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (50.00%) Postman
1 1 (50.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
1 1 (50.00%) WebDriver
General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Integration Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Testing
1 1 (50.00%) BDD
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Data Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
1 1 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Migration
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) QA Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (50.00%) SDET
1 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA