Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in the North East

Manual Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 36 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 0.43% 0.33% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.53% 0.41% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £355 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - -
75th Percentile £405 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £388 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -13.89% - -8.16%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 the North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 563 246 265
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 81.24% 80.39% 80.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 341 167 118
10th Percentile £313 £220 £263
25th Percentile £388 £359 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £580 £541 £588
90th Percentile £650 £625 £650
England median daily rate £520 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +0.97% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 17 50
10th Percentile £17.00 - £11.44
25th Percentile £43.96 £11.60 £12.13
Median hourly rate £68.47 £17.00 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year +302.76% -12.82% -2.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £19.97 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £48.51 £68.88
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +88.87% -34.02% +8.48%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in the North East

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Manual Testing.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 26 June 2026. 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
Tyne and Wear -34 3 £380 - 7
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 (33.33%) BrowserStack
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 3 (100.00%) Selenium
2 2 (66.67%) Cypress.io
3 1 (33.33%) Cucumber
3 1 (33.33%) JMeter
3 1 (33.33%) JUnit
General
1 2 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Military
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) QA Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) QA Test Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Test Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Integration
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Security Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Defect Management
3 1 (33.33%) Functional Testing
3 1 (33.33%) OWASP
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Java
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (66.67%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 2 (66.67%) QA