Manual Testing Contracts in the North of England

Manual Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 166 178 199
Rank change year-on-year +12 +21 -31
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 18 28 44
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.39% 0.49% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.54% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 26 38
10th Percentile £307 £375 £313
25th Percentile £350 £406 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £456 £475
Median % change year-on-year -12.33% -3.95% +22.58%
75th Percentile £450 £559 £500
90th Percentile £475 £581 £606
England median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +16.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £58.75 - -
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £18.00
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - £48.50
% change year-on-year - - -0.51%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,961 5,179 6,367
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 85.44% 90.65% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,405 3,586 4,652
10th Percentile £300 £300 £250
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.70%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £565
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 360 204 268
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.50 £16.08 £13.69
Median hourly rate £17.72 £28.85 £19.12
Median % change year-on-year -38.58% +50.87% +5.56%
75th Percentile £45.00 £45.05 £35.86
90th Percentile £57.50 £65.00 £60.82
England median hourly rate £36.50 £37.34 £25.00
% change year-on-year -2.25% +49.36% +6.38%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 13 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
North West +21 9 £450 -4.00% 13
Yorkshire +17 9 £400 -5.88% 6
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 2 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.56%) BrowserStack
2 1 (5.56%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 4 (22.22%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (22.22%) MongoDB
2 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 13 (72.22%) Selenium
2 5 (27.78%) Git
2 5 (27.78%) WebDriver
3 4 (22.22%) Cucumber
3 4 (22.22%) Gatling
3 4 (22.22%) Jenkins
3 4 (22.22%) JIRA
3 4 (22.22%) JMeter
3 4 (22.22%) Postman
4 2 (11.11%) TestCafe
5 1 (5.56%) Cypress.io
5 1 (5.56%) GitLab
5 1 (5.56%) GoCD
5 1 (5.56%) Visual Studio
5 1 (5.56%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Health Technology
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
3 1 (5.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 8 (44.44%) Automation Tester
1 8 (44.44%) Tester
2 7 (38.89%) Test Engineer
3 6 (33.33%) Senior
3 6 (33.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 3 (16.67%) Analyst
4 3 (16.67%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Automation Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Junior
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Automation Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Manual Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Junior Tester
5 1 (5.56%) Manual Test Analyst
5 1 (5.56%) Manual Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) Kafka
2 4 (22.22%) ActiveMQ
2 4 (22.22%) Web Services
3 2 (11.11%) .NET
4 1 (5.56%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) Mobile App
1 2 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (5.56%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 4 (22.22%) Mac OS X
1 4 (22.22%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (88.89%) Test Automation
2 13 (72.22%) Agile
3 6 (33.33%) Continuous Integration
4 5 (27.78%) BDD
4 5 (27.78%) Fintech
4 5 (27.78%) Software Testing
5 4 (22.22%) API Testing
5 4 (22.22%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 4 (22.22%) E-Commerce
5 4 (22.22%) TDD
5 4 (22.22%) Test Scripting
5 4 (22.22%) Test Strategy
6 2 (11.11%) CI/CD
6 2 (11.11%) DevOps
6 2 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (11.11%) Regression Testing
6 2 (11.11%) Test Planning
7 1 (5.56%) Deployment Automation
7 1 (5.56%) Observability
7 1 (5.56%) Order Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (61.11%) Java
2 7 (38.89%) JavaScript
3 4 (22.22%) Groovy
3 4 (22.22%) Scala
3 4 (22.22%) Shell Script
4 2 (11.11%) C#
4 2 (11.11%) Python
5 1 (5.56%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (11.11%) SC Cleared
1 2 (11.11%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) PCI DSS
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Grafana
1 1 (5.56%) Kibana
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Brio
1 1 (5.56%) Microsoft