Manual Testing Contracts in Northamptonshire

Manual Testing
East Midlands > Northamptonshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northamptonshire requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 23 21 36
Rank change year-on-year -2 +15 +7
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 3 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 2.05% 2.04% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.24% 2.29% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile £121 - -
25th Percentile £135 £356 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £159 £363 £270
Median % change year-on-year -56.28% +34.26% -13.60%
75th Percentile £181 £369 -
90th Percentile £194 - -
East Midlands median daily rate £335 £363 £298
% change year-on-year -7.66% +21.85% -8.46%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 134 175 215
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire 91.78% 89.29% 89.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 114 127 163
10th Percentile £269 £292 £191
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £445 £375
Median % change year-on-year -9.66% +18.67% -17.58%
75th Percentile £475 £538 £500
90th Percentile £537 £620 £572
East Midlands median daily rate £447 £419 £450
% change year-on-year +6.81% -7.00% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 18 16
10th Percentile £16.88 £10.90 £16.12
25th Percentile £21.56 £14.00 £18.13
Median hourly rate £32.25 £24.50 £41.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.63% -40.96% +50.91%
75th Percentile £45.06 £51.30 £51.50
90th Percentile £51.03 £53.30 -
East Midlands median hourly rate £18.36 £17.00 £18.56
% change year-on-year +7.97% -8.39% +3.10%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Northamptonshire

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northamptonshire.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Northamptonshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Northamptonshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Northamptonshire.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Northamptonshire

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Northamptonshire

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 Northamptonshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Northampton - 3 £159 - 3
Manual Testing
East Midlands

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northamptonshire 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:

Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cucumber
2 2 (66.67%) REST Assured
2 2 (66.67%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Product Tester
2 1 (33.33%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) Playwright
1 2 (66.67%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Code Quality
3 1 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Assessment
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Transformation
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) User Experience
3 1 (33.33%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Java