Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Shropshire

Manual Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Shropshire requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 19 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 59 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Shropshire 1.11% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.27% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile £517 - -
25th Percentile £525 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 - -
75th Percentile £539 - -
90th Percentile £540 - -
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £280 £545
% change year-on-year +87.50% -48.62% +48.30%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 316 96 31
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Shropshire 87.78% 85.71% 75.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 216 65 23
10th Percentile £400 £216 £267
25th Percentile £438 £369 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £484 £400
Median % change year-on-year +3.93% +21.00% -24.53%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £469
90th Percentile £553 £567 £500
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 3 0
10th Percentile £23.59 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +106.49% - -
75th Percentile - £17.89 -
90th Percentile £31.10 £21.32 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £20.50 £23.89 £23.00
% change year-on-year -14.19% +3.87% +29.94%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Shropshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Shropshire

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 Shropshire region over the 6 months to 19 December 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
Telford - 4 £537 - 1
Manual Testing
West Midlands

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Manual Tester
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Project Leader
2 1 (25.00%) QA Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (75.00%) Configuration Management
2 3 (75.00%) Pair Programming
2 3 (75.00%) Security Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Agile
3 1 (25.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Non-Functional Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Operational Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Performance Management
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
3 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) QA