Manual Testing Contracts in the South West

Manual Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 142 154 142
Rank change year-on-year +12 -12 -8
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 8 14 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.25% 0.38% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.42% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 15
10th Percentile £516 £414 £356
25th Percentile £562 £484 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £525 £425
Median % change year-on-year +11.43% +23.53% +6.25%
75th Percentile £590 £619 £438
90th Percentile £595 £873 £499
England median daily rate £450 £500 £431
% change year-on-year -10.00% +16.14% +9.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 6
10th Percentile - - £47.88
25th Percentile £37.50 - £49.56
Median hourly rate £40.00 - £49.75
75th Percentile £42.50 - -
90th Percentile - - £52.00
England median hourly rate £40.00 - £49.50
% change year-on-year - - +1.54%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,650 3,299 3,329
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.97% 89.57% 88.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,714 2,417 2,348
10th Percentile £223 £313 £301
25th Percentile £406 £425 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £545 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.67% +9.00% +6.95%
75th Percentile £625 £640 £588
90th Percentile £700 £719 £670
England median daily rate £525 £550 £535
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 324 348 194
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £26.63 £17.69 £17.25
Median hourly rate £47.83 £61.50 £48.38
Median % change year-on-year -22.23% +27.13% +7.50%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £64.69
90th Percentile £77.50 £83.34 £69.95
England median hourly rate £35.00 £38.35 £24.00
% change year-on-year -8.74% +59.79% -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Bristol +22 5 £580 - 2
Devon - 2 - -
Somerset -3 1 £600 +14.29% 2
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 4 (50.00%) Git
1 4 (50.00%) NUnit
1 4 (50.00%) Postman
1 4 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 2 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 2 (25.00%) LabVIEW
General
1 3 (37.50%) Electronics
2 2 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Finance
3 1 (12.50%) Manufacturing
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
3 1 (12.50%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (75.00%) Test Engineer
2 5 (62.50%) Senior
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
3 4 (50.00%) Test Automation Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Architect
4 2 (25.00%) Electronics Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Electronics Test Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Product Test Engineer
4 2 (25.00%) Test Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Azure Engineer
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Architect
5 1 (12.50%) Senior Test Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (50.00%) .NET
1 4 (50.00%) AngularJS
2 3 (37.50%) GraphQL
2 3 (37.50%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Performance Testing
1 6 (75.00%) Test Automation
1 6 (75.00%) Test Strategy
2 5 (62.50%) Security Testing
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) BDD
3 4 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (50.00%) Customer Requirements
3 4 (50.00%) DevOps
3 4 (50.00%) Kanban
3 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 4 (50.00%) TDD
3 4 (50.00%) Waterfall
4 3 (37.50%) Load Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Non-Functional Testing
4 3 (37.50%) Task Automation
5 2 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
5 2 (25.00%) Project Management
5 2 (25.00%) Risk Analysis
5 2 (25.00%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 4 (50.00%) SQL
1 4 (50.00%) TypeScript
2 2 (25.00%) MATLAB
2 2 (25.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (37.50%) Accessibility
2 2 (25.00%) QA
System Software
1 3 (37.50%) Docker
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) SAP