Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Surrey

Manual Testing
South East > Surrey

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Surrey requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 46 57 -
Rank change year-on-year +11 - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 1 5 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Surrey 0.29% 0.89% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 1.04% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 -
South East median daily rate £450 £450 £525
% change year-on-year - -14.29% +20.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Surrey

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 Surrey.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 320 481 654
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Surrey 94.40% 85.28% 89.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 348 530
10th Percentile £204 £203 £206
25th Percentile £263 £304 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £463 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -11.90% -
75th Percentile £550 £563 £650
90th Percentile £600 £675 £750
South East median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.66% +3.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 44 21
10th Percentile £22.28 £11.71 £16.50
25th Percentile £28.00 £18.35 £34.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £49.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.24% -2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £57.50 £72.67 £61.63
90th Percentile - £76.86 £67.50
South East median hourly rate £22.29 £57.35 £52.30
% change year-on-year -61.14% +9.66% +79.66%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Surrey

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Surrey

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Surrey

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

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

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in Surrey

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Manual Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Surrey citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Surrey

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 Surrey region over the 6 months to 1 September 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
Leatherhead - 1 £450 -
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Surrey 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 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
1 1 (100.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) End-to-End Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#