Manual Testing Contracts in Swindon

Manual Testing
Wiltshire > Swindon

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Swindon 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 19 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Swindon 2.04% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.25% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £271 - -
25th Percentile £284 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - -
75th Percentile £342 - -
90th Percentile £353 - -
Wiltshire median daily rate £315 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Swindon

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 Swindon.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 89 92 201
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Swindon 90.82% 74.80% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 47 160
10th Percentile £311 £139 £359
25th Percentile £413 £263 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £465 £525
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% -11.43% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £550 £605
90th Percentile £650 £623 £696
Wiltshire median daily rate £563 £545 £575
% change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 0
Median hourly rate - £16.50 -
Wiltshire median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
% change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Swindon

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Swindon

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Swindon

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Swindon

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Swindon 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA