Manual Testing Contracts in Taunton

Manual Testing
Somerset > Taunton

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Taunton 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 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 13 14 14
Rank change year-on-year +1 0 -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 1 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Taunton 3.03% 6.45% 14.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.13% 6.56% 16.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 3 7
10th Percentile - £526 £408
25th Percentile - £547 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £429
Median % change year-on-year +2.65% +36.25% -
75th Percentile - £608 £495
90th Percentile - £621 £516
Somerset median daily rate £600 £555 £429
% change year-on-year +8.16% +29.31% +40.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32 61 49
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 96.97% 98.39% 89.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 55 38
10th Percentile £482 £436 £374
25th Percentile £570 £565 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £522
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +24.64% +9.79%
75th Percentile £606 £700 £598
90th Percentile £625 £810 £650
Somerset median daily rate £500 £488 £450
% change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -3.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 0
10th Percentile - £15.60 -
25th Percentile £12.50 £15.84 -
Median hourly rate £13.00 £17.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -25.71% - -
75th Percentile £14.25 £19.13 -
90th Percentile £15.60 £19.35 -
Somerset median hourly rate £25.00 £50.00 £49.75
% change year-on-year -50.00% +0.50% +15.70%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Taunton

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Taunton

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) NUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Visual Studio
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TypeScript