Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Telford

Manual Testing
Shropshire > Telford

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Telford 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 60 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Telford 1.27% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.41% - -
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 - -
Shropshire median daily rate £537 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Telford

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 Telford.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 283 77 26
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Telford 90.13% 87.50% 86.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 59 18
10th Percentile £400 £307 £334
25th Percentile £447 £411 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £484 £410
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% +18.05% -22.64%
75th Percentile £538 £530 £493
90th Percentile £554 £567 £515
Shropshire median daily rate £503 £484 £400
% change year-on-year +3.93% +21.00% -24.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 0
10th Percentile £23.20 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £25.15 - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
Shropshire median hourly rate £25.15 £12.18 -
% change year-on-year +106.49% - -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Telford

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Telford

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Telford

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

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

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Telford 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