Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in Tower Hamlets

Manual Testing
East London > Tower Hamlets

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 15 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 3 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Tower Hamlets 6.52% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - -
East London median daily rate £450 £400 -
% change year-on-year +12.50% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 44 44 142
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tower Hamlets 95.65% 86.27% 94.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 40 129
10th Percentile £416 £450 £450
25th Percentile £450 £499 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -4.35% +8.86%
75th Percentile £675 £632 £650
90th Percentile £1,000 £653 £725
East London median daily rate £495 £528 £575
% change year-on-year -6.16% -8.26% +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 5
10th Percentile £28.14 - -
25th Percentile £32.61 - £14.18
Median hourly rate £40.08 - £16.85
75th Percentile £47.54 - £18.93
90th Percentile £52.02 - -
East London median hourly rate £29.82 - £18.93
% change year-on-year - - -15.81%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Tower Hamlets

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in Tower Hamlets

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Tower Hamlets citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Tower Hamlets

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 Tower Hamlets region over the 6 months to 9 January 2026. 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
Canary Wharf - 3 £450 -
Manual Testing
East London

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tower Hamlets 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (100.00%) Azure
1 3 (100.00%) Azure Data Factory
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (100.00%) Data Lake
1 3 (100.00%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) JIRA
1 3 (100.00%) JMeter
Job Titles
1 3 (100.00%) Lead
1 3 (100.00%) QA Leader
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) AI
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 3 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 3 (100.00%) Data Modelling
1 3 (100.00%) Defect Management
1 3 (100.00%) DevOps
1 3 (100.00%) ETL
1 3 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) ITIL
1 3 (100.00%) Kimball Methodology
1 3 (100.00%) Machine Learning
1 3 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 3 (100.00%) Performance Testing
1 3 (100.00%) SDLC
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (100.00%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) NIST
1 3 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (100.00%) Microsoft