Manual Tester Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Manual Tester
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Manual Tester daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £300, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Manual Tester 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 0.45% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.48% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £300 - -
North East median daily rate £300 - -

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 207 151 179
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 91.52% 92.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 134 83 123
10th Percentile £200 £317 £266
25th Percentile £400 £369 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £450 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.44% -14.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £544 £625
90th Percentile £638 £649 £720
North East median daily rate £463 £450 £450
% change year-on-year +2.78% - -12.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 9 4
10th Percentile £12.50 £18.20 £14.20
25th Percentile £12.94 £23.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £16.00 £50.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -68.00% +104.08% +60.66%
75th Percentile £20.63 £70.00 £32.44
90th Percentile £36.00 - £33.23
North East median hourly rate £14.50 £46.18 £32.25
% change year-on-year -68.60% +43.19% +82.67%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings that featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in Tyne and Wear

Manual Tester
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Manual Tester job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Manual Tester job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Manual Tester
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Tester within the Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Newcastle upon Tyne - 1 £300 -
Manual Tester
North East

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 11 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 28 August 2025, Manual Tester contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Tyne and Wear region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) GitHub
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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%) GitHub
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Case Management
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Regression Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility