Manual Test Analyst Contracts

Manual Test Analyst
UK

The median Manual Test Analyst daily rate in the UK is £344 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 590 700 835
Rank change year-on-year +110 +135 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Manual Test Analyst 10 16 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.023% 0.027% 0.032%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.025% 0.029% 0.033%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 22
10th Percentile £292 £300 £256
25th Percentile £303 £329 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £344 £585 £355
Median % change year-on-year -41.24% +64.79% +13.60%
75th Percentile £411 - £388
90th Percentile £438 - £394
UK excluding London median daily rate £344 £346 £343
% change year-on-year -0.72% +1.09% +52.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £49.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £49.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Manual Test Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Manual Test Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Test Analyst in the UK

Manual Test Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Manual Test Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Manual Test Analyst in the UK

Manual Test Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Test Analyst over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Test Analyst in the UK

Manual Test Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Test Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Test Analyst in the UK

Manual Test Analyst
Top 9 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Test Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 5 May 2024. 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
England +116 10 £344 -41.24%
London +112 6 £375 -35.90%
UK excluding London +54 4 £344 -0.72%
Work from Home +129 3 £406 +108.33%
Midlands +29 2 £344 -1.79%
West Midlands +24 2 £344 -
South East +22 1 £425 +24.09%
North West - 1 £293 -
North of England - 1 £293 -

Manual Test Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Manual Test Analyst 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 featuring Manual Test Analyst in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
1 5 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 4 (40.00%) Banking
3 3 (30.00%) JIRA
3 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Azure
4 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Agile
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (10.00%) JMeter
5 1 (10.00%) Bugzilla
5 1 (10.00%) Scrum
5 1 (10.00%) C#
5 1 (10.00%) .NET
5 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
5 1 (10.00%) SAP

Manual Test Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
1 2 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (30.00%) JIRA
2 1 (10.00%) Bugzilla
2 1 (10.00%) JMeter
2 1 (10.00%) Selenium
2 1 (10.00%) WebDriver
General
1 4 (40.00%) Banking
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (10.00%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (10.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Defect Management
1 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Functional Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Agile
3 2 (20.00%) DevOps
3 2 (20.00%) Regression Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (10.00%) BDD
4 1 (10.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (10.00%) E-Commerce
4 1 (10.00%) Kanban
4 1 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum
4 1 (10.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (10.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (40.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (40.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (10.00%) Adobe
1 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (10.00%) SAP