Manual Testing Contracts in West Sussex

Manual Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Sussex requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 36 40
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +9
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 3 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Sussex 1.37% 1.15% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.57% 1.26% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £463 £525 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% - -
75th Percentile £488 £575 -
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £438 £444 £500
% change year-on-year -1.41% -11.25% +36.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Sussex

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 West Sussex.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 127 238 251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 86.99% 91.19% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 174 200
10th Percentile £217 £304 £181
25th Percentile £350 £403 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +2.78% -7.69% +4.84%
75th Percentile £538 £523 £600
90th Percentile £632 £588 £681
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 13 8
10th Percentile £15.39 £13.63 £18.74
25th Percentile £16.95 £18.20 -
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.50 £22.16
Median % change year-on-year -12.47% -2.98% -59.15%
75th Percentile £36.25 £22.25 £22.40
90th Percentile £81.15 £28.05 £24.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in West Sussex

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in West Sussex

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Sussex

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 West Sussex region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Crawley - 2 £475 - 3
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Sussex 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 2 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) SoapUI
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Technical Consultant
1 2 (100.00%) Test Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) BDD
1 2 (100.00%) Collaborative Culture
1 2 (100.00%) Data Validation
1 2 (100.00%) Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) OO
1 2 (100.00%) OOP
1 2 (100.00%) System Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript