Manual Testing Contract Job Trends in West Sussex

Manual Testing
South East > West Sussex

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in West Sussex requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 29 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 30 29
Rank change year-on-year -20 -1 -
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in West Sussex 1.02% 1.06% 1.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 1.25% 1.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £463 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £358 £475 £550
Median % change year-on-year -24.63% -13.64% -
75th Percentile - £488 £575
90th Percentile - - -
South East median daily rate £358 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -20.44% - -12.20%

All Process & 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 331 160 175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Sussex 84.65% 85.11% 88.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 191 110 128
10th Percentile £223 £170 £213
25th Percentile £328 £256 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £387 £455
Median % change year-on-year +16.35% -15.00% -7.14%
75th Percentile £502 £525 £550
90th Percentile £628 £641 £625
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% +1.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 26 7
10th Percentile £13.13 - £20.75
25th Percentile £17.38 £15.50 £21.75
Median hourly rate £26.75 £18.82 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.14% -32.79% +14.47%
75th Percentile £36.15 £20.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £60.00 £50.00 £33.50
South East median hourly rate £57.79 £21.99 £56.34
% change year-on-year +162.84% -60.98% +12.69%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Sussex

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in West Sussex

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend in West Sussex

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend in West Sussex

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manual Testing.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in West Sussex citing Manual Testing

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 29 July 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
Worthing - 3 £358 -
Burgess Hill - 1 - -
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in West Sussex 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 (75.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (75.00%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 4 (100.00%) JIRA
2 3 (75.00%) Zephyr
3 2 (50.00%) GitLab
3 2 (50.00%) Jenkins
4 1 (25.00%) Git
4 1 (25.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Tester
2 2 (50.00%) QA Tester
3 1 (25.00%) Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Manual Tester
3 1 (25.00%) QA Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) QA Test Analyst
3 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Integration Testing
1 4 (100.00%) Scenario Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Customer Requirements
2 3 (75.00%) Data Migration
2 3 (75.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 3 (75.00%) ETL
2 3 (75.00%) Migration
2 3 (75.00%) System Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (75.00%) Test Management
2 3 (75.00%) Test Scripting
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) System Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) SQL
2 2 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) ISTQB
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Oracle