Manual Testing Contracts in West Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 99 102
Rank change year-on-year +32 +3 -22
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 8 6 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.81% 0.37% 0.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.92% 0.40% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 7
10th Percentile £365 - £320
25th Percentile £388 £413 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% -10.53% +82.69%
75th Percentile £405 £441 £488
90th Percentile £413 £446 £493
Yorkshire median daily rate £400 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -5.88% -5.56% +60.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £18.00
Yorkshire median hourly rate - - £18.00

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

Manual Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 871 1,495 1,740
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 87.80% 91.38% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 509 1,024 1,245
10th Percentile £300 £350 £300
25th Percentile £400 £450 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £578 £600 £575
90th Percentile £668 £700 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £525 £480
% change year-on-year -9.52% +9.38% +9.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 36 16 43
10th Percentile £11.95 £12.58 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.15 £15.10 £11.75
Median hourly rate £12.53 £25.25 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.38% +40.28% -22.40%
75th Percentile £15.24 £65.31 £22.58
90th Percentile £38.25 £70.00 £28.45
Yorkshire median hourly rate £13.50 £10.63 £17.64
% change year-on-year +27.00% -39.74% -10.42%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in West Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in West Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in West Yorkshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in West Yorkshire.

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in West Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 April 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
Leeds +31 8 £400 -5.88% 2
Manual Testing
Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in West Yorkshire 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 (12.50%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (25.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (25.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 7 (87.50%) Selenium
2 3 (37.50%) Git
3 2 (25.00%) Cucumber
3 2 (25.00%) Gatling
3 2 (25.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (25.00%) JIRA
3 2 (25.00%) JMeter
3 2 (25.00%) WebDriver
4 1 (12.50%) Cypress.io
4 1 (12.50%) Postman
4 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
General
1 2 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (12.50%) Health Technology
2 1 (12.50%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Automation Tester
1 5 (62.50%) Tester
2 2 (25.00%) Senior
2 2 (25.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Test Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Automation Test Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Junior
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Automation Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Junior Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Manual Tester
3 1 (12.50%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) ActiveMQ
1 2 (25.00%) Kafka
1 2 (25.00%) Web Services
2 1 (12.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 2 (25.00%) Mac OS X
1 2 (25.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 7 (87.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Fintech
4 3 (37.50%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (25.00%) BDD
5 2 (25.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) TDD
5 2 (25.00%) Test Scripting
5 2 (25.00%) Test Strategy
6 1 (12.50%) API Testing
6 1 (12.50%) CI/CD
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Continuous Delivery
6 1 (12.50%) Defect Tracking
6 1 (12.50%) DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Regression Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
6 1 (12.50%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (12.50%) Software Testing
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Java
2 5 (62.50%) JavaScript
3 2 (25.00%) Groovy
3 2 (25.00%) Scala
3 2 (25.00%) Shell Script
4 1 (12.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 2 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (12.50%) Brio
1 1 (12.50%) Microsoft