Manual Testing Contracts in West Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Yorkshire > West Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in West Yorkshire 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 2 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 63 86
Rank change year-on-year -7 +23 +28
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 4 5 10
As % of all contract jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 0.55% 0.59% 0.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% 0.69% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £363 - £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £440
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -20.45% +10.00%
75th Percentile £519 - £528
90th Percentile £568 - £654
Yorkshire median daily rate £425 £350 £455
% change year-on-year +21.43% -23.08% +13.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 660 721 1,271
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in West Yorkshire 90.53% 85.02% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 419 463 829
10th Percentile £302 £325 £350
25th Percentile £400 £419 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £556 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 26 18
10th Percentile - - £12.00
25th Percentile - £12.15 £13.81
Median hourly rate £22.14 £12.90 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year +71.63% -30.27% -1.07%
75th Percentile £34.46 £23.63 £21.31
90th Percentile £81.25 £33.75 £25.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.28%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in West Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in West Yorkshire over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram 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 2 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Leeds +3 4 £425 +21.43% 4
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:

Development Applications
1 2 (50.00%) Selenium
2 1 (25.00%) Cucumber
2 1 (25.00%) Cypress.io
2 1 (25.00%) GitLab
2 1 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (25.00%) JIRA
2 1 (25.00%) JMeter
2 1 (25.00%) Postman
2 1 (25.00%) REST Assured
2 1 (25.00%) TestNG
2 1 (25.00%) TestRail
2 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Test Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Software Tester
2 1 (25.00%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (50.00%) Playwright
2 1 (25.00%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) EPoS
1 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (50.00%) API Testing
2 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 2 (50.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Management
3 1 (25.00%) Defect Tracking
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Supplier Management
3 1 (25.00%) TDD
3 1 (25.00%) Technical Leadership
3 1 (25.00%) Test Management
3 1 (25.00%) Test Scripting
3 1 (25.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 2 (50.00%) SQL
2 1 (25.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (100.00%) QA
2 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (25.00%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (25.00%) Docker