Manual Testing Contracts in Wiltshire

Manual Testing
South West > Wiltshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wiltshire 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 55 - 92
Rank change year-on-year - - -17
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wiltshire 0.45% - 0.091%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.50% - 0.098%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £271 - -
25th Percentile £284 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £315 - -
75th Percentile £342 - -
90th Percentile £353 - -
South West median daily rate £355 £590 £525
% change year-on-year -39.83% +12.38% +24.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 404 778 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wiltshire 89.98% 82.42% 92.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 268 569 855
10th Percentile £311 £315 £400
25th Percentile £478 £463 £467
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £545 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.21% -5.22% +9.52%
75th Percentile £626 £663 £675
90th Percentile £688 £725 £725
South West median daily rate £520 £525 £549
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 17 14
10th Percentile £18.58 £12.00 £60.45
25th Percentile £18.69 - £62.75
Median hourly rate £18.87 £14.54 £68.15
Median % change year-on-year +29.78% -78.66% +15.02%
75th Percentile £39.44 £30.25 £77.50
90th Percentile £51.77 £47.75 £85.25
South West median hourly rate £63.00 £50.00 £61.50
% change year-on-year +26.00% -18.70% +26.16%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Wiltshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Wiltshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Wiltshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wiltshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Wiltshire

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in Wiltshire

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 Wiltshire 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
Swindon - 2 £315 - 3
Manual Testing
South West

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wiltshire 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (50.00%) Back Office
1 1 (50.00%) Documentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Manual Tester
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Tester
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) EPoS
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Defect Tracking
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) End-to-End Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Regression Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) System Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Planning
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB
1 1 (50.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA