Manual Testing Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Manual Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 257 283 396
Rank change year-on-year +26 +113 +49
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 47 62 81
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.47% 0.40% 0.31%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.46% 0.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 45 61
10th Percentile £325 £342 £338
25th Percentile £363 £375 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% +17.65%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £575
90th Percentile £875 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £60.00 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Manual Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Manual Testing trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Manual Testing.

Manual Testing daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Manual Testing over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Manual Testing daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Manual Testing.

Manual Testing hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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:

Applications
1 2 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.13%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.13%) Murex MxG2000
1 1 (2.13%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 14 (29.79%) Azure
2 9 (19.15%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (12.77%) GitHub
4 3 (6.38%) AWS
4 3 (6.38%) GitHub Actions
5 2 (4.26%) GCP
6 1 (2.13%) BrowserStack
6 1 (2.13%) dbt
6 1 (2.13%) Sauce Labs
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (14.89%) MS Access
2 3 (6.38%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 6 (12.77%) Selenium
2 5 (10.64%) Postman
2 5 (10.64%) SpecFlow
3 4 (8.51%) Git
3 4 (8.51%) JIRA
3 4 (8.51%) QARun
3 4 (8.51%) WinRunner
4 3 (6.38%) Cucumber
4 3 (6.38%) Cypress.io
4 3 (6.38%) Jenkins
4 3 (6.38%) JMeter
4 3 (6.38%) NUnit
5 2 (4.26%) Burp Suite
5 2 (4.26%) Gatling
5 2 (4.26%) JUnit
5 2 (4.26%) REST Assured
5 2 (4.26%) Visual Studio
6 1 (2.13%) HP UFT
6 1 (2.13%) LoadRunner
6 1 (2.13%) TestDirector
General
1 25 (53.19%) Social Skills
2 20 (42.55%) Finance
3 9 (19.15%) Financial Institution
3 9 (19.15%) Front Office
4 6 (12.77%) Banking
5 4 (8.51%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.26%) Manufacturing
6 2 (4.26%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.26%) Retail
7 1 (2.13%) Back Office
7 1 (2.13%) Electronics
7 1 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.13%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.13%) Marketing
7 1 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (21.28%) Analyst
1 10 (21.28%) Test Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Business Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Front Office Business Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
2 9 (19.15%) Senior
3 7 (14.89%) Test Engineer
3 7 (14.89%) Tester
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (12.77%) Senior Test Analyst
5 5 (10.64%) Lead
5 5 (10.64%) QA Engineer
6 4 (8.51%) Senior UAT Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) UAT Analyst
6 4 (8.51%) UAT Test Analyst
7 3 (6.38%) QA Leader
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Senior Test Engineer
8 2 (4.26%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (29.79%) Playwright
2 6 (12.77%) Middleware
2 6 (12.77%) Web Services
3 3 (6.38%) .NET
3 3 (6.38%) REST
4 2 (4.26%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.13%) .NET Framework
5 1 (2.13%) Gherkin
5 1 (2.13%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.13%) JSON
5 1 (2.13%) Kafka
5 1 (2.13%) PySpark
5 1 (2.13%) pytest
5 1 (2.13%) React
5 1 (2.13%) RESTful
5 1 (2.13%) SOAP
5 1 (2.13%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.13%) WPF
5 1 (2.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (19.15%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.38%) Product Ownership
3 1 (2.13%) Data Centre
3 1 (2.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.13%) EPoS
3 1 (2.13%) Public Cloud
3 1 (2.13%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 7 (14.89%) Windows
2 6 (12.77%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (93.62%) Test Automation
2 20 (42.55%) Problem-Solving
3 17 (36.17%) Agile
4 16 (34.04%) User Acceptance Testing
5 15 (31.91%) DevOps
5 15 (31.91%) Regression Testing
6 10 (21.28%) Software Testing
7 9 (19.15%) Business Analysis
7 9 (19.15%) Economics
7 9 (19.15%) Electronic Trading
7 9 (19.15%) Product Management
7 9 (19.15%) Quantitative Research
8 8 (17.02%) BDD
8 8 (17.02%) CI/CD
8 8 (17.02%) Test Planning
8 8 (17.02%) Test Strategy
8 8 (17.02%) Validation
8 8 (17.02%) Waterfall
9 7 (14.89%) Microservices
9 7 (14.89%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 15 (31.91%) SQL
2 5 (10.64%) Python
3 4 (8.51%) C#
3 4 (8.51%) Java
4 3 (6.38%) TypeScript
5 2 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.26%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.13%) Bash
6 1 (2.13%) Go
6 1 (2.13%) Groovy
6 1 (2.13%) Perl
6 1 (2.13%) Ruby
6 1 (2.13%) SOQL
6 1 (2.13%) VBA
Qualifications
1 12 (25.53%) Degree
2 9 (19.15%) SC Cleared
2 9 (19.15%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.38%) ISTQB
4 2 (4.26%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.13%) CEH
5 1 (2.13%) CISSP
5 1 (2.13%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.13%) CREST Certified
5 1 (2.13%) Master's Degree
5 1 (2.13%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (38.30%) QA
2 2 (4.26%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.13%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.13%) GDPR
3 1 (2.13%) GxP
3 1 (2.13%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (4.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.13%) Ansible
1 1 (2.13%) Grafana
1 1 (2.13%) Nessus
1 1 (2.13%) Progress Chef
1 1 (2.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (19.15%) ION Trading
2 6 (12.77%) Citrix
2 6 (12.77%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.26%) Oracle
3 2 (4.26%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.13%) Google
4 1 (2.13%) Murex
4 1 (2.13%) SAP