Manual Testing Contracts with Work from Home Options

Manual Testing
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 30 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 283 396 445
Rank change year-on-year +113 +49 -42
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 62 81 191
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.40% 0.31% 0.43%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.46% 0.35% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 61 118
10th Percentile £342 £338 £296
25th Percentile £375 £419 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £425
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +17.65% +11.84%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £524
90th Percentile £700 £650 £616
UK median daily rate £450 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 6
10th Percentile - - £29.88
25th Percentile £58.75 - £44.31
Median hourly rate £60.00 - £49.75
75th Percentile £61.25 - -
90th Percentile - - £59.00
UK median hourly rate £50.00 - £47.50
% change year-on-year - - -2.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,483 23,229 40,650
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.87% 89.84% 91.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,996 16,418 29,502
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £719
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 579 532 548
10th Percentile £15.17 £19.00 £13.50
25th Percentile £25.25 £30.54 £19.98
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +34.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.23 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £25.00
% change year-on-year -4.42% +49.20% -

Manual Testing
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Manual Testing trend for jobs with a WFH option

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Manual Testing over the 6 months to 30 April 2024.

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 a work from home option 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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (8.06%) Confluence
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint 2013
Applications
1 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (4.84%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (3.23%) Cerner Millennium
3 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.61%) Magento
3 1 (1.61%) MIS ActiveH
3 1 (1.61%) NEC Housing
Cloud Services
1 21 (33.87%) Azure
2 18 (29.03%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (6.45%) AWS
4 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.23%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (3.23%) PaaS
5 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.61%) Boomi
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub
6 1 (1.61%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (1.61%) OpenShift
6 1 (1.61%) SaaS
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.61%) Sauce Labs
6 1 (1.61%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.84%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.61%) Big Data
1 1 (1.61%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
1 1 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (1.61%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (16.13%) Postman
2 9 (14.52%) Visual Studio
3 7 (11.29%) Git
3 7 (11.29%) JIRA
3 7 (11.29%) Selenium
3 7 (11.29%) SpecFlow
4 5 (8.06%) Cypress.io
5 4 (6.45%) Bitbucket
5 4 (6.45%) Jenkins
5 4 (6.45%) Moq
6 3 (4.84%) Artifactory
6 3 (4.84%) NUnit
7 2 (3.23%) Appium
7 2 (3.23%) Cucumber
7 2 (3.23%) JMeter
7 2 (3.23%) TestCafe
7 2 (3.23%) WebDriver
8 1 (1.61%) GitLab
8 1 (1.61%) GoCD
8 1 (1.61%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 14 (22.58%) Finance
2 9 (14.52%) Public Sector
2 9 (14.52%) Social Skills
3 6 (9.68%) Banking
4 4 (6.45%) Marketing
5 3 (4.84%) Electronics
5 3 (4.84%) Manufacturing
5 3 (4.84%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.23%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Back Office
6 2 (3.23%) Investment Banking
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Retail
Job Titles
1 19 (30.65%) Analyst
2 18 (29.03%) Test Analyst
3 11 (17.74%) Senior
3 11 (17.74%) Test Engineer
3 11 (17.74%) Tester
4 6 (9.68%) Lead
4 6 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Senior Test Analyst
4 6 (9.68%) Test Manager
5 5 (8.06%) Developer
5 5 (8.06%) QA Engineer
6 4 (6.45%) C# Developer
6 4 (6.45%) Manual Tester
6 4 (6.45%) Senior Test Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Azure Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Development Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Linux Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) QA Leader
7 3 (4.84%) Test Automation Engineer
7 3 (4.84%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (17.74%) .NET
2 5 (8.06%) .NET Framework
2 5 (8.06%) Playwright
3 4 (6.45%) Entity Framework
3 4 (6.45%) RESTful
3 4 (6.45%) XML
4 3 (4.84%) AngularJS
4 3 (4.84%) GraphQL
4 3 (4.84%) Oracle Fusion
4 3 (4.84%) SOAP
5 2 (3.23%) REST
6 1 (1.61%) .NET Core
6 1 (1.61%) Elastic Stack
6 1 (1.61%) Gherkin
6 1 (1.61%) JSON
6 1 (1.61%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 5 (8.06%) Derivative
2 4 (6.45%) Interest Rate Derivative
2 4 (6.45%) NHS
3 3 (4.84%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.61%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.61%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.61%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.61%) Public Cloud
5 1 (1.61%) Replication
5 1 (1.61%) Robotics
5 1 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.61%) SWIFT Messaging Network
5 1 (1.61%) W3C
Operating Systems
1 6 (9.68%) Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Embedded Linux
2 3 (4.84%) Windows
3 2 (3.23%) Android
4 1 (1.61%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (56.45%) Test Automation
2 30 (48.39%) Agile
3 23 (37.10%) DevOps
4 20 (32.26%) Software Testing
5 17 (27.42%) Test Strategy
6 13 (20.97%) BDD
7 12 (19.35%) Scrum
8 11 (17.74%) Integration Testing
8 11 (17.74%) Regression Testing
8 11 (17.74%) Scenario Testing
8 11 (17.74%) Test Scripting
9 10 (16.13%) CI/CD
9 10 (16.13%) Performance Testing
9 10 (16.13%) User Acceptance Testing
10 9 (14.52%) End-to-End Testing
10 9 (14.52%) Functional Testing
10 9 (14.52%) Test Planning
10 9 (14.52%) Waterfall
11 8 (12.90%) Continuous Integration
11 8 (12.90%) Non-Functional Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (22.58%) SQL
2 8 (12.90%) C#
3 7 (11.29%) Java
3 7 (11.29%) Python
4 3 (4.84%) C++
4 3 (4.84%) TypeScript
5 2 (3.23%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.23%) Kotlin
5 2 (3.23%) R
6 1 (1.61%) Bash
6 1 (1.61%) Perl
6 1 (1.61%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (12.90%) ISTQB
2 7 (11.29%) Security Cleared
3 4 (6.45%) Degree
4 3 (4.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
4 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) CTC Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) DV Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (19.35%) QA
2 8 (12.90%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Docker
2 3 (4.84%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.84%) VirtualBox
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) HP Quality Center
2 1 (1.61%) Grafana
2 1 (1.61%) Kibana
2 1 (1.61%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft
2 7 (11.29%) Oracle
3 3 (4.84%) SAP
4 2 (3.23%) Aderant
4 2 (3.23%) Cerner
4 2 (3.23%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.61%) Adobe
5 1 (1.61%) Dell
5 1 (1.61%) Fujitsu
5 1 (1.61%) HP
5 1 (1.61%) IBM
5 1 (1.61%) NEC
5 1 (1.61%) Perfecto Mobile
5 1 (1.61%) ServiceNow