Manual Testing Contracts in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 23 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 98 103
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +49
Contract jobs citing Manual Testing 9 7 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Yorkshire 0.64% 0.43% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.70% 0.51% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 11
10th Percentile £274 - £413
25th Percentile £297 - £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £350 £455
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -23.08% +30.00%
75th Percentile £558 - £575
90th Percentile £670 - £675
England median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +8.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,285 1,361 1,910
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 91.92% 83.50% 89.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 796 830 1,238
10th Percentile £263 £300 £281
25th Percentile £375 £400 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £550 £579 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 55 32
10th Percentile £16.25 - £12.12
25th Percentile £18.35 £12.15 £17.42
Median hourly rate £22.14 £13.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +64.00% -32.50% +6.81%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.75 £25.31
90th Percentile £34.15 £42.75 £48.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +63.46%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 23 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Hourly rate trend for Manual Testing in Yorkshire

Manual Testing
Contract Job Locations in 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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 23 July 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
West Yorkshire +1 5 £375 +7.14% 1
South Yorkshire - 2 £510 -
East Yorkshire - 1 £288 -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 (11.11%) AWS
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Bloomreach
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Selenium
2 3 (33.33%) JIRA
2 3 (33.33%) Postman
3 2 (22.22%) Cypress.io
4 1 (11.11%) Cucumber
4 1 (11.11%) Git
4 1 (11.11%) GitLab
4 1 (11.11%) IntelliJ
4 1 (11.11%) Jenkins
4 1 (11.11%) JMeter
4 1 (11.11%) Maven
4 1 (11.11%) REST Assured
4 1 (11.11%) SoapUI
4 1 (11.11%) TestNG
4 1 (11.11%) TestRail
4 1 (11.11%) Zephyr
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Tester
2 3 (33.33%) QA Tester
2 3 (33.33%) Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Manual Tester
3 2 (22.22%) QA Manual Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Programme Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Software Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Test Automation Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Test Leader
4 1 (11.11%) Test Manager
4 1 (11.11%) Test Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
2 1 (11.11%) Nightwatchjs
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) EPoS
2 1 (11.11%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (11.11%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Test Automation
2 4 (44.44%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) API Testing
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Software Testing
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Test Scripting
3 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
4 1 (11.11%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (11.11%) Analytics
4 1 (11.11%) BDD
4 1 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
4 1 (11.11%) DevOps
4 1 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
4 1 (11.11%) OWASP
4 1 (11.11%) Scrum
4 1 (11.11%) Security Testing
4 1 (11.11%) Test Management
4 1 (11.11%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (22.22%) Java
1 2 (22.22%) SQL
2 1 (11.11%) JCL
2 1 (11.11%) REXX
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) SC Cleared
1 2 (22.22%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (88.89%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (11.11%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Ansible
1 1 (11.11%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) IBM
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft