Manual Testing Job Trends in Cambridge

Manual Testing
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cambridge requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 56 60
Rank change year-on-year +6 +4 +26
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 2 3 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cambridge 0.39% 0.65% 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.48% 0.75% 0.93%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £57,500 £37,500 -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £40,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £62,500 £42,500 -
90th Percentile - - -
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £60,000 £40,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +50.00% -20.00% -23.08%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridge

Manual Testing falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Cambridge.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 402 432
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cambridge 80.66% 86.45% 89.63%
Number of salaries quoted 282 192 288
10th Percentile £29,775 £38,750 £28,642
25th Percentile £35,000 £47,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% -8.33%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,750 £80,000
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £92,500
Cambridgeshire median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing Manual Testing relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in Cambridge.

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Cambridge

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cambridge citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (100.00%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (100.00%) JMeter
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation Engineer
1 2 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) REST
1 2 (100.00%) RESTful
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Analytics
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Code Quality
1 2 (100.00%) Exploratory Testing
1 2 (100.00%) SDET
1 2 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
System Software
1 2 (100.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Kubernetes