Manual Testing Jobs in Central London

Manual Testing
London > Central London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Central London requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 154 179 221
Rank change year-on-year +25 +42 +38
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 5 19 17
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 0.21% 0.50% 0.33%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.22% 0.55% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 4 19 16
10th Percentile £56,875 £40,600 £45,625
25th Percentile £59,688 £47,500 £52,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £63,750 £62,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% -7.41% +12.50%
75th Percentile £67,500 £80,250 £113,125
90th Percentile - £95,000 £128,750
London median annual salary £63,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year +5.00% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,273 3,471 4,830
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Central London 96.64% 91.83% 94.78%
Number of salaries quoted 1,546 2,651 3,984
10th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £42,500
25th Percentile £55,000 £52,500 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £75,000 £72,500 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +3.45% -3.33% +3.45%
75th Percentile £98,750 £95,000 £97,500
90th Percentile £120,000 £112,500 £112,500
London median annual salary £75,000 £70,000 £75,000
% change year-on-year +7.14% -6.67% +7.14%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Central London

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Central London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in Central London.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in Central London

Manual Testing
Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Central London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London +26 5 £63,750 -15.00% 11
Manual Testing
London

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 1 (20.00%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (20.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Azure
1 2 (40.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) Selenium
2 1 (20.00%) Appium
2 1 (20.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (20.00%) Team Foundation Server
2 1 (20.00%) XCUITest
General
1 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (40.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) IT Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Lead
2 1 (20.00%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) QA Leader
2 1 (20.00%) Quality Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) JSON
2 1 (20.00%) CSS
2 1 (20.00%) HTML
2 1 (20.00%) REST
2 1 (20.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 4 (80.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) DevOps
3 2 (40.00%) Test Scripting
4 1 (20.00%) API Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Case Management
4 1 (20.00%) Critical Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Management
4 1 (20.00%) Defect Tracking
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) QA Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) SDET
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (20.00%) Test Planning
4 1 (20.00%) White-Box Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) C#
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Swift
Qualifications
1 2 (40.00%) ISTQB
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (20.00%) GDPR
2 1 (20.00%) MiFID
2 1 (20.00%) PSD2
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft