Manual Testing Job Trends in Cheltenham

Manual Testing
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Cheltenham requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 38 65
Rank change year-on-year +10 +27 +2
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 2 1 4
As % of all permanent jobs in Cheltenham 1.10% 0.65% 1.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.52% 0.70% 1.17%
Number of salaries quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £27,500 £97,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £30,000 £100,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -70.00% +110.53% -24.00%
75th Percentile £32,500 £102,500 £50,938
90th Percentile - - £52,625
Gloucestershire median annual salary £30,000 £100,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -70.00% +110.53% -5.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 132 143 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Cheltenham 72.53% 93.46% 92.93%
Number of salaries quoted 99 73 196
10th Percentile £35,000 £27,800 £35,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £47,500 £44,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £60,000 £56,000
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% +1.82%
75th Percentile £80,000 £78,750 £71,250
90th Percentile £91,000 £90,000 £83,750
Gloucestershire median annual salary £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Cheltenham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Cheltenham citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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:

Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 2 (100.00%) Git
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Developer
1 2 (100.00%) Software Tester
1 2 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 2 (100.00%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 2 (100.00%) TypeScript