Manual Testing Jobs in the East of England

Manual Testing
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 17 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 161 206 181
Rank change year-on-year +45 -25 +74
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 17 19 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 0.51% 0.31% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.54% 0.38% 0.99%
Number of salaries quoted 16 18 16
10th Percentile - £28,500 £36,125
25th Percentile £32,500 £31,375 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £53,000 £37,500 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +41.33% -6.25% -11.11%
75th Percentile - £41,563 £55,500
90th Percentile - £42,875 £67,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +6.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East of England

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 the East of England.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,130 4,939 4,948
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the East of England 94.05% 80.05% 94.97%
Number of salaries quoted 1,472 3,706 2,142
10th Percentile £27,750 £25,809 £26,763
25th Percentile £37,000 £32,500 £37,791
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,967 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% -9.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £66,206 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £75,000 £76,250 £82,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Job postings citing Manual Testing as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the East of England

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the East of England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the East of England.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the East of England

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the East of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the East of England over the 6 months to 17 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the East of England

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the East of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the East of England region over the 6 months to 17 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
Essex +24 8 £35,000 - 1
Cambridgeshire +36 4 £53,000 +41.33% 5
Suffolk - 3 £53,000 - 1
Norfolk +15 1 £42,500 +46.55% 3
Bedfordshire - 1 - -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Development Applications
1 10 (58.82%) JIRA
1 10 (58.82%) Selenium
2 2 (11.76%) Cypress.io
General
1 9 (52.94%) Law
1 9 (52.94%) Legal
2 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.88%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (58.82%) QA Engineer
2 9 (52.94%) Senior
2 9 (52.94%) Senior QA Engineer
3 5 (29.41%) Technical Support
4 2 (11.76%) Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Test Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Software Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Software Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) CSS
1 1 (5.88%) HTML
1 1 (5.88%) Playwright
1 1 (5.88%) React Native
1 1 (5.88%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.88%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (64.71%) Software Testing
1 11 (64.71%) Test Automation
1 11 (64.71%) Test Scripting
2 9 (52.94%) Agile
2 9 (52.94%) Defect Tracking
2 9 (52.94%) Process Improvement
2 9 (52.94%) Project Management
2 9 (52.94%) User Acceptance Testing
3 5 (29.41%) Business Development
3 5 (29.41%) Tech Ops
4 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (11.76%) Acceptance Criteria
6 1 (5.88%) Configure, Price, Quote (CPQ)
6 1 (5.88%) Performance Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Regression Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Scenario Testing
6 1 (5.88%) Scrum
6 1 (5.88%) Test Strategy
6 1 (5.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.88%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 9 (52.94%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (64.71%) QA
2 1 (5.88%) Accessibility