Manual Tester Jobs in England

Manual Tester
UK > England

The median Manual Tester salary in England is £47,500 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 827 920 1069
Rank change year-on-year +93 +149 -251
Permanent jobs requiring a Manual Tester 10 27 49
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.012% 0.029% 0.038%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.012% 0.031% 0.039%
Number of salaries quoted 10 24 34
10th Percentile £32,500 £31,625 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,563 £32,500 £32,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £44,000 £40,000
Median % change year-on-year +7.95% +10.00% +9.59%
75th Percentile £51,875 £50,313 £46,875
90th Percentile £54,375 £72,375 £48,750
UK median annual salary £45,000 £44,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +2.27% +10.00% +9.59%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in England with a recognized job title 80,250 85,781 125,417
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.48% 91.57% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 60,143 54,189 75,436
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,000 £45,000 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,000 £60,567 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -10.84% +0.95% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,375 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £91,250 £100,000 £97,500
UK median annual salary £52,923 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -11.80% - +9.09%

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Salary Trend in England

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in England.

Salary trend for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Tester in England over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Tester in England

Manual Tester
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Tester within the England region over the 6 months to 25 April 2024. 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
London +120 5 £50,000 -4.76%
North of England +41 3 £35,000 -27.08%
North West +13 3 £35,000 -
South East +16 1 £42,500 -9.57% 2
Manual Tester
UK

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Manual Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the England region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 5 (50.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) QA
2 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Azure
3 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
3 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
3 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 3 (30.00%) DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
3 3 (30.00%) Postman
4 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
4 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
4 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) CRM
4 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (20.00%) ISEB
4 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
4 2 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Test Management
4 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
4 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) Azure
1 3 (30.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) ClickUp
2 1 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 6 (60.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) Postman
3 1 (10.00%) Fiddler
3 1 (10.00%) Selenium
3 1 (10.00%) SoapUI
General
1 1 (10.00%) Law
1 1 (10.00%) Legal
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (20.00%) RESTful
1 2 (20.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (20.00%) Mobile App
1 2 (20.00%) Product Ownership
1 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (10.00%) Media Streaming
2 1 (10.00%) Over-the-Top Content
2 1 (10.00%) STB
Operating Systems
1 1 (10.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Manual Testing
2 3 (30.00%) DevOps
2 3 (30.00%) Regression Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (30.00%) Test Scripting
2 3 (30.00%) Test Strategy
2 3 (30.00%) User Experience
3 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (20.00%) API Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Culture
3 2 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 2 (20.00%) CRM
3 2 (20.00%) End-to-End Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Issue Tracking
3 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
3 2 (20.00%) Scrum
3 2 (20.00%) Test Management
3 2 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
3 2 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Java
1 1 (10.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) ISEB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB
1 2 (20.00%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (50.00%) QA
2 2 (20.00%) Accessibility
Systems Management
1 1 (10.00%) SysTrack
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (10.00%) Aderant
2 1 (10.00%) Hitachi
2 1 (10.00%) iManage
2 1 (10.00%) Intapp