Manual Testing Jobs in England

Manual Testing
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 7 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 601 500 464
Rank change year-on-year -101 -36 +24
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 236 497 1,036
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.55% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.32% 0.57% 0.81%
Number of salaries quoted 216 340 569
10th Percentile £35,750 £34,425 £31,250
25th Percentile £36,365 £38,250 £37,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £57,500 £67,813 £62,500
90th Percentile £86,000 £85,100 £74,686
UK median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £46,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +8.70% +6.36%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Manual Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 72,894 86,501 127,461
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 85.58% 95.63% 95.72%
Number of salaries quoted 53,677 51,101 73,310
10th Percentile £29,000 £34,324 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £46,000 £44,186
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £73,500 £82,500 £80,000
90th Percentile £93,750 £101,250 £97,500
UK median annual salary £55,000 £61,180 £60,000
% change year-on-year -10.10% +1.97% +9.09%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in England

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in England

Manual Testing
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 Testing within the England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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 +24 63 £52,500 -12.50% 24
South East -27 46 £47,500 +5.56% 9
South West -25 45 £36,984 -22.14% 7
Midlands +6 36 £48,750 +20.37% 9
North of England -39 28 £40,000 -11.11% 16
West Midlands +25 21 £63,749 +21.43% 7
East of England -17 18 £37,500 -6.25%
North West -21 16 £37,500 -26.11% 9
East Midlands -19 15 £36,500 -8.75% 2
Yorkshire +38 11 £45,000 +12.50% 7
North East -8 1 - -
Manual Testing
UK

Manual Testing
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:

Application Platforms
1 6 (2.54%) Confluence
2 3 (1.27%) CMS
3 1 (0.42%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 8 (3.39%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.85%) Simulink
3 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.42%) Notion
Business Applications
1 5 (2.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.85%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.42%) Endur
Cloud Services
1 45 (19.07%) Azure
2 23 (9.75%) Microsoft 365
3 22 (9.32%) Power Platform
3 22 (9.32%) PowerApps
4 21 (8.90%) Azure DevOps
5 20 (8.47%) AWS
6 19 (8.05%) SaaS
7 11 (4.66%) Power Automate
8 8 (3.39%) BrowserStack
8 8 (3.39%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (2.12%) GitHub
10 3 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
11 2 (0.85%) Azure Functions
11 2 (0.85%) npm
11 2 (0.85%) Serverless
11 2 (0.85%) Yarn
12 1 (0.42%) Figma
12 1 (0.42%) GCP
12 1 (0.42%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.69%) SSH
2 2 (0.85%) Broadband
3 1 (0.42%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 21 (8.90%) SQL Server
2 13 (5.51%) Relational Database
3 11 (4.66%) Power BI
4 5 (2.12%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (2.12%) SAP BW
4 5 (2.12%) SAP HANA
5 4 (1.69%) MariaDB
5 4 (1.69%) MySQL
6 2 (0.85%) Metadata
7 1 (0.42%) Data Warehouse
7 1 (0.42%) GIS
Development Applications
1 53 (22.46%) Selenium
2 43 (18.22%) JIRA
3 19 (8.05%) Cypress.io
3 19 (8.05%) Git
4 18 (7.63%) Cucumber
5 16 (6.78%) WebDriver
6 13 (5.51%) Postman
7 12 (5.08%) Appium
7 12 (5.08%) NUnit
7 12 (5.08%) TestRail
8 11 (4.66%) Jenkins
8 11 (4.66%) SpecFlow
8 11 (4.66%) Visual Studio
9 8 (3.39%) SoapUI
9 8 (3.39%) UI Automator
10 7 (2.97%) Team Foundation Server
11 6 (2.54%) JMeter
12 2 (0.85%) Bugzilla
12 2 (0.85%) JBehave
12 2 (0.85%) Zephyr
General
1 73 (30.93%) Social Skills
2 24 (10.17%) Finance
3 22 (9.32%) Fire and Rescue
4 17 (7.20%) Analytical Skills
5 12 (5.08%) Automotive
5 12 (5.08%) Public Sector
6 11 (4.66%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 11 (4.66%) Retail
7 10 (4.24%) Organisational Skills
8 9 (3.81%) Legal
9 8 (3.39%) Law
10 6 (2.54%) Banking
10 6 (2.54%) Marketing
11 5 (2.12%) Electronics
11 5 (2.12%) Manufacturing
12 4 (1.69%) Investment Banking
13 2 (0.85%) Tech for Good
14 1 (0.42%) Documentation Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Influencing Skills
14 1 (0.42%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 39 (16.53%) Analyst
2 35 (14.83%) QA Engineer
3 34 (14.41%) Test Engineer
4 32 (13.56%) Developer
5 30 (12.71%) Lead
6 25 (10.59%) Test Analyst
6 25 (10.59%) Tester
7 20 (8.47%) QA Leader
8 15 (6.36%) QA Analyst
8 15 (6.36%) Senior
8 15 (6.36%) Test Leader
9 12 (5.08%) Software Tester
9 12 (5.08%) Test Manager
10 11 (4.66%) Applications Developer
10 11 (4.66%) Software Developer
11 7 (2.97%) Automation Analyst
11 7 (2.97%) QA Manager
11 7 (2.97%) Software Test Engineer
11 7 (2.97%) Test Automation Engineer
12 6 (2.54%) Head of Software Development
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 22 (9.32%) .NET
2 15 (6.36%) REST
2 15 (6.36%) XML
3 11 (4.66%) Playwright
4 10 (4.24%) .NET Core
4 10 (4.24%) JSON
5 7 (2.97%) Gherkin
5 7 (2.97%) HTML
5 7 (2.97%) SOAP
6 5 (2.12%) RESTful
6 5 (2.12%) Spring
7 4 (1.69%) ADO
7 4 (1.69%) CSS
7 4 (1.69%) CSS3
7 4 (1.69%) HTML5
7 4 (1.69%) Laravel
7 4 (1.69%) Sass
7 4 (1.69%) Tailwind CSS
7 4 (1.69%) Vue
8 3 (1.27%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 28 (11.86%) Product Ownership
2 15 (6.36%) Self-Motivation
3 13 (5.51%) Management Information System
4 11 (4.66%) Mobile App
5 9 (3.81%) Algorithms
5 9 (3.81%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.97%) Greenfield Project
7 6 (2.54%) Smartphone
8 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Cloud
8 4 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.27%) Cloud Native
9 3 (1.27%) Embedded Systems
9 3 (1.27%) PMI
9 3 (1.27%) Renewable Energy
10 2 (0.85%) Client/Server
10 2 (0.85%) Cyberattack
10 2 (0.85%) IoT
10 2 (0.85%) Legacy Applications
10 2 (0.85%) Low-Code
10 2 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 22 (9.32%) Linux
1 22 (9.32%) Windows
2 8 (3.39%) Mac OS
2 8 (3.39%) Unix
3 5 (2.12%) Android
4 3 (1.27%) Apple iOS
4 3 (1.27%) Ubuntu
5 2 (0.85%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.42%) CentOS
6 1 (0.42%) Debian
6 1 (0.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (72.46%) Test Automation
2 142 (60.17%) Agile
3 82 (34.75%) DevOps
4 54 (22.88%) User Experience
5 53 (22.46%) Software Testing
6 40 (16.95%) Problem-Solving
6 40 (16.95%) Test Scripting
7 35 (14.83%) Scrum
8 32 (13.56%) API Testing
8 32 (13.56%) SDLC
9 31 (13.14%) Test Strategy
10 30 (12.71%) Regression Testing
11 29 (12.29%) Code Quality
12 28 (11.86%) CI/CD
13 27 (11.44%) Computer Science
14 23 (9.75%) Continuous Integration
15 19 (8.05%) Continuous Improvement
15 19 (8.05%) Microservices
15 19 (8.05%) User Acceptance Testing
16 16 (6.78%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 61 (25.85%) SQL
2 46 (19.49%) Java
3 35 (14.83%) C#
4 26 (11.02%) JavaScript
5 18 (7.63%) Python
6 9 (3.81%) TypeScript
7 5 (2.12%) C
7 5 (2.12%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.69%) PHP
9 2 (0.85%) C++
9 2 (0.85%) MATLAB
9 2 (0.85%) Shell Script
10 1 (0.42%) Bash
10 1 (0.42%) Kotlin
10 1 (0.42%) SPARQL
Qualifications
1 46 (19.49%) Degree
2 40 (16.95%) ISTQB
3 19 (8.05%) Computer Science Degree
4 17 (7.20%) ISEB
5 9 (3.81%) Master's Degree
5 9 (3.81%) Security Cleared
6 5 (2.12%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
6 5 (2.12%) Numerate Degree
7 3 (1.27%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.27%) PMI Certification
7 3 (1.27%) SC Cleared
8 2 (0.85%) HND
8 2 (0.85%) MCAD
8 2 (0.85%) Microsoft Certification
9 1 (0.42%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 137 (58.05%) QA
2 2 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 2 (0.85%) Data Quality
2 2 (0.85%) ISO 14001
2 2 (0.85%) ISO 9001
2 2 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (0.85%) SLA
3 1 (0.42%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (1.69%) Virtual Desktop
2 2 (0.85%) Firmware
3 1 (0.42%) Docker
3 1 (0.42%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (2.12%) Grafana
1 5 (2.12%) Kibana
1 5 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.27%) Ansible
2 3 (1.27%) Terraform
3 1 (0.42%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 47 (19.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.97%) SAP
3 5 (2.12%) ServiceNow
3 5 (2.12%) UiPath
4 2 (0.85%) BT
5 1 (0.42%) Adobe
5 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.42%) Databricks
5 1 (0.42%) Hitachi
5 1 (0.42%) HP
5 1 (0.42%) OpenLink
5 1 (0.42%) Oracle
5 1 (0.42%) Red Hat
5 1 (0.42%) VMware