Manual Testing Job Trends in Gloucestershire

Manual Testing
South West > Gloucestershire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Gloucestershire requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 76 100
Rank change year-on-year +19 +24 +15
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 2 1 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Gloucestershire 0.31% 0.16% 0.61%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.17% 0.69%
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £35,500
25th Percentile £66,250 £97,500 £40,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £72,500 £100,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +122.22% -10.00%
75th Percentile £78,750 £102,500 £53,750
90th Percentile - - £69,500
South West median annual salary £45,000 £50,000 £45,000
% change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Gloucestershire

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 Gloucestershire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 488 584 866
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Gloucestershire 75.31% 92.70% 88.64%
Number of salaries quoted 344 239 538
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £29,657
25th Percentile £36,072 £41,250 £36,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £71,250 £66,250 £66,250
90th Percentile £82,500 £77,750 £80,000
South West median annual salary £50,000 £54,439 £52,500
% change year-on-year -8.15% +3.69% +3.35%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Gloucestershire

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Gloucestershire

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Gloucestershire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Gloucestershire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Job Locations in Gloucestershire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Gloucestershire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Gloucester - 1 - -
Manual Testing
South West

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Gloucestershire 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Selenium
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Data Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Test Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Test Engineer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) ATDD
2 1 (50.00%) BDD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Data Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Exploratory Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Open Source
2 1 (50.00%) SDLC
2 1 (50.00%) TDD
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (50.00%) QA