Manual Testing Job Trends in Leeds

Manual Testing
West Yorkshire > Leeds

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Leeds requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 18 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 80 100 116
Rank change year-on-year +20 +16 +69
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 1 2 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Leeds 0.10% 0.13% 0.065%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.17% 0.067%
Number of salaries quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £30,650 -
25th Percentile £56,250 £35,750 £71,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £46,000 £72,500
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -36.55% +92.05%
75th Percentile £58,750 £55,750 £73,750
90th Percentile - £60,550 -
West Yorkshire median annual salary £57,500 £46,000 £40,113
% change year-on-year +25.00% +14.68% +0.28%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Leeds

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 Leeds.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 842 1,159 1,487
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Leeds 87.07% 78.05% 96.12%
Number of salaries quoted 558 688 1,095
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £31,189
25th Percentile £42,813 £46,188 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £58,500 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% +4.55%
75th Percentile £72,750 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £85,000 £85,000 £88,750
West Yorkshire median annual salary £55,000 £55,000 £55,000

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Leeds

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Leeds

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Leeds

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Leeds citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Leeds 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (100.00%) Power Platform
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Test Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA