Manual Testing Job Trends in London

Manual Testing
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in London 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 331 373 393
Rank change year-on-year +42 +20 +63
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 43 60 59
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.31% 0.39% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.41% 0.35%
Number of salaries quoted 33 28 55
10th Percentile £42,750 £55,000 £41,450
25th Percentile £50,000 £55,938 £45,625
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £65,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -15.38% +23.81% -4.55%
75th Percentile £70,000 £78,500 £68,250
90th Percentile £83,750 £87,500 £85,000
England median annual salary £52,000 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year +4.00% - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,179 14,601 16,983
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 87.59% 94.58% 92.42%
Number of salaries quoted 7,774 8,034 13,619
10th Percentile £36,250 £43,250 £41,250
25th Percentile £51,263 £56,250 £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £74,250 £75,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% - -
75th Percentile £95,000 £97,500 £95,000
90th Percentile £117,500 £120,875 £115,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £60,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% - -4.00%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in London

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in London

Manual Testing
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the London 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
Central London +33 3 £43,500 -27.50% 6
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (9.30%) Confluence
2 1 (2.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.33%) Aladdin
1 1 (2.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (23.26%) AWS
2 9 (20.93%) Azure
3 5 (11.63%) GCP
3 5 (11.63%) Power Platform
3 5 (11.63%) SaaS
4 4 (9.30%) BrowserStack
5 3 (6.98%) Adobe Analytics
5 3 (6.98%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (6.98%) Datadog
6 1 (2.33%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.33%) GitHub
6 1 (2.33%) Snowflake
6 1 (2.33%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.33%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (2.33%) Ethernet
1 1 (2.33%) FTP
1 1 (2.33%) HTTP
1 1 (2.33%) SD-WAN
1 1 (2.33%) SNMP
1 1 (2.33%) Spanning Tree
1 1 (2.33%) SSH
1 1 (2.33%) TACACS
1 1 (2.33%) WAN
1 1 (2.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.98%) Mixpanel
1 3 (6.98%) SQL Server
2 2 (4.65%) DB2
2 2 (4.65%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.65%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 13 (30.23%) Postman
2 12 (27.91%) JIRA
2 12 (27.91%) Selenium
3 6 (13.95%) SoapUI
4 5 (11.63%) Git
5 4 (9.30%) Jenkins
5 4 (9.30%) SpecFlow
6 3 (6.98%) Browser DevTools
6 3 (6.98%) Charles Proxy
6 3 (6.98%) Cucumber
6 3 (6.98%) Fiddler
6 3 (6.98%) Maven
6 3 (6.98%) TestNG
6 3 (6.98%) WebDriver
6 3 (6.98%) Zephyr
7 2 (4.65%) Bitbucket
7 2 (4.65%) Katalon Studio
7 2 (4.65%) REST Assured
7 2 (4.65%) TeamCity
7 2 (4.65%) webpack
General
1 12 (27.91%) Finance
1 12 (27.91%) Social Skills
2 10 (23.26%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (13.95%) Games
3 6 (13.95%) Marketing
4 5 (11.63%) Banking
5 4 (9.30%) Electronics
6 3 (6.98%) Law
7 2 (4.65%) Back Office
7 2 (4.65%) Legal
7 2 (4.65%) Public Sector
7 2 (4.65%) Retail
7 2 (4.65%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.33%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Lead
2 9 (20.93%) QA Leader
2 9 (20.93%) Test Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) QA Engineer
3 7 (16.28%) Senior
4 6 (13.95%) Test Automation Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Quality Engineer
5 5 (11.63%) Tester
6 4 (9.30%) Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) QA Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) QA Test Analyst
6 4 (9.30%) Senior Quality Engineer
6 4 (9.30%) Test Analyst
7 3 (6.98%) Development Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) IT Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
7 3 (6.98%) Senior IT Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Development Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Software Engineer
7 3 (6.98%) Test Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (16.28%) CSS
1 7 (16.28%) HTML
1 7 (16.28%) Playwright
2 4 (9.30%) React
3 3 (6.98%) .NET
3 3 (6.98%) XML
4 2 (4.65%) CSS3
4 2 (4.65%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (4.65%) FIX Protocol
4 2 (4.65%) Gherkin
4 2 (4.65%) HTML5
4 2 (4.65%) pytest
4 2 (4.65%) REST
4 2 (4.65%) RESTful
4 2 (4.65%) Sass
5 1 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 1 (2.33%) JSON
5 1 (2.33%) Node.js
5 1 (2.33%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Product Ownership
2 3 (6.98%) Derivative
2 3 (6.98%) Equities
2 3 (6.98%) Fixed Income
2 3 (6.98%) Mobile App
2 3 (6.98%) W3C
3 2 (4.65%) Analytical Mindset
3 2 (4.65%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (4.65%) Greenfield Project
3 2 (4.65%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.33%) Hedge funds
4 1 (2.33%) IoT
4 1 (2.33%) Low-Code
4 1 (2.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.65%) Linux
1 2 (4.65%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (83.72%) Test Automation
2 25 (58.14%) Agile
3 23 (53.49%) Software Testing
4 20 (46.51%) CI/CD
5 14 (32.56%) API Testing
5 14 (32.56%) Non-Functional Testing
6 13 (30.23%) Validation
7 12 (27.91%) Defect Management
7 12 (27.91%) Problem-Solving
7 12 (27.91%) Scrum
8 11 (25.58%) SDLC
9 10 (23.26%) DevOps
9 10 (23.26%) Functional Testing
9 10 (23.26%) Regression Testing
9 10 (23.26%) Test Scripting
10 9 (20.93%) AI
10 9 (20.93%) BDD
10 9 (20.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (18.60%) Test Strategy
12 7 (16.28%) Data Validation
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.23%) Python
2 12 (27.91%) JavaScript
2 12 (27.91%) SQL
3 10 (23.26%) Java
4 8 (18.60%) TypeScript
5 6 (13.95%) C#
6 3 (6.98%) Bash
7 2 (4.65%) PHP
7 2 (4.65%) PowerShell
7 2 (4.65%) RPG
8 1 (2.33%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 16 (37.21%) ISTQB
2 6 (13.95%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 4 (9.30%) ISEB
5 2 (4.65%) DV Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) SC Cleared
5 2 (4.65%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (65.12%) QA
2 8 (18.60%) Accessibility
3 4 (9.30%) Data Quality
4 2 (4.65%) Section 508
4 2 (4.65%) WCAG
System Software
1 3 (6.98%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.65%) Ansible
2 2 (4.65%) Terraform
3 1 (2.33%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 5 (11.63%) Microsoft
2 3 (6.98%) Adobe
2 3 (6.98%) Tealium
3 2 (4.65%) IBM
3 2 (4.65%) SAP
4 1 (2.33%) Charles River
4 1 (2.33%) Cisco
4 1 (2.33%) HP
4 1 (2.33%) Meraki
4 1 (2.33%) Murex
4 1 (2.33%) Pega
4 1 (2.33%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.33%) Siebel
4 1 (2.33%) Sitecore