Manual Testing Jobs in Manchester

Manual Testing
North West > Manchester

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in Manchester 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 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 206 198 229
Rank change year-on-year -8 +31 -55
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 12 47 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 0.23% 0.95% 0.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.27% 0.98% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 12 25 19
10th Percentile - £41,750 £33,500
25th Percentile £33,750 £42,500 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £37,500 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -34.78% +27.78% +5.88%
75th Percentile £41,250 £65,000 £54,488
90th Percentile £44,625 £75,000 £59,589
North West median annual salary £37,500 £50,750 £45,020
% change year-on-year -26.11% +12.73% +20.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,443 4,794 5,439
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 86.66% 96.63% 96.18%
Number of salaries quoted 3,390 2,559 3,630
10th Percentile £30,000 £32,500 £32,378
25th Percentile £41,250 £43,800 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £54,600 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -5.04% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £69,725 £72,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £83,750 £85,000
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in Manchester

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in Manchester

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in Manchester

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in Manchester over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in Manchester

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) AWS
2 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 5 (41.67%) BrowserStack
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Functions
3 2 (16.67%) Serverless
4 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Development Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Selenium
2 5 (41.67%) JMeter
3 4 (33.33%) Postman
4 2 (16.67%) WebDriver
5 1 (8.33%) Cypress.io
5 1 (8.33%) SpecFlow
General
1 8 (66.67%) Finance
2 5 (41.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 5 (41.67%) Retail
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Automotive
4 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Test Analyst
1 5 (41.67%) Test Engineer
2 2 (16.67%) Software Tester
2 2 (16.67%) Tester
3 1 (8.33%) Software Test Engineer
3 1 (8.33%) Test Automation Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Playwright
Operating Systems
1 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Test Automation
2 9 (75.00%) Agile
3 8 (66.67%) Test Scripting
4 7 (58.33%) Performance Testing
5 5 (41.67%) Acceptance Criteria
5 5 (41.67%) Change Control
5 5 (41.67%) Code Quality
5 5 (41.67%) Fintech
5 5 (41.67%) User Stories
6 4 (33.33%) CI/CD
7 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (25.00%) Software Testing
7 3 (25.00%) Test Management
8 2 (16.67%) API Testing
8 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
8 2 (16.67%) Defect Tracking
8 2 (16.67%) Exploratory Testing
8 2 (16.67%) SDLC
8 2 (16.67%) Test Planning
8 2 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) C#
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
3 1 (8.33%) Java
3 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) HND
1 2 (16.67%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Grafana
1 5 (41.67%) Kibana