Manual Testing Job Trends in Manchester

Manual Testing
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester 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 128 136 138
Rank change year-on-year +8 +2 +65
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 2 16 9
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.070% 0.60% 0.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.64% 0.39%
Number of salaries quoted 2 8 7
10th Percentile £38,250 - £32,500
25th Percentile £39,375 £36,250 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £43,250 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.05% -3.89% -18.18%
75th Percentile £51,875 £54,063 £56,250
90th Percentile £53,750 £64,750 £65,000
North West median annual salary £45,000 £45,000 £43,750
% change year-on-year - +2.86% -20.45%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,287 2,496 2,316
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 79.63% 93.83% 90.93%
Number of salaries quoted 1,369 1,167 1,854
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,800 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £40,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £55,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £72,500 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £87,500 £86,750 £84,056
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Siebel CRM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Tricentis Tosca
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (50.00%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) CRM
2 1 (50.00%) Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Non-Functional Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scenario Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
2 1 (50.00%) System Integration Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Test Scripting
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Genesys
1 1 (50.00%) Siebel