Smoke Testing Job Trends in Manchester

Smoke Testing (including Confidence Testing, Sanity Testing)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Smoke Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 2 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 192 - 194
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Permanent jobs citing Smoke Testing 2 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.028% - 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.037% - 0.028%
Number of salaries quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £45,625 - -
25th Percentile £46,563 - £55,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,250 - £60,000
75th Percentile £54,688 - £65,000
90th Percentile £54,875 - -
North West median annual salary £51,250 - £51,250
% change year-on-year - - -14.58%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Smoke 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 5,361 2,213 3,533
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 75.26% 90.00% 82.03%
Number of salaries quoted 4,162 1,302 2,117
10th Percentile £32,500 £29,050 £31,250
25th Percentile £45,000 £35,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £54,285 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -1.30% -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £71,404 £69,250
90th Percentile £97,500 £87,500 £82,500
North West median annual salary £55,000 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +10.00% -1.96% -7.27%

Smoke Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Smoke Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

Smoke Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Smoke Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Smoke Testing

Smoke 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Copilot Studio
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Copilot
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (50.00%) Cypress.io
General
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft 365 Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) ADO
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (50.00%) Playwright
1 1 (50.00%) REST
1 1 (50.00%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) API Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Manual Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Burndown Charts
2 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (50.00%) Collaborative Culture
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational AI
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Validation
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
2 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Test Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) SQL
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft