System Testing Job Trends in Manchester

System Testing
North West > Manchester

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

 6 months to
2 Apr 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 146 - 181
Rank change year-on-year - - +47
Permanent jobs citing System Testing 8 0 19
As % of all permanent jobs in Manchester 0.18% - 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.25% - 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 16
10th Percentile - - £36,120
25th Percentile £47,500 - £38,066
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 - £40,144
Median % change year-on-year - - -23.54%
75th Percentile - - £58,544
90th Percentile - - £82,548
North West median annual salary £52,500 £47,863 £42,500
% change year-on-year +9.69% +12.62% -19.05%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

System 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 3,250 1,929 4,013
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Manchester 73.58% 95.31% 87.16%
Number of salaries quoted 2,207 1,247 3,253
10th Percentile £30,000 £31,800 £30,000
25th Percentile £41,250 £42,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £57,500 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year - +4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £75,000 £77,500 £70,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £90,822 £82,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -9.09%

System Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

System Testing job vacancy trend in Manchester

System Testing
Salary Trend in Manchester

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing System Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing System Testing

System Testing
Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing System Testing within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 2 April 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
Bolton - 3 £60,000 -
System Testing
North West

System 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:

Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (37.50%) SAP ERP
1 3 (37.50%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Amazon EKS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS
1 3 (37.50%) AWS CloudFormation
1 3 (37.50%) Azure
1 3 (37.50%) Azure AKS
1 3 (37.50%) GCP
1 3 (37.50%) Google Kubernetes Engine
1 3 (37.50%) OpenShift
2 2 (25.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (37.50%) DynamoDB
1 3 (37.50%) Elasticsearch
1 3 (37.50%) MongoDB
1 3 (37.50%) MySQL
1 3 (37.50%) NoSQL
1 3 (37.50%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (25.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (37.50%) Bitbucket
1 3 (37.50%) Git
1 3 (37.50%) GitLab
General
1 5 (62.50%) Analytical Skills
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Cloud Engineer
1 3 (37.50%) Planning Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (37.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Public Cloud
2 2 (25.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (62.50%) Decision-Making
2 5 (62.50%) ERP
3 3 (37.50%) Agile
3 3 (37.50%) Business Continuity
3 3 (37.50%) CI/CD
3 3 (37.50%) Collaborative Culture
3 3 (37.50%) Containerisation
3 3 (37.50%) Data Cleansing
3 3 (37.50%) Data Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (37.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 3 (37.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Logistics
3 3 (37.50%) Migration
3 3 (37.50%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (37.50%) Software Testing
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) Systems Engineering
3 3 (37.50%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 3 (37.50%) Go
1 3 (37.50%) Java
1 3 (37.50%) Python
1 3 (37.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) HNC
2 2 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (25.00%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 3 (37.50%) Ansible
1 3 (37.50%) Kubernetes
1 3 (37.50%) Rancher
1 3 (37.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (37.50%) SAP
2 2 (25.00%) IFS
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