Manual Testing Jobs in the Midlands

Manual Testing
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 233 272 296
Rank change year-on-year +39 +24 -23
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 27 36 34
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.38% 0.31% 0.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.37% 0.37%
Number of salaries quoted 27 34 33
10th Percentile £34,400 £35,750 £33,000
25th Percentile £38,250 £37,000 £38,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £48,750 £40,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +20.37% +5.19%
75th Percentile £60,625 £66,137 £54,345
90th Percentile £63,750 £97,000 £58,500
England median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,564 9,674 9,089
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Midlands 91.89% 82.16% 96.58%
Number of salaries quoted 2,656 7,141 4,575
10th Percentile £27,500 £26,250 £30,000
25th Percentile £35,000 £35,000 £38,357
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £47,500 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £63,750 £62,200 £67,500
90th Percentile £76,250 £75,000 £77,500
England median annual salary £57,500 £55,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +4.55% -12.00% +4.17%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the Midlands

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the Midlands

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the Midlands

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 May 2025. 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
West Midlands +41 16 £42,500 -33.33% 13
East Midlands +35 11 £55,000 +50.68% 11
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (3.70%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.70%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 9 (33.33%) Azure
1 9 (33.33%) SaaS
2 7 (25.93%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (3.70%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 12 (44.44%) Selenium
2 8 (29.63%) Postman
3 4 (14.81%) Appium
4 3 (11.11%) JIRA
4 3 (11.11%) WebDriver
5 1 (3.70%) JMeter
5 1 (3.70%) LoadRunner
5 1 (3.70%) TestComplete
5 1 (3.70%) TestRail
5 1 (3.70%) Zephyr
General
1 15 (55.56%) Social Skills
2 4 (14.81%) Law
3 3 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (7.41%) Retail
5 1 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (33.33%) Lead
2 7 (25.93%) Analyst
2 7 (25.93%) Test Analyst
3 6 (22.22%) QA Engineer
4 5 (18.52%) Senior
5 4 (14.81%) Tester
6 3 (11.11%) Automation Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Senior Automation Engineer
6 3 (11.11%) Software Tester
6 3 (11.11%) Test Leader
7 2 (7.41%) Automation Tester
7 2 (7.41%) QA Leader
7 2 (7.41%) Senior QA Engineer
7 2 (7.41%) Test Manager
7 2 (7.41%) Transformation Manager
8 1 (3.70%) Lead Test Analyst
8 1 (3.70%) Performance Tester
8 1 (3.70%) QA Test Engineer
8 1 (3.70%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (11.11%) .NET
1 3 (11.11%) Playwright
2 1 (3.70%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 10 (37.04%) Product Ownership
2 4 (14.81%) Mobile App
3 1 (3.70%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (3.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.70%) Android
1 1 (3.70%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.70%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (74.07%) Test Automation
2 11 (40.74%) Regression Testing
3 9 (33.33%) DevOps
3 9 (33.33%) User Acceptance Testing
4 8 (29.63%) Mentoring
4 8 (29.63%) SDLC
4 8 (29.63%) Software Testing
4 8 (29.63%) Test Strategy
5 6 (22.22%) Agile
5 6 (22.22%) API Testing
6 3 (11.11%) B2B
6 3 (11.11%) Exploratory Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Functional Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Non-Functional Testing
6 3 (11.11%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (11.11%) QA Automation
6 3 (11.11%) Test Management
6 3 (11.11%) Test Scripting
7 2 (7.41%) Code Quality
7 2 (7.41%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 12 (44.44%) C#
2 7 (25.93%) SQL
3 4 (14.81%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.81%) Python
4 3 (11.11%) Java
Qualifications
1 4 (14.81%) ISTQB
2 2 (7.41%) Degree
2 2 (7.41%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.70%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (70.37%) QA
2 1 (3.70%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 1 (3.70%) Embedded Firmware
1 1 (3.70%) Firmware
Vendors
1 7 (25.93%) SAP
2 2 (7.41%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.70%) Pega
3 1 (3.70%) UiPath