Manual Testing Jobs in the North East

Manual Testing
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 61 115 106
Rank change year-on-year +54 -9 -
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 7 1 7
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 0.82% 0.052% 0.55%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.061% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6 0 4
10th Percentile £31,875 - £38,500
25th Percentile £32,000 - £47,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £34,500 - £62,500
75th Percentile £50,625 - £75,938
90th Percentile £55,000 - £77,625
England median annual salary £47,500 £46,250 £50,000
% change year-on-year +2.70% -7.50% +8.70%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 718 1,646 1,230
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North East 84.27% 85.60% 97.08%
Number of salaries quoted 373 1,333 600
10th Percentile £24,606 £27,898 £30,500
25th Percentile £25,087 £36,250 £37,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £47,500 £47,711
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -0.44% +12.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £61,250
90th Percentile £74,258 £75,750 £72,500
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 North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the North East

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the North East

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the North East

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the North East

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the North East over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the North East

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the North East region over the 6 months to 28 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
Tyne and Wear +48 4 £45,000 - 11
Durham - 1 - -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (28.57%) Slack
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Git
1 2 (28.57%) NUnit
1 2 (28.57%) Selenium
1 2 (28.57%) SpecFlow
1 2 (28.57%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (42.86%) Law
2 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
3 1 (14.29%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Dynamics 365 Consultant
1 3 (42.86%) Support Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Software Tester
3 1 (14.29%) Test Leader
3 1 (14.29%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Framework
1 2 (28.57%) REST
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Test Automation
2 5 (71.43%) Regression Testing
3 3 (42.86%) ERP
3 3 (42.86%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) API Testing
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) OO
4 2 (28.57%) OOP
4 2 (28.57%) Operational Acceptance Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Release Management
4 2 (28.57%) Scrum
4 2 (28.57%) Software Testing
4 2 (28.57%) Test Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Customer Service
5 1 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (14.29%) SDLC
5 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
5 1 (14.29%) Test Scripting
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft