Manual Testing Jobs in the North of England

Manual Testing
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for Manual Testing skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Manual Testing over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 362 324 313
Rank change year-on-year -38 -11 -37
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 29 108 142
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 0.17% 0.64% 0.78%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.66% 0.83%
Number of salaries quoted 28 46 72
10th Percentile £32,550 £33,750 £31,250
25th Percentile £33,750 £37,500 £33,813
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +5.88% +13.33%
75th Percentile £47,813 £62,188 £47,625
90th Percentile £53,750 £79,375 £59,505
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,000
% change year-on-year -5.00% +6.38% +4.44%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Manual Testing is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 14,622 16,466 17,051
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the North of England 83.38% 96.84% 94.02%
Number of salaries quoted 11,233 7,859 10,647
10th Percentile £27,500 £31,250 £29,250
25th Percentile £37,000 £40,000 £38,386
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £65,000 £70,000 £66,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £82,500 £80,000
England median annual salary £55,000 £62,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +9.09%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the North of England

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

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the North of England

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the North of England

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 May 2024. 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
North West -28 17 £37,500 -25.00% 9
Yorkshire +47 11 £45,000 +12.50% 5
North East -8 1 - -
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (6.90%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.69%) AWS
2 5 (17.24%) Azure
2 5 (17.24%) BrowserStack
3 2 (6.90%) Azure Functions
3 2 (6.90%) SaaS
3 2 (6.90%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.45%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) GIS
Development Applications
1 9 (31.03%) Selenium
2 6 (20.69%) JMeter
3 5 (17.24%) Postman
4 3 (10.34%) Cucumber
4 3 (10.34%) SpecFlow
5 2 (6.90%) Cypress.io
5 2 (6.90%) JIRA
5 2 (6.90%) WebDriver
6 1 (3.45%) Bugzilla
6 1 (3.45%) JUnit
6 1 (3.45%) REST Assured
6 1 (3.45%) TestNG
General
1 8 (27.59%) Finance
2 6 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (20.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 6 (20.69%) Social Skills
3 5 (17.24%) Retail
4 3 (10.34%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.90%) Automotive
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.90%) Marketing
6 1 (3.45%) Law
6 1 (3.45%) Local Government
6 1 (3.45%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.45%) Tech for Good
Job Titles
1 9 (31.03%) Tester
2 7 (24.14%) Analyst
2 7 (24.14%) Test Analyst
3 6 (20.69%) Software Tester
3 6 (20.69%) Test Engineer
4 4 (13.79%) Lead
5 2 (6.90%) Coordinator
5 2 (6.90%) QA Leader
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Test Coordinator
5 2 (6.90%) UAT Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Release Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Tester
6 1 (3.45%) Software Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Software Test Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Software Test Engineer
6 1 (3.45%) Test Leader
6 1 (3.45%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.90%) .NET
1 2 (6.90%) Playwright
1 2 (6.90%) RESTful
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Core
2 1 (3.45%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.45%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (3.45%) Entity Framework
2 1 (3.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 3 (10.34%) Product Ownership
2 1 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (3.45%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 3 (10.34%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Test Automation
2 16 (55.17%) Agile
3 12 (41.38%) Test Scripting
4 9 (31.03%) Software Testing
5 8 (27.59%) Acceptance Criteria
5 8 (27.59%) Performance Testing
6 7 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (20.69%) CI/CD
7 6 (20.69%) User Stories
8 5 (17.24%) API Testing
8 5 (17.24%) Change Control
8 5 (17.24%) Code Quality
8 5 (17.24%) Fintech
8 5 (17.24%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (13.79%) Scrum
9 4 (13.79%) SDLC
9 4 (13.79%) Test Management
9 4 (13.79%) Test Planning
10 3 (10.34%) Test Strategy
11 2 (6.90%) Agile Testing
Programming Languages
1 5 (17.24%) C#
1 5 (17.24%) Python
1 5 (17.24%) SQL
2 3 (10.34%) Java
2 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
3 2 (6.90%) PowerShell
4 1 (3.45%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (13.79%) ISEB
1 4 (13.79%) ISTQB
2 2 (6.90%) HND
2 2 (6.90%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
3 1 (3.45%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (3.45%) Degree
3 1 (3.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (3.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (31.03%) QA
2 2 (6.90%) Data Quality
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 14001
2 2 (6.90%) ISO 9001
2 2 (6.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
Systems Management
1 5 (17.24%) Grafana
1 5 (17.24%) Kibana
2 1 (3.45%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 1 (3.45%) HP
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft