Manual Testing Job Trends in Nottingham

Manual Testing
Nottinghamshire > Nottingham

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottingham requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 50 41
Rank change year-on-year -2 -9 +34
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 1 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottingham 0.19% 1.90% 1.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 2.04% 2.29%
Number of salaries quoted 1 10 6
10th Percentile - £42,500 £34,375
25th Percentile £57,500 £45,000 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £57,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% +13.92%
75th Percentile £62,500 £62,500 £57,188
90th Percentile - £67,500 £62,500
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £60,000 £57,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% +13.92%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottingham

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 Nottingham.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 423 490 262
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottingham 81.19% 93.33% 83.97%
Number of salaries quoted 265 235 221
10th Percentile £28,750 £28,500 £32,000
25th Percentile £31,250 £38,750 £43,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +4.76% -7.89%
75th Percentile £65,000 £67,500 £67,500
90th Percentile £82,100 £83,250 £76,250
Nottinghamshire median annual salary £40,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -27.27% +10.00% -13.04%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottingham

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Nottingham

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Nottingham

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottingham citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottingham 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) AWS
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Postman
1 1 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Lead
1 1 (100.00%) Lead Tester
1 1 (100.00%) QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) QA Leader
1 1 (100.00%) QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior QA Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Senior Tester
1 1 (100.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) Playwright
1 1 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) QA