Manual Testing Job Trends in Nottinghamshire

Manual Testing
East Midlands > Nottinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 65 46
Rank change year-on-year +9 -19 +48
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 2 10 6
As % of all permanent jobs in Nottinghamshire 0.32% 1.12% 1.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 1.20% 1.75%
Number of salaries quoted 2 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
East Midlands median annual salary £37,500 £55,000 £37,000
% change year-on-year -31.82% +48.65% -12.94%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Nottinghamshire

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 Nottinghamshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 505 836 342
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Nottinghamshire 80.03% 94.04% 87.47%
Number of salaries quoted 327 308 283
10th Percentile £28,000 £31,775 £26,750
25th Percentile £29,000 £36,250 £37,767
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £55,000 £52,500
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +4.76% -4.55%
75th Percentile £60,000 £67,500 £65,625
90th Percentile £80,500 £80,375 £75,000
East Midlands median annual salary £42,500 £50,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -15.00% - -4.76%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Nottinghamshire

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Nottinghamshire

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Nottinghamshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Nottinghamshire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Job Locations in Nottinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Nottinghamshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 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
Nottingham 0 1 £60,000 +4.35% 1
Manual Testing
East Midlands

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Nottinghamshire 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 2 (100.00%) AWS
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Postman
1 2 (100.00%) Selenium
General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
1 2 (100.00%) QA Leader
1 2 (100.00%) Senior
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Tester
2 1 (50.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) QA Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (50.00%) Senior QA Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Senior Tester
2 1 (50.00%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (100.00%) .NET
1 2 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 2 (100.00%) Playwright
1 2 (100.00%) React
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Microservices
1 2 (100.00%) Non-Functional Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 2 (100.00%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 2 (100.00%) C#
1 2 (100.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (100.00%) QA