Manual Testing Job Trends in Portsmouth

Manual Testing
Hampshire > Portsmouth

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Portsmouth requiring Manual Testing skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 - 42
Rank change year-on-year - - +40
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 5 0 1
As % of all permanent jobs in Portsmouth 1.54% - 0.39%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.70% - 0.48%
Number of salaries quoted 5 0 1
10th Percentile £46,100 - -
25th Percentile £46,250 - £43,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 - £44,500
Median % change year-on-year - - -28.80%
75th Percentile £59,250 - £45,750
90th Percentile - - -
Hampshire median annual salary £52,500 £47,500 £37,500
% change year-on-year +10.53% +26.67% -25.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Portsmouth

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 Portsmouth.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 294 261 207
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Portsmouth 90.74% 88.47% 81.50%
Number of salaries quoted 186 155 159
10th Percentile £27,750 £30,000 £36,000
25th Percentile £32,500 £36,250 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £46,499 £51,645 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.96% -6.10% +4.76%
75th Percentile £65,000 £65,000 £68,750
90th Percentile £78,500 £78,250 £78,750
Hampshire median annual salary £50,000 £57,500 £52,000
% change year-on-year -13.04% +10.58% -5.45%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Portsmouth

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Portsmouth

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Portsmouth

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Portsmouth citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Portsmouth 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:

Development Applications
1 5 (100.00%) Postman
General
1 5 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Analytical Skills
2 4 (80.00%) Documentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Automotive
3 1 (20.00%) Games
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) CSS
1 1 (20.00%) HTML
1 1 (20.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Analytical Mindset
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) User Experience
2 3 (60.00%) API Testing
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Test Strategy
3 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 2 (40.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Cross-Browser Compatibility
4 1 (20.00%) Data Validation
4 1 (20.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 5 (100.00%) SQL
2 4 (80.00%) C#
3 1 (20.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (100.00%) QA