Manual Testing Job Trends in Shropshire

Manual Testing
West Midlands > Shropshire

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

6 months to
9 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 43 16 -
Rank change year-on-year -27 - -
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 1 4 0
As % of all permanent jobs in Shropshire 0.30% 3.42% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.40% 4.17% -
Number of salaries quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56,250 - -
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,500 £45,000 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% - -
75th Percentile £58,750 - -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median annual salary £53,500 £46,500 £63,749
% change year-on-year +15.05% -27.06% +34.21%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Shropshire

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 Shropshire.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 252 96 163
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Shropshire 76.83% 82.05% 81.91%
Number of salaries quoted 144 41 117
10th Percentile £26,750 £36,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £42,500 £36,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £45,000 £55,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +15.79% -9.52%
75th Percentile £55,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
West Midlands median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -4.76%

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in Shropshire

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

Manual Testing job vacancy trend in Shropshire

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in Shropshire

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Manual Testing.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Shropshire citing Manual Testing

Manual Testing
Job Locations in Shropshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Shropshire region over the 6 months to 9 February 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
Telford -3 1 £57,500 +27.78% 1
Manual Testing
West Midlands

Manual Testing
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Shropshire 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 1 (100.00%) Git
1 1 (100.00%) GitLab
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Quality Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) Spring
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) BDD
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Pair Programming
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Security Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Software Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (100.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (100.00%) QA