Manual Testing Jobs in the South West

Manual Testing
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 231 250
Rank change year-on-year -20 +19 -10
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 45 40 68
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 0.48% 0.59% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.58% 0.62% 0.89%
Number of salaries quoted 43 31 44
10th Percentile - £30,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £36,365 £34,375 £35,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £36,984 £47,500 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -22.14% +5.56% +32.35%
75th Percentile £55,625 £56,250 £47,500
90th Percentile £76,000 £65,000 £50,875
England median annual salary £47,500 £50,000 £47,500
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% +5.56%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 7,779 6,447 7,673
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the South West 83.68% 94.46% 95.08%
Number of salaries quoted 5,564 3,582 5,012
10th Percentile £28,600 £30,500 £30,500
25th Percentile £37,500 £39,270 £38,037
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +5.00% +7.53%
75th Percentile £65,000 £68,750 £65,000
90th Percentile £80,000 £81,250 £77,500
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 South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the South West

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Salary Histogram in the South West

Salary distribution for jobs citing Manual Testing in the South West over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Manual Testing in the South West

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the South West region over the 6 months to 8 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
Devon +8 22 £36,984 -1.38%
Bristol +2 12 £56,250 +12.50% 3
Gloucestershire -14 6 £53,750 +1.90% 1
Dorset -16 4 £32,500 - 1
Wiltshire -16 1 £48,500 +21.25% 1
Manual Testing
England

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 1 (2.22%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (4.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.22%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 23 (51.11%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (48.89%) Power Platform
2 22 (48.89%) PowerApps
3 11 (24.44%) Power Automate
4 6 (13.33%) Azure
5 4 (8.89%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (2.22%) AWS
6 1 (2.22%) GitHub
6 1 (2.22%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.22%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (24.44%) Power BI
2 1 (2.22%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (24.44%) Selenium
2 10 (22.22%) JIRA
3 7 (15.56%) Cucumber
4 6 (13.33%) Jenkins
5 5 (11.11%) Cypress.io
5 5 (11.11%) Git
6 4 (8.89%) WebDriver
7 1 (2.22%) Moq
7 1 (2.22%) Postman
7 1 (2.22%) REST Assured
7 1 (2.22%) Subversion
General
1 29 (64.44%) Social Skills
2 22 (48.89%) Fire and Rescue
3 4 (8.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 3 (6.67%) Banking
4 3 (6.67%) Finance
5 2 (4.44%) Investment Banking
5 2 (4.44%) Law
6 1 (2.22%) Aerospace
6 1 (2.22%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (51.11%) Developer
2 11 (24.44%) Applications Developer
2 11 (24.44%) Software Developer
3 7 (15.56%) Test Engineer
4 6 (13.33%) QA Engineer
5 5 (11.11%) Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Automation Test Lead
6 4 (8.89%) Test Leader
7 2 (4.44%) Software Tester
7 2 (4.44%) Test Automation Engineer
7 2 (4.44%) Tester
8 1 (2.22%) Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Automation Analyst
8 1 (2.22%) Automation Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Developer in Test
8 1 (2.22%) Lead Test Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Senior
8 1 (2.22%) Senior Test Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.22%) Software Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.89%) Gherkin
2 3 (6.67%) .NET
2 3 (6.67%) REST
3 2 (4.44%) Spring
4 1 (2.22%) Jest
4 1 (2.22%) Node.js
4 1 (2.22%) Playwright
4 1 (2.22%) WireMock
4 1 (2.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.67%) Mobile App
1 3 (6.67%) Product Ownership
2 2 (4.44%) Operational Technology
3 1 (2.22%) Cyberattack
3 1 (2.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (2.22%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.44%) Linux
1 2 (4.44%) Windows
2 1 (2.22%) CentOS
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.22%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (93.33%) Agile
2 32 (71.11%) DevOps
3 24 (53.33%) User Experience
4 21 (46.67%) Test Automation
5 11 (24.44%) Customer-Centricity
5 11 (24.44%) Data Architecture
5 11 (24.44%) Service Delivery
6 8 (17.78%) End-to-End Testing
6 8 (17.78%) Regression Testing
7 7 (15.56%) Scrum
8 6 (13.33%) Test Scripting
9 5 (11.11%) Acceptance Criteria
9 5 (11.11%) Computer Science
9 5 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
10 4 (8.89%) Backtesting
10 4 (8.89%) CI/CD
10 4 (8.89%) Continuous Deployment
10 4 (8.89%) Deployment Automation
10 4 (8.89%) Risk Management
10 4 (8.89%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 29 (64.44%) Java
1 29 (64.44%) SQL
2 6 (13.33%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.44%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.22%) C#
4 1 (2.22%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (15.56%) Degree
2 5 (11.11%) ISTQB
3 4 (8.89%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (4.44%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.44%) ISEB
4 2 (4.44%) Security Cleared
5 1 (2.22%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (2.22%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (33.33%) QA
2 1 (2.22%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (2.22%) Firmware
1 1 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 25 (55.56%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.22%) Atlassian
2 1 (2.22%) BT
2 1 (2.22%) Red Hat
2 1 (2.22%) VMware