Manual Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Manual Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Manual Testing skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the annual salaries offered in vacancies that cited Manual Testing over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 156 222 233
Rank change year-on-year +66 +11 +19
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 14 22 32
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.46% 0.33% 0.52%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.49% 0.38% 0.55%
Number of salaries quoted 1 22 19
10th Percentile - - £32,250
25th Percentile - £43,750 £34,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £50,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile - £57,500 £50,000
90th Percentile - - £53,250
South East median annual salary £47,500 £47,500 £45,000
% change year-on-year - +5.56% +5.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,849 5,732 5,797
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.92% 85.12% 94.68%
Number of salaries quoted 1,226 4,012 3,148
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,000 £29,750
25th Percentile £39,000 £38,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £57,087 £50,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +14.17% -9.09% -
75th Percentile £73,625 £65,000 £72,500
90th Percentile £87,500 £80,000 £87,500
South East median annual salary £55,790 £50,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +11.58% -9.09% -

Manual Testing
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Manual Testing in the Thames Valley

Manual Testing
Salary Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Testing in the Thames Valley.

Salary trend for Manual Testing in the Thames Valley

Manual Testing
Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Testing within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 May 2025. 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
Oxfordshire - 13 - - 1
Berkshire +35 1 £65,000 +18.18%
Manual Testing
South East

Manual Testing
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 13 (92.86%) Git
2 1 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 1 (7.14%) JIRA
2 1 (7.14%) SoapUI
General
1 13 (92.86%) Aerospace
2 1 (7.14%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 1 (7.14%) QA Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (92.86%) Qt
Miscellaneous
1 13 (92.86%) Embedded Systems
2 1 (7.14%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.14%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.14%) Linux
1 1 (7.14%) Ubuntu
1 1 (7.14%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (100.00%) Validation
2 13 (92.86%) Knowledge Transfer
2 13 (92.86%) Regression Testing
2 13 (92.86%) Software Testing
2 13 (92.86%) Test Automation
2 13 (92.86%) Verification and Validation
3 1 (7.14%) API Testing
Programming Languages
1 13 (92.86%) C
1 13 (92.86%) C++
1 13 (92.86%) Python
2 1 (7.14%) Java
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA