Manual Testing Jobs in the Thames Valley

Manual Testing
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 221 230 248
Rank change year-on-year +9 +18 -73
Permanent jobs citing Manual Testing 22 30 30
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.33% 0.49% 0.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.38% 0.52% 0.47%
Number of salaries quoted 22 17 11
10th Percentile - £32,000 £26,250
25th Percentile £43,750 £36,250 £38,125
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £45,000 £42,500
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% +5.88% -15.00%
75th Percentile £57,500 £50,000 £50,000
90th Percentile - £54,000 £53,750
South East median annual salary £47,500 £45,000 £42,500
% change year-on-year +5.56% +5.88% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 5,753 5,824 6,344
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 85.25% 94.56% 92.90%
Number of salaries quoted 4,042 3,165 3,914
10th Percentile £29,000 £29,250 £31,250
25th Percentile £38,000 £38,725 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -
75th Percentile £65,000 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £80,000 £87,500 £82,500
South East median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -9.09% - +9.45%

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 25 April 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
Buckinghamshire -2 14 £47,500 -9.52%
Berkshire +23 8 £55,000 +22.22% 3
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:

Cloud Services
1 12 (54.55%) Azure
2 10 (45.45%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (13.64%) SaaS
4 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (40.91%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (50.00%) NUnit
1 11 (50.00%) Selenium
1 11 (50.00%) Visual Studio
2 9 (40.91%) WebDriver
3 1 (4.55%) Postman
General
1 2 (9.09%) Social Skills
2 1 (4.55%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 8 (36.36%) Analyst
1 8 (36.36%) QA Engineer
2 6 (27.27%) Test Analyst
3 4 (18.18%) Automation Test Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) QA Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Dynamics 365 Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Integration Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Integration Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) QA Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Regression Test Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Regression Tester
5 1 (4.55%) Systems Integration Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (50.00%) .NET
2 9 (40.91%) .NET Core
2 9 (40.91%) JSON
2 9 (40.91%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (4.55%) Life Science
Operating Systems
1 2 (9.09%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (90.91%) Test Automation
2 17 (77.27%) Agile
3 11 (50.00%) Integration Testing
4 10 (45.45%) DevOps
4 10 (45.45%) System Integration Testing
5 9 (40.91%) Continuous Integration
5 9 (40.91%) Microservices
5 9 (40.91%) Non-Functional Testing
5 9 (40.91%) Root Cause Analysis
5 9 (40.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 8 (36.36%) SDET
7 7 (31.82%) Scrum
8 2 (9.09%) Analytics
8 2 (9.09%) QA Automation
8 2 (9.09%) Regression Testing
8 2 (9.09%) SDLC
8 2 (9.09%) Test Management
9 1 (4.55%) API Testing
9 1 (4.55%) Defect Management
9 1 (4.55%) Defect Tracking
Programming Languages
1 19 (86.36%) SQL
2 12 (54.55%) C#
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 1 (4.55%) ISEB
2 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (95.45%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft