Manual Tester Jobs in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
UK > UK excluding London

The median Manual Tester salary in the UK excluding London is £42,500 per year, according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months leading to 28 May 2025.

The table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 567 763 743
Rank change year-on-year +196 -20 +100
Permanent jobs requiring a Manual Tester 4 2 16
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.003% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.011% 0.003% 0.031%
Number of salaries quoted 3 2 15
10th Percentile £36,250 £41,375 £26,000
25th Percentile £38,125 £41,563 £31,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £43,750 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +16.67% -16.67%
75th Percentile £45,625 £46,563 £44,000
90th Percentile £46,750 £47,125 £50,000
UK median annual salary £43,750 £50,000 £42,000
% change year-on-year -12.50% +19.05% -6.67%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 35,130 69,905 52,029
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 90.34% 94.92% 89.13%
Number of salaries quoted 17,680 49,398 29,909
10th Percentile £26,500 £26,750 £29,750
25th Percentile £37,438 £35,000 £38,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £51,399 £50,000 £53,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -6.54% +6.63%
75th Percentile £65,000 £63,750 £68,750
90th Percentile £77,500 £76,250 £81,250
UK median annual salary £55,000 £52,500 £60,000
% change year-on-year +4.76% -12.50% -

Manual Tester
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Manual Tester in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Manual Tester in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Manual Tester in the UK excluding London.

Salary trend for Manual Tester in the UK excluding London

Manual Tester
Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Manual Tester within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
Scotland - 2 £45,000 -
South East +90 1 £42,500 - 4
North of England +41 1 £35,000 -22.22% 1
Yorkshire - 1 £35,000 -
Manual Tester
UK

Manual Tester Skill Set
Top 28 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, Manual Tester job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Manual Tester in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Playwright
4 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) WebGPU
4 1 (25.00%) Digital Healthcare
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Android
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) SaaS
4 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
4 1 (25.00%) WebGL
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Games
4 1 (25.00%) C#
4 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
4 1 (25.00%) SQL
4 1 (25.00%) .NET

Manual Tester Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) SaaS
General
1 1 (25.00%) Digital Healthcare
1 1 (25.00%) Games
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) Playwright
1 1 (25.00%) WebGL
1 1 (25.00%) WebGPU
Operating Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Android
1 1 (25.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Software Testing
2 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Manual Testing
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) API Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
4 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Integration Testing
4 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (25.00%) SDLC
4 1 (25.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript